[Rhodes22-list] Hello everybody--I'm back after lots of years--maybe time for another new R22

Mon Oct 25 11:40:30 EDT 2010

Sid,

Last year, Stan offered me $18,000 in a trade-in for a new boat, sight
unseen, and with me keeping my Yamaha 9.9 motor.  I haven't talked to Stan
yet this year and suppose the $18,000 drops some with one more year of use.
 However, I think I will include the motor with the boat because, although
it works well, I am interested in getting a lighter motor.  For lake use, I
have never needed the extra power due to waves, currents or weather.  My
current plan is to trade the boat in with Stan in exchange for a new boat.

If you are potentially interested, I can send some pictures and copy you
with the emails I sent to Stan last year about the boat's condition.  The
most obvious things are that the red trip on the edges of the sails and the
red bumper strip around the upper hull have faded in ten years of strong
sun, and the navy blue hull has oxidized and looks faded and cloudy.  It
polishes up very nicely, but then returns to a faded look within months.
 All the lines should be replaced, and I screwed up the Jabsco toilet when I
took off the valve cover and some parts fell down inside--it needs a rebuild
kit.  The boat has a depth sounder, a compass, a radio and the tiller
linkage system with the motor.  The genoa is the original 175 from when the
boat was delivered new in April 2001.  I replaced the mainsail four or five
years later.

David

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Sid NW <sidlandolt at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Sid NW wrote:
> >
> > Dave, I live in Vancouver, BC and there are very few Rhodes 22 in the
> > Pacific Northwest.  We have our summer home on a shallow bay called
> > Boundary Bay on the Canada/US border and the Rhodes is the perfect boat.
> > Rather than sell your boat back to Stan, I would be interested in buying
> > it from you and completing the maintenance and restoration here in
> Canada.
> > The drive from Texas with a boat is sure much shorter than from the East
> > Coast.
> > Would you consider selling your boat when and if you buy one from Stan?
> > You can contact me at sidlandolt at gmail.com. Sid
> >
> >
> > Rhodes22Dave wrote:
> >>
> >> I bought my Rhodes 22 in late 2000 and had it delivered by Elton to Lake
> >> Travis, Texas (near Austin) in April 2001.  My boat has been sitting in
> >> the water ever since (I've never trailored it--just sailed down to a
> >> marina a couple of times for bottom paint).
> >>
> >> I think the last time I posted on this list was when a teflon ring
> >> slipped off its set screw inside at the top of my mast where it
> separated
> >> the mast from the inner furling system.  I did use Stan's crain system
> to
> >> lower the mast by myself right over the water, replace both the teflon
> >> ring and the mainsail, and then raise the mast and reset everything--and
> >> then lower and raise it again because I forgot something.  That was many
> >> years ago.
> >>
> >> I dropped off the list as the mailing list inbox got longer and longer,
> >> but now I will do the best I can with a new email account just used for
> >> this list.
> >>
> >> My wife and I live in Houston and drive to Austin (3 hour drive) almost
> >> every weekend.  Two years ago we also bought a motorboat for a slip at
> >> our weekend house on Lake Austin--we were the only house with an empty
> >> slip--so now we split our time between the two boats and the two lakes,
> >> but sailing is by far my favorite.
> >>
> >> After ten years, mostly in the hot sun, it is time to do the
> maintainance
> >> that I would have done myself all along if I lived here and especially
> if
> >> we had a winter where the boat comes out of the water for storage and
> >> repairs.  Instead, winter is the best time of year for sailing here (the
> >> second half of fall through the first half of spring).  Summer is good
> >> too--if you like 100 degree heat, less wind, and lots of ski boats.  So
> >> in the summer we don't go out until early evening.
> >>
> >> Being lazy, instead of replacing all the lines, fixing the head and
> doing
> >> other routine maintenance, I am thinking of buying a new Rhodes 22
> almost
> >> exactly like my existing one, and giving him mine back to refurbish for
> >> someone else.  I talked to Stan about this a year ago, but I keep
> >> procrastinating because mine still is fully operative (except the head)
> >> and relaxing and fun.  It's just that I don't know how much longer Stan
> >> can keep making boats--none of us are getting any younger--and ten more
> >> years from now my existing Rhodes 22 may be a candidate for Davy Jones
> >> Locker.  I hope I am not too late.  I keep thinking that one of these
> >> months or years I am going to find out that Stan has fully retired.
> >>
> >> I was encouraged to see that someone on this list took delivery of a new
> >> boat from Stan this April.  Sounds like General Boats is still in
> >> business.  I am 70 and don't think I'll be lasting nearly as long as
> Stan
> >> has, but I haven't retired either.
> >>
> >> Anyway, it will be good to read the posts from some of the names that I
> >> remember well from my prior time on this mailing list.
> >>
> >> Dave (or David--I use both versions equally as much)
> >>
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