C-Dory Gillnetter

tpbrady · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject: C-Dory Gillnetter

I think I saw the C-Dory Gillnetter mentined in the brochure today. It's parked high up on the Anchorage hillside on a trailer and looks ready to go.

TyBoo · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:15 am Post subject:

That is neat looking! Thanks. I think they might need a different tow rig, though.

Sea Wolf · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:37 am Post subject:

Tom-

We've seen this boat before. There was only one of them made, and I think it was referred to as a "Bow Picker".

The front of the boat has a door that lowers to deploy and retrieve fishing nets.

I'll try to find the other picture we have of it in the Archives.

Nice seeing you at the Seattle Boat Show again!

Joe.

Sea Wolf · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:55 am Post subject:

I can't seem to find the photo of the 1983 C-Dory Brochure, but a little reading reveals there was only one Bow Picker ever built, in 1983, and it was listed for $18,180 in the brochure.

Maybe someone else knows in whose album the photo is. I thought it was in either the Nancy H (Larry H) or maybe the High Tide (Jack in Alaska) album, but no Cigar

.

Joe.

tpbrady · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:09 am Post subject:

Joe,

I also call it a bowpicker but the brochure referred to it as a gillnetter which is probably also true. A bow picker has a blunt nose over the v-bow where there is a roller assembly. The gillnets are pulled in over the roller. If you PM me your e-mail address I'll send you the hi res version (3 MB) and you can see the roller assembly.

AstoriaDave · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:11 am Post subject:

A bowpicker is one version of a gill net boat. Where is this one?

tpbrady · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:18 am Post subject:

Anchorage.

flapbreaker · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:25 am Post subject:

http://www.c-brats.com/albums/gljjr/Ad.jpg

Fish Mode · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:02 am Post subject:

Wow, truely amazing! Smile

I hope someone can fix this baby up and have a blast!

Is that a steering wheel I see?...

Fish Mode

Byrdman · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:50 am Post subject:

Now that is a cockpit. I guess you just take the cockpit of two CD-22 Anglers, a little cut-n-paste/glue and glass action.... and bingo!!

I like it.... Now... on the CD25, does the hull forever get smaller as it gets to the stern????? or.... does it finally "square off"??? Just think if you had a CD25 with about 3 times as long of a cockpit. That would be a real neat boat....

NOW... LOOK AT HOW MUCH BETTER THE BOAT HELD UP THAN THE CAR!!!

DOES THIS SAY SOMETHING ABOUT BUILDING IT RIGHT THE 1ST TIME?
THAT IS WHY A LOT OF US FELL IN LOVE WITH C-DORY BOATS... IT IS NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE A NEW BOAT....IT IS BECAUSE THEY WERE AN OLD BOAT, BUT AS STRONG OR STRONGER THAN A NEW BOAT...
WHAT A NOVEL IDEA....BUILD A TUFF BOAT Thumbs Up

Robbi · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:01 am Post subject:

I showed the picture of the C-Dory gillnetter to my husband. He said, "Wow, I really like that truck!" Crook

Robbi

Byrdman · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:10 am Post subject:

Aviators.... what can you expect Robbi? Ever caught a fish from an airborne plane?

Pat Anderson · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:25 am Post subject:

Well, I guess we have found Oldgrowth his next project...

starcrafttom · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

Now thats a shrimp pot pulling boat if I every saw on. Just think of all the pots you could get of that front deck.