[Rhodes22-list] Roger!!

[Jay Friedland]

Roger,
I echo Mary Lou’s welcome back to you. Although coming on board in ’89, I was late to the party. Sailing 800 to 1,000 nm a season, I’m still getting a LOT out of my 2nd R22, a ‘97. Your responses have been like treatises that challenge each of us to see how it applies to our sailing and our vessel. You’ve been missed and I appreciate your return.

Jay Friedland
s/v Wanderlust ‘97

> On Nov 26, 2018, at 2:26 PM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
> Welcome back!
> 
> Stan is not completely retired. He made the Annapolis boat show this year and is still recycling Rhodes 22s and as far as I know still selling parts.
> 
> Fred and I are amongst the last of the old-timers on the list but we sold Fretless two years ago and are now happily tootling around the Chesapeake in a Rosborough RF 246 (an outboard powered mini-trawler.) We retired and moved to Rock Hall, MD on the Chesapeake more than 10 years ago.
> 
> In addition to Rob Lowe, Jay Friedland and Chris Geankopolis are still around. Search the archives for Chris's saga on shipping his R22 to Spain and sailing the Med last year. I've probably forgotten a couple of others. Sadly Rummy died a few years ago and many more are no longer with us.
> 
> There is also a Rhodes 22 Owners Facebook page that gets a fair amount of traffic in season.
> 
> Glad to have you back!
> 
> Mary Lou
> ex Rhodes 22, now Rosborough RF-246   Tara
> (Tara has her own FB page https://www.facebook.com/TaraTRosborough/)
> Rock Hall, MD
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/26/2018 1:06 PM, ROGER PIHLAJA wrote:
>> Peter,
>> 
>> I dropped off the list in 2002 because I was tired of the political rancor vs boat talk.  In the years since then, I earned a BSME degree to go with my MSChE and BSChE degrees and spent 10 years as an engineering consultant with Emerson Process Management.   I’m retired now, but we still have our 1978 Rhodes 22.  We still mostly day sail it from our dock on Sanford Lake in the central lower peninsula of Michigan.  I’m still married to Deborah, 41+ years now.  I have 3 grandchildren, 2 girls and a boy.  Kaylee, the oldest is 4, and I’m looking forward to overnighting with her at the dock and at anchor next summer.
>> 
>> I know Stan and Rose have retired.  Are they still selling Rhodes pieces/parts, perhaps selling off old stock?
>> 
>> Roger Pihlaja
>> SV Dynamic Equilibrium
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Nov 26, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Roger,
>>> 
>>> I joined the list well after you stopped posting, but I feel I know you from having spent many hours reading the list archives.  I’m very happy to see you posting once again.  I hope the list can look forward to more of your insights in the future.
>>> 
>>> Peter Nyberg
>>> Coventry, CT
>>> s/v Silverheelsl (1988/2016)
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 26, 2018, at 12:02 PM, ROGER PIHLAJA <roger_pihlaja at msn.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Bob,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I just took some rough measurements of the curvature of your rudder from the attached picture.  It is deflecting ~1.5% in compression buckling mode.  The rudder blade is made from glass fiber reinforced polyester (FRP) with some internal ballast.  Typical FRP composites have an ultimate elongation of from 2-7%, with the failure point tending towards the low end as the temperature drops because the plastic resin passes thru its glass transition temperature and becomes brittle.  I would NOT leave the rudder loaded like that all winter.  You have another issue in that the compression on the rudder is loading up the rudder’s gudgeons and pintles and the boat’s transom in a manner they were never designed to handle.  By spring, you may very well have hull damage on the transom.  I would find some way to get that rudder unloaded ASAP!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If you unload it soon, you should see the rudder blade straighten out.  At your next opportunity, strip the bottom paint off the rudder and carefully inspect it.  You are looking for tiny transverse cracks (i.e. running from side to side vs. the length of the rudder blade), especially on the port side where the surface was in tension due to the buckling.  If you see these cracks, you might consider prepping the surface and applying a couple of coats of WEST System epoxy to both sides of the rudder blade.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Let me know how it turns out for you or if you have any other questions.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Roger Pihlaja
>>>> 
>>>> SV Dynamic Equilibrium
>>>> 
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