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Jean - thanks for sharing tis experience. Thankfully, no actual harm done. Fire is the one thing that scares the crap out of me. Check those fire extinguishers everyone!

Moorings are proving unavailable in Rockland due to the Lobster Festival. Slight change in plans. We will start the Cruise in Camden instead of Rockland.

We all owe Jim a collective "thank you" for his diligence on keeping the spammers at bay.

I hate to see a post go un-answered, so I'll get the conversation started. Full disclosure, I sold my CD25 at least a decade ago. This is really not a bulkhead in the traditional meaning. It is not tabbed to the hull and is not structural. It's really a modesty panel. I know of at least two CD25s th...

Registrations are now "live" on the capedorysoa.org Events Calendar. When you register, you are able to pick which anchorages you plan to go to. Don't be surprised if you see "Everyone" under your name when you register. We opened registrations up to everyone which is why it show...

This year's Maine Cruise will be in Penobscot Bay from August 2 to 8, 2025. Sarah Ruef-Lindquist and Peter Lindquist (CD30 Windquist) of Camden, Maine have offered to organize this year's cruise. I'm posting this on their behalf. Here is the tentative itinerary, subject change due to weather, etc. A...

The only thing I would add to what the others have said is never forget to rig up a downhaul, so you can get whatever you send up the backstay back down. Don't ask me how I found that out. That's a mistake you make once.

It has taken me a few days to report on the Cabin Fever Lunch. We had roughly 50 people in attendance! It was a great day and a chance to get together over lunch, re-connect with friends and make some new ones. Fleet Captain Dave Hemenway kicked us off with what's happening in the Northeast Fleet an...

From your description, it sure sounds like a garboard drain with the plug removed, although the location seems a little high up on the keel. Some boatyards tape the garboard drain plug to the propellor. I don't think Cape Dory installed garboard drains. It would have been done by a previous owner. D...

The Cabin Fever Lunch is Saturday! There is still time to register.

Our guest speakers for the Cabin Fever Lunch will be Jeremy and Erica Elwell who, among other things, sailed their CD28 Sparrow to Ireland. Come hear of their passage and their future plans as they return to Galway and resume their journey.

Keep those registrations coming!

The Cabin Fever Lunch is just over three weeks away! The Cabin Fever Lunch is an annual event of the Northeast Fleet held at Newick's Lobster House in Dover New Hampshire. It's an opportunity to get together in an informal setting and enjoy lunch together near the end of a long winter. There will be...

Hi John. The process of sorting through this stuff has not yet begun. I have not seen these yet, but will at the Cabin Fever Lunch at Newick's Lobster House in Dover, New Hampshire on March 15th. This is real-time information and I know a lot of people will be interested. We don't yet have a plan fo...

I have some new information thanks to a tip from our very own Jim Walsh. The original builder's certificates were indeed rescued from destruction. I have been told that there is some mouse damage from being stored in a barn and that they are currently in binders by boat series, but that not every bo...

Hi Scott, I'm the current CDSOA Commodore, and if you sent a message through our "Contact Us" form, I did not receive it. I checked my Junk folder and there was nothing there. I'm not sure what happened but will look into it. CDSOA has quite a bit of information on various models of Cape D...