[Rhodes22-list] Chris, another thought

[elle]

Interesting, well-thought- comments...who was that
masked man?

Chris, do go as Ed suggests to see the ss spitzer in
the back. It is amazing...ss sees it already rigged
and sailing away....it's already been splashed....

Ed...for your Ed-ification...here is an interesting
tretise I read just this AM on water ballast...read it
all..not just the parts you like.

http://www.sailboatowners.com/forums/pviewall.tpl?fno=19&uid=73293228873&sku=2008021174233.93&rid=2008022224943.50#2008022224943.50


elle
--- Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> You have received a lot of information about the
> Rhodes 22.  You have not
> received comments (at least not on the open forum)
> from the two guys that
> Stan referred you to.  I would suggest that with all
> being said, and from
> what you said that you are looking for, you wait to
> get comments from Chris
> and Bill.  Chris teaches school and is planning his
> next summer trip to the
> Middle East.  Bill is probably up to his elbows in
> work since his company
> was divested from the parent conglomerate.
> 
> Those two other guys will probably respond to your
> direct email.  I would
> ask you to have them reply by open list so that we
> all can see their point
> of view.  Additionally, ask Stan if the California
> people still have their
> R22 and for their name so that you might contact
> them.
> 
> As to the Gulf of Mexico, you have not only Jim
> White, but there are others
> who have just not responded to the questions. 
> Remember that some people hop
> on this forum and then disappear for a time, only to
> reappear again.  Many
> of those can offer you accurate assessment of your
> questions.
> 
> Now for the ringer, Stan is in his 80’s.  There is
> no junior Stan at the
> plant.  Elton is his brother and insist that he is
> retired, just going to
> shows for the camaraderie.  If you ever go to
> Edenton and the famous plant,
> you will find it has two main buildings.  The
> facilities are World War Two
> vintage buildings.  Current work on the Rhodes 22 is
> primarily in the front
> building that has Stan’s executive s suite and the
> famous Spitzer Hilton.
> 
> The back building was deserted until about three
> years ago.  Stan used it as
> dead storage and its environs were an unmitigated
> disaster.  Calvin needs a
> new boat painting studio.  So Stan has spent time
> and money trying to
> rehabilitate the back building.  If you go in now,
> you would not have any
> appreciation to the scene four years ago.
> 
> The point of the above is that resting in the back
> building is Stan’s dream. 
> There is a unfinished hull which measures about 27
> foot long.  Since Philip
> Rhodes died in the 1970’s, Stan could not get him
> to design a boat when Stan
> saw the market and wanted to fulfill his dreams. 
> Stan collaborated with a
> member of the Gozzard family of Canada to design a
> bigger hull. 
>  
> It is one thing to prototype a one off hull, it
> quite another to put a hull
> into production.  Stan is still looking for a backer
> to make more of his
> prototypes.  Instead of moving to retire in Panama,
> move to Edenton and let
> Stan show you how to build your own boat.
> 
> As to the Rhodes 22 sailboat, there is not an equal
> made.  There is a French
> company that obviously has studied what Stan has
> done, but have not equaled.
>   
> Another aspect of this discussion that has not been
> brought up is ballast. 
> There are several water ballast boats that are
> bigger than the R22.  I
> belong to those who say, who know, that water
> ballast is not equal to real
> ballast, even if in a stubby keel.
> 
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> "Sailing and boats have been a great way of life,
> not easy and not very
> remunerative, but very rewarding." George O'Day
> 
> 
> 
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 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


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