Dave,
Welcome back to the list. My recommendation is to go for the new to you  
boat. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 10/24/2010 11:07:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Rhodes22Dave at gmail.com writes:


I  bought my Rhodes 22 in late 2000 and had it delivered by Elton to  Lake
Travis, Texas (near Austin) in April 2001.  My boat has been  sitting in the
water ever since (I've never trailored it--just sailed down  to a marina a
couple of times for bottom paint).

I think the last  time I posted on this list was when a teflon ring slipped
off its set screw  inside at the top of my mast where it separated the mast
from the inner  furling system.  I did use Stan's crain system to lower the
mast by  myself right over the water, replace both the teflon ring and the
mainsail,  and then raise the mast and reset everything--and then lower and
raise it  again because I forgot something.  That was many years ago.

I  dropped off the list as the mailing list inbox got longer and longer,  
but
now I will do the best I can with a new email account just used for  this
list.

My wife and I live in Houston and drive to Austin (3 hour  drive) almost
every weekend.  Two years ago we also bought a motorboat  for a slip at our
weekend house on Lake Austin--we were the only house with  an empty slip--so
now we split our time between the two boats and the two  lakes, but sailing
is by far my favorite.

After ten years, mostly in  the hot sun, it is time to do the maintainance
that I would have done  myself all along if I lived here and especially if 
we
had a winter where  the boat comes out of the water for storage and 
repairs. 
Instead, winter  is the best time of year for sailing here (the second half
of fall through  the first half of spring).  Summer is good too--if you like
100 degree  heat, less wind, and lots of ski boats.  So in the summer we
don't go  out until early evening.

Being lazy, instead of replacing all the  lines, fixing the head and doing
other routine maintenance, I am thinking  of buying a new Rhodes 22 almost
exactly like my existing one, and giving  him mine back to refurbish for
someone else.  I talked to Stan about  this a year ago, but I keep
procrastinating because mine still is fully  operative (except the head) and
relaxing and fun.  It's just that I  don't know how much longer Stan can 
keep
making boats--none of us are  getting any younger--and ten more years from
now my existing Rhodes 22 may  be a candidate for Davy Jones Locker.  I hope
I am not too late.   I keep thinking that one of these months or years I am
going to find out  that Stan has fully retired.

I was encouraged to see that someone on  this list took delivery of a new
boat from Stan this April.  Sounds  like General Boats is still in 
business. 
I am 70 and don't think I'll be  lasting nearly as long as Stan has, but I
haven't retired  either.

Anyway, it will be good to read the posts from some of the  names that I
remember well from my prior time on this mailing  list.

Dave (or David--I use both versions equally as  much)







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