Can Tomcats get their own subforum

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C Dory Year
2007
C Dory Model
255 Tomcat
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CD025558G607
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Tomcat
Seems like there are quite a few Tomcats based on the c-brats map. Ive done quite a bit of searching on this site for information about Tomcat 24 and 255. Figured if we had our own sub thread, it could be good for reference and discussion.

I am pretty new here but just a suggestion.
 
Don't think we need one. Most all of what we do or say pertains to all CDorys. Unlike Ranger Tugs or Marinauts. JMHO.

Unless we talk twins vs. singles of course! :mrgreen: :roll:

Charlie
 
Captains Cat":ppo23e6r said:
Don't think we need one. Most all of what we do or say pertains to all CDorys. Unlike Ranger Tugs or Marinauts. JMHO.

AGREED! Most of us read all the threads and comment on anything that we're interested in or have knowledge of worth sharing.

A separate forum/site would just complicate/fragment everything including reading, searching, and posting.

Unless we talk twins vs. singles of course! :mrgreen: :roll:

Ah! The forbidden topic! Now, for that, we could have a separate topic, forum, or, better yet, a separate site, so that most of us wouldn't have to read it over, and over, and over, etc.!

Would be nice to incorporate a "lock-in" feature, so that once you go there, you're locked in, can't get out, and can't come back here! Now I'll vote for that!!!

Charlie
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Welcome aboard!

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Just to make authorship clear, I did not write the blue part (at least it's blue on my screen)! :mrgreen:

My reasoning for the T VS S comment was that I've never seen a TC with a single and a kicker or just a single. Now I've been down to a single at times and then it's good to have twins... :roll:

Can I come back in now?

Charlie :mrgreen:
 
Captains Cat":3o38xk9f said:
Just to make authorship clear, I did not write the blue part (at least it's blue on my screen)! :mrgreen:

My reasoning for the T VS S comment was that I've never seen a TC with a single and a kicker or just a single. Now I've been down to a single at times and then it's good to have twins... :roll:

Can I come back in now?

Charlie :mrgreen:
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Charlie-

Thanks for clearing that up, I should have noted that the blue comments were mine! It just makes sense to answer the questions and comment on the comments that way.

You can come back in now as long as you don't comment on my comments and answers to your comments and answers in any color or off-colored form or forum. Clear? :lol:

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Fair enough. Just thought it would be good for current or future tomcat owners to find and post information in a single location.

When we first became interested in the tomcat, I began researching for any and everything I could find on the internet. Most of the information was all found on this site. What made the search challenging was that there were different titles that people were using when referring to their boat (tomcat24, tc24, tomcat 24, tomcat 255, etc). It took awhile to learn and search the different terms.

Im sure that most of the general boating public do not know that a catamaran c-dory exists. This is testament by the fact that most boat haulers, maintenance folks, and marinas I spoke with were surprised when I told them, it was a catamaran. Some even asked if I knew what a catamaran hull was.

Well now my search for the boat is over, so the information gathering is largely done. I look forward to being a part of this community and thanks for the welcome.
 
No sweat. Think about the things we talk about though.

Take Wallas Stoves for instance. A much discussed topic. Makes no difference whether it's on a TC255 or an 22 or any other hull. If TC owners just looked in a separate TC forum, they wouldn't see all of the info. You can't really search by what we call our boats anyway, you need to search on a term. The search function is really useful. It's fairly intuitive once you learn to use <AND> to exclude a search from bringing in all the terms when you search on something like

<kicker mount> which will bring back all posts that have either kicker or mount in it. Many more than you probably wanted. Now, if you search on <kicker AND mount> you get only the posts that have both terms in them. and if you search on <"kicker mount"> you get just the posts that have that specific term in it.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's the way it works.

Oh, and welcome to this great site!

Charlie
 
Another easy thing I find helpful: eliminating certain words. Say I search on something and I find I get a lot of returns that have some other particular word in them that I know I don't want, or that I see commonly coming up in subjects I'm not looking for. Then I put that term in the search with a minus ahead of it.

Example:
Say I'm looking for things pertaining to water tank. I might put in water tank -holding, so that I don't get a bunch of posts about holding tanks.

Sometimes I know in advance a term or terms to "minus," and other times I start putting in minuses once I see the results, and see which "wrong" things pop up a lot. The results quickly narrow that way.

On the other hand, some things are just darned hard to search for; I was trying to find those v-berth hatch lid rings that Glenda Jean has (on the general internet), and it was very hard to search for them because there is no one set term. Even image search came up a bust.

Sunbeam
 
Sunbeam":3iz8phiy said:
Another easy thing I find helpful: eliminating certain words. Say I search on something and I find I get a lot of returns that have some other particular word in them that I know I don't want, or that I see commonly coming up in subjects I'm not looking for. Then I put that term in the search with a minus ahead of it.

Example:
Say I'm looking for things pertaining to water tank. I might put in water tank -holding, so that I don't get a bunch of posts about holding tanks.

Sometimes I know in advance a term or terms to "minus," and other times I start putting in minuses once I see the results, and see which "wrong" things pop up a lot. The results quickly narrow that way.

On the other hand, some things are just darned hard to search for; I was trying to find those v-berth hatch lid rings that Glenda Jean has (on the general internet), and it was very hard to search for them because there is no one set term. Even image search came up a bust.

Sunbeam
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Thanks for the great search tips. I have been on forums and the internet as a pretty heavy user for 10+ years. Yet somehow, I never used some of these tips found within this thread. Glad to have now posted the question as the result came back very helpful.
 
Searching on the C Dory forum is not all that easy. Another site not mentioned often is that of Georgs Kolesnikovs: Tom Cat Tales:
http://tomcat-tales.blogspot.com

This is certainly worth taking a look at.

Georgs started the Trawlers and Trawling, Great Loop, Power Cat and Passagemaking List servers. But Georges not only is a great writer and publisher--he and Steve Pettengill, sailed " Great American" the Trimaran to a record run from New York to San Francisco (via Cape Horn) in 1989. This is a 13,225 run non stop in 76 days, 23 hours. The record has since been eclipsed but with 8 crew on a ultra exotic Volvo 70 in 47 days 42 minutes--designed for record passages on the round the world race.

Prior to Georgs and Great American the record was held by the legendary full rigged ship "Flying Cloud" in 89 days, 21 hours.

On the other hand, today there are a lot of articles and re-sources on the various Tom Cats--about 13 + years ago--several of the C Brats took a chance on this new boat--with no reviews!

Enjoy the Tom Cat--a great boat (and Marie has not yet forgiven me for selling "Thataway"...
 
thataway":3dggoacn said:
Searching on the C Dory forum is not all that easy. Another site not mentioned often is that of Georgs Kolesnikovs: Tom Cat Tales:
http://tomcat-tales.blogspot.com

This is certainly worth taking a look at.

Georgs started the Trawlers and Trawling, Great Loop, Power Cat and Passagemaking List servers. But Georges not only is a great writer and publisher--he and Steve Pettengill, sailed " Great American" the Trimaran to a record run from New York to San Francisco (via Cape Horn) in 1989. This is a 13,225 run non stop in 76 days, 23 hours. The record has since been eclipsed but with 8 crew on a ultra exotic Volvo 70 in 47 days 42 minutes--designed for record passages on the round the world race.

Prior to Georgs and Great American the record was held by the legendary full rigged ship "Flying Cloud" in 89 days, 21 hours.

On the other hand, today there are a lot of articles and re-sources on the various Tom Cats--about 13 + years ago--several of the C Brats took a chance on this new boat--with no reviews!

Enjoy the Tom Cat--a great boat (and Marie has not yet forgiven me for selling "Thataway"...
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Thanks for providing that link. I have read it extensively as well as any and all Tomcat threads I could find. I admire much of the workmanship on the owners here and hope to improve my skills in this arena. My boat will be at the marina for the spring and summer or until I find a suitable trailer. I hope to bring the boat home, where it will provide more opportunities to work on it.

As of now the only thing which limits me is time and money......
 
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