[Rhodes22-list] Curious About Your Rhodes Choice Stories

[Chris Geankoplis]

Oh, I get it, I pass on, and the boat passes on too, but with more fun.  I
considered doint that but I thought the future archaeologists would miss out
on a valuable artifact.  But wait!  They would not be interested in a 1,000
year old Rhodes 22 because there will probably be some sailing around even
then.
G 

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Chris,

Then there'd be one less R22 in the world.  Wouldn't it be better to pass it
on?

Anyway, good story.

Rick

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Chris Geankoplis
<napoli68 at charter.net>wrote:

> I had been sailing for about 10 years. I sailed 6 years all over Italy and
> Greece on an open cockpit 18 Lightning and the rest on the Chesapeake.
>  When
> my wife and I got married in Annapolis 38 years ago we took all the
> "wedding
> money" and invested it in a small new 13' O'day widgeon.  We kept it for a
> couple of years always going to the boat show (we lived one creek over on
> Back Creek talking to Stan and Rose (those crazy kids back then), and
> finally bought a brand new 1976 Rhodes Continental 22 for $5,000.  I knew
> small boats and I knew what I wanted at it was the Rhodes.  I kept that
> boat
> for almost 20 years, raising my son on it even before he could walk.   Our
> family sailed every where on the Chesapeake and to the Bahamas.  I moved
> out
> to the west coast and had to sell it. (I still wonder where it is).  A
> couple of boatless years and my wife ordered me to get a Rhodes 22,
> regardless of price, as long as it was not over 3K.  Stan did not have any
> like that but long story short I picked up a project boat in Baltimore and
> brought it back to Oregon.  The boat was less than 3K (uh the trailer and
> truck did bring up the outlay some but I kept the cost of the boat as
> agreed
> upon).  The Sacramento Delta, Baha, the San Juans several times and
> Desolation sound all courtesy of my Rhodes.  Over all these years we could
> have easily "upgraded" to a larger boat.  Neither of us had any desire.
We
> will be retiring in a couple of years and plan to live on a 38' catamaran.
> Alice is trying to figure out if a Rhodes is just a large dingy we can tow
> behind the boat. Regardless, I will keep my Rhodes until I die and they
can
> burry me in it.
>
> Chris G
>
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