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If you plan just day uses with a fishing buddy... go with the angler for the extra elbow room in the cockpit while casting and fishing. Mostly a lone wolf fisherman? Plan to overnight in the marina or at anchorge with the wife or a girlfriend? The cruiser is a nice set-up for that...

Phil, Really great photos! Love your You Tube links! See you top side at Two Harbors. Keith C-Pup16

I will join you old salty C-dogs and newbie poof C-poodles at the C-Dory Two Harbors gathering. I plan to take C-Pup (without wife or dogs) on Saturday evening around midnight to the Isthmus to fish the dawn bite. I'll anchor for a few hours sleep at the single anchorage site marked on charts...

I'll bring some albacore and sweet corn for the barbecue Monday night. If I catch anything at the Isthmus on Sunday or Monday, I'll add that too. I took C-Pup to Catalina at dawn on Sunday morning 8/1 and fished all day on the back side. Not a bump. It was siesta time for senior fish. In the...

You mentioned buying a used boat. The C-Dory 16 "floor" is the hull, so it is easy to check for dry rot, patched old holes, and general condition. I would not hesitate to buy a used C-Dory, but would require the seller to let me gently tap the hull with a rubber hammer. (If my tump thump...

I HOPE THAT MY LAST POST DIDN'T GET ANY OF YOU GUYS (OR LADIES) WORRIED! I 'm eager to see all of you. Yes, I have size jealosy issues but I'll deal with that appropriately. For you fishermen new to Catalina, I have caught yellowtail on the harbor side of Eagle Reef at about 90 ft, also in...

I hope to join the Catalina Gathering, but I will leave MDR either Sunday morning or Monday morning around midnight to be in a fishing position for the dawn bite... probably next to Eagle Reef. Kimiko wants me to bring her fresh yellowtail for sashimi. I will stay at least through Tuesday's...

Anything you install on a boat loses value but still, should add a little to resale value and market appeal when you want to plug that hole in the ocean your money has been pouring into. Not so much on a small boat. People buy small to be cheap. Few people have the special need I have to...

Terra firma is only 40 feet from the boat in a short dingy ride.

Thank you TeBoo Mike. I appreciate that.

I bought my 16 ft cruiser in 2003. I seem to get 5+ knots per gallon on my heavily loaded cruiser with a 50 HP Yami. The boat planes at 12 to 14 knots. I usually run it at 16 to 18 knots on flat or minor seas, 16 knots when cruising downhill with the wind to my back and following seas. When...

I will visit you guys at The Isthmus during the week, but can' be sure I'll stay the entire time. Work comes first. It's nice having a job in this economy, and I won't risk losing it. Don't reserve a string line for me. I'll get what's available or will anchor near the camp ground beach and...

I fish on the cruiser and with a canvas tent back, sleep on board for one or two nights at sea. the difference is whether you're a lone wolf fisherman or want a buddy. The cruiser works for me as a single fisherman, not so much for two fisherman unless you're really good at coordinating with...

C-Pup 16 has trim tabs. I what I've learned prompts me to advise caution before buying and installing them on a small boat. First, on a 16 foot CD boat fully loaded, they only seem to have an effect at high speed. Putting the tabs fully down when moving under 14~15 knotts... the weight in my...

We will definitely be in SB on Saturday with C-Pup. I'll work on Kimiko to take Friday off from her new job, but I doubt that she will since she just started it and is grateful to have work. Oh how I do want to see the painted caves! Maybe I'll ask her to take a Greyhound bus up the coast on...

Check the photo album for C-Pup. I take my 16 ft cruiser fishing alone along the SoCal coast and out 32 miles to Catalina island, sleeping on board overnight. It works well for me with everything in easy reach. It's a tight squeeze though, when loaded with a survival raft, fishing gear, fuel...

Steve, Given the price of gas, I'm not planning on going to far for fishing! One thing I hadn't fished for earlier was halibut and thresher. One of either could feed the whole flotilla!

I was going to offer to Roger that if his boat isn't ready, he can sleep in my C-Pup's v-berth with my dogs Basenji & Blaze if our Commadore Ron let's Kimiko and me camp out on his lobster boat! I promise to give my dogs a perfumed bath today!

Yellowtail caught at 8:30 AM in 85 feet of water between Bird Rock and the harbor reef... in sight of the moorings at Two Harbors... photo 21 in C-Pup's album. Took a pink plastic "Storm" brand swim bait. 2006 C-Dory gathering. http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... _photo.php Photo...

Ron... Kimiko just asked "Will Natalie make her famous cookies again?" Please say yes! It's how I get Kimiko to sleep in the v-berth with me and two dogs!