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

[BenCittadino]

Welcome aboard. I also have the Y 9.9, and join the chorus that it is plenty
of power. Have fun.

BenCittadino
S/V Susan Kay ('93-recy'08)
Sandy Hook Bay Marina, Highlands, NJ



Ron Kaye 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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