What people say about our boat

thataway":3uizrhnq said:
ken35216":3uizrhnq said:
That's coming up again on July 8th. Are you going? If I can I'm heading over!
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I doubt that you will see the Thunderbirds. They did several days practice together here April 24 (first time in 15 years flying together) , but the July 8 show is only the Blue Angels. Well worth going to see, if you have not been before. We only go if we have guests who want to see the show--its a zoo! We were involved with the show for a few years when we had the 41 trawler, as a mark of the visual flying line off Pensacola Beach.

I like to anchor in Quiet Water Cove--get there early--and plan on thousands of boats around you.
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And were is this Quiet Water Cove you speak of Dr Bob?
 
Probably a good place at the X. There is a lot of shoal water in the middle--and so you skirt around to the East (best), with the C Dory's shoal draft, you may want to be back a little where there may not be as many boats...and watch them ground as they see your boat there...(depends on tide).
 
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"....you may want to be back a little where there may not be as many boats...and watch them ground as they see your boat there...(depends on tide)."
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Bad kitty :D :shock: :roll:

I had that happen once, anchored in a tiny pocket, surrounded by a rocky reef, that I went in to at high tide, looking for some wave protection from a wind predicted to clock around later in the evening and a 35ish tril-level came heading straight in for what looked like a big spot behind me. I saw him coming, and tried hailing on the VHF but no response. Finally got the lady out on the foredeck waiting to drop the anchor's attention with my hailer. Told her to look at the bottom, and get on the radio. She did, and they backed out, and called me back to say thanks. Don't know where they ended up, but it wasn't on "my" rocks.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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I have travelled coast to coast with trailer been on Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound,
Mississippi River, Lake Yellowstone with our Venture 23. The comments in
gas stations or other non marine places are "neat boat". On East coast marinas
that I am usually the smallest boat no one interested. In Puget Sound comments have been "neat boat"

Frankly I did not buy a boat to please other people. We like our boat and
it does a good job for use and we are happy with it. Anything I would like
more is out of what I want to spend on a boat so I enjoy looking at them but
and I am still happy with my choice.

Really I have never seen a C-Dory I did not like.
 
Wandering Sagebrush":14kgtljw said:
Baxter":14kgtljw said:
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Really I have never seen a C-Dory I did not like.
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What about the CD 29? That's the only one I've never cared for...
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Steve,

Maybe he never saw a 29. For me, that would be the one I didn't like. But, not everyone has seen that (thing). :wink:

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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My 22 C-Dory was originally named "Na Waqa," which is Fijian for "The Boat." On my great loop she was called the "Cute Little Boat" so often I changed her name to "Na Waqa Lailai Totoka" which is Fijian for "The Cute Little Boat."

When calling a Marina in Chesapeake Bay on VHF I sent my boat's name, "Na Waqa,' and was astonished when the lady at the marina replied, "Oh, 'The Boat.'" Later I learned she had friends in Fiji and knew the language.
 
Tied up next to a new big Ranger Tug, and said to the owner "I really like your boat", and he replied "but yours is legendary"
 
We purchased our 1st C-Dory in 1983. I had seen one the season before and we very impressed. We purchased it at the factory in Kent, Wash, drove down to the factory and towed to back to Alaska. Many positive comments were heard on that trip. My son purchased it from me in 2009 and he runs it in Prince William Sound.
I purchased my present CD in W. Palm Beach, Fla on Ebay. Had it towed to Wennatchee, Wash. where we picked it up and towed it to Alaska. I get many comments on this boat but not as many as the previous one.
I wish that we could participate in the gatherings that occur in the lower 48 and southern Canada. We are just too far away (2500 miles) to Seattle area.
 
We've had our share of "cute boat" comments. But, if you really want to hear some great guesses and see some gawking from folks, tow an enclosed Glider Trailer! Enough for a new thread.
 
My friend, an Alaska Marine Highway ferry captain, said,"It looks like it was whittled out of a block of wood."

After he said that, I took another look. He has a good point. And I couldn't feel safer or more comfortable on my block of wood.
 
After several of us BRATS spent some time struggling to get a 40 something and three story high, onto a dock in Powell River, (Off dock wind and current running) and later the skipper came over to us and said thanks and shook hands, and we realized that we had both been at Alert Bay last summer taking shelter from a 30+ wind that blew for 4 days and nights, he later came bay and told me that

"just because we had little boats didn't mean we didn't know what we were doing."

I took that not only as a compliment but as admission that he was less than as capable as he should have been.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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When I pulled out at Comox, there was a boat in front of me on the finger pier. As I walked by it to get my trailer, a life preserver on board said "nice boat." Spooked me until I saw that there was a little kid inside. My boat does look like what a kid would draw with a crayon.

Mark
 
When we pulled into Twin Bridges at the end of our 6 day Nootka Sound fishing trip yesterday, a nice gentleman commented, "That's a handsome boat".
 
There are so few of these boats on the Gulf of Mexico coast that I get " Nice Boat" all the time. The most odd was when a guy in a Corvette pulled up to the side of my 70 mph truck on I10, signaled to roll down my window, and asked where he could get a boat like that. (I gave them Mark's number.)
 
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