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Dr. Bob, congratulations on the offers you have on Thataway, someone will be buying a great boat. Thank you for all that you are and have been over the years to the broader C-dory community. Please let us know if you are going out with your son in So Cal, maybe we can get away south. Thanks...

Dana is an amazing photographer, outside work that is her passion in life. Combined with my passion for fixing and dialing in boats it all worked out on that trip.

The new brochure with a thank you note to Dana. Go back one photo to see the Sierra photo in the brochure.

Sierra down in the Sea of Cortez last year, Dana\'s photo she submitted was selected for the new C-dory brochure

Congratulations to Dana as her photo of our CD 25 Sierra was used in the new C-dory brochure! It was taken last year while we were on our trip down in the Sea of Cortez. It is at the page by itself at the front of the CD 25 section. I added the page to my photo album. She has been at home in...

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We went from a Rocna roll bar over to a 24# Rocna Vulcan as we really liked the spade we had on an earlier boat, the Vulcan shank is slightly shorter so it stows better on the bow roller and we like not having a roll bar. We have 50' of G4 5/16 chain and 160' of 9/16 nylon braid. We like the...

Deluke, we had a Katadyn power survivor 40E on a previous sailboat. It is very compact and simple and the amp draw is low all reasons I installed it. But we chose not to go with it again on our 25 as it's output is just to slow and the efficiency per gallon and time in use is why we went with...

Deluke, I installed a Spectra 200T because it is super efeciant when running on our solar system, weighs just 62 pounds and is very compact and easy to install. It worked very well in the Sea of Cortez where water isn't always easily available. In our photo albums there is one on my install...

The both of them inspired so many people who were dreaming of sailing away to adventure. That first wave of cruising discovery with a plea of simplicity and go now. I was in need of reinforcement of my dream when I bought their first book when it first came out in the seventies. We were half way...

I was considering both those options for our holding tank before we left for our winter in the Sea of Cortez and Baja, as I also installed an AirHead. I ended up putting a water maker in the old water heater space, a Bosch heater under the galley sink and was considering putting a fuel bladder...

I know that new 1/4" G4 chain is adequate for a 25 but with wear and tear over time it doesn't have a lot of reserve and it is so light compared to 5/16 G4 wich has a working load of 3,900 lbs and ultimate load strength of 11,500 lbs, I think the extra weight on the shank really makes a...

I never liked swivels over the decades of anchoring either but I no longer like having Dana dealing with twisted rode. I did like the 5/8" American made galvanized swivel we eventually tried on our big sailboat but an over strength galvanized swivel is to long on our little 25 for the anchor to...

We use a Mantus SS swivel it has 3 huge advantages; it is short and compact so it has a good chance of fitting between the stowed anchor and the windlass; it's design attaches to the anchor with a shackle so there can never be any bending force on it and there are no welds that can encourage...

I have carried 2nd anchor Fortresses on my last 3 boats as backups, I never needed them. The Spade, Rocna roll bar and the Rocna Vucan that were oversized always set hard for us every time, I have used almost every kind of anchor over the last 45 years from 45' down to 20' boats power and sail...

Very sad, before YouTube I followed his articles for years and always enjoyed them.

Our 12KG Rocna Vulcan, 50' 5/16 G4 chain, and 120' of 9/16" nylon braid has been excellent in anything including gale force winds, no anchor watch needed as we sleep well at night no matter what.

One thing to note with generators in a salty environment: A friend cruising the Pacific had his Honda 2000i fail in Tahiti and finally sorted out why in New Zealand, it had a stuck valve that had corrosion on it due to being left open on the intake stroke. The advice about draining the carb we...

They just sent an email saying that they are going to use a photo of Sierra in a Baja anchorage that Dana submitted in their upcoming brochure. Just shows how timeless the 25 is and an older one can be shined up to be like new!