[Rhodes22-list] Swinging at anchor?

[Lowe, Rob]

Ric,
You know we always like to hear about misadventures.  If you care to tell your story, we'd like to hear.  I've got a centerboard story I can tell too. - rob

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From: Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org> on behalf of Ric Stott <ric at stottarchitecture.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 8:33 AM
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Swinging at anchor?

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.



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> On May 2, 2020, at 9:07 AM, Carl Geisser <cgeisser12345 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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