[Rhodes22-list] There’s probably a better way (to paddle)

[Ric Stott]

My Dad - used to keep a sort paddle on-board. 
I keep my inherited Rhodes on a mooring in Shinnecock Bay, NY. 
At low tide  I can walk to it, but I use a standup Paddle Board for a tender. 
I take the paddle with me and always  have a long paddle (in the v-berth)  which comes in handy from time to time. 
Because my tender is best used alone, I pick up passengers by backing the boat up to the beach with the rudder in the up position and the outboard as high as it goes on the old fashion manual lift.  (Which I rebuilt in-kind this season)  The prop and water intake are just deep enough to function and the keel (Must be in full up position)   stops the boat before the prop hits bottom  as long as the bottom is not steeply sloped. (Do not do this with the swing keel down, especially if you have the old style blade - bad things will happen)
If the slope is steeper, I stop the motor and tilt it up so the stern hits the beach with the momentum I create baking up.  
My passengers climb up the stern ladder from the dry beach or from shallow water and I push the added weight off the bottom with my long paddle.  I can use this method for any beach with an approach deeper than 22”. 
Of course the paddle can actually move the boat too if you ever need to, or be used when you blow the docking by a few feet, your dock lines are cleated and too short to throw,  and need the guy on the dock to grab something.
There’s always a story! 
Last and probably least, it could be used to discourage unwanted guests from coming aboard.  
We take the sailboat clamming often.
How many sailboats can you use for a clamming expedition?  
Gotta a love the Rhodes 22. 
Ric 
Dadventure 
'84 Continental


Richard F. Stott, AIA, LEED AP 
ric at stottarchitecture.com
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> On Aug 19, 2021, at 2:39 PM, Rick Lange <sloopblueheron at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The bigger question is where would you sit?  And where would you keep the
> huge oars?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rick Lange
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 2:34 PM Scott Andrews via Rhodes22-list <
> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone ever installed oar locks on their Rhodes?
>> Scott, 86’ Pantalaimon
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 19, 2021, at 8:16 AM, Luis Guzman <luis.guzman.ve at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can propel the boat by moving the tiller back and forth. Though, It
>> is a lot of work.
>>> 
>>> S/V Aquetxali
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 19, 2021, at 12:18 AM, Larry Gioia via Rhodes22-list <
>> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion!
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah wind had basically died
>>>> 
>>>> I’m trying to picture it, I’ll try it! Not sure my trolling motor is
>> long enough
>>>> 
>>>> Larry
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Aug 18, 2021, at 6:57 AM, ROGER PIHLAJA <roger_pihlaja at msn.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Larry,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2 questions:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Was there no wind so you could just sail the remaining 1.5 miles?
>>>>> Why didn’t you just clamp the trolling motor onto the rudder head,
>> lower it all the way down, turn it 90 deg, & use the rudder to point the
>> thrust?  You might have to kick-up the rudder blade to get it to clear the
>> trolling motor’s prop.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Roger Pihlaja
>>>>> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from Mail for Windows
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: Larry Gioia via Rhodes22-list
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 8:27 PM
>>>>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>>>>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] There’s probably a better way...
>>>>> 
>>>>> ... but this is what came to mind.
>>>>> My Mercury outboard unexpectedly stopped a month ago while returning
>> but still 1.5 miles away from the dock with a boatload of people. It was
>> fine before and since.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I keep a 55# thrust trolling motor on board just in case but between
>> people and motorboat waves there was no way I’d be able to safely swap the
>> 2 motors. I eventually got the motor restarted but it got me to thinking.
>> So I made this bracket for the trolling motor. It will stay attached. Fire
>> away with better ideas.
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>>>>> Larry
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>>>>> —
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2014 R22 Language of Love
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lake George, NY
>>>>> 
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