[Rhodes22-list] Swinging at anor?

[Cary Tolbert]

Ric, I would guess there a larger number of Rhodes 22 with the old style
center boards than those with the diamond  boards. A lot of people could
benifit from your experience and what to avoid.
Cary

On Sun, May 3, 2020, 8:34 AM Ric Stott <ric at stottarchitecture.com> wrote:

> I use my Bow eye for mooring and I can still reach it by kneeling on the
> bow and reaching under the pulpit. Hauling the boat last fall, I noticed
> the bow eye was loose and had about 3/4” of play. I crawled into the
> forepeak and found that the two nuts on the Stainless D ring were rusted
> steel. The wood book had rotted at the washer and compressed 3/4”. I didn’t
> want to cut the eye off because I was unsure I could find the exact size
> replacement and did not want to epoxy the holes shut and re-drill them. So
> I crawled back into the bow with a Dremmel tool, surgically cut the nuts
> off and salvaged the Bow Eye. Stan told me his shop would never do use
> regular steel nuts, but obviously they did it more than once.
> And that’s just the beginning of my “Bad Haul Leads to  Centerboard Cap
> Rebuild” story.  If anyone is interested, I’ll take the time to document
> what not to do when hauling or launching a Rhodes 22 with an old style
> centerboard.
> Ric
> sv Dadventure
> Hampton Bays.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On May 2, 2020, at 9:07 AM, Carl Geisser <cgeisser12345 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have used the bow eye for anchoring if the weather is bad or strong
> tides
> > in the area we are in, although mine pulled out, not because of original
> > construction,  but somebody put regular steel nuts on the inside, and
> they
> > rusted through. I plan on replacing it this year.
> > I like the painter idea, as hanging upside down to thread rode through
> eye
> > is no fun, even less if choppy.
> > We have used many different configurations to anchor, once even tried 3
> > different anchors, trying to hold straight into th he waves, which were
> > broadside to the wind, something weird about the lagoon or tide, not
> sure .
> > It didn't work though, because the waves changed direction 2 hours later,
> > one of the rolliest nights spent at anchor.
> > Once used 3 anchors to hold in strong tide with 20-30 knot winds going
> with
> > the tides, was very nervous and got up to look at lines every 2 hours.
> Only
> > one anchor dragged (small dingy anchor) and we did not get blown out into
> > the gulf stream, so was all good.
> > We used the storm jib a couple times for a staysail, a little big, but it
> > worked.(we always called it the anchor sail, not knowing the proper term)
> > If the weather is calm, we mostly use the bow cleat, just easier and
> > quicker.
> >
> >
> >
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>