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

I've had some yard guest for about a week in their Motorhomes. One couple from Boston and a lady friend from Waukegan IL. I took them out in the C-FLE this morning and we went down the ICW to Mayport and looked at the Gambling boats, shrimp boats and ships in the Navy Basin then out about a mile into the ocean. On the way back we took a scenic route through what is primarily a Kayak creek through the marsh seperating two state parks and empties back into the Altantic. It's about 10 miles long and has depths of less than three feet in places and the Kayakers were really surprised to see us slowly cruise by. The temperature got up to about 80 and it was dead calm. The Atlanitc looked like a mill pond. We saw lots of Dolphins although ours aren't as friendly as Jim's Texas variety. We also saw a couple eagles and about every kind of sea bird. The crabbers were still seting out their traps as the warm winter has made for a longer season. Our weather has been wonderful the last few days I had to turn on the AC in the house when we got back. Unfortunatley I didn't get any pictures as I was busy narrating our trip.
 
Stimpy's Dad":olr2l1ml said:
WE MISS THE C-DORY GET TOGATHERS AND ALL OUR FRIENDS.
REGARDS, DOUG AND BETTY CRUICKSHANK
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Hi Doug, sorry that this reply is a bit belated, but I wanted you to know that it is great to "hear" from you. Last time I saw you was at the Blake Island Gathering a loooooong looooong time ago.

Keep in touch with us and Have a GREAT NEW YEAR!
 
Did my early spring cleaning on Dakota today. It was a beautiful sunny day here in north Seattle / Everett so I went up to Bayside and had the boat put on the rack so I could work on it. One of the disadvantages of having a boat in dry storage rather than in the back yard is that you dont spend much time just dinking around on the boat on dry land. If only I had a place to park her at home.
Started up the engine and ran fresh water through it, filled up the oil resivour, soaped the boat up and washed it down. Then I went through everything on the boat and sorted out things, inventoried everything, my flares expire June 2009, so guess I need to get new ones this summer. Checked my first aid kit, battery in the flash light, went through all my ropes, sorted the tools, life jackets, charts, checked the batteries, radio.
Cleaned things, sorted the fishing gear (what little I have), sat on the gunnels and enjoyed the sunshine.

Had a lot of fun for not going out on the water.

Cheers,
Tom
 
Hauled CAPTAIN'S CAT about 10 days ago for some underwater work. Painted the bottom, that which I could reach on the trailer. Since the boat stays on the lift, all I wanted to do is protect it as much as possible and have it look good in the water. It had the original paint on it, which was very faded but still intact. We're in salt water here but with the boat on the lift most of the time, it stays pretty clean. I noticed that the bar zinc on the stbd Suzi is just plain missing, no noted corrosion on any of the zincs, even the ones on the Armstrong Bracket.

Mounted the new transducer for the Raytheon depth sounder (part of the E-80 system) on the port sponson. Have a shoot through the hull transducer for the Garmin chartplotter inside the stbd sponson. Am hoping that they won't interfere with each other.

Drilled the holes for the radar pedestal in the cabin top (boy do I hate to do that). The top is cored, about 1/2" of balsa between ~1/4" of fiberglass on the top and bottom of the sandwich... Used a spade bit and drilled a 5/8" hole for the 1/4" mounting bolts. Used a hole saw (1") for the cables down the center of the pedestal (radar, gps and searchlight power /controls). In each case, I drilled until I just barely penetrated the cabin top with the bits and then undercut each hole using a drill with an allen wrench in it.

After I taped off the little holes in the cabin overhead to make them "epoxy tight" I cleaned out each hole by blowing with compressed air and filled each with thickened West System epoxy. I was surprised that the epoxy and hardner, which had little pumps in them were still good after sitting for a year! Should be hard enough by tomorrow to drill them out and mount stuff.

Hopefully the outside stuff will be done by Tuesday, have to get her back in the water for family company over Easter weekend. The second radio, autopilot, E-80, and other stuff will just have to wait but I can do that on the lift under cover...

This morning, I launched and brought "Sally's Choice" around from the marina about 5 miles away and moored her at our dock. It's an old Gloucester 22 sailboat and looks like new! The 6hp Merc 4 stroke ran flawlessly after I remembered to push in the choke. The marina put in the steel centerboard which lifts up into the fixed keep which had been missing since we had her. It was a pain but the 6 part pully lift seems to work well and it will "point" a lot better now, although it did pretty well even without it!

Also powerwashed all the decks and got Thompson's on some of them.

It will be great with two boats at the pier this season! I think spring has come to Virginia....

Charlie
 
This morning I mounted a new sundries shelf in Litl Tug's berthing area, varnished the wood on the table, and this afternoon, got my wife out for the first time (she loved it). This week it goes in for a engine tune up and oil change. Got the canvas fixed this week, had some loose seams.
 
:thup Mary and I spent Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday on our new to us 24TC. Got to check everything out, spent the night on board and loved it. It's not quite the same ride as the old SeaCat but it has 100% better accomidations. Even bounced around out in the center of Charlotte Harbor this afternoon for a few hours and took a nap. Love sleeping on the water. Our C-Dory TC was the right move at the right time for us.
 
After seven months in winter storage on Lopez, today I removed the cover and prepped the boat and trailer for towing down to Danville beginning tomorrow, so watch for Sea Skipper heading south on Hwy 5. I hope to see a lot of C-Brats on the road and standing on the overpasses waving and cheering us on.
 
The epoxy was hard today in the holes for the radar pedestal so I drilled them out from the bottom up. Very nice... good solid epoxy all the way through the cabin top! The pedestal fits just right. I will use 2" x 5/16" stainless bolts. Could have gotten by with 1 3/4 bolts but they were unavailable.

Rigged the radome to the pedestal, put the GPS puck on the right angle elevated mount and the remote GO Light on the mount just in front of the radome. The wires are in place and the whole shebang is in the cockpit waiting for me to hook the 5M radar cable into the radome. Just have to remember to get the gaskets, etc. all into place before I secure everything. I'll try to post pictures of the finished installation.

Hope to get it mounted and secured by mid day tomorrow because I have got to go out of town for a couple of days, won't be back till Thursday night. then, I gotta cut the grass, launch the boat and get ready for the kids/grandkids to come Friday night for Easter Weekend. Have already seen about 5 Easter Bunnies around the yard, I think they're getting ready to hide their eggs....

Charlie
 
Did a little cleaning/vacuuming. Seems the factory loves sawdust etc enough to leave it all over. :roll: Loaded some gear that will be permanently on the boat. Nothing really exciting.

Got my new Garmin GPS and am in the process of decifering the manual.


But hey, at least it came with a manual. :wink:
 
With a great assist from the Admiral, I got the pedestal up and mounted this morning. This completes what I need to do out of the water. Here's what it looks like

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The rest of the pictures are in my album under projects.... Permatrims and the new transducer

Charlie
 
We finished putting an anchor locker in our 16C C-Squirt. Cut a hole in the forward bulkhead, dug out just enough foam and glassed the bottom with West System. Installed a through hull, put a gasketed hatch cover in the bulkhead and topped it off with a hinged deck pipe. Happy with the way it turned out but, I spent as much time vacuuming little foam chunks as doing anything else!
 
I have a hawse pipe all waiting to be installed on Crabby Lou - how about some pix of your installation?

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We finished putting an anchor locker in our 16C C-Squirt. Cut a hole in the forward bulkhead, dug out just enough foam and glassed the bottom with West System. Installed a through hull, put a gasketed hatch cover in the bulkhead and topped it off with a hinged deck pipe. Happy with the way it turned out but, I spent as much time vacuuming little foam chunks as doing anything else!
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I took pictures during the project. Dee Ann will have to post them as my skills with a computer are at their limit just typing this. We also have an empty album for the same reason!
 
The wind finally calmed down some today so I did a couple of more 1 gal test runs. Results:

Suzuki 115 hp 20gal water 40 gal fuel permatrim

RPM ... SPEED(gps) ....... MPG(indicated NEMA2000).........Actual MPG
1000... 4.0 mph ............11 ...........................................9
1500 ... 5.5 ..................9 ...........................................7.2
3350... 15.5 .................4 ...........................................3.9 (trimmed)
4000 ... 21.3 .................3.7.........................................3.5 {trimmed)

Roger
 
Roger - went fishing last Tuesday at Canyon Ferry (ice is finally off) and caught a big rainbow and a walleye pike, both over 20 inches. Used a green jig off the bottom - 19 feet. Then Edna celebrated her birthday - the big 60 - on Easter Sunday so we left White Suffering Springs on Saturday and headed towards Yellowstone Park stopping in Livingston for the night. Easter Sunday was a beautiful blue bird day in Yellowstone. The road to Cooke City was open and dry, all fifty odd miles. We saw hundreds of buffalo and elk, but no bears. There is all kinds of snow in Yellowstone this year. The Lamar Valley has about four feet left. It was warm at 60 degrees and no wind or clouds.

Just completed my forward facing seat project, plus added some color to the table by adding Okume 1/4 ply stained teak. Have found that combining dark walnut and red oak stain on Okume gives a teak color. I had some old, super dense teak on hand and routed the cap for the table edges. Didn't want to split the table but I did, using a SS piano hinge plus added another bracket which gives super support, without altering the one leg set up.
The box below the seat now has a huge drawer (faced with Okume) which pulls out to the starboard. No more messing around with that blasted cushion to get to the stores. Used heavy duty ball bearing slides rated for 50 lbs. The next project will be to create a truly functional storage area below the galley.

Tomorrow rain mixed with snow is forecast for our area, but no seriously cold weather.Actually seeing some green grass around here. Take care and enjoy your warm weather. John & Edna
 
Marc, just delivered my 22 '85 classic from Wefings and took my 21' Ranger back to Wefings to sell. With this ,it starts my C-Dory journey of make the boat a personal item.
Today is clean it up and remove items that will not be used. The list of items to accomplish will be never ending and had grown to 28 items prior to the boat hitting my driveway.
This is a great site to map out things to do and to enjoy reading about your adventures in the C -Dory world. Several people have already stopped as they were driving by to ask about and admire the boat. Hope to add something of value to the site in the future.
Ron
 
Took the boat across town to have the canvas guy add a couple of snaps. I saw this guy following me all the way home. He just had to know all about the C-Dory. This happens all the time. Actually this person has stopped me before. He just wanted an update on anything that I may have found that I didn't like about the boat. Nothing to report.
 
Well, the crew of C-Squirt did not do anything "on" the boat last night. Instead, we finally got some pictures put into our album including a few of the completed anchor locker project. Sorry it took so long.
 
All of us will remember that day. Sportcraft Marina is about 3 1/2 hours from our house, a long ride for the kids. They did not know that we had actually bought the boat and thought we were only "looking". Tim had the boat in the water waiting for us when we got there. The look on their faces when they found out it was going home with us is beyond description. If I had a dollar for every time they looked behind us on the way home, I would not have a boat payment!
 
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