[Rhodes22-list] advice needed from litigious Rhodies

[Arthur H. Czerwonky]

Rick,

Consider that the water adds 1400# to the ballast, other stability questions not considered.  Validating the stability issue would be easy - with mast and sail and ballast in place, pull the mast toward the water and determine at what point the tension on the mast line zeroes out.  If the tension remains, the boat will have a natural positive righting moment.

This does not allow for the dumbie who, like others before, operate the boat improperly or who cannot read the directions.

Macgregor will sell the new spreader assembly so that the mast can have the stays properly aligned, GB might obtain for free as a professional courtesy fm MacG.

Make sense?

Art

-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick <sloopblueheron at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 4, 2009 3:06 PM
>To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] advice needed from litigious Rhodies
>
>Art,
>
>An IMF mast would probably cause a water ballast MacGregor to turtle.
>
>Please explain: "Stan no longer has new IMF capability."
>
>Rick
>
>On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Arthur H. Czerwonky <czerwonky at earthlink.net
>> wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>>
>> I wonder who could know - a typical Catalina owner will be the best judge.
>>  BTW, no secret that we can be helpful in promoting this if we have posted
>> pictures and info.  I have toyed seriously with putting the IMF on a
>> MacGregor to test for stability.  Anyone who has had the thrill of raising a
>> MacGregor mainsail from their awkward deck station would understand the
>> value in this.  There are alot of Macgregor owners who would thirst at this
>> prospect - talk about a market for the IMF.  I mention this knowing that
>> Tootle certified that Stan no longer has new IMF capability.  Hopefully this
>> is not true.
>>
>> Art
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Rick <sloopblueheron at gmail.com>
>> >Sent: Nov 4, 2009 2:35 PM
>> >To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] advice needed from litigious Rhodies
>> >
>> >Stan,
>> >
>> >Doesn't sound any different than companies that supe up sports cars.  How
>> >much for the suped up Catalina?
>> >
>> >Rick
>> >
>> >On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:16 PM, stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> last time things got bad, to broaden our price marking base  we went
>> into
>> >> recycling Rhodes
>> >>
>> >> this time, to broaden our base and not keep losing those prospects who
>> want
>> >> a little bit bigger boat (since no Rhodes took us up on the Rhodes 27
>> >> projected) we bought a Catalina 25 and have torn it apart.   we are
>> going to
>> >> try and make it into a Catalina-Rhodes hybrid:   IMF, combo keel/cb,
>> >> electric tilting motor lift, etc.
>> >>
>> >> it is being sold as a used Catalina 25 that we have recycled and
>> upgraded.
>> >>    Can Frank butler (he owns Catalina) legally complain?
>> >>
>> >> ss
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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