[Rhodes22-list] Chronology of a 1980 Rhodes 22 purchase

[Mary Lou Troy]

Congratulations!  What a saga!

I see you have the conventional main with an owner modified traveler 
(my guess - there are a lot of factory variations as well), a bimini 
and a stern rail modified for those seats. Is that a pop-top 
enclosure bundled up in the vee-berth?

Looks like an oldie but a goodie! What year?

Where will you be sailing?

Best,

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 12:33 AM 9/24/2010, you wrote:
>July 2009: Guy from  Australia purchases Rhodes 22 from a guy in 
>Maryland - From
>photos -
>
>Buyer never  actually sees the Rhodes "in person" and asks seller to 
>store it at
>his home for  "a month
>or so" while he  arranges to have the Rhodes 22 shipped to Belize.
>
>July 2009 - July  2010: Rhodes sits at sellers home while buyer from 
>Australia
>tries to arrange  shipping.
>Sometime during  this period guy from Australia has Rhodes 22 and 
>Triad Trailer
>titles  transferred
>to himusing  the sellers address.
>
>Early August 2010:Original seller contacts Australian and tells him 
>that Rhodes
>needs to move  on
>and off his  property. Australian decides to sell Rhodes instead because he's
>found shipping  it to
>Belize will cost  more than he wants to pay.
>
>August 16, 2010: Guy in Maryland places add on Craigslist for the 
>Rhodes and I
>stumble across it  that evening.
>I get in touch with  the guy in Maryland and he emails me the 
>initial group of
>photos. Based on these  photos
>I agree to purchase  the Rhodes subject to inspection and he sends 
>me the second
>group of photos.
>
>
>August 18, 2010: Titles are sent to the Australian (who is now in 
>England) for
>signatures.
>
>
>September 21, 2010: After about 4 weeks the titles finally arrive back in
>Maryland and I drive there  from Greensboro, NC to
>look at and  hopefully buy the Rhodes. I look at the Rhodes early the next
>morning and it looks  fine so I complete the purchase
>and head for  Greensboro at 11 AM with the Rhodes in tow arriving 
>home at 6:45
>PM.
>
>The Rhodes needs a  little "TLC" mainly from sitting unused for over a year.
>Nothing major - just  soap, elbow grease,
>wax, and more elbow  grease. Some of the lines will need replacing and I'll
>probably clean up some of  the wiring. I'll
>also be buying  Stan's mast support to replace the 2x6 holding it up now.
>
>
>You can see a bunch of photos of my "new" Rhodes 22 here:
>http://www.autochart.com/rhodes22.htm
>
>Regards,
>Orin
>s/v "Babe 2" (Soon to be renamed when wife decides what to call her)
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