The Cape Dory Board

Details and registration forms for the 2018 CDSOA Annual Meeting were mailed to all members on July 2nd. We hope you will make every effort to attend. The Masthead article announcing the meeting has been updated to include details and a registration form. Please register as soon as possible. We are ...

Capt. Pepa, I agree with all of the above except that while Carl Alberg was certainly a great boat designer, as a furniture designer, well, not so much. The best tool to gain leverage for extracting the table is the table itself. By simultaneously pullng and twisting, one end or the other should bre...

We are looking for well qualified leaders to conduct workshops at the 2018 annual meeting in Fairhope in November, and are offering a 50% discount on the registration fee to members who are selected to lead the proposed discussions. Please see the recently posted article in the Masthead for details....

Roberto, Upon further reflection about your problem of how to keep cool while sailing in Miami, I was reminded of a similar problem in which one of our members who was fishing our northernmost waters in the native traditions was looking for suggestions on how he might stave off the cold, and it was ...

Roberto,

If you install the unit well forward you can maintain proper trim by installing dinghy davits on the stern.

Steve Kuhar

JD, Congratulations on your new boat and welcome to the message board. A check of the CDSOA database shows that we have 69 active members who own Typhoons, 6 of them live in Rhode Island, contact information is provided in the CDSOA Membership Directory, which all members receive. There is an active...

The initial plans for the 2018 CDSOA annual meeting have been posted to the Masthead, (cdsoamasthead.org). While you are there, please take time to read the three recently posted articles that stemmed from the January meeting of the Board of Directors. Remember that you do not need to "log in&q...

The post office annex in the village of Pace is run by two sweet little old ladies working out of a back room in their antique shop. If we were to drop off three to four hundred packages all at once it could produce more stress than the ladies could handle, and therefore we bring them down in batche...

Tom, Congratulations on your new boat and welcome to the message board. A check of the CDSOA database shows that we have eight active members who own a 300MS, three of them are members of the Chesapeake Fleet. Most CDSOA fleet activities involve a lot of discussion about every conceivable topic that...

Concerning improvements to "this site", we need to understand that there may be at least four separate entities that we are talking about when we say "this site"; The CDSOA website (cdsoa.org), of which the Cape Dory Board (what you are now reading) is a part, the registry, which...

I did a CDSOA database search for current or former members with a Rockport hailing port or a Rockport marina town and found six results, but none with Typhoons. There are over 1500 Cape Dorys in the database which can be searched, should we find a Cape Dory in one form of distress or another. The d...

The 2018 CDSOA Member Directory is at the printers at this time, and contains the names and contact information for 28 current CD36 owners. The Directory will be distributed in late February, and you can receive your free copy by clicking on the yellow banner at the top of this page and renewing you...

The 2018 CDSOA Member Directory will be distributed along with membership cards in February. Directory proofs and dues reminders are going in the mail tomorrow (Monday, 4 December). When you receive your proof please review it carefully, and fill in any blanks, especially boat information and hull i...

Joe, The 2016 CDSOA Membership Directory has full color pictures of all known Cape Dory models, and shows that 141 Cape Dory Daysailors were built, but no distinction was made between open and Cuddy models. The CDSOA database shows that 47 current or past members have owned Daysailors at one time or...

Robert, 25Ds were originally powered with the 1GM. I suspect you may be riding high in the stern only relative to where it was with the Westerbeke, and you may now be on your designed marks. In any event, if you decide to add weight I would suggest making it useful weight. An extra battery, spare an...