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Get sailing with this well-maintained 2004 fast-but-forgiving Rhodes 19 sloop. Beautiful navy blue hull with white cockpit and decks. Its stored on-trailer rigged and ready to sail at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Sail it there, or trailer it to its new home.
The Classically styled Rhodes 19 is the ideal family daysailer and spirited one-design racer. She’s an accomplished heavy-weather performer built upon a fast and forgiving hull. Fifty years and 3500 hulls have proven her design, construction, and sailing character to beginning and experienced sailors alike. Production of the Rhodes 19 began in 1958 by ODay, and continues to this day by Stuart Marine in Rockland Maine.
Equipment: This is a complete package: mainsail with jiffy reefing, roller furling jib, boom-end main sheet for a clear cockpit and custom Bimini, working masthead anchor light and tricolor, 2 100 Ah deep cycle batteries and 2 100w solar panels on the foredeck, tiller pilot, Dandorth 8s anchor with 6 of chain plus 100 of rode, 6 hp 4-stroke Tohatsu longshaft outboard with 5 gal tank, fold-up transom swim ladder, canvas boat cover, and galvanized boat trailer with light bar. If you might want to use it as a pocket cruiser, also included are custom v-berths and a complete bug-free cockpit tent. Towing weight is 1500 pounds, doable even for many smaller vehicles.
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
A more accurate formula devised by Dave Gerr in The Propeller Handbook replaces the Speed/Length ratio constant of 1.34 with a calculation based on the Displacement/Length ratio.
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio.311
Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64)2/3
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam1.33)
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
The RHODES 19 has it’s origins with HURRICANE class (1945) which was a molded plywood centerboarder with an open cockpit built by Allied Aviation Corp. Another builder, Palmer Scott, purchased a number of unfinished HURRICANE hulls, added a foredeck with cuddy cabin, and a fixed keel. This boat was sold as the SMYRNA. It was from the SMYRNA that Marscot Plastics made a plug for a fiberglass version. This was the boat that was later sold by O’Day Corp. as the RHODES 19.
There are keel and centerboard versions. The fixed keel version become the standard for class racing.
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