[Rhodes22-list] mast step mystery

[The Rhodes 22 Email List]

Good luck you will have a grand adventure.  There, that should cover
anything that might happen.
Chris G
Enosis
Medford OR (for another month only)

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:10 AM, The Rhodes 22 Email List <
rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:

> Hello all ­ finally getting ready to launch "Patience" here in the far
> north
> (compared to everyone but Graham!) after a long winter and some elbow
> grease. She spent 22 years on the trailer under cover, but seems in
> remarkably good shape, which is a tribute to the quality of the boat and
> its
> parts. It has turned into a love affair, but my wife has accepted my new
> mistress with equanimity, which is a first.
>
> Now the question:
>
> My mast step is held in place with three screws set into threaded receivers
> bedded in the fiberglass, but the base has two additional screw holes
> centred under the mast, and no sign they were ever used. The boat is a '76
> ­
> does anyone else have a similar mast step, and if so are there screws in
> those central holes for added strength? Being a Rhodes it must mean
> something.
>
> I'm going to launch her for the season on Lake Memphremagog, which is a 25
> mile long (and only 1 to 2 miles wide) glacier lake that runs from Magog,
> Quebec to Newport, Vt. Winds are variable because of the surrounding
> mountains and often die at the end of the afternoon. I am trying out a
> 2.5hp
> 4 stroke that was hanging unused in the boathouse, but expect that next
> summer on Lake Champlain and perhaps up St. Lawrence River I'll need
> something more like a 6 hp.
>
> The only question mark left for the launch is ­ will the centreboard go
> down????
>
> I will keep you posted.
>
> Jefferson
> Patience (1976)
>
>
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