I have just returned from a 90 minute cruise on the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers here in mid- America and once again have experienced what I call the C-Dory effect! When passing cruisers coating $500,000 to $1,000,000 plus I watched their guests nudge each other and nod or point to sweet Ol' Minnie Swann. It happens every time I'm out and I can't say I don't enjoy it! At least a thumbs up, long looks and often a shout of "I love your boat" from people on much bigger and more expensive vessels. I can't help it, I eat it up!
the C-Dory effect
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Yes, the C-Dory effect is an interesting sociological phenomenon which is well documented in the C-Brat case study literature. I think that part of the explanation for this effect is that those million dollar yacht owners and their passengers are not threatened emotionally by the occasional encounter with the cute little cork-like C-Dory bobbing around in their vicinity. They envision taking one aboard as a dinghy and being happy having it as an adorable pet.
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I got that today to at the dock "nice boat" (albeit from an oldtimer on a new larsen tho!).
Definitely turns heads, not many of these boats around here.
Definitely turns heads, not many of these boats around here.
Yep ... we always find interesting comments about C-Dory's.
On one of our cross-country trips, while gassing-up in Mississississippi I was asked what that thing was on top of the boat (radar). The questioner's friend (who was driving their pickup...) advised that it was one of those "fancy TV receiver's." His friend commented that I must be able to get about every channel in the World with it. I agreed, and admitted that reception was excellent, but the screen was really small.
Best,
Casey
On one of our cross-country trips, while gassing-up in Mississississippi I was asked what that thing was on top of the boat (radar). The questioner's friend (who was driving their pickup...) advised that it was one of those "fancy TV receiver's." His friend commented that I must be able to get about every channel in the World with it. I agreed, and admitted that reception was excellent, but the screen was really small.
Best,
Casey
I keep my CD25 docked at my house on Grand Lake St Marys in Ohio. There are no other CD 25's anywhere close that I'm aware of so our boat really stands out. The fact that it has radar and an autopilot on a lake that is only 9 miles long by 4 miles wide is also a little unusual. I get all kinds of questions, comments about how cool the boat is, and hear a lot of radio traffic from the sailors about how if they were going to have a powerboat, this would be the one.
Cruising around on a rainy day while others are staying in is one of the reasons I like this boat so much. And after having a series of larger boats (the last a 40'), the substantial difference in cost is really nice.
I love this boat!
Cruising around on a rainy day while others are staying in is one of the reasons I like this boat so much. And after having a series of larger boats (the last a 40'), the substantial difference in cost is really nice.
I love this boat!
I've even been offered wives and/or kids (jokingly) in trade for mine!
Take one "boaterhoming" and you get the same reactions, though it might not be from the "Yachtie" folks.
C-Dorys are more impressive size wise, when on the trailer on land, and much smaller on water and especially beside larger boats. They look much bigger in a campsite than in a marina!
Kinda surprises folks to see one way up in the forest back amongst the trees at several thousand feet elevation and many miles from the nearest lake.
If you can camp in one, boaterhoming style, it eliminates the need for a 5th wheel trailer or motor home. My 38 footer has become a big, awkward, expensive to operate, and unused item for the most part, except, of course, when the Admiral comes along and needs flush fittings in every room, along with heated water, air conditioning, piped in elevator music, and computer controlled fragrance monitoring. :lol:
Joe. :teeth :thup
Take one "boaterhoming" and you get the same reactions, though it might not be from the "Yachtie" folks.
C-Dorys are more impressive size wise, when on the trailer on land, and much smaller on water and especially beside larger boats. They look much bigger in a campsite than in a marina!
Kinda surprises folks to see one way up in the forest back amongst the trees at several thousand feet elevation and many miles from the nearest lake.
If you can camp in one, boaterhoming style, it eliminates the need for a 5th wheel trailer or motor home. My 38 footer has become a big, awkward, expensive to operate, and unused item for the most part, except, of course, when the Admiral comes along and needs flush fittings in every room, along with heated water, air conditioning, piped in elevator music, and computer controlled fragrance monitoring. :lol:
Joe. :teeth :thup
Chris Bulovsky
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My wife an I have an inside joke about how we get "Cuted again". When this happens we avoid eye contact with each other so as not to trigger a laugh offending the the person calling the boat cute. :lol:
Puppies and little chubby kids are cute........boats???....well it maybe but as a male I'd rather have it called handsome or nice. I don't use the "C" word much and it would be subject to much grief if my work colleagues heard me say that. "Hay Lt. look at that "cute" ladder truck...." I'd never live it down!!!!
Chris
Puppies and little chubby kids are cute........boats???....well it maybe but as a male I'd rather have it called handsome or nice. I don't use the "C" word much and it would be subject to much grief if my work colleagues heard me say that. "Hay Lt. look at that "cute" ladder truck...." I'd never live it down!!!!
Chris
I can handle the often said "It's so cute!", but I had a tougher time with the Commodore of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club's comment when he saw the C-Dory lineup at the 2008 Seafood Festival. He said "They are so ADORABLE"! :roll:
That was the MARCIA JANE'S first cruise and I've had several boats in the past. NONE of them was ever called adorable! Sturdy, seaworthy, and rugged perhaps, but never adorable. :thdown
Kent
MARCIA JANE
That was the MARCIA JANE'S first cruise and I've had several boats in the past. NONE of them was ever called adorable! Sturdy, seaworthy, and rugged perhaps, but never adorable. :thdown
Kent
MARCIA JANE