New C-Dory owners

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Gypsy

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After searching for a while (many months), we finally found and bought a 2007 C-Dory 25' Cruiser at Wefing's Marina in East Point, Florida - great experience, super nice people (thanks Marc for all your insight). We towed it back to Houston were we live, in reality 1/2 hour away right by Galveston Bay and after a not nice experience trailing it (see trailer tires post), we now have it in our driveway and have been detailing it and love the boat, though the only cruising we have done is when we bought it and in a pretty rough day, wind, rain and chop - the boat handled everything.

We have read many posts and are very happy to belong to such a nice group, hopefully will meet some of you in the future.

I hope I won't tire you all with all our "new owner" questions (like windlass 700 puzzle post) and will write more in the future about an exploring C-Dory in Galveston Bay and surroundings.

Vivian and Pepe
 
Congrats! Wow, that's a long tow. About 800 miles or so? That's an adventure in itself. Lol.

Make sure to set up your photo album. Search here for "Tyboo" and then PM him. He'll do it for you.
 
Gypsy,
Congratulations on the purchase of your new C-Dory. My son and his family recently moved to your location (actually Spring , TX) from Portsmouth, VA... Just wondering where you will be boating, as I don't see a lot of water in his area.
 
Welcome aboard, and congratulations. You are brave to trailer a boat in the Houston Traffic! Not only Galveston/Clear Lake, but down the Coast, and the inland lakes. There have been C Dory folks in Houston in the past. Not sure about now--but some great folks not too far away--Tex, of Bixby Club!--just a short distance away.
 
Gypsy,

Welcome to the C-Dory, C-BRATS and the great family here. How exciting to have a new boat in the driveway. Congratulations, and on surviving that tow. If hyou are looking for some super great summer cruising, plan on starting at the Friday Harbor CBGT in May and finish with the Back to Bellinham II in August. Catch a few islands inbetween, (San Juans, BC Gulf, and a few others farther north and there you go. I have your summer all planned for you already :wink:

Enjoy. (See how easy that was :lol:

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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We want to thank everybody that answered our post of being new owners, we been reading C-Brats even before buying our boat and love the comadaredy, friendship, respect and communication you all have, we feel very honored for being part of the "family" now.

Larry, we bought the boat on November 25 and left Apalachicola on the 26, got to Houston on the 27 - our boat on a 75' flatbed, but happy to be back.

srbaum, we will be boating in Galveston Bay (620 feet from our house); it is one of the larger bays in the US (Quoting Doziers Waterway Guide) but very shallow - 6 to 10'. Overall it is more than 30 miles long and about 60 miles wide. According to the Galveston Bay Foundation it encompasses an area of 600 square miles. Also, the weather can change in minutes, so always make sure to check the weather reports and still be open for surprises.

We also have a lot of barge and ship traffic in the ship channel (up to 50+ feet deep), so when you are close, you really need to navigate some pretty interesting waves and currents - we been in 9 foot swells caused by a combination of barges and ships.

Will write more as I don't want to bore everybody. Thanks again you all.

Vivian & Pepe
 
07, a very good year.
Congratulations!!!
Both my C-dorys were 07s, no major complaints.
Have done lots of mods many documented in my album.
Others here have done tons of mods also, what a great resource.
Look forward to hearing about your adventures.
 
Hi Jay, thanks for letting me know about your C-Dories. I clicked on the caption Our Playground and it is a really beautiful area you boat in but too cold for us.

Our Galveston Bay is navigable most of the year - except for a few storms or terribly low tides sometimes when the north winds are too strong, but even now in winter you can go out almost every day. As you might imagine spring and mostly summer are from 90 degrees upward, so we are very curious as to how our dory will behave.

It came equipped with an Ocean Breeze 10000 btu a/c marine conditioning unit, which I haven't tried since we need water in the unit for it to function. The previous owner installed it at the entrance in the first port cabinet - very neat installation...I will report the results when we try it.

Pepe+
 
Gypsy":23zrim9p said:
Hi Jay, thanks for letting me know about your C-Dories. I clicked on the caption Our Playground and it is a really beautiful area you boat in but too cold for us.

Our Galveston Bay is navigable most of the year - except for a few storms or terribly low tides sometimes when the north winds are too strong, but even now in winter you can go out almost every day. As you might imagine spring and mostly summer are from 90 degrees upward, so we are very curious as to how our dory will behave.

It came equipped with an Ocean Breeze 10000 btu a/c marine conditioning unit, which I haven't tried since we need water in the unit for it to function. The previous owner installed it at the entrance in the first port cabinet - very neat installation...I will report the results when we try it.


Pepe+
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Pepe+

Alaska's not for everyone, that's why I have a Wallas stove and furnace on the boat, if air conditioning becomes necessary here we are all in trouble. Not that familiar with Marine air conditioning units but if they require water I would think that either deionized or distilled water would be preferred over tap water, less build up of mineral deposits.
Summers here are quite temperate often times in the seventies and light 18 to 24 hours a day for 3 to 4 months. We spend long weekends often 3 to 4 nights on anchor 30 to 70 miles from port with no other boats insight.
Would love to experience some of the boating areas you explore perhaps in retirement with a C dory in tow.
Storage is always a premium on boats of our size if you still have a hot water heater you may consider removing it and using that space for storage. I personally removed both the hot water heater and refrigerator. Have slide out drawers where the refrigerator used to be and storage shelves where the hot water heater was. An extra large cooler with ice or cold packs serves us well for 3 to 5 days . If you have lots of marinas then perhaps the RV configuration of the boat would suit you fine.
You just have to figure out what your priorities are then go from there.
 
Hi Jay, definitely agree with you about Alaska not being for everyone but it is a very beautiful state - been there a couple of times (Cruise ships),

The a/c we have has a through hull on the bottom and utilizes sea water (exterior water) and can be used to cool down or to heat - has heater elements for this, haven't tested it yet but has very high ratings, we'll see.

We want to keep the water heater and the refrigerator, probably for our initial short trips, hopefully a few days each, the setup the boat has is perfect for us. It will be down to Chorpus Christy or up to werever we dare or have time to go. We would love to come say hi to Mard Grove (Wefing's Marina) in East Point, FL, but only time will tell.

Hope you are having a nice boating session this winter.
 
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