[Rhodes22-list] Ok to beach the Rhodes?

[Rick]

As with any keel boat, the keel is the strongest part of your boat.  On the
trailer, the keel bears 90% of the boat weight.  Eat with rum any fish that
condemns you for scraping your bottom on the beach.

Rick

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Ellyn and Sam Moore
<eandsmoore at hughes.net>wrote:

> I share your trepidation, but Stan's site also shows a pic of a Rhodes
> high and dry on a sand bar, with his encouragement to clean and paint the
> bottom on one side, then the other on the next tide. I have also seen,
> somewhere, a picture of a Rhodes sitting, on the hard, with its weight on
> its stub keel.
> Sam
> On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Andrew Collins wrote:
>
> > Ellyn and Sam
> >
> > While I have been tempted to beach the boat, my sentiments coincide with
> Rummy's. The boat will rest with all its weight on the keel and centerboard
> opening creating great pressure there. The cb trunk is separate frp piece
> encapsulated in the hull molding, and I know the bottom edges are neither
> thick nor strong. Yes, I chipped away at them by gently passing over a sand
> bar containing stones. We were walking the boat to deeper water as the tide
> ebbed. Easy to fix with epoxy, but a good illustration of what is strong
> and what isn't. There are boats made for settling into the muck between
> tides, but the R22 isn't set up that way.
> > I've seen Stan s assertion on the web site and assumed he does this on
> the powdery Caribbean beaches he winters at
> > Andrew
> > SV Carmen
> >
> > Sent from mobile device.
> >
> > On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:41, Ellyn and Sam Moore <eandsmoore at hughes.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I just re-read Stan's website, and he does mention beaching as a plus.
> Beach'n!
> >> Sam
> >> On Jan 7, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Rick wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The R22 beaches fine bow first.  In fact, it is tough enough to tow on
> a
> >>> trailer over bumpy roads.
> >>>
> >>> Rick
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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