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Looking for a Rhodes 22
2023-05-11; 23:49:46 EDT
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2012-01-04
Posts: 260
Yes! The boats were designed to be easily taken apart for recycling. The aluminum rivets were easily drilled out and the deck popped off so they could replace the rotten floor and cabinetry with a new set quickly. The shrouds attach to the deck and not the hull and that puts a lot of stress through the corroding rivets. Additionally they were only sealed with silicone to aid seperation too instead of using a proper sealant like 3m4200 / 5200 (stronger) or even heaven forbid actually be glassed together! 😱 The silicone goes bad after 8-10 years and the leaks start. My boat had 128 holes and it was leaking from many of them. The worst is the seat drain’s tiny tubes will stop up then rain will overflow the seats into the stern lazarette which drains into the bilge soaking the cabin floor over and over. Fixes include glassing in the aft lazarette and putting a seperate bilge pump in there or drilling out new drains along the seat grooves that drain into the cockpit and down the big main drain/scupper Other leak zones are your centerboard pennant tube. My tube (waterhose section) didnt even make it to the upper fitting! (More floor soaking) Front portlight water traps, and capillary action from the sliding hatch to name a few more sieve points. Still i hand it to Stan for being a marketing genius! Great boats, great adventure and designed in “flaws” (techniques) enabling the recycling of Glass for 63 years plus is quite a feat! 🤓🫡⛵️See the original archive post
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