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Hello fellow C-Brat friends, Dunkley's wife here. Thanks for the photos of sunday's windstorm and the video of the C-Dory in the 4ft chop. I'm curious to 'see' how the C- dory looks/handles in the same chop with a following sea. Like Cindie, I am a moderately nervous sailor... and I find our...

I can only speak to open cpn- this needs charts loaded from a separate source

I use Open CPN in Canadian waters on a laptop with some older raster charts (I think they are a digitised version of the official Canadian charts). Its my first chart plotter so I dont have much to compare it to, but it works fine, seamlessly (ish) quilting the charts as you cross from one to...

.Preview "There are other ways to add a kicker. lots of different mounts out there, etc." Kushtaka,that's an interesting issue for us Classic owners; Whats the best way to mount a kicker on these Transoms? I have just bought a Tohatsu Saildrive(ultra long shaft) 6hp, with the idea of mounting...

You got yourself a deal there! Hope you dont have to open up the transom, but if you do, its not too bad of a job. When I bought Retriever, my 1983 classic she had been sitting in a boatyard in the San Juans full of rainwater. The transom core was end grain balsa which was mostly pulp from...

Hi I'm not a naval architect, but I did run a carolina dory for 17 years. For a flat bottomed boat they are quite seaworthy,due to their decent freeboard and sensible beam,relative to their length. Mine would plane to 20 knots but you have to slow down to displacement speeds in a chop. It...

Peter re. honda 40 oil change etc... You can download owners manuals for Honda outboards free . Just google Honda Marine> Owners resources>Manuals. Dunkley

Hi C-Brats First let me thank you,moderators,volounteers and contributors, for this wonderful ,informative & friendly site. It has already been a source of enough CD inspiration for me to buy my C-Dory-1983 Angler 22 '' Retriever''. As someone already noted in a different thread,she...