The Cape Dory Board

I´m going to put a solar panel on the companionway hatch of my CD 25 (not the sliding part) and want to put in as much punch as possible since I will have no shore power for the foreseeable future. I know I´ll need a charge controller. The question is: should I go for an 18-volt panel, or even a 24-...

How much does the package weigh? how big is it?. I´m interested, and will be in the States in September where I could pick it up.

I couldn´t open the photo. Pls re-transmit to pwadsworth@tie.cl

My recently-acquired CD 25 has a "Battery Tender" charging system for 24 volts. Is that the standard voltage for that year´s 25 ? If so, are all the lights 24 VDC, or is there some magic in the circuit ?

My newly-acquired, newly-arrived 1974 CD 25 has a roller reefing boom. My previous boat, a Bristol Corinthian, also had roller reefing. Maybe I just lack practice, but I´m not that thrilled with the technique. Since the mainsail is not the original, and is made of light sailcloth, and has a tear in ...

On my recently acquired 1974 CD 25, hull 129, the first thing I did was check out the seacocks. Naturally they were frozen open and a bear to get at. The previous owner tells me the boat has always been dry as a bone, and I´m sure he never touched them in the time he had the boat, but I kind of want...

Hi, guys and gals I just took delivery of my Cape Dory 25, hull 129, and will be attempting to get her in shape and in the water ASAP. My wife Marcia and I have a Bristol Corinthian daysailer, and have been enjoying it since last December, sailing on the central coast of Chile, but we want to go far...