[Rhodes22-list] Long Road Trip

[Peter Nyberg]

Patrick,

I have no neat tricks.  When I recently towed my Rhodes 22 from Edenton home to Connecticut, I just left the motor on the transom, and I plan to continue this practice in the future.  Stan’s crew tied it off to the aft railing and then lowered it some, so that some of the weight was supported by the railing, and some by the motor lift.  I have an 8 HP Mercury.  I don’t recall the exact weight, but it’s close to 100 lbs.

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels


> On May 11, 2016, at 12:45 PM, PBR <pbryanriley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Rhodies,
> I am planning a long trip this summer and will probably be soliciting a lot
> of advice.  This is the first.  Typically each summer I drive my family
> from Denver to the East Coast and leave them with family or by a beach
> somewhere while I fly home to work a week or two, then I go back and get
> them.  This year I am going to take an extended vacation and stay gone
> about 4 weeks.  Going to hit Virginia Beach, OBX (Stan's neighborhood), and
> Chincoteague.  So I am planning to tow the Rhodes and have it available to
> get on the water for short day sails and a little exploring.
> 
> I had always planned to remove my motor from the boat for long trips,
> however I had planned to just wrestle my oversized electric start Honda 9.9
> x-long shaft (110 lbs) into the back of a pickup truck.  In this case I
> will be towing with an SUV so that is not an option.  I can't really
> just lift it into the cockpit.  The question - does anyone have any neat
> tricks maybe using a halyard or topping lift/boom/mainsheet to lift a motor
> into the cockpit/cabin for travel?
> 
> I will have a stabilizing hitch, towing with a pathfinder, so leaving it
> tightly strapped to the transom may be OK too.
> 
> 
> Patrick Riley
> Lakewood, CO
> s/v Cleone
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