Pat Anderson
New member
Patty and I had arranged to meet with Scott at the Triton Marine factory yesterday, specifically to get a bit of teak trim for our dinette project, which we will be doing to match our new galley counter top. Scott was gracious enough to come in on a Saturday afternoon to accommodate us since we are only up north at Birch Bay for the long weekend. When we got there, Scott had C-Brats up on his computer screen, I think he was answering a question about inspection ports on the cockpit floor or something. So great to have this kind of interaction again!
There was a new CD25 on the floor that Scott said would be finished next week and was headed for North Carolina. There are a couple of CD22s on the schedule, including one for George in Nanaimo. He mentioned that they would like to have a link on their web site for pictures of each boat while they are building it so the owner can see all the stages of the build - a great idea, and I hope they are able to implement it, we were very fortunate to live close to the factories in Kent and Auburn while our CD22 and CD25 respectively were being built, and factory visits to see the progress definitely made the waiting a bit easier!
The factory is doing about three boats a month and Scott thought they would be hard pressed to do more than five in that facility. So that is right there with the Kent facility, where they were straining to do six. Scott mentioned that the C-Dory line is really great for them because it has the CD16 and CD19 models at the entry level, which neither Skagit Orka nor Osprey has.
The main thing we left with is that Scott (and no doubt Jeff and the other Lindhout brothers) are all a lot more relaxed now that all the bank stuff is behind them - it was a very stressful experience, and now they are looking forward to doing what they do best, which is building boats. Scott was quite appreciative of all the suggestions for improving the various C-Dory models. Scott will evaluate all the suggestions but he is going to focus on something I think that all of us will appreciate - making every system that periodically breaks and needs repair or replacement accessible and more easily removable. This was a feature of Sea Sports and a pretty glaring issue on the current C-Dorys, and for sure it is on our CD25, where you would have to cut fiberglass to get to a lot of stuff, like the water tank. A lot of small improvements in accessibility of systems in my view will add up to a major improvement.
Anyway, just wanted to report that things are looking good at the factory, and that once again, we have real people that we can talk to at the C-Dory factory. All in all, a very pleasant afternoon, thanks Scott!
There was a new CD25 on the floor that Scott said would be finished next week and was headed for North Carolina. There are a couple of CD22s on the schedule, including one for George in Nanaimo. He mentioned that they would like to have a link on their web site for pictures of each boat while they are building it so the owner can see all the stages of the build - a great idea, and I hope they are able to implement it, we were very fortunate to live close to the factories in Kent and Auburn while our CD22 and CD25 respectively were being built, and factory visits to see the progress definitely made the waiting a bit easier!
The factory is doing about three boats a month and Scott thought they would be hard pressed to do more than five in that facility. So that is right there with the Kent facility, where they were straining to do six. Scott mentioned that the C-Dory line is really great for them because it has the CD16 and CD19 models at the entry level, which neither Skagit Orka nor Osprey has.
The main thing we left with is that Scott (and no doubt Jeff and the other Lindhout brothers) are all a lot more relaxed now that all the bank stuff is behind them - it was a very stressful experience, and now they are looking forward to doing what they do best, which is building boats. Scott was quite appreciative of all the suggestions for improving the various C-Dory models. Scott will evaluate all the suggestions but he is going to focus on something I think that all of us will appreciate - making every system that periodically breaks and needs repair or replacement accessible and more easily removable. This was a feature of Sea Sports and a pretty glaring issue on the current C-Dorys, and for sure it is on our CD25, where you would have to cut fiberglass to get to a lot of stuff, like the water tank. A lot of small improvements in accessibility of systems in my view will add up to a major improvement.
Anyway, just wanted to report that things are looking good at the factory, and that once again, we have real people that we can talk to at the C-Dory factory. All in all, a very pleasant afternoon, thanks Scott!
