[Rhodes22-list] New addition to the family: Nautisaurus

[Michael D. Weisner]

Hi Ron & Lisa,

Welcome to the strange world of GBI Rhodes 22s.  Once the Nauti has those 
first scratches, she will sail better (at least you will be able to enjoy 
her since you won't be worrying as much.)

Daylight always helps.  Way back in March of '81, Stan helped to set up our 
R22 and "show me the ropes."  He had promised to sail with us the entire 
afternoon, but had to return to the plant (the old, NY plant) before we felt 
really comfortable.  He reassured us that alll we needed to do was reverse 
the launch procedure to recover.  That was at 2 pm.

By the time I was able to get my R22 back on the trailer, waiting for the 
tide and all, it was very, very late, close to 11pm.  We fought cross winds 
and currents, depending solely on the submerged guides to center us on the 
trailer.  True to his word, it really wasn't very difficult to do, just 
nerve racking.  We were young and energetic (before kids) and that helped.

Good luck and welcome to "da list"

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY


From: "Ron Kaye"  Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:18 AM
> Hello all
>
> So... my future wife, Lisa, and I were going to sell our places and buy a
> single house together this last Summer.  And move the kids, dogs, and cats
> all in together.  That idea turned out to be complex, frustrating, 
> expensive
> and too difficult to do in one Summer.   So of course we decided to do
> something simple and fun - and what else could that be but buy a sailboat.
>
> I had owned a sailboat for a few years long long ago when life was simple
> and there were no children about.  When that life changed and children and
> jobs crowded for time and money, the sailboat had to sail out of our 
> lives.
> That was a 27' Balboa, the Kundalini Express.
>
> I took Lisa out on a Flying Scott over the Summer and she was hooked.
>
> Our recently purchased (then unnamed) Rhodes 22 is a '86 hull, refurbished
> and bought by the previous owners in 2005.  We had Stan's crew do quite a
> bit of additional and refurbish work on her after we bought her out of
> brokerage in Sept of this year. She looks brand new now.
>
> We have yet to launch the Nautisaurus since we burned a hub bearing on the
> trailer on the way up to Maryland from NC (we are going to dry-sail).  The
> Nautisaurus arrived on top of a roll-back flatbed wrecker (remember to 
> take
> the mast off the crutch if this happens to you, or it will tear down all 
> the
> road signs - but we lowered it).  Then the Yamaha 9.9 need a thermostat 
> that
> had to be manufactured deep inside Japan by an irritable and distracted
> Ninja.  More than two weeks to get a part.
>
> Question: Is there any advantage to converting the 9.9 to a 15? I'm told 
> it
> is easy to do, but would we just going to burn fuel against hull speed?
>
> Raising the mast this weekend was some kind of adventure, arriving on the
> scene with about 45 minutes of daylight because of other life 
> complications,
> and ending up confused with tiny flashlights panting and squinting at the
> instructions (ever heard of a simple illustration Stan - ok sorry, Stan we
> love you).  It got better in the light of the following day and we did the
> deed.  Next time around it might be a lot easier.
>
> The best part was when we were wallowing around in the cockpit trying to
> figure things out in the dark and the bimini was sitting in there and
> suddenly the motor lifted up and was grinding at the end of the lift and 
> we
> had no idea why it came to life like that.  It was the bimini (in the 
> case)
> pushing against the switch that we couldn't see.  The lift seemed to be
> undamaged by that accidental activation. Kevin at GBX told me not to run 
> it
> up to the end of the lift with the motor or it would break.  I said OK.  I
> told Lisa this.  She said OK.  The Nauti has a mind of her own.
>
> We have been reading the discussions here.  Interesting! We are going to 
> ask
> a bunch of questions.  Brace yourself.  But for now we just wanted to say
> hello to fellow Rhodies.  We love our "new" Rhodes.  She's a beaut.  We'll
> try and get a picture or two on here soon.  We are on the middle Potomac.
>
>
> Ron and Lisa
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