Best and worst of season?

[Jerry J Commisso]

Worst: Selling my CD27 which I loved and sailed for many years.

Best: Knowing that the new owner of my CD27 is taking care of it as well as I did (good luck and thanks Warren).Purchasing a 1980 CD30 Cutter and sailing it from Long Island Sound home to N.J. This is a wonderful boat. Couldn't be happier.

Jerry J Commisso
CD30 Chelsea Rose

Now that the season is close to an end, at least for some of us.......

what has been the best and the worst of the season

liasboat@aol.com

[Ryan Turner]

The best: a beautiful 8-hour sail across the Pamlico Sound to Ocracoke Island using our new wind vane to do the steering. What a great toy those vanes are!

The worst: the sail back from Ocracoke with 20+ knot winds in our face and a 2-3 foot chop to beat into. There were a few green faces on board that day. That's what you get when you've got to meet a schedule.

But, the season's not over for me. I'll be taking off in mid-November to sail to the Bahamas for a couple of months aboard our CD33. Can't wait!



rturnertec@aol.com

[Michael Heintz]

THE BEST: Buying "Macht Nichts" CD 30 MKII from Bill & Sally Kutz, Great people.....Fantastic boat

THE BEST: Pretty much having the summer off sailing with my brother 3-4 times a week keep hearing about bad weather in the NE, didn't bother us !!!

THE BEST: Our last sail, new flasher flying one reef in the main blowin 20 -25 sustained speed of 8.2 knots

THE WORST: Blowing the fuel pump off Fishers Island and losing two weeks while it was repaired

THE BEST: Our cruise to Block Island after repair was done, less than three hours to get there on a broad reach with following seas, felt like we were flying !!!!!!!!

THE BEST: The summer may be over, but that just means more wind for the Fall !!!!!



Mzenith@aol.com

[michael]

The absolute Best - Launching our "new" Typhoon on July 4th. It hadn't been floated in 15 years! Then sailing with my wonderful wife and 3 young children! It was awsome!

[Catherine Monaghan]

BEST: The fleet sail to Cape Dory Rendezvous 2000 at Millstone Point Harbor, Niantic Bay, with the other boats in the little flotilla: CD26 Endure (Joe Focarile and Bill Comella), CD30MKII Ada Marie (Dick Feffer), and CD30MKII Machts Nichts (Mike Heintz and crew -- Paul and Matt). These guys were really great, as were the stops along the way, contributing to a great trip.

BEST: Having the bay nearly to ourselves in 25 knot winds and a 2-3 ft. chop on a great boat.

BEST: Sailing on Raritan Bay from Morgan to Atlantic Highlands, NJ on 9/30 with our guests Ruth and Leo MacDonald (CD30K Heather Ann) in light wind passing or pulling away from other boats -- yeah, we did it. Meeting up with Joe Karger (CD32 Manitou) and Joe and Marge Focarile (CD26 Endure) in Atlantic Highlands. The return trip on 10/1, in even lighter air, flying our Flasher nearly the entire trip and making 7 knots on a broad reach.

WORST: The worst hasn't happened yet. That's the day she's hauled and we put her to bed for the winter.


catherine_monaghan@merck.com
CD32 <a href="http://www.hometown.aol.com/bcomet/real ... ization</a>, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay

Now that the season is close to an end, at least for some of us.......

what has been the best and the worst of the season

catherine_monaghan@merck.com

[Ed Haley]

BEST: being in Kingston, Ontario for the season and enjoying the great sails in the region

WORST: when I sold my CD28 last month



eghaley@twcny.rr.com

[chuck yahrling]

This season in particluar, has been a series of Bests and Worsts:

Bests...
We bought CD36 Tenacity (previous SixPence) and cuised for 3 weeks in Desolation Sound, B.C., Canada without serious incident or breakdown after only having 2 hours experience with the boat. The trip included doing a week of single-handing while traveling north, then having best mate fly in via float plane to join up for the balance. Great way to get to know a boat!!!!!!

Meeting and becoming friends with SixPence's previous owners, Bob and Pat Pence. Great people!

Selling CD30 Temerity in 6 weeks at top dollar. Really, this is a mixed feeling of best and worst. This boat was in about as good of condition as I could make her, and she carried us through some major weather and really great cruising, and we loved her a lot. I hope the new owner can appreciate what he got.

Worsts...
Surveying, Sea-trialing, closing the deal and arranging for the transfer of title etc., shipping, decomissioning, recomissioning and preparation for the trip without benefit of representation with only 3 weeks between delivery and departure while taking a company public. Major stress!

Trying to get the trucking company to pick up in Annapolis and deliver the %#&$ boat in Seattle per their original agreement! I will never, ever, ever do this again! (the CD36 is my dreamboat!)

Steve Alarcon
CD36 Tenacity
Seattle

Steve,

As I'm looking into having a CD40 shipped up from the Chesapeake Bay to Chicago in the spring, I'm curious as to if I might learn something from your unpleasant experience. Dare I inquire as to what company you dealt with and the nature of the run around they put you through? I'll also pose the larger question to the field. Does anyone have any recommendations regarding not just arranging for land-based transport but insuring that this unnatural passage protects both the boat physically and the owner mentally?

Best Regards,

Craig Curtis
Soon to be owner of 1990 CD40 "Speculator"
Chicago

Nigel Calder did an article on haulers for Ocean Navigator (portland, me) a year or so back and included details on shipping his new Nada overland. Try for a reprint at http://www.oceannavigator.com/ or maybe you could contact him with their help. Or, via Sail Magazine editor Patience Wales (pwales@primediasi.com).



cyahrlin@cisco.com

[Jon]

Over the years I have launched my boat many times. However, this was the first spring that I have launched my boat and her web site. While I have had many days of wonderful sailing, I increasingly find great joy in reading e-mail and comments left in the guest book by the Cape Dory community. It is a joy to be able to learn, participate, and interact with such a strong and thriving family of skilled sailors. Thank you, and my hat's off to all!

Jon
s/v Sovereign
CD25, #625

[M. R. Bober]

Had to stop listening to the ballgames when on the boat.
Mitchell Bober
RESPITE
CD330

[Richard Feffer]

Craig,
Have you considered taking your boat up the Hudson and through the Erie Canal into the Great Lakes? A friend of mine did that this summer in his CD30.
Richard
CD30MKII



RichFef@Prodigy.net

[Don Craig]

Buy extra damage insurance. Boat transport companies' standard coverage for USED boats is worthless. Ask lots of questions about coverage, conditions, inspections, deductables, etc. I learned this the hard way. And yes, expect damage. Boats just weren't made to sail down highways. You're pretty much stuck with the expertise and caring or lack thereof of the driver/loader you're assigned. The good news is: anything can be repaired. Just make sure the insurance pays for it.

This season in particluar, has been a series of Bests and Worsts:

Bests...
We bought CD36 Tenacity (previous SixPence) and cuised for 3 weeks in Desolation Sound, B.C., Canada without serious incident or breakdown after only having 2 hours experience with the boat. The trip included doing a week of single-handing while traveling north, then having best mate fly in via float plane to join up for the balance. Great way to get to know a boat!!!!!!

Meeting and becoming friends with SixPence's previous owners, Bob and Pat Pence. Great people!

Selling CD30 Temerity in 6 weeks at top dollar. Really, this is a mixed feeling of best and worst. This boat was in about as good of condition as I could make her, and she carried us through some major weather and really great cruising, and we loved her a lot. I hope the new owner can appreciate what he got.

Worsts...
Surveying, Sea-trialing, closing the deal and arranging for the transfer of title etc., shipping, decomissioning, recomissioning and preparation for the trip without benefit of representation with only 3 weeks between delivery and departure while taking a company public. Major stress!

Trying to get the trucking company to pick up in Annapolis and deliver the %#&$ boat in Seattle per their original agreement! I will never, ever, ever do this again! (the CD36 is my dreamboat!)

Steve Alarcon
CD36 Tenacity
Seattle

Steve,

As I'm looking into having a CD40 shipped up from the Chesapeake Bay to Chicago in the spring, I'm curious as to if I might learn something from your unpleasant experience. Dare I inquire as to what company you dealt with and the nature of the run around they put you through? I'll also pose the larger question to the field. Does anyone have any recommendations regarding not just arranging for land-based transport but insuring that this unnatural passage protects both the boat physically and the owner mentally?

Best Regards,

Craig Curtis
Soon to be owner of 1990 CD40 "Speculator"
Chicago

[Don Carr]

First let me preface this with.."a bad day of sailing is better than a good day at the office".

BEST:
-Finishing a 60 mile overnight race in 8 hours in the wee hours of the morning in 25 knot sustained. Sorry, not a Cape Dory.
- Broad reaching from Newport to Point Judith under the flasher.
My CD25.
-Sailing to Block Island from Noank on 9/30 in 4 hours flat.
Not bad for a 25.
-The aroma of percolated coffee in the cabin at 6:30 AM.
-The boat's seakindleyness in 8-10ft swells off Pt. Judith.

WORST:
- Missing the CD rendevouz due to prior racing comittments.
- Mis-executed spinnaker blow which covered the cockpit and
the following boat at the mark. Not a CD.
- Daysailing in thunderstorm/torrential rains.
-Sailing in place against the tide.
-Witnessing first hand a hypothermic crew member. Very ugly.
-Listening to the drone of the outboard as we overcome 4knots
or less of wind going to Newport.



carrd48@netzero.net

[John M]

... best and the worst of the season ...

WORST: racing our CD28 in the Wednesday Night Series, (high PHRF, spinnaker) against Santana 20's and other assorted light weight/light air boats.

BEST: not comming in last, actually came in 9th of 10, for 10 races.

WORST: generally light wind all spring and summer.

BEST: this comming Saturday (Oct 7), the forcast calls for cool temps and strong gusty wind.

John & Nancy Martin
CD28 #346 Intrepid




johnmartin55@hotmail.com