Thanks, Patrick, this is helpful! How is your Rhodes configured? Does it have an in-mast furler and a marine head? Any other heavy items on board? I am amazed that there’s a 1000lb variability for boat weight minus the trailer among the list members here.
Boris
> On Dec 6, 2024, at 8:00 AM, PBR <pbryanriley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is what I posted in 2016 (not recently):
>> I recently weighed my boat & trailer, then weighed the trailer without the
> boat
>> With 2 batteries & charger
>> With some tools and jackets, not much else
>> With several fenders, boat hook, telescoping oar
>> With all interior cushions, no exterior cushions
> With Lead Ballast about 150 lbs
> With bimini
> With Mast crutch and winch
> With 5 gal gas
> With one Anchor
>> Without any water on board
>> Without motor
>> Without pop top enclosure
> Without head or portapotti
>>> Attached to vehicle = 3620 (on 3500 lb axle)
>> On Trailer detached = 3960
>> Tongue = 340 (boat was 8 or 9 inches back from full forward position)
>>> Trailer = 920 lbs with spare tire tire
> Single Axle 1989 mfg by J.Q. Tex, Mishawaka IN
> but it looks and acts like a Triad
>>> 1989 Rhodes22 Boat alone as weighed
> 3960 -920 =3040 lbs
>> Patrick
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 3:10 AM Ken Simolo <kensimolo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hooked up to the truck which was off the scale, the scale weight on the
>> single trailer axle was 700 lbs
>>>> On December 6, 2024 at 2:38:34 AM, Boris Hayete (boris at borisland.com)
>> wrote:
>>>> Ah yes, I've seen that post - and thanks for sending this link. This is
>> br/>why I'm saying I've seen a wild variability in weight estimaates. This
>> br/>post claims - possibly incorrectly - that their Rhodes *alone* clocks
>> in br/>at 3700lbs, when any page remotely relaated to General Boats has
>> much br/>lower numbers (Sailboat Data has 22000!), and what I've seen
>> posted by a br/>few folks seems to be beetween 3500 and 4500 with trailer
>> (with the boat br/>heavily loaded).. One gentleman whose boat I looked at
>> in person told me br/>whhen he towed it during covid (he never sailed it),
>> the trailer and the
>> boat clocked in at 3500 exactly when he took them to the weight station,
>> br/>but the trailer was not Triad. This is why I'm asking for peoples'
>> br/>measured weights from first hand experience. <
>>>> Boris
>>>>>> On 12/5/24 16:45, Peter Nyberg wrote:
>>> Well, that link doesn't seem to work. To find the page, go to the main
>> reference page:
>>>>>>http://www.rhodes22.org/reference-pages.html>>>>>> Then go to the section for 'Towing' under the letter 'T'.
>>>>>> The Topic is 'Rhodes 22 Tow Weight'.
>>>>>> --Peter
>>>>>> [ Sent From rhodes22.net ]
>>>>>
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