[Rhodes22-list] What happens when Rhodies go over to the dark side

Mon Jun 13 11:21:17 EDT 2016

At 10:49 AM 6/13/2016, Bob wrote:
>I love your new boat!  Especially envious of the A/C unit!  Is an 
>intracoastal trip to Florida in your future?
>Bob
>(Palatka)

Probably not to Florida but we will be bringing her back up the ICW 
from Oriental to Rock Hall. If it turns out that we love that, who 
knows? I think the AC will be really nice for that trip in July. Of 
course it only works at the dock so we may mostly marina-hop on our 
way north although the boat does have great ventilation and a 
refrigerator/freezer for cool drinks.

In buying this boat we really hope to revisit all of the fabulous 
Chesapeake anchorages and ports that have seemed out of reach the 
past few years. Like the Rhodes, the boat is capable of a lot more 
than we are (if only in the sense of time available.) In fact, This 
Rossi is only 4 years old but has already been from the Chesapeake to 
the East coast of Florida. Others have cruised the New England coast, 
done the Great Loop including the Great Lakes and cruised the Pacific 
Northwest.

We always said that you could sail the Chesapeake for 40 years and 
never hit all the wonderful places and anchorages along its shores. 
We certainly didn't in 20 years of cruising first on the Com-Pac 16 
and then on the Rhodes 22. Part of the issue was, of course, that 
some were so wondeerful, you just wanted to go back again and again. 
The new boat will be a little faster than a sailboat so we may range 
further afield.

The other thing is that we're not planning on giving up any of our 
other toys so we still will want to devote time to kayaking (the new 
boat will be a good platform for that), the travel trailer (we might 
do a few less music festival than we did last year but probably only 
by one or two) and taking the trailer (and the kayaks) to Florida for 
a few weeks in the winter and elsewhere in the summer. On the other 
hand we are hoping to give at least a few hours of work.

And we will stick around the Rhodes list. Fretless was a big part of 
our lives. We'll miss (and have missed) sailing so I'll get my online 
fix here and of course we do still have friends with sailboats.

All my best and thanks to everyone for all the kind words
Mary Lou

Fretless
1991 Rhodes 22, Recycled 1998
For Sale in Rock Hall, MD

and

Tara
2012 Rosborough RF-246
soon to be Rock Hall, MD

> > On Jun 11, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Rick <sloopblueheron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mary Lou,
> >
> > Thanks for your list contributions over the years.  I'm sure you'll shed
> > some light onto the Dark Side.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Mary Lou Troy 
> <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Some of you know we haven't used Fretless too much the past couple of
> >> years. It took us a while to figure out that we are not as nimble as we
> >> once were and that every time we went out we were worried about getting
> >> beat up or we waited for perfect weather and didn't go out.
> >>
> >> We idly talked about a powerboat as a possible solution and even went to
> >> the powerboat show in Annapolis to look at options. It wasn't until we saw
> >> a Rosborough RF-246 at the Bay Bridge Boat Show this spring that 
> we knew we
> >> had found out next boat, a 26 ft outboard powered mini-trawler. 
> It won't be
> >> sailing but she has doors on either side of the helm position so you feel
> >> like you are on the water, great visibility, a nice cockpit and shallow
> >> draft so we can re-visit all of our favorite anchorages. The one that will
> >> be ours any day now was one of the last ones built in Nova Scotia before
> >> Bob Rosborough sold the molds and the name to Eastern Boats in New
> >> Hampshire (which is making very nice new ones.)
> >>
> >> Photos attached.
> >>
> >> We miss sailing but we will be very excited to get back out on the water.
> >> If you can stand us, we'll probably stick around here.
> >>
> >> Mary Lou
> >> Fretless
> >> 1991 Rhodes 22, Recycled 1998
> >> For Sale in Rock Hall, MD
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> Tara
> >> 2012 Rosborough RF-246
> >> soon to be Rock Hall, MD
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