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

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Ron,
Welcome to the list. Middle Potomac, Maryland side?  You and elle 
will have to meet in the middle!

There is no advantage to upgrading your 9.9 to a 15 that I know of. 
The boat won't go faster. You already have more than enough power to 
deal with currents, wind and waves. We drysailed for a couple of 
years before moving Fretless to the Eastern Shore (where there are no 
facilities for that. We learned a lot about launching and retrieving 
that has stood us in good stead even though we now keep the boat in a 
slip. We do save some money by launching and retrieving her ourself 
at a local ramp.

Congrats on the new boat! We'll want pictures!

Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 12:18 AM 10/5/2010, you wrote:
>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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