Don't worry, be happy!

[Fairbro]

As a former C-dory owner I kept up with this forum (still do) and all the mechanical and structural problems that we have experienced and overcome. That's just it, with everyone's help we overcame. Things work out. I worried too much about inherent C-dory weaknesses and it affected my enjoyment. Now it's been two years since I stopped boating but I still read stuff on here and think if I still had "Minnie" I'd be worried about that now. So if you are like me just stop it. Enjoy your boat, it's probably gonna out live you.

[hardee]

Thanks for the good advice.

And some back to you .... --> There are still C-Dorys out there.

Could be a "Minnie II" in the future.

Harvey
SleepyC

[Fairbro]

I just hit 72 and do all my boating from a deck chair on my balcony overlooking a marina on the Mississippi. I still cuss out the inexperienced and inept to my wife. She says shut-up about that, just relax, it's not your problem. She's right of course.

[Jake]

The current sermon series at our church is: FEAR. A week ago was: the fear of failure. I am the champion when it comes to the fear of failure. It does kind of dominate one's life sadly. Great to be prepared, great to avoid failures, but not good when the fear of failure starts to control your life such that you can't really enjoy life.

[dotnmarty]

See, this is why I check out the C-Brats every day. We of a certain age realize how fortunate we are to have had the joy of C-Dory ownership and C-Brat membership.

[NORO LIM]

[hardee]

[JamesTXSD]

And I check almost every day, 'cause this place feels like "home."

A good lesson with this thread: enjoy each day...



Look for the good stuff in each experience; and there is a lot of good stuff with C-Dory ownership.

[hardee]

Jim, Thanks for the "really good point".
I remember being overseas in the service and whenever we got a chance to see the military newspaper "Stars and Stripes" the first place everyone checked to see if there name was in the paper was the .......... obituary column.

Glad we got past that.

Harvey
SleepyC

[Larry Patrick]

Learning that motto,things are going to happen,they will get fixed,so enjoy the boat and dealing with the headaches is part of it.

[anchorout]

I once met an old crusty Frenchman, living on his boat, down island in Admiralty Bay. He'd been around and had some tales to tell. Once he was off the coast of Carolina and was hit by a hurricane. (It's hard to imagine in this day and age, how one could be surprised by a hurricane, but ... it's his story.) Things finally got so bad, that, on deck fighting the storm, he was thrown across the boat and impaled on a stanchion, that penetrated his abdomen, breaking a rib. His boat was eventually blown ashore and he was taken to a hospital by passersby, where he spent weeks healing. This he said had happened some 50 years ago.

I asked how, after such a narrow escape, he ever decided to return to the sea. "I would rather die, on my boat, with a pipe through my gut, than in a hospital bed, with a tube up my $%*."

I always admired that man. What a rich life he had had, and he was still living it at his age.

[ssobol]

[Sunbeam]

[Salmon Fisher]

I would like to add:

USE YOUR BOAT!

It likes to get tossed around or get drenched in salt. The engine, she likes to be worked, kind of like the old adage,"If you don't use it, you lose it."

All of the systems need to be used or else they fail to work or become balky. There were quite a few sub systems on our 25 that just were not up to snuff simply because the prior owner didn't use the boat enough. Within the first 6 months, I tracked down items such as lose hose clamps, helm panel going out because the connections on the main bus bar were corroded and loose. Hard starting kicker motor, stiff thru hull valve for wash down pump and the list went on.

Don't worry, Be Happy, Use Your Boat!

[ssobol]