"C-Dory RedFox" and her projects...

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seabran":ndhdn01s said:
How much weight in in the top? Do you notice the weight when you have an inflatable up there and it gets rough?

Steve
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Hello Steve, thankyou for the reply. I been swamped the last few days with poopdecks and packing our "can" so we can finally move to our island, :rainbow so I am going to be tardy with my post on here and on my "CD and CC" site, for some time mon... :xtongue

If I recall right, the hardtop stainless frame alone was exactly 57 pounds, and the seaboard material is exactly 52 pounds. I still have yet to finish the hard top (top part of the "Poopdeck") so it may end up at about 120 pounds total, when all said and done. :disgust

The handling: Both me and my first mate like the handling BETTER 8) ! It acts like a "counter-weight" up there, but it ain't really all that high-up to worry about (if ya ask me -- LOL) The 'counter affect of the weight up there from the hard top slows-down the rocking when your in waves in any direction. It is anyone's guess if that makes it "less sea-worthy" or not... in my thinkin (and maybe some others too :wink: ) if you slow a boats tendency to get "rocked" you may be making it "more sea-worthy" ... I'm sure the case is going to be all speculation: giving the almost infinite circumstances in any sea condition...) on top of that, it may not even be possible to sink a C-Dory anyway :) :mrgreen: :beer :thup

How do I like my old C-Dory in rough water: I love it! sure there are times I wish I could "fly through the chop" like all the v-bottoms do, but then I find it rides better and quieter than them 'v-bottoms just slowing it down, and also better to let them all get back to the docks (ha)! that way they are out of my way when I land. :xtongue
 
Oh... there is now 4 goofy pages up on this subject now...

(See next Post) :oops:

latter gatter :bat
 
Thankya Tom...do stay in touch mon :)

Pat and I were discussin about the lightest, cheapest and bestest material for the "decking" on it is going to be wood! :| I have had everything from chipboard to treated plywood, to cedar planks, to seaboard.... and I know from experience the plywood is the lightest and most rigid, for it's weight :thup

If I had my way (time :clock ) I would make some super-duper-cored-panels out of fiberglass! ... then again, that choice over the seaboard I have now would not be translucent, and let in light :idea: and ice is going to bond to fiberglass decking :|
 
Sea Wolf":ffjd7y7o said:
Here's Billy's photo of RF (so you don't have to go there):

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Incidentally, he probably winns the contest for the biggest dingy!

Joe.
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Some of you keep getting more and more weird around here :shock:

Anyway, thankyou Bill :star and I thought some that "DO GO THERE" still (my site) :xtongue would appreciate reading my last story and pix to the sound.
http://www.msnusers.com/C-DoryRedFox/page8.msnw

I'm keeping it quiet, so ya better go get it while ya con mons :xseek

Here's my last project before we hit-the-road-toad and finally escape Los Anchorage :bat
http://www.msnusers.com/C-DoryRedFox/boom.msnw
 
Wow! :shock: It is a wonderful thing to be able to see a true craftsman at work. If you lived in the Seattle area, you would have a dozen C-Brats hanging out in your shop at all times. Very nice work. Thanks for sharing the fotos..
 
Thankyou fellas :love your very kind :thup

I think I made a big booboo: Back when I was "cut and copying" the story, I realized the links got copied as well... that would have taken you to a page on my private site (Sound Dreams) and that is not what I had intended! :shock:

The pages are fixed now, and you need not bother trying to join my private group to finnish them.

And please remember: My "journals" are far from "perfect" :!: full of embarrassing mistakes and "typos" too boot :oops: some day Pirate Deb may just get to fixin them :rainbow in the mean time: it is just the way I like to fellowship and share with Toland craft peeps like us :rose :star :tux
 
Oh-and-before-I-go... I added a few more pix to the pages since you read in last. :hug 8)
 
Nice looking boom Gregg!

There have been a few C-Dorys that have rescued people from the water. I have thought that a pole boom of some kind would be great for pulling up a swimmer when there are no strong backs on board. A person can be very heavy when they can not help much.

It could also be a back saver if you have heavy dink motor. Good idea for the cooler, I have a mongo cooler I can only load into the boat when it is empty.

Steve
 
Absolutely Steve! great thoughts there. I like the rescue one the best i must say... but it is a close tie to the dink idea too. I'm certainly going to find it safer and way easier to mount kicker, load generator, beer, coolers full of sea treasure! (hehehe) :) wait till ye see the second generation one that I really had in mind! stay tuned... (that might take a few years) LOL :mrgreen:
 
Hello folks. :) I don't know what-in-tarnation is up with my boatin site, :x but it ain't showed most of the weekend. Was on there today to answer post, and now its gone again... I'll NOT close the site (in case anyone is wonderin bout that --LOL :? ) I hope MSN gets the problem fixed soon. :o If I remember back far enough when TyBoo looked onto the problem on the old MSN C-Brats site, he said something like MSN did a lot of maintenance on their sites on Saturdays I think, and it took a spell for it to get back to normal (?). Lets hope that's all it is! :clock
 
I checked in there a few times this weekend and it was always working. Maybe it was letting in visitors and not the registered members. Don't know. Works now, too.
 
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