Getting our feet wet

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moknots

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This winter while cross country skiing my wife and I laid plans for starting to do some cruising with a trailerable starting in a year or two. Had the great pleasure of meeting the wonderful C-Brat ambassadors, Bob and Betsy Burks who gave us a nice tour of their beautiful CD 25 SEAPAL and that really got us going!

Green light, green light! Sold on C-Dorys and C-Brats! But totally up in the air about which model. Booked a trip to the Seattle Boat Show to help with the figuring, but canceled when we were told there would not be a Venture 23' or 26' , a 25, or a TomCat (decision sealed by a flubug).
Started curiosity shopping, and just found out how dangerous that is!

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Now we have an interim boat that will most likely see a little action as a trial cruiser and a lot of duty as an upgrate to our 1962 Glaspar Seafair Sedan fishing boat.

Seeing lots of great info here, but couldn't find anything on how to fix this gray (formerly black) window trim that's shrunkend and gapped:

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And here is another look at window trim, but also some oxidation (not pitted) on the window frame, any ideas on fixing that?

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moknots":e8fywq7x said:
Seeing lots of great info here, but couldn't find anything on how to fix this gray (formerly black) window trim that's shrunkend and gapped
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Welcome and congratulations! I joined the fold relatively recently myself and have found it to be a friendly, knowledgable, and enthusiastic group.

Nice ride :D

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On the window gaskets. From some point and up until sometime in the early 90's, the C-Dorys had silver windows (which have slightly different detailing). Sometime after 1990 they changed to the white windows, which as far as I know ran up until maybe this year, when they have switched to another brand of white windows.

At any rate, since the majority of the C-Dorys now probably have the white windows, the silver ones are a bit more rare. When I was C-Dory shopping I was considering a boat with the silver windows, so I did some hunting in the archives and found a couple of good threads. If you go to this link and look at the second post (by me), you'll find links to those threads.

http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?p=229991

Again, welcome -- and let the fun begin!

Sunbeam :hot
 
The gasket in the earlier boats is a bit of a "problem"--at least cosmetically. One way to deal with it is to re-bed the rubber gasket with black silicone. This does not need to be one of the high end structural ones used for lexan etc--

As far as making the trim look better: Mr Clean eraser and some soap and water will help to take oxidation off. Then spray with 303 vinyl protector ant. Keep it coated and it will stay a shiny black--to match the new silicone you have used to bed it. (Bed only parts of non sliding windows. If it is a slider, work the gasket around so it does fill in the slider area--and any silicone between the gasket and the frame.
 
my windows were the same way when WE got out 22' cruiser. after reading the info in those links we have 90 some feet of replacement seal in the garage waiting for warmer weather to help aid in fitting it in. cost 108$ shipped to us. and after seeing pre and post pics we decided this was the only way to handle the seals.
 
nice boat BTW. there are times I question if we should have gone with an angler instead of a cruiser. Should get the job done are those 2 pullers? are they electric?
 
I see you have found a characteristic of the photo albums here, which is that if you link to some photos, but then later go and rearrange your albums, the links in the post "break." (That's why my photo of your boat doesn't work now either.)

To the good, you found out right away :D

After I realized this, I spent some time thinking about how I might want to organize ongoing photos in my album so that (hopefully) I don't have to change schemes (I did that once and that's when I found out how it works :oops: )

I still think I would be 50/50 on it, but even as a cruiser-type person (vs. fishing), I have thought it might be neat to have an Angler and then a big camperback and room to spread out in the cockpit vs. the additional cruiser cabin. Probably they'd both work out great :thup

Sunbeam
 
Jake B,

Where did you get the 90' of replacement seal? Sounds like a great idea!

Those are actually downriggers -- the kind I used to see in the 70s on "Handtrollers" (commercial salmon trollers without a "power troll" permit allowing them to use hydraulic gurneys). Quite a throwback! No depth counter so I am expecting the cable to have brass crimps for visually counting out fathoms.

The broker advertized this boat as a cruiser, and I too was a bit torn over which would be better. I'll find out this season!

I saw a post on another forum where a guy with a bad transom in a 22' cruiser decided to extend his deck 4' while rebuilding is transom. There you go!
 
Jake,
I go along with where did you get the seal ?

I just bought a 1989 22' cruiser and have the gasket pulling out of one window.


Bill Kelleher
 
A few years ago I bought the seal for my 89 22' Angler directly from

Diamond Sea Glaze 26995 Gloucester Way
Langley, B.C. V4W 3Y3
Canada
Phone: (604) 607-0091

They also had the sliding window latches and the grey fluffy window seal.
Their service was great.
Hope this helps.


Arend
 
Thaank You, I filed that info away. :))

Bill Kelleher


Arend":2y6hznfn said:
A few years ago I bought the seal for my 89 22' Angler directly from

Diamond Sea Glaze 26995 Gloucester Way
Langley, B.C. V4W 3Y3
Canada
Phone: (604) 607-0091

They also had the sliding window latches and the grey fluffy window seal.
Their service was great.
Hope this helps.


Arend
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