New Owner says hello ... am I doing this right???

Esmi2

I am the brand new and proud owner of a 2006 Cape Cruiser 23.

As a rank amateur, I question whether I am doing this right, as shown in the photo below. Apparently, first you buy a boat; then you put the boat on a trailer; then you put the trailer on a ferry over water. Somehow, I thought boating was going to be funner than this! Very Happy

Kidding aside, I am glad to be here, and I wouldn't have made it to C-Dory(ish) ownership without this site coaching. Can't wait to splash my boat! But first another day or so of highway time to get it home!

I've been looking for my "just right" boat for several years, and then this one came up on the C-Brats site and the stars aligned for a purchase.

Both known former owners were C-Brats, and I believe this craft has spent most of its time in the San Juan Islands. It's new duty will be on a trailer in my yard in San Luis Obispo, CA, and western rivers and lakes as we get going. More details to come.

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clayhubler · Posted: Thu May 08, 2025 11:17 pm Post subject:

Nope, that’s exactly how it’s done. I’ll be ferrying my new to me boat in July.

Donald Tyson · Joined: 24 Jul 2023 Posts: 447 Photos: Thistle

Did you have to rub it in that you are from SLO, CA? Gosh.....What a beautiful area. Congrats on the new boat.
Our family will float ours for the first time soon, so I know the feeling.
Congrats to Clay as well.

thataway · Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 3:36 pm Post subject:

Congratulations on the "new" boat. The photos show it is excellent condition. The ferry is "OK"....unless you have to back it all of the way off...as I had to do, towing behind a 35' motor home....

You have some pretty neat (and rough at times) water there. I always have loved Montana De Oro State Park as a place to visit & hike, as well as Moro Bay, and San Luis harbors.

The Moro Bay yacht club members are some of the nicest folks I have ever met. I had spent the night beating around Point Conception in 50 knots of breeze and 10 foot seas, in our Cal 46 and was talking on a ham radio network about it the next morning. When I arrived in Morro Bay, I was circling around looking for an unoccupied mooring, I heard a lot of yelling from the Yacht Club. I feared they were telling me I could not use one of the moorings. Just the opposite, they had moved one of the members boat from the dock for us, and saved some hamburgers for us. One of the Yacht Club members had monitored my ham radio conversation!