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[Ol' Coot]

Kevin:
What flavor 33 footer?  Is it an old IOR 3/4 tonner?

I have spent some time on an old C&C 33 built in the late 70s.  Darn nice boat and smaller than the modern 30 footers.  As an aside... I still race and find that racing improves the quality of my cruising and the set up of cruising boats.

What modifications are you undertaking?

Norm
Boston

Norm,

My boat is a Tartan 10, but I remember the C&Cs of that era well.  I raced as crew on a 36, a 39, and a 42 (custom 2 ton) by C&C at various times.  Great boats with cabins designed for sailing, not entertaining dockside.

I may continue to race occasionally, but I'm thinking only at club level.

The T-10, if you're not familiar with it, has a pretty spartan cabin.  Empty fore peak except for anchor rode locker, sail stowage and head.  Main cabin has 2 settee berths, 2 quarter berths and about 20" of counter space on either side for galley/nav table.  I'm thinking about maybe doubling the size of the port side work surface that currently is mostly taken up by the sink.  That would give room for a 2 burner stove.  Not sure if I want to go for a built in ice box.

The current settees and quarter berths are pretty lightly built (weight consideration) and completely removable.   I'd like to rebuild them in a thicker material with more secure attachment.  Then maybe some comfortable cushions so it's not so much like camping out when spending the night aboard.

In between the major mods, I plan to work my way across the deck, removing extraneous equipment and rebedding the stuff that remains.

Grandiose dreams?  We'll see.

[nemona]

Hope you get the CD 28. I'm the proud owner of one and I love her.
If you get her you must join the Cape Dory Sailboat Owners Association, a very nice group of people.
Does the one you looked at still have the original self tailoring club foot for the jib. I still use mine although I always am thinking of putting on roller furling. Will definately do it if I got out into the Blue water. So far I've only done the ICW with one little outside segment.

[CapnK]

Welcome aboard, Bob! Good to have you, hope you will win that boat. :D

Good to see you bring nemona out of the woodwork, too. ;)

Yeah, let's see some CD chattin'...  :D

There is a CD26 for sale in my marina.

[AdriftAtSea]

Nemona-

You must know Don and Diane, who own Aja, out of Fairhaven. 

[wahoosails]

Captains & Admirals,
       It is with great joy that I tell you that I am now the proud new owner of "Night Wind". She has a Harken roller furler instead of the original jib boom, and a harken mid-boom traveler arrangement. Many, many nice touches on this boat, like a 20 horse Yanmar with only 300 hours on it! Looks like Ya'll are stuck with me now! ;D
Bob

[Solace]

Welcome aboard - from the Great White North

Living aboard in Canada
John

[Captain Smollett]

       It is with great joy that I tell you that I am now the proud new owner of "Night Wind".

Congrats to ya, Mate.  Here's a glass of grog to welcome "Night Wind" and her new owner to SailFar.   :)

[s/v Faith]

Captains & Admirals,
       It is with great joy that I tell you that I am now the proud new owner of "Night Wind". She has a Harken roller furler instead of the original jib boom, and a harken mid-boom traveler arrangement. Many, many nice touches on this boat, like a 20 horse Yanmar with only 300 hours on it! Looks like Ya'll are stuck with me now! ;D
Bob

  Congrats!   ;D

Glad to hear it, I am sure you will be very happy with her... let's see some pictures!

  Enjoy a second round on me!   :)

[wahoosails]

OK ... not sure that these photos will appear ... taken from the ad that was on the net.
Bob

[CapnK]

Grog for "Night Wind" and Cap'n Bob!  8) 8) 8)

Congratulations on the new boat! Even more congratulations for having "minus-8-foot-itis"... ;D Welcome to the "Under 30" crowd. ;)

I would ove to see the looks on peoples faces when you tell them your 'new' boat is 8 feet shorter than your old boat...  :D

[CapnK]

Grandiose? I'd say just about 'par for the course' around here... :) ;D

[AdriftAtSea]

Bob-

Any chance you went to UVA??  My sister-in-law is a Wahoo... and I used to live in the great Commonwealth of Virginia...

[Cocoa Moe]

  8) Ahoy,I'm Cocoa Moe,I've  lived alone on a 1977 27' Hunter for almost 6 yrs near Key West,Fl.I have a boat canvas and awning shop on Stock Island.I just found this forum on another forum about liveaboards.I'm looking for a dependable rigging source,maybe sails too.A pelcan flew into my aft stay and it popped like a guitar string, then last year when Wilma came by she blew a piece of metal roofing into my port shroud.I plan on refurbing this spring so I can go to Cuba and maybe as far as Puerto Rico next winter.I'm also looking for partner/companion/mate ;D to help with refurb and share sunset sails and cocktails possible cruising companion [female of course]  ;) Anyone coming to Key West can email me and we can do the Duval Crawl or just see the sights and relax with cocktails at sunset.     COCOAMOES@aol.com    Thanks for any info on rigging.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder-ADMIRAL CHESTER W> NIMITZ,1940[ quote]

[Norm]

Kevin/Ol coot:
Apologies for not following up earlier.  A Tartan 10.  Cool.  I have never sailed one... unless you consider moving a few T10s into or out of travellift slips "sailing."  My sailing partner, Elizabeth, and I are thinking about what boat to go for "the cruise" on.  Two boats on the list are the Aphrodite 101 and Tartan 10.  We both like the reported sailing qualities and obvious cockpit size.  The interior is a question.

We are wondering... can you live with the headroom issue?  Perhaps you, Captain Ol Coot, will illuminate that issue in more detail?

I see a T 10 did the Bermuda 1-2 recently and collected some silver to boot.  I did that race once.  Not for weak-hearted sailors or whimpy craft.  More T10 details requested...

Keep us posted.
Norman
Boston

[Norm]

Norm to all:
I realized after a bit... I still have to introduce myself.  Blame Dan/Adrift at sea for my intrusions.  We did some sailng together last year in the Massachusetts Bay area.  He turned me on to the best internet experience I have ever enjoyed.  Thanks for all the chatter.

I am a sailing instructor for Boston Sailing Center.  My boat is a very nice C&C 38 Mark 3, Melissa.  My sweety is suitable for cramming six guys aboard for a long weekend of sailing. 

That's my work.  And I love it.

I started sailing on Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod in 1955, cruising the US East Coast and Bahamas (as a kid) in 1958 which mostly means the stuff I now know I don't know scares me.  I guess I like being scared since no one has been able to get me off the sea.  What the heck...

My sailing passion is voyaging on little boats.  Current project is working up the design/rebuild for converting a 27 foot Soling for voyaging.  The details are pretty well worked out.  Then... I met a most charming distraction and we now look at boats about 30 feet.  Two people take up a bit more room than a Soling offers!

Best to all and Happy 2007

[cubemonkey]

Norm invited me to join. We're thinking about great adventures in small and simple boats. Seems like the right kind of folks to be chatting about that.
-elizabeth

[AdriftAtSea]

Welcome Elizabeth... I take it you are the significant person in Norm's posts. :D

[cubemonkey]

I'll have to read his posts before deciding  ::)

I've been sailing since May of 2005, at the "request" of my elder son. "Geez mom, get a life already" or something along those lines. He and my daughter-in-law have shook up their lives to be sailing-centric after learning to sail back in 2000? or 2001? They have a LeComte 33 out in Bellingham WA now that they are rebuilding, and they wanted me to be more than a passenger when it is ready to sail. (Maybe this coming summer!!!)

Took basic keelboat, advanced sailing, coastal cruising, and offshore passagemaking that first summer 2005. Practiced practiced practiced. Put in couple of hundred hours on the solings and J24s. Got totally hooked. What can I say. You've all been there in some way. Participated in the island races at the Boston Sailing Center that summer with my new sailing friends. Loved that aspect of it too. Stayed on to do some fall racing in the Solings as pickup crew. And then signed up for Frostbite racing on the J24s so I didn't have to stop sailing. Now I'm beginning to sound like I need intervention.  :-\

Anyway, not to bore you with the details, Norm makes a mean leek and potato soup. The best way to a girl's heart.

Last winter I got to visit him in Tortola, and learned a lot about the non-sailing part of sailing (read bottom sanding and spluge), as well as my first blue water experiences in May sailing with him from Antigua to Barbados. (Racking up the miles here.)

I enjoyed another summer of sailing the fleet at BSC, with friends and Norm, and a lovely cruise in the San Juan Islands on a charter, with the kiddies over Labor Day. And lastly our delivery in Oct/Nov this year from Boston to Tortola, which I'm sure he's written about in here somewhere.

As I find my way around the site, I'll post links to some pics if you all are interested. My main interest in joining this community of folks, is to share our common experiences which I'm sure will promote more enjoyable and just more sailing for all of us. Being a newbie, I have a lot to learn.

thanks for the welcome,
-elizabeth

[CapnK]

Welcome aboard, CocoaMoe - that Nimitz quote is great. :D

Norm - better late than never. ;D Thanks for bringing Elizabeth to the table with you. ;)

Elizabeth - tell your son he did a Good Thing. ;D Feel free to post pics, etc etc - just jump on in. :)

[David_Old_Jersey]

Hello all,

Have been reading the board for a couple of days now, awaiting my sign in to be ok'd...............kinda frustrating not being able to "chip in", to a few threads............

About me? Well, I am based in "Old Jersey", hence the name - although I see that you folks are heavily North American centric I figure that a small boat is a small boat and the "pond" is the same size from each side!

"Small Boat" is of course a relative term - I would appear in the context of Sailfar to have a "big boat" at 30 foot  :o, but I believe that small boat sailing is also a state of mind, and I certainly do not fit in the category of "throw another bundle of cash at the Chandlers for some more shiny toys". My boat BTW is a Reg Freeman designed Seadog - a couple of them have already been around the world. I have been "messing around in boats" since I was 2 foot tall - by no means an expert - but in the words of your Donald Rumsfeld, I do "know my unknowns"............and in my case I am aware that their are a lot of 'em!!

Only had "Perro" for a couple of years, and to my shame have not really done much with her (always something else on the agenda! - in my case mainly Mrs Trouble!) - she is by no means a "doer upper" (the boat not Mrs Trouble! ;D) but she will eat a lot of time and a few quid (Both the boat AND Mrs Trouble! ;D) over the next few years as I bought her with the intention that she be made capable of extended cruising (with or without Mrs Trouble ;)) - although I have no firm plans at the moment ( ;)).........the idea being that one day I can just walk onboard and sail off into the WBY (Wide Blue Yonder!), without requiring a nest egg of a Million Quid just to maintain the boat and her systems.

Anyway, I do tend to witter on!!

Hopefully I can add something to the pot as well as taking out - even if limited to adding a bit of encouragement now and again...........

Cheers

David


PS, it's had me stumped for a couple of days now.........what are  "SB/LD Cruisers" (Small Boat / Long Distance???)