Hi Ruben,
             Like you I am a 2 boat owner, an R22 and a 38' Catalina.  The
big boat is down here in Fl., Vero Beach, the little one in the Med.  So I
can't give you a demo sail but I can inform you how great the R22 is.  We
spend 6 months on the Catalina in the Bahamas and 3 months on the Rhodes.
And I can tell you that by April we are looking forward to sailing our
Rhodes.  I have sailed the R22 in the Bahamas too and it is a great
Florida/Keys/Bahamas boat.  Like the IP, the Rhodes is a quality boat that
has been improved over the many years of production.  I know of several
Rhodes  owners on the west coast of  FL . who will probably contact you.
Feel free to contact me if you have questions, and the list is a cornucopia
of information that is freely given.

Chris Geankoplis
ENOSIS  I

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:26 AM Reuben Mezrich <reuben.mezrich at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
> i'm in the process of moving to Sarasota from Baltimore, MD. I have an
> Island Packet 380 that I keep in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore but I've
> come to find that even with a draft of 4'6" the IP380 is too big to sail
> around here, especially in Little Sarasota Bay. I'm not even sure I could
> get it into what will be my new marina at Pelican Cove, Sarasota,
> So.....I've been looking at smaller boats and after looking around and
> especially after several conversations with Stan Spitzer I"m pretty sure
> that a Rhodes 22 is the boat in my future.
> While I"ve seen the Rhodes 22 at the Annapolis boat show on several
> occasions, I"ve never actually been on her and of course have never sailed
> one
> So, the point of this email is to find out if there are other Rhodes 22
> sailors in the Sarasota area (i.e. from Fort Myers to Tampa) that I could
> talk to and perhaps take a sail before I drive up to Edonton
>
> --Reuben
>
> Reuben Mezrich
> Baltimore, Inner Harbor (soon to be Pelican Cove in Sarasota)
> Cell: 410-499-8922
>