Never mind, you do mention the (absence of) the head.  I’m even more amazed

> On Dec 6, 2024, at 9:05 AM, boris at borisland.com wrote:
> 
> 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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