Beaching the c-dory

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C Dory Year
2004
C Dory Model
25 Cruiser
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Life Savor
Can anyone speak on the beach-ability of the different models? Looking into the cdory 25 cruiser, 26 venture, or tomcat 25. The venture 23 is advertised as beachable. What about the others? Is it the foam construction that makes the venture beachable?
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Kate
 
I think it has to do with the flat bottoms of these boats. When they say beach able they are not talking about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtZwriYd9Kg


more of the fact that you can pull right up to a beach because of the shallow draft or allow the boat to sit on the mud or sand when the tide goes out.
 
They can all be beached as in brought in close to shore for a landing or offloading of people and gear. They can also all be left on a reasonable surface high and dry if you tilt the outboards out of harms way. As far as managing a boat in shallowing water, the lighter the better and I find the 19 we have now a lot easier to shoulder back off the sand that I did the 25 we had in the past.

I like to go ashore on a rising tide or with the dinghy and have never actually "stranded" one of our boats.

If you take the boat to shore on a falling tide around here, you better be actively managing the boat every moment or that falling water will ground your boat faster than you ever think it could. Especially with waves coming ashore.

Greg
 
When cruising in tideless areas, many of us either put the bow of the boat on the beach (sand), or stern almost to the beach--in a few inches of water. There is some danger to the trim tabs, and transducers if the boat's stern is pushed against beach or rocks.

If I was in AK, and wanted to 'beach" the boat, I might put the bow on the beach for a short time, maybe unload, but I would get the boat back out into deep water (I use a rig, where I drop an anchor over 100 feet off the beach, set it, then have a block on the end of the anchor rode, and can pull the bow of the boat out into deep water, and secure this 'endless' line on to a tree or rocks on the shore. One has to be careful, in areas of 20 foot plus tides. You can not only leave the boat high and dry, or you can put the place where you tied up a bow line, under some very cold water.

All of the cored bottoms can be beached--the plywood, the balsa and the foam core--nothing magical about the core. Most of the C Dory are solid glass from about the windshield on forward. The pre 1987 boats may have plywood core further forward.

You never want to let rocks or even sand abrade the bottom of the boat to the extent it might jeprodize the core. The outer glass is about 1/4" thick--it can vary. All of the hull designs are gong to be easy to beach.
 
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