Prospective owner seeks performance data

hardee · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject: Good, Used CD, Find it here!

Doug, If you are looking for a good used C-Dory, the first place you will find them will generally be on this site. On the Home Page, watch the bottom right corner, and check the forum list every day. It is not uncommon for a boat to come up for sale on this site and be sold in 1-2 days or less. Sometimes you can get really lucky and it's with in a couple hundred miles of home. Sometimes farther, (check the "How far did You drive to buy a C-Dory?" thread. I would venture to say that mine is one of the few that ever sold without ever seeing this list. I was truely blessed.
Good luck in your search, and welcome to C-Dory land.
Harvey
SleepyC Moon

DaveS · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject:

kapitano · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 5

SleepC;

I have already looked through the "For Sale" listings and see several that fit my price range although they are on the wrong side of the continent. I don't really feel confident in my knowledge of the design and potential problem areas to buy just yet anyways. Reading through the replies I see that tubing should be no problem but waterskiing could be a stretch so I'm still trying to decide if the benefits outweigh the possible loss of this activity. Overall I do think the benefits are greater than the loss but it may come down to fate deciding for me - I'm buying a boat in the next few months and I may just settle for a regular old lake boat although if I do that I already know what my next boat will be. Wink

Doug

Sea Wolf · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject:

elmo-

Your signature has me wondering

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elmo

:^)>
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So, OK, I'll bite!

I'm unfamiliar with the sysbols in your signature, and Google didn't recognize them either.

Can you give us some insight into the mystery?

Is it just ordinary symbols with a different font?

Thanks!

Joe. Thumbs Up

kapitano · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 5

Joe;

Tilt your head to the left and look again;

eyes, nose, smile, chin (I think)

Doug

rdn4sun · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject:

Joe,
The symbols are an ancient blessing for ships and sailors originating in...uhhh..naw, it's merely the logo representing my bearded, smiling face.

elmo

:^)>

thataway · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

There are ski pylons which can be bolted into the foreward part of the splash well and transom, and easily removed, which put the tow rope post foreward of and over the outboard --this would help some with pulling the stern around. But I don't see it as that great a problem.

hardee · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: that Sig again

Joe, that elmo signature had me going to but I thought everybody else knew so I was just going along. Embarassed

Harvey
SleepyC Moon

Sea Wolf · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:08 am Post subject:

rdn4sun · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject:

"Thanks, elmo!
As usual, I tried to read too much into the situation, looking for an explanation of the Cosmos in a CrackerJack Box! Have you ever seen the face in the sand on Mars?
Joe. Laughing

"

Joe,
Actually, there is a lot of cosmic significance to my logo; I simply have not gleaned it all yet.
The face on Mars? Yep, that's me too.

elmo

:^0>

patrick and linda · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

i've been toying with the idea of strapping on yamaha's new twin 350 v8's.
now that's what i'm talkin' about, right there.
i could do that if the bow would just stop pointing vertical.
not sure if i'm trying to make my little misty seas something it's not.
i guess i better leave well enough alone and just operate it in the spirit it's intended.
oh well.
pat
400/2008

thataway · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject:

I don't see much on the postings or my experience that water skiing would be a stretch. There are better boats as a primary ski boat, but the C Dory 19 or 22 should easily do 22 to 25 mph and have a good hole shot with a lower pitched prop. Just because most folks use their boats for cruising, doesn't mean that the CD 19 or 22 would not make a very usable ski boat.

As for the pulling the skiier--we have almost always used a vinly covered cable shackled to the stern eyes, with a pully and float where the ski rope joins. This tends to decrease the swing of the boat's stern.

hardee · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject: 22 Cruiser for a Ski boat