N1EE wrote:

Doug great comments on the two boats. 5 pts.

Thanks what are the overall scores now?



I noticed the R-22 on eBay sold for $1822.
That is a fine deal for a small keelboat
and trailer.

If it's in shape to sail, I'd agree. The trailer would be a
good deal (if in decent shape) at that price. However the
sailboat market is really in the dumper right now.
Everybody who wants a boat badly enough to actually pay for
one, already has one (or in most cases more than one).




I find it hard to believe it won't plane in
20+ knots.

The hull isn't shaped for any kind of lift. The stern pulls
up a walloping big roiling wake. You can feel the boat sort
of shudder and try to break loose, but it won't. We have
hit 7.5 knots which is faster than hull speed, but we were
pulling a huge noisy pile of boiling water and definitely
not planing.

Contrast that with the Johnson 18 which planes at the drop
of a hat (so to speak) an leaves a smooth flat bubbly wake
behind it.


I can believe it would tend
to squirrel around with a spinnaker.

It's not as bad as some, like say for example the Ranger 37
which is the bubble-sided IOR shape of an earlier
generation than the R-22. Those darn things go downwind
like dog in a cow pasture, always stopping to roll in the
patties. It takes a blooper to tame them.

If you look, you can see photos of racing boats in that era
(mid 1970s) sailing downwind in fine weather with their
bloopers set flying and their mains half dropped. Most of
them went upwind as though on rails but didn't like going
the other way (or at least, didn't like going fast).

One of the nicest things IMHO about an asymmetric spinnaker
is that it does not produce any inclination to broach,
unlike a big masthead tri radial spinnaker.

The R-22 is a cool little boat.
http://community.webshots.com/album/76563516CcbaFc
Apologies if you've seen these pics before, this is my
friends boat and some shots of one of the days we went
sailing... and also proved it wouldn't plane, but
unfortunately I was too busy to take pictures while we were
flying the spinnaker.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King