Lee, you should be fine on the towing limit. The boat and trailer should be
around 3800 lbs. My boat was my first tow. NJ by Staten Is
 To Radford. At the time the trailer did not have brakes so I stayed at 55
mph. I pulled fine up that long climb from Roanoke to Christiansburg.
I can't speak for Rob but I am sure he would not miss helping with your new
boat. Heck, we will have a Fleet of Rhodes at Claytor and all on "C" dock.
Did you get Stan's mast raising system? With that system it is not
difficult at all to raise the mast.
Everyone is chomping at their bits to get on the water this season
Let us know on the Sail Clator List.
Congrats on the new ownership.
Cary

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 3:32 PM Lee <lvjkuhn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cary,
>
> No date yet but when the time comes I may be contacting you and Rob for
> help.  I've never trailered or launched or raised/lowered a mast yet.  The
> trailer hitch should be installed on my wife's SUV next week.  I'm assuming
> a 5,000 lb. towing limit will handle Fancy Gap mountain?
>
> West Marine just delivered my compass to Stan and he's not finished with
> the
> recycling yet.  I'm in no real rush aside from I want to get out sailing.
> I
> saw the club boat was just launched so I'll have something to sail while I
> wait, but it's no Rhodes22.
>
> Lee
>
>
>
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