[Rhodes22-list] New Sailor Fears

[Rick]

Bill,

The best cure for fear of capsize is to capsize.  If your wife taught small
boat handling, she knows that.  If your son can swim, get him in a small
boat and practice capsizing it.

Rick

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Bill Pauer <billpauer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, Everyone,
>
> My family and I are the proud new owners of our first Rhodes 22 (a
> 1980 Rhodes which you may have seen on the list about a month ago).  I
> am working on a list of mechanical questions for the list, but for the
> moment I was hoping for some help with one of my crew.  I have a
> twelve year old daughter and fourteen year old son.  While we don't
> have much sailing experience as a family, my wife has had sailing
> lessons and has actually instructed on small boats and I have sailed
> for many years making it up as I went along.  The trouble I am having
> is convincing my fourteen year old son that the boat is not going to
> capsize.  I would like to say that it can't happen, but I am fairly
> sure that is not the case.  I did read in "The Report on the Rhodes
> 22"  on Stan's site that because of the flared sides, the boat will
> not capsize while under sail.
> Does anyone have a story that I could share with my son that might
> instill some confidence that the chances of turning turtle and sinking
> to the bottom of the lake are slim to none?
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Bill
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