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

[BenCittadino]

R & L;


"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they
should live next door and just visit now and then."

Katharine Hepburn

When you mentioned selling your places and buying one together I thought of
the above-quoted words from Ms. Hepburn. No advice from me here, I'm just
sayin'.......

Best Wishes,

BenC




BenCittadino wrote:
> 
> 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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