SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH OR ON YOUR C-DORY TODAY??

We're back home in Everett after enjoying a great week on Center Island. It was awesome to have Pat, Patty, Bill, El, and David visit our little corner of the world! So glad you all enjoyed it!
And David - SO THAT'S WHERE KITTY WAS HIDING! Thank you for bringing her back to us! We love our cat and and spent much of the week guarding her from the eagles in the tree next to our lot. I guess she knows how to find a good hiding place after all!
janet
 
Left Everett on Friday in our 16' Angler to do some crabbing off of Camano Island. It was about a 20 mile run with the wind out of the NE at 15. I set my pots and just sat around drifting. The wind shifted to the NW around 11:00 and picked up to 20 to 25. I had my hands full pulling my pots, lots of females and undersized males but got two keepers.
The tide was ebbing and I was in a 3 to 4 foot following sea all the way back to Everett. It was an uncomfortable ride especially entering the river heading back to the launch. I have to say the boat handled just fine but I did have my hands full. I have had the boat out mostly in fresh water.
Not sure I would go out of my way to do this again but these boats are amazing. I was running at 10 knots bobbing like a cork as I watch those deep V's slamming into those waves trying to stay on plane.

Fred
 
Started the weekend at Twin Bridges in Anacortes - ran into a couple of C-Brat Houligans who roughed us up with friendly handshakes, smiles and lots of good advice (Joe and Ruth, R-Matey).

Beautiful sunny day - out through Deception Pass.
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Then once we got through the pass ran directly into a fog bank. Couldn't see more than 100 yards in any direction. Motored along slowly for a bit up the coast, then turned west and head into the straite. About halfway across Rosario motored out of the fog and back into the sunshine.
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Up through Lopez pass, evening at Friday Harbor. Looked for all the other C-Brats but didnt see a one.
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Next day over the top of San Juan and down the west side. Docked at the English Camp (there is a C-Dory in the background) - then back across Rosario - through deception and back to Anacortes. Met Peter and Caryn , C-Dancer back at Twin Bridges.

Cheers,

Tom
 
Went on our first "solo" with our new boat - short trip out and back from the marina in Oregon City. Just enough to practice getting in and out of the slip and get a feel for the boat. We like!
 
Another marvelous weekend cruising! This is our summer of cruising fun! Launched Friday afternoon at Des Moines (Washington, not Iowa!) , the sling makes Patty nervous, but it is slick! A quick run through the Tacoma Narrows with the current pushing us, very cool, down to Oro Bay on Anderson Island. This is a VERY nice place to anchor, dropped the crab pots outside, got a couple of red rock crabs. Halcyon arrived a short while later, sundowners, snackies and crab cockail - I don't think it gets much better!

Then Saturday, we spent a good part of the day just floating / slow cruising the Nisqually Delta with C-Run (Robbi had twin sis Roz from Ballamer, Muralind, on board) and Halcyon - what an interesting place, great blue herons, eagles, seals, wow!

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Dropped the crab pots there, three more red rock crabs. Robbie then led us into Wollochet (Wall-O-Shit, as she called it!), all the way up to the lagoon at the end. We stayed the night, had to move out of the lagoon due to anticipated low tides, viewing the mega-mansions. Had dropped the crab pots at the entrance to Wollochet, a couple more red rock crabs. What is it with the South Sound and red rock crabs, they are good but not dungies!

Sunday, a bit of exploration, poking into Quartermaster, up to Port Orchard for lunch - we can HIGHLY recommend the Chinese restaurant there, and the House Fried Tofu with Fish is awesome! Then a quick zoom back to Des Moines, and it is all over too fast! Saw a Ranger 25 tug headed out just as we were headed in, not sure but it might have been Kirby Unti, did not get a good enough look, we just passed too quick, and I was trying to watch where I was going!

Quick report on the new aluminum prop - performance is stellar, and economy was the best we have achieved - 122.4 NM, 44.7 gallons - 2.7 NM per gallon, although a lot was with the current and/or slow cruising - but this is still the best we have done since the ProPulse.
 
Patrick(Byrdmann) and I and a good friend took Sensei out today and put the shrimp pots down in 150 ft of water for the elusive coon stripe shrimp. then we motored over to the clam beach and dug a few limits of clams. then we went over to Coupville WA on Whidbey Island for a great clam chowder lunch.
back on the water we went back to the shrimp pots and pulled them in and got a nice mess of coonies.
it was a glorious day on the water today.
 
Oh geez. I bet Byrdman was bored stiff. He don't like boats much and he doesn't eat much.

You're a good friend, Roger.
 
Aside from waiting for a phone call from Byrdman to get together at EQ tomorrow morning, I finished the re-paint/re-decal, new sound foam in the engine cowl, on the Johnson 40/C-Dory 16/Alyssa Jean. All is done now except applying the name decal, which is ordered.

Maybe I should bring it along as the dingy on the 25 when I come to Bellingham????
 
Pat
C-Run, a 19' C-Dory, and Halcyon, a 22, just tied to Endurance's 40' dock on the north end of Harstene Island and created a nifty 41 feet of C-Dorydom (with a little hanging over).
 
Hi to all,

Today was my first orricial day of retirement! I sold my business(glass repair) several weeks ago, but have been working with the new owner.

Today I checked to trailer wheel bearings, checked the tires and lubed the hitch and surge brake. Then I waxed the cabin and roof. Now ready for Pat to start loading for our Erie Canal trip.

We plan to leave Red Lion, Pa. Thursday PM, drive part way to Sylvan Beach, and launch Friday the 20th in the AM. At that point we have no plans except to head east. At the end of the canal we will turn left and go towards Lake Champlain.We will be in NY and Vermont till late August.

We will try to keep you posted on our progress. (our first experience with WI-FI and the lap top)

Pat, Fred, and Mr. Grey(the cat).
 
teflonmom":2ep062m4 said:
Hi to all,

Today was my first orricial day of retirement! I sold my business(glass repair) several weeks ago, but have been working with the new owner.

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We will try to keep you posted on our progress. (our first experience with WI-FI and the lap top)

Pat, Fred, and Mr. Grey(the cat).
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Congratulations Pat, Fred, and Mr. Grey! The only thing better than retirement is retirement while playing with your boat. Good luck, enjoy, and we'll be looking forward to hearing all about it.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
It is not too often that we get to compare our Tom Cat with a number of other boats in moderately rough conditions. Today was the "dress rehersal" for the "Blue Angel's" beach Show at Pensacola, and my grandchildren were in town. We ran over the 35 miles to Pensacola Beach at 32 to 35 knots in moderate chop and a fair amount of wake conditions--passing a few boats, and running along side a 31 foot deep V Contender with twin 275 hp engines. We were running as smoothly as the contender, and finally I rand the boat up to 38 knots and left the Contender behind (he might have well been able to go that fast also).

While anchored for the airshow, a number of folks commented on the Tom Cat 255. One new Mainship commented on it being "a trailerable cat trawler"--I noted that his jaw opened widely as we breezed by him at 32 knots on our way back home after the show....

The most interest was from law enforcement and the Fire and rescue boats. They commented that if there was a shorter cabin, larger cockpit version of the Tom Cat, it would be ideal for their work--in fact one boat "tailed us" to see if we really had the speed I had noted.

On the way back home, there were lots of boats and washing machine type chop--we were running along side a 35 foot Pursuit and encountered the wakes from three 58 foot Sea Ray's (probably delivary boats) comming the opposite way. These were very steep 4 to 6 foot wakes. The Pursuit chopped the throttle and slammed into the wake, we were able to drop the speed to about 11 to 12 knots and bear off slightly and slide over the wakes with no significant pounding--this was what I was looking for from the Permatrim foils. We were one of the fastest, if not the fastest, except a 40 some foot "hot boat".

We made the 35 mile run back from the show in about an hour and 20 minutes, including at least a three miles of five knots in "no wake zones".
Great day on the water and great day for the Blues!
 
WOW that Collinite wax is really the right kinda stuff to use on the boat! We waxed 'er and polished up the chrome this morning and she's rarin to go again when the ocean calms down again :thup
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We still got that goofy peeling stuff on the overhang all around the boat that everyone seemed to notice at Cathlamet :)-- gotta figure out how to get it peeled off, but it IS protecting the finish - ar ar ar.

Caty
 
Having to cancel the Guld Cruise, corporate internet failing and plan "B" becoming plan "Z" every hour. I finally got around to replacing that nasty glass fibre cockpit deck with something that matches what I had already done in the cabin. Plus beefed upt the weeny little moulded steps and replace the very annoying starboard "toilet cover" over the bilge pump that everyone trips on (it now locks down)

Less than $200 in Mahogany and now I will have something to do for 6 months every year re-finishing it with poly !! Pictures in Kingfisher album.

Now to go and get some crab guts on it.

Merv
 
I've been away from the boat for about two weeks - on vacation to Quebec. Went down to the marina today to check on Lucky Day. I took the boat out at about 12:30, planning to doodle around at 6 mph for a few minutes, make sure everything is working, and go back in. Just so happened, though, that the Potomac was the smoothest I've seen it since getting the boat. I haven't used the boat much above 15-17 mph and these conditions were perfect to push it forward and see how it runs at wide open throttle. There was virtually no traffic and only a light wind. The boat has a Honda 135. I got up to speed with the tabs fully up - and gently deployed them in small increments till fully down. She topped out at speed of 29.5 mphGPS (even with two fenders dragging off the cockpit sides). The boat was smooth, very smooth. Skimmed along downriver a few miles, did a 180 at speed, and skimmed along back upriver to the slip. WOW! I'm starting to really feel at home aboard my C-Dory.
 
Wasn't today, but on Thurs. - Sun. I took SeaDNA out to Neah Bay for a scouting mission (I have a 9 day fishing trip coming up). Took a friend with me, his son (25 years old) joined us in the afternoon on Fri. On Thurs, we arrived at 10:30 and were limited on 3 silver salmon and one 8-9# king by about 1:30. Had two large kings break off 40# leader so had to settle for smaller fish. We fished just north of the spot called "Limp Spot" (about 8 miles SSW of Tatoosh island - look at a map and you can figure out how it got it's name). Then went over to Cape Alava and loaded up on rock cod (10 each) plus a couple of ling cod. On Friday, we went out to the same place for salmon and caught 3 silvers and one 17# king. Then went in, took a nice nap and picked up my friend's son. Went back out and caught his two silvers in about 30 mins.

On Saturday, we decided to target big kings and trolled huge cut plug herring at 80-130' on two lines and one line at 30' for silvers. Caught my friend's 2 silvers in a hurry (he had to leave at about 9AM) and then just worked for big kings. Threw back a lot of legal silvers hoping for a huge silver and a large king. Took my friend back in and went back out with just his son on board. We got a 12# king for him and 1 more silver and then the fishing went dead. The wind kicked up to 25kts from the S and things were a little rough. Fished in the wash tub for about 90 mins and decided to come in and fish the strait for awhile to get my last 2 fish. I worked until 7:30PM and came up empty! 7 in a row that were on and then off anywhere between 100' away and just at the net, then about 7-8 wild silvers in a row (had to be released). I finally gave up. At Neah Bay I haven't quit without my salmon limits in about 15 consecutive days (between last year and the first few this year) so it was a bit humbling. Of course, by about 4PM, I was wishing I kept the earlier fish.

On Sunday, salmon fishing is closed in area 4 and I was beat from 3 longs days of fishing so we slept in and got off the dock at 8:30AM for bottom fishing. Went about 2-3 miles S of Tatoosh to a couple of favorite spots of mine hoping to load up on black rod cod without using much fuel. Picked up a few but it was slower than I like so we again ran down to Cape Alava. Got there about 11AM and had our limits by 2PM. 20 rock cod (two people fishing), 4 kelp greenling and one 36-37" ling (about 20#). All-in-all, a successful trip. Lots of meat in the freezer and a good time was had by all.
 
Roger, I think that since you released so many fish earlier in the day, you're still entitled to claim that "I always get my limit"! I've been wondering when you'd be heading to Neah Bay this year.
 
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