how long have you owned your current boat?
- Thread starter B~C
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well, that would help to make it a memorable day 
It was Jan 02 for us, I'd been plying M with El & Bill pics for months before we went to the Portland Boat show. A little gentle salesmanship followed by a trip to look at consignment boat at Sportcraft and we was a trailering home a new memory machine.
Cool tool, the poll
It was Jan 02 for us, I'd been plying M with El & Bill pics for months before we went to the Portland Boat show. A little gentle salesmanship followed by a trip to look at consignment boat at Sportcraft and we was a trailering home a new memory machine.
Cool tool, the poll
Bill, for those of us that have owned more than one C-Dory are we screwed :cry on this poll for years of owning a C-Dory versus just the current one? Which C-Dory are you going to choose?... "DaNag" or "PeeWee"? Poor Byrdman is on his third C-Dory. (Yeah, I know.....complain, complain, complain.... :lol: )
DaveS":16svqfzh said:
Yeah, you're screwed. But at least you're in good company - welcome to the club. :lol:
I chose my longest owned current boat - Da Nag 22. I kinda stole B~C's thunder by adding the poll, but my curiosity is in how long folks hang on to a boat - not how long they've been C-Dory customers.
We can do that poll next.
DaveS":2lyxlt1y said:
And how many C-Dorys do you think Da Nag has had? Let me see---- started with a 19, then moved up to a 22, then got the Pee Wee just for the heck of it---- makes 3.
Course, if ya want to count---- hmmmmm, how many has Dusty had? or can we count that high? :lol:
Alyssa Jean
New member
Pat and I have each had two. First the 22 and then the 25. Of course now he also has a 16. And I am looking for a 16. We'll have to wait on the 28 and see.
Jack in Alaska
New member
Well I hate to take the crown (for now) on longest CD owner.....I purchased HIGH TIDE Aug. 1983 and still own and use it. Purchased at the factory from Mark Toland.
Now what is this about a diesel powered 28' CD.......???
Now what is this about a diesel powered 28' CD.......???
The curiosity lies in how long a person has hung on to the same old boat. I've always had a certain kind of awe and respect for folks that hang on to rigs, cuz, I always got that trading itch. Fer example, I had a friend way back in High School that saved up his money and bought a 72 Chev 4x4 truck that was a few years old. He still has the truck and it still looks like new, it amazes me.
Jack- amazing, that is one nice looking boat, do you tow it with a 72 chev?
Jack- amazing, that is one nice looking boat, do you tow it with a 72 chev?
First saw our '00 CD16 Angler on 2Nov06 here in the Twin Ports, started wheelin'/dealin', and finally took ownership day after Thanksgiving, 24Nov06. Something nice to be thankful for . . . . like Joe, had been lusting for a C-Dory for 8-9 years b4 I finally was able to get the money from Treasury Dept (Gin). Oh ya, like Ken of B~C I'll always yearn for another C-Dory, a 22, 25, TC255, or C-Ranger 25 - but I'm afraid that'll be my next life!! Heck, I haven't even had Foxy Lady (new name for our CD16) in the water yet.
B~C wrote:
"The curiosity lies in how long a person has hung on to the same old boat. I've always had a certain kind of awe and respect for folks that hang on to rigs, cuz, I always got that trading itch......"
Well, after somehow surviving a couple of bouts of the initial onset of "two-foot-itis" without succuming to the lure of the devil's delights, I fell victum last year and bought a Sea Ray, mostly to have a floating condominium on which to entertain myself and search for an escape to the boredom of old age.
I didn't really need a new boat, but I did need a source of new projects to have fun with, as the C-Dory was just about finished out.
At the same time, I kept the C-Dory 22 Cruiser because I knew I couldn't really replace it with anything more universal, and still had an agenda for exploring the world with my special boat and second love.
This all goes to remind me that-
"There is nothing- Absolutely Nothing- half so much worth doing as Simply Messing Around in Boats"
Ratty- The Wind in the Willows
"The curiosity lies in how long a person has hung on to the same old boat. I've always had a certain kind of awe and respect for folks that hang on to rigs, cuz, I always got that trading itch......"
Well, after somehow surviving a couple of bouts of the initial onset of "two-foot-itis" without succuming to the lure of the devil's delights, I fell victum last year and bought a Sea Ray, mostly to have a floating condominium on which to entertain myself and search for an escape to the boredom of old age.
I didn't really need a new boat, but I did need a source of new projects to have fun with, as the C-Dory was just about finished out.
At the same time, I kept the C-Dory 22 Cruiser because I knew I couldn't really replace it with anything more universal, and still had an agenda for exploring the world with my special boat and second love.
This all goes to remind me that-
"There is nothing- Absolutely Nothing- half so much worth doing as Simply Messing Around in Boats"
Ratty- The Wind in the Willows
B~C
I only claim the two larger ones and hope the spousal unit forgets about the smaller ones.
She got caught up in the vortex at the boat show and we ordered a 7' 10" Alaskan inflatable. On the way home Sunday she mentioned a couple other water craft stored around the place and I very skillfully changed the subject to grandkids ect.
I only claim the two larger ones and hope the spousal unit forgets about the smaller ones.
She got caught up in the vortex at the boat show and we ordered a 7' 10" Alaskan inflatable. On the way home Sunday she mentioned a couple other water craft stored around the place and I very skillfully changed the subject to grandkids ect.
B~C -
Somewhere in this Sea of Discourse about 4 months ago I figured out I had about 108 feet of boats, all with my wife's approval!
So I guess it depends on how much you can push the limits of Marital Maritime Law until Martial Partners Mutiny and Sue for Divorce on Grounds of Monetary Misappropriation and Mismanagement as well as Funny Financal Funding.
The general perscription for avoiding the dire outcome above is to buy THE ADMIRAL something of equal value every time you buy a new boat. Unfortunately, this doubles the cost of one's boating budget, but that's why they wrote the bankruptcy laws for, right?
Joe.
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Somewhere in this Sea of Discourse about 4 months ago I figured out I had about 108 feet of boats, all with my wife's approval!
So I guess it depends on how much you can push the limits of Marital Maritime Law until Martial Partners Mutiny and Sue for Divorce on Grounds of Monetary Misappropriation and Mismanagement as well as Funny Financal Funding.
The general perscription for avoiding the dire outcome above is to buy THE ADMIRAL something of equal value every time you buy a new boat. Unfortunately, this doubles the cost of one's boating budget, but that's why they wrote the bankruptcy laws for, right?
Joe.
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