Dry Storage Facilities banning C-Dory

tom&shan · Joined: 21 Sep 2006 Posts: 316 Photos: Dakota

Anyone else running into this issue as far as Dry Storage and C-Dory's ?

Larry H · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject:

Tom,

Twin Bridges dry stack near Anacortes has lots of C-Dorys, both 22's and 25's. They also store Tom Cats.

Robbi · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject:

I ran into this problem with the dry stacked storage on the Foss Waterway in Tacoma. Everything was fine and dandy, paid my first months rent, delivered my boat to the dock and drove home. About an hour later I got a call from them and they told me that they could not take a C-Dory. The reason they gave me was that the boat, because of its width and flat bottom, didn't fit the cradle that they use in the launch process. Their process to launch is different than Twin Bridges. Foss, and some other stacked storage places, remove the boat from the stack with the fork lift, and then put it onto a wood cradle (much like the one the boat rests on in the storage building) and then it is sling launched. Twin Bridges uses the fork lift to complete the launch. They told me that the C-Dory (19 and 22) would require them to use a different sized cradle at the sling, which in my mind was not that big of deal. When I went to pick up my rejected boat, I talked with the manager and he said all of the same things that the assistant manager had told me. I pressed him a bit because I was ticked off because they had told me at the Tacoma Boat Show that they knew their boats and the C-Dory would work just fine. I was concerned about the trim tabs being damaged during lifting. After a bit of discussion, he told me that one of their other storage facilities in Seattle had had a C-Dory 22 do a 180 on the fork lift in the wind. I have no idea if that was true or not, but that may be the reason that some places don't want flat bottomed boats.

Robbi

DaveS · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:52 am Post subject:

These marinas that choose to not have the ability to accomodate our flat bottoms are sure losing out! Not only do they not get to admire such functional and beautiful (aka "Cute Boats") on a daily basis, but they miss out on associations with the wonderful folks that own them.

Perhaps, the day will come when the majority of boaters will become converts to C-Dory and in order for them to stay in business, these marinas will have to modify their equipment for us. Laughing