[Rhodes22-list] New owner catching up

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"How do I scull the Rhodes?"  Bring the rudder up to about parallel to the boat and move it back and forth with the tiller.  Helps to also have an oar with you if you have crew.  The oar helps with direction and adds to forward motion.  

We had a crappy engine at one point and the winds were not favorable for us to sail to our slip, so the rudder and oar did the trick on more than one occasion. 

Bob in Stuart
S/V "NoKaOi 3"
2010 R22 (Our 2nd R22 - 25 year R22 owners)

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> On Aug 14, 2017, at 6:33 PM, S/V Lark <Colealexander at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Congratulations.   I hope you guys have a lot of fun.   Outboards suck, my
> next one will be electric.  
> 
> Madison is nice in the summer, but surviving the Texas heat is an epic feat
> of seamanship.       I love reports of people using their boat, even if I
> don't make it to half the places.   Any pictures?    Was the foiler that was
> killed by the DNR boat on your Wisconsin lake?   
> 
> I spent years mostly singlehanding a 2 man Buccaneer 18 (The Rod
> Macalpine-Downie and Dick Gibbs design, not the heavy slow bathtub with the
> same name).  That boat has been described as "Fast boat, initially very
> tender but firms up just before it capsizes" so I was kind of jumpy when I
> came to the Rhodes-22.   It took me a while not to ease the sheet every time
> the rubrail got wet and realize she just doesn't care if you wash the decks
> on occasion.    I personally limit the main to only one '2' visible and
> start with half a jib when the wind is in the 20's or gusting a lot.  I also
> reef the main quickly if the weather might be building, since it seems much
> harder to reef  in a heavy wind.     I'll play with the jib but not trust
> more main until I'm really sure.   The vertical batten mainsail is a bit
> fuller, so a tad more caution helps vs the batten-less sail that lacks a
> roach.
> 
> How do you scull the Rhodes?   
> 
> Alex Cole
> Lark, 2002 model partially recycled in 2015. 
> 
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