[Rhodes22-list] Wheels vs. Tillers

[elle]

Rummy,

Same question: How many times have you sailed an R-22
with a wheel?? Come on up when it gets here & try it.
It won't change your mind, but may make you a bit less
against it. (maybe not...you may not fit between the
wheel & lazarette..;^))

Reread my response: I prefer tiller, but i don't sail
the way you do (no criticism). I want to get back on
the water. Period. The wheel will help me do that. I
have  no one to sail with. Gotta be able to deal with
whatever comes up. Alone. 

My choice was no boat (sailed an R-22 w/ a tiller & it
didn't work...tiller was in my way), or a boat w/a few
tradeoffs to get out on the water.

If you were faced with this seeming Hobson's choice,
would you sit on the dock & watch everyone sail away??

No contest. We deal the hand we've been dealt. 

If I still had my guy to sail with, this discussion
would not even be happening: I'd still have the 34,
and my guy, and we'd be in the Abacos right now.

I don't need to defend my decision, and I'm sure this
will change no one's mind. It's a great boat w/ a
modification...And it's terrific that the boat sails
so great even though it was not designed for a wheel..

BTW.....I've sailed it for quite a long time on a
brisk day on Albemarle Sound...as I wasn't convinced
that it would work for me.

and BTW..I didn't put it on...it was already there.
Talk to the guy who did the original mod...

So live & let live & be happy that this boat can be
adapted to fiit the individual ways we we sail, rather
than vice-versa.

THAT's a great boat.

elle


--- R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:

> Elle,
> I'm sorry, but I'm with Bill on this one. I don't
> think a wheel on a R22 is  
> very practical. I could be wrong, but I don't think
> so.
>  
> Rummy
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We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.


 
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