[Rhodes22-list] Chris Crispel - yada yada

Fri Jan 25 11:00:08 EST 2008

Come on Stan, you must remember.  I certainly do!

Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Chris Crispel - yada yada

> PS:    we have outfitted boats with up to 4 batteries so far
>
> we also did one boat for an attorney who had us do the interior as just 
> one
> big bed - never could figure out what he had in mind.
>
> ss
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico1 at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Chris Crispel - yada yada
>
>
>>I wonder if one could cure the water tank issue by placing a flexible
>> tank (or two for balance) in the bilge.
>>
>> Rik
>>
>> A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one...
>> Benjamin Franklin
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris Crispel wrote:
>>> Running from civilization huh!  You have no idea how beautiful this 
>>> first
>>> world (third world country) is until you visit.  But that aside, I want
>>> to
>>> make the Rhodes work if there is any way to do that.  I like your idea
>>> about
>>> extending the berth a foot.  That would certainly create an excellent
>>> sleeping arrangement.  However, what I don't like is scratching the 
>>> water
>>> tank (need more water that what Stan traditionally has aboard) and
>>> another
>>> battery as well.
>>>
>>> So, you see, I want it all (isn't that unusual).
>>>
>>> Chris
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net>
>>> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:05 PM
>>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Chris Crispel - yada yada
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Chris,
>>>>
>>>> A Fisher 37!  Wow, that is a nice boat, that is for crusing the oceans.
>>>> A
>>>> little problematic for coastal Cruising.
>>>>
>>>> Chris,
>>>>
>>>> I have two boats, the R22 for trailer sailing.  I can launch and
>>>> retrieve
>>>> it
>>>> by my self.  I am a foot shorter than you so I can sleep ok in the
>>>> cabin.
>>>> The way the boat comes I doubt that you could.
>>>>
>>>> If you get Stan to make you a new boat, consider that instead of a
>>>> battery
>>>> compartment and water tank under the V berth have him extend that area
>>>> at
>>>> least one foot to allow for a tall guy sleeping.  You would not use the
>>>> V
>>>> berth except for storage anyway.  This modification would still allow
>>>> for
>>>> the powder room layout.  You would just have a funky shaped V berth.
>>>>
>>>> What Stan has said in his reply to you about modifications is that he
>>>> makes
>>>> them every night.  What he really does is about 3 AM is to go out in 
>>>> the
>>>> plant to see what was done the day before and what has to be done 
>>>> during
>>>> that day.  Then he lays his hands on something and they just go to
>>>> fiddling.
>>>> The next day he tells Ditto or Mark to change something or even has
>>>> Calvin
>>>> change a mold... The Rhodes 22 does in fact change every night.  I have
>>>> seen
>>>> it with me own eyes!
>>>>
>>>> So, it is reasonable to extend the the bunk to allow for your size.  He
>>>> just
>>>> has not seriously looked into that modification for you alone...
>>>>
>>>> I also have another old boat.  It is an O'Day 26.  It was the sucessor
>>>> to
>>>> the O'Day 25 which started production in 1974.  The hull is in many 
>>>> ways
>>>> similar to the R 22 in design.  That is it has a stubby keel with
>>>> centerboard therein.  Draft is about 30" with board up.  It is not 
>>>> quite
>>>> as
>>>> trailerable as the R 22 but potentially if Stan ever rubbed his hands 
>>>> on
>>>> it,
>>>> it might be.  Unfortunately, O'Day went belly up in 1986.
>>>>
>>>> However, there are a number of O'Day 25's around and on the market.
>>>> They
>>>> only made the 26 a couple of years near the end.  Inside there is 5' 9'
>>>> headroom.  But on the 26 there is adequate bunk space to fit you.
>>>>
>>>> This is why you need to move to Edenton and learn how to make a one off
>>>> under Stan's direction of his hull.  He will not sell the one hull he
>>>> has,
>>>> it is still his dream boat.  The problem with making more 27 foot hulls
>>>> is
>>>> the cost of making a mold.  Stan know how to do that.
>>>>
>>>> If you had a mold, I know of a reliable company that would make the 
>>>> hull
>>>> and
>>>> deck using vacuum bagging.  Once you had that, Stan could finish the
>>>> boat.
>>>>
>>>> An issue with a bigger boat is sail size.  While Stan's IMF mast come
>>>> from
>>>> the foundry about 30 foot long, the inside will not accomodate a bigger
>>>> sail.  If you wanted IMF and a 30 foot mast, you would need a different
>>>> mast.  However, since Stan's mast can only have a short boom, maybe you
>>>> could make a schooner with two IMF mast?  Or at least a 27 foot ketch?
>>>>
>>>> What I am telling you, instead of going to Panama, and running from
>>>> civilization, go to Edenton and build your own boat...  Stan needs the
>>>> challange...
>>>>
>>>> Ed K
>>>> Greenville, SC, USA
>>>> "Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is 
>>>> complacency.
>>>> If
>>>> you are going to do something, do it now.  Tomorrow is too late. -"-
>>>> Peter
>>>> Goss
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tootle wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>> Welcome to the Rhodes List.  Now, just who are you?  And where ya be?
>>>>> And
>>>>> why ya here?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed K
>>>>> Greenville, SC, USA
>>>>> fishin' is like a box of chocolate.. u never no what your gonna 
>>>>> catch..
>>>>> and sometimes you catch nothing! Unattributed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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