[Rhodes22-list] Re design of Rhodes Interior and elimination of compression post.

[John Shulick]

Hi Ben,

The head issue was answered in a previous post addressed to Lou the Miracle
Worker.

John S.

benonvelvetelvis wrote:
> 
> Wow, that's a hell of a project.  The obvious question:  don't you find a
> need for a head between Friday and Sunday?
> 
> We did an Easter overnighter this past weekend.  I'll write up a little
> story about our adventure in the next couple of days.  
> 
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> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Re design of Rhodes Interior and elimination of
> compression post.
> 
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
>  Over the last season I decided to change the interior of my 71 rhodes to
> reflect the way my wife and I use the boat. We are not small people and
> found the original Layout to be hard to move around in when cabin bound by
> weather. As we get on the boat friday nights and don't return to the dock
> until sunday afternoons we found the six foot nose birth a bit cramped.
> Also
> as the early rhodes did not have a fixed head we had a hallway with little
> purpose and a wall extending halfway across the the boat to little purpose
> except to act as a compression post for the mast. During the past few
> weekends I added a 2 ft. extension to the bow bed replaced the cabin
> floor,
> installed new carpeting and removed the original wall replacing it with 2
> half walls and a compression arch over the cabin ceiling to accept the
> mast
> load. The arch you see in the following pictures is 1/2 in spring steel
> custom bent in a 100 ton press (I do live in Pgh. after all) I stood on
> the
> arch before I installed it and my 280 lbs. did not even make it flex. I
> feel
> pretty confidant it will work but will keep all informed in the event of
> failure. Enclosed are before and after shots.
> 
> John Shulick
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