Website with Original Brochures of most Cape Dory sailboats

[Sea Hunt]

In my continuing search for a Cape Dory 25D I came across the following website:

http://www.floridaboats.net/archive/cap ... index.html

I hope I am copying the website correctly. It appears to be about 7 pages with 10-12 photographs on each page of original Cape Dory brochures for most (possibly all) Cape Dory sailboats from the Typhoon to the Cape Dory 45. You can click on each individual photograph and enlarge it to read the article or look at the photos. Great stuff, at least for a Cape Dory junkie like me.

It was fascinating to read some of the original language used by Mr. Valvolotis and his team in advertising these wonderful sailboats.

Cathy, or other Internet gurus/moderators, if I copied the website correctly, and if it appears to be something appropriate for this board, perhaps you could figure out a way to include this website on our website, possibly in the "Where to Look" section.

[mgphl52]

Great find, Robert! I well remember drooling over the new brochures when they came out as I got "addicted" to Cape Dorys in the mid-70s. Sure wish I had held on to those pages...

-mike & Toni

[The Patriot]

... I came across the following website:

http://www.floridaboats.net/archive/cap ... index.html

... about 7 pages with ... photographs ... of ... Cape Dory brochures ... Great stuff ...

I quite agree. It's like going to the Cape Dory museum in East Taunton. I thought I'd seen most of the old brochures but I was quite mistaken.

Just as interesting as the material itself are what appear to be mistakes in the printed material. For example the CD 30 ketch is drawn with 5 port lights, while the CD 36 ketch is drawn with four port lights. This should probably be reversed since the drawings for each yacht seem about right for the intended lengths and interiors.

I can imagine spending many hours minutely examining these photos.

[Watermark II]

Our ketch, hull #2, has five portlights.
But we hav'nt seen others that way!

Andy
Watermark II
CD30K #2

[Sea Hunt]

Sure wish I had held on to those pages...

-mike & Toni

I do not because I am not very computer literate (this is well documented elsewhere), but I am confident Toni knows how to enlarge and print out the various images on the Cape Dory brochures website.

Perhaps someone can share the procedure with neanderthals like me. I used to call myself "computer challenged" but that phrase did not adequately convey the abysmal lack of knowledge I have about computers. "Neanderthal" is succinct and conveys my stupidity with an easily understood word.

Anyone want lessons in the operation and care of a slide rule Mine has historical significance circa 1950s and 1960s. It was used by my father to help design the guidance systems for Polaris submarine ballistic missile warheads. Sometimes, the apple does far very, very far from the tree.

[Dick Barthel]

Robert,

What a terrific find. I have seen the front page of the 25D brochure many times but never the full brochure. You must feel something of the joy of an archeologist on a big find.

Thanks for sharing. Good luck with your search for the perfect 25D...one will come along.

Dick

[bifcondor]

Just FYI, the Typhoon pages are available through this web site via the where to look link. Don't know about the others. However, the floridaboats site presents the thumbnails so you can browse easily.

[The Patriot]

Our ketch, hull #2, has five portlights.
But we hav'nt seen others that way! ...

Perhaps I'm easily entertained, but I still find this to be an interesting quirk and a candidate for the next CD Trivia Quiz. I'd always thought that the CD line ran something like this: 25, 25D, 26, 26D, and 27 - 3 ports p/s; 28, 30 (various), 31, and 32 - 4 ports p/s; 33, 330, 36, 40, and 45 - 5 ports p/s. Not only does the CD30K break this rule, but it appears that the CD36K has 4 instead of 5 ports. How many of the CD30K and the CD36K were built? Paging Andy Denmark. Help!

I hope I can get to sleep tonight.

[Cathy Monaghan]

We have most but not all of them. And the ones accessible from our web site are full size so you can actually read them.

Cathy
Webmaster - CDSOA, Inc.

[bifcondor]

Our ketch, hull #2, has five portlights.
But we hav'nt seen others that way! ...

Perhaps I'm easily entertained, but I still find this to be an interesting quirk and a candidate for the next CD Trivia Quiz. I'd always thought that the CD line ran something like this: 25, 25D, 26, 26D, and 27 - 3 ports p/s; 28, 30 (various), 31, and 32 - 4 ports p/s; 33, 330, 36, 40, and 45 - 5 ports p/s. Not only does the CD30K break this rule, but it appears that the CD36K has 4 instead of 5 ports. How many of the CD30K and the CD36K were built? Paging Andy Denmark. Help!

I hope I can get to sleep tonight.

Is it just me or does it seem you have ignored the Typhoon as a boat in the CD line?

[Cathy Monaghan]

We have some of the brochures for the Typhoon right here on this web site. Their in the "Groups & Publications" area of the "Where to Look" section. And they're full size so you can print and read'em.


Cathy
Webmaster - CDSOA, Inc.

[Cathy Monaghan]

Sure wish I had held on to those pages...

-mike & Toni

I do not because I am not very computer literate (this is well documented elsewhere), but I am confident Toni knows how to enlarge and print out the various images on the Cape Dory brochures website.....

You can't really enlarge them without losing resolution. They'll be very blurry. Just print and read ours.


Cathy

[Andy Denmark]

Armand,

This is a headscratcher for me but I will hazard a WAG.

I know there were some 30-K's with 5 portlights as there is one right here in Oriental and I looked at another one in Florida. I recall someone found CD-27 #1 abandoned in a boatyard somewhere up north with 4 portlightss but, if so, that's the only 27 I know with 4. As for the 36-K, I really have no idea.

David Perry is probably the guy to clear this up.

My $.02 worth
________
R100S

[The Patriot]

Is it just me or does it seem you have ignored the Typhoon as a boat in the CD line?

I certainly didn't mean to slight any boat owners here. Does your Typhoon have 3, 4, or 5 ports?

[bifcondor]

Is it just me or does it seem you have ignored the Typhoon as a boat in the CD line?

I certainly didn't mean to slight any boat owners here. Does your Typhoon have 3, 4, or 5 ports?

Man made, manufactured or accidental? Not to mention the sun roof.