DaNag: You caught my point exactly. I don't post on here often, and Fred tells me this has been a controversial topic in the past.
I wasn't thinking about that when I took these pictures. When I saw the two boats together yesterday, I thought it was pretty cool to be able to see and compare them side by side. (I just wish they'd had the 26' CC on the rack for greater parity.)
C-Dory versus Cape Cruiser? That's like saying Mercedes versus BMW. Kind of comes down to a set of esthetic choices; there are features about both boats that I think are great and some that I don't care for as much. But someone else may have the opposite feelings about different features. We each have our own set of preferences. There's no reason to get too emotional about it except when we make our own personal choices. Then, we pick the boat that's right for our own tastes.
Of course we are emotional. These are great boats. I love the Anita Marie and am so glad we have her. And the CC's are also nice boats and their manufacturers are also good people. Seems like we are members of community of people who like the same type of boat and boating....
Being side-by-side strikes me as an apt metphor for how we could view the world of C-Dories and Cape Cruisers.
But mostly, it was fun trying to get both the boats into the picture.
Robbin