[Rhodes22-list] Please help a new Rhodes owner out

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Matt,
Welcome aboard!

A couple of quick comments. Here is a link to a US Coast Guard 
boating safety site:
http://uscgboating.org/safety/safety.htm

If you are stopped by the Coast Guard or your local on-water 
authorities you will be asked to demonstrate that you have the 
required safety equipment. It appears that inflatable PFDs may not 
satisfy the requirements for kids PFDs. You may want to check 
further. It used to be that inflatable PFDs only counted toward the 
boats required number of PFDs if they were being worn at the time of 
the inspection. Not sure if that is still true but if so you will 
want to have regular PFDs aboard as well to meet the requirement for 
one pfd for each person aboard.

As far as windvanes go we like them but they do seem to break from 
birds trying to perch on them. We went to a Spar-fly and have had 
less breakage than with the Wind-exs however an antenna mount or the 
newer Wind-ex design with a spike might improve things.

Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD

At 06:10 PM 1/13/2008, you wrote:

>Thanks, everyone!!
>
>Stan told me this is the place to go for advice, and I'm not disappointed!
>I'm looking forward to getting to know y'all better in the future (yeah, I'm
>a Yankee, but i've spent most of my adult life in the south).
>
>Thanks for the warm welcome.
>
>As for PFDs, maybe I'll buy the 2 adult and 2 kid automatic inflatibles, and
>a few type IIs for the guests . . .
>
>I guess I'll go for the Garmin 545S after all.
>
>Please keep any/all advice coming . . . this is my first boat and I
>appreciate any help I can get!!
>
>Matt B.
>
>PS Slim--
>Would an ABBA tape work as well?  Please let me know (hehe).
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