This comment is about a sail planned for April or May of this year when, with one of my sons, I plan to sail the CD 25 I just bought down from North Kingstown, RI, where she is presently, to East Hampton, where I live - a 1976 CD25 # 419 s/v "Jane". After a few days of learning the boat and finding and correcting its weaknesses sailing in Naragansett Bay, we will make what will be for both of us our first sail. I am already excited planning when to install the additional electronics and looking at charts. Neither of us are experienced sailors so any tips about the trip, like prevailing winds, whether to go down the coast to stay overnight in Niantic, or take the Block Island route would be helpful.
I cannot wait to sail my own boat, round Point Judith and take what for us will be a major adventure.
nigel.noble@prodigy.net
CD-25 stories only - NO "D's"
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Dan Hanlon
Re: CD-25 stories only - NO "D's"
Wayne and Joan,Wayne Brown wrote:We sailed our CD-25 "Windseeker" across Lake Michigan to Holland and Sagatuck Michigan and later sailed up Lake Michigan from the Chicago area to Fayette. These trips were made with my wife and myself and two young kids as crew. These are not long or distant voyages but more than daysailing.Didereaux wrote: THis post is prompted by a comment in one of John Vigors' posts...that he would like a verifiable instance of a 25 circumnavigating. I started looking around and their were few stories of the 25's about anything much greater than week-ending in some lake or across some bay or other.
SO! How about you 200+ registered owners of a true CD-25, doing a bit of posting and tell about how you went further than 5 miles.<grin> I know many have had to make some extensive 'coastals' at the least. Maybe a Caribbean? A Gulf crossing? Hawaii?
...and NO I have nothing against the "D's", but you have to admit for a small group you are a 'wordy' bunch. heh
Didereaux
CD-25 "Spring Gail"
Wayne and Joan Brown
'83 CD-27 Whisper
I am impressed. I have done the Tri-State, Chicago, St. Joseph, MI., Michigan, IN,. and back to Chicago a few times. That is no casual daysail. I have seen 8 to 10 foot waves and 38 knots of breeze on that route. Of course, I was on a 48 footer. I don't know that I would have the nerve to try it on my CD25. If you haven't been to Michigan City yet, I highly recommend it. The folks at the yacht club there are very hospitable.
Fair winds,
Dan
S/V Flying Cloud
CD25 #652 (1978)
djhhan@sbcglobal.net
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George Shaunfield
Re: CD-25 stories only - NO "D's"
Ed Cambell also entered his CD25 in the 2004 Regata D'Amigos, a Category 1 ORC regatta from Galveston, TX to Veracruz, Mexico (630nm distance). According to the posted results he did not complete the race. I understand that he dropped out after two days or so because of bad weather. Based on the results, it looks like only about half of the boats completed the race. Ed's was the smallest boat entered.Carl Jones wrote: Ed Campbell and Cindy sailed his CD25 across the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Florida (about 700 miles), cruised the Bahamas, and returned. He is the author of Cambell's Cruising Guide to Texas, and well respected Texas sailor.
George
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Steve Laume
Re: CD-25 stories only - NO "D's"
Most of the best of days sailing have been with my son. He has now just turned 14 and I hope we have many joyful journeys ahead. That said I am sure you will have a very fine trip. Make sure to pick up a current copy (he he) of the Eldridge tide book. You can go nowhere slowly if you are fighting the tide from RI down into the Sound. As for Noank or Block Island I will say that we keep our boat in Noank and it is a beautiful place to sail out of. There is however something magical about sailing out to an offshore island. Do both and have fun, Steve.
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Didereaux
Re: CD-25 stories only - NO "D's"
I found Eds' email address and have contacted him to see if he has written any accounts of these trips. If so and if permission is given etc I will post or link here.George Shaunfield wrote:Carl Jones wrote: Ed Campbell and Cindy sailed his CD25 across the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Florida (about 700 miles), cruised the Bahamas, and returned. He is the author of Cambell's Cruising Guide to Texas, and well respected Texas sailor.
Ed Cambell also entered his CD25 in the 2004 Regata D'Amigos, a Category 1 ORC regatta from Galveston, TX to Veracruz, Mexico (630nm distance). According to the posted results he did not complete the race. I understand that he dropped out after two days or so because of bad weather. Based on the results, it looks like only about half of the boats completed the race. Ed's was the smallest boat entered.
George
didereaux
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Anonymous
A Short "D" Story Anyway!
There once was a D; it came before E. It finished its beer, then set out to sea 
Anonymous
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Nigel Noble
Re: CD-25 stories only - NO "D's"
Thanks Steve. I have ordered the Tide tables. I really appreciate your advise and your well wishes. Any suggestion where to dock in Noank for a quiet night and a celebratory meal?
Nigel
nigel.noble@prodigy.net
Nigel
Steve Laume wrote: Most of the best of days sailing have been with my son. He has now just turned 14 and I hope we have many joyful journeys ahead. That said I am sure you will have a very fine trip. Make sure to pick up a current copy (he he) of the Eldridge tide book. You can go nowhere slowly if you are fighting the tide from RI down into the Sound. As for Noank or Block Island I will say that we keep our boat in Noank and it is a beautiful place to sail out of. There is however something magical about sailing out to an offshore island. Do both and have fun, Steve.
nigel.noble@prodigy.net
Don't mean to bring back an old post, but...
Back in August of 2003, I bought CD25 #667 - Wind Song. On Labor Day Weekend, I decided to bring her home...from Newport News, VA to Nanticoke, MD. If you were in the Chesapeake Bay the night of August 30, 2003, you were wet. If you were sailing, you were stupid (me).
Our shake-down cruise was more of a delivery trip than anything else. I have always heard that sailing on an ambitious schedule is never a good plan. This story affirms that.
My girlfriend and I left Salisbury, MD and drove down to Newport News to spend out first night on Wind Song, at the dock. I had spent some time familiarizing myself with the charts and my new Garmin GPS. A buddy of mine came over for a beer and to help me replace the running rigging. OK, I admit, the beer was the stimulus to get him to "visit." Everything was going fine until the joint between the old halyard and the new halyard failed. You’d think, well, you still have the jib halyard, right. Well, had you seen my jib halyard you would have seen the casing rotting off the core. After a few more beers, and checking the cell phone's signal (incase we needed 911) I decided to climb the mast with a limited amount of assistance from the frail jib halyard. After an hour aloft, I could not feed the line, besides it was 2am by now. Now, with our rental car turned in, my girlfriend Laurie said g'bye to my buddy and spent the night on the boat w/o halyards. This made out 6am shove-off impossible.
At 8am, I called every business card that was on the marina's bulletin board, hoping to secure professional help. No one answered. Somehow, at 10:30am, a guy walks by and introduces himself and says he got a desperate message from me. He surely saw dollar signs, and at that point it was reasonable assumption. Armed with the proper tools, I went aloft and was able to fix the problem with his coaching. Somehow, I still paid the full repair amount...Hmm. By a little after noon, we were underway...more than 6 hours late. Our target was Onancock, Va. Onancock was a long way away and it would be 12pm before we would enter Onancock Creek.
A gentle 10kt SW breeze pushed us to the north channel of the mouth of the Bay by 3pm and off Cape Charles by 7:00. At 7:01, we saw some clouds building to the north. I have lived near the Bay my whole like and have found that distant clouds and even lightning can be more than 75 miles away, and still be visible. I reassured Laurie.
At 7:30 the wind changes direction. With one gust the temperature dropped 25 degrees. The distant clouds were on top of us and I was hopping around the boat securing whatever I could. Laurie went below and listened to the weather on the radio. We did a radio check and found out the radio did not transmit. I was kicking myself at this point. I attached a jumper cable to the stay (which I later determined to be a stupid move, with the fuel inches away). Not having too much storm experience, I dropped sails and powered up, driving into the north winds/seas. North winds mean a LONG fetch, se we had 5-6 foot seas hitting us with a fairly short wavelength. Wind Song rose over most of the waves, but about every 15th wave crashed over the deck and landed on me in the cockpit. This gave the cockpit drains just enough time to drain. I later found out that the winds were recorded upwards of 50 knots near out position. We were in the widest part of the Bay. It was 8pm and almost dark. My 9.9 hp Honda did the best it could from getting peeled off the wind, but it happened occasionally. One minute, I saw a container vessel in the shipping channel off port, the next minute she was off starboard. We spun a few times. The "history" feature of my GPS looked like a jagged lighting bolt. I kept one hand on the tiller and the other on my GPS, watching my minimal progress towards my next mark. We got about 10nm above Cape Charles...it was 10:30pm. We had been in contact with the USCG and they transmitted to us over the radio and we spoke with them on the phone. The storm they initially reported to be a shallow line of storms had rebuild as a major storm that kept forming over the same spot. At 12:00, USGS called us via radio and advised us to return to Cape Charles. We turned and took the weather astern. The following sea was more difficult to hold steerage in. We radioed for an escort, and fortunately they came and guided us south into the Cape Charles' town marina. We tied-up, filled out USCG paperwork, and were picked up by my father, who we had been in contact with during the ordeal.
Wind Song managed the storm far better than her skipper and crew. We were shaken up "a bit." The next day, Laurie stayed with some family friends in Onancock, and I went back out into the Bay, still feeling my sea legs from the night before. My father and another family friend joined me. The wind was still out of the north, our intended bearing, so we motored the entire way. I was not in the mood for a leisurely sail at that point. We made the 5-hr trip without incident. The following day was a beautiful 10 hour sail from Onancock, Va to Nanticoke, MD. Wind Song was home.
A month later, Laurie went sailing with me on Wind Song. Less than a year later, I married her. After all, she is pretty, graceful, and tough, just like a Cape Dory.
Wind Song is due for an overhaul this coming year, summer '05-summer '06. She is resting in Tyaskin, MD awaiting her new wiring, electronics, paint, brightwork, and canvass. We are planning on moving to the Calvert County, MD area in mid 2006. I'd like to get her ready for another 27 years of service.
-Trey Porter
s/v Wind Song
Our shake-down cruise was more of a delivery trip than anything else. I have always heard that sailing on an ambitious schedule is never a good plan. This story affirms that.
My girlfriend and I left Salisbury, MD and drove down to Newport News to spend out first night on Wind Song, at the dock. I had spent some time familiarizing myself with the charts and my new Garmin GPS. A buddy of mine came over for a beer and to help me replace the running rigging. OK, I admit, the beer was the stimulus to get him to "visit." Everything was going fine until the joint between the old halyard and the new halyard failed. You’d think, well, you still have the jib halyard, right. Well, had you seen my jib halyard you would have seen the casing rotting off the core. After a few more beers, and checking the cell phone's signal (incase we needed 911) I decided to climb the mast with a limited amount of assistance from the frail jib halyard. After an hour aloft, I could not feed the line, besides it was 2am by now. Now, with our rental car turned in, my girlfriend Laurie said g'bye to my buddy and spent the night on the boat w/o halyards. This made out 6am shove-off impossible.
At 8am, I called every business card that was on the marina's bulletin board, hoping to secure professional help. No one answered. Somehow, at 10:30am, a guy walks by and introduces himself and says he got a desperate message from me. He surely saw dollar signs, and at that point it was reasonable assumption. Armed with the proper tools, I went aloft and was able to fix the problem with his coaching. Somehow, I still paid the full repair amount...Hmm. By a little after noon, we were underway...more than 6 hours late. Our target was Onancock, Va. Onancock was a long way away and it would be 12pm before we would enter Onancock Creek.
A gentle 10kt SW breeze pushed us to the north channel of the mouth of the Bay by 3pm and off Cape Charles by 7:00. At 7:01, we saw some clouds building to the north. I have lived near the Bay my whole like and have found that distant clouds and even lightning can be more than 75 miles away, and still be visible. I reassured Laurie.
At 7:30 the wind changes direction. With one gust the temperature dropped 25 degrees. The distant clouds were on top of us and I was hopping around the boat securing whatever I could. Laurie went below and listened to the weather on the radio. We did a radio check and found out the radio did not transmit. I was kicking myself at this point. I attached a jumper cable to the stay (which I later determined to be a stupid move, with the fuel inches away). Not having too much storm experience, I dropped sails and powered up, driving into the north winds/seas. North winds mean a LONG fetch, se we had 5-6 foot seas hitting us with a fairly short wavelength. Wind Song rose over most of the waves, but about every 15th wave crashed over the deck and landed on me in the cockpit. This gave the cockpit drains just enough time to drain. I later found out that the winds were recorded upwards of 50 knots near out position. We were in the widest part of the Bay. It was 8pm and almost dark. My 9.9 hp Honda did the best it could from getting peeled off the wind, but it happened occasionally. One minute, I saw a container vessel in the shipping channel off port, the next minute she was off starboard. We spun a few times. The "history" feature of my GPS looked like a jagged lighting bolt. I kept one hand on the tiller and the other on my GPS, watching my minimal progress towards my next mark. We got about 10nm above Cape Charles...it was 10:30pm. We had been in contact with the USCG and they transmitted to us over the radio and we spoke with them on the phone. The storm they initially reported to be a shallow line of storms had rebuild as a major storm that kept forming over the same spot. At 12:00, USGS called us via radio and advised us to return to Cape Charles. We turned and took the weather astern. The following sea was more difficult to hold steerage in. We radioed for an escort, and fortunately they came and guided us south into the Cape Charles' town marina. We tied-up, filled out USCG paperwork, and were picked up by my father, who we had been in contact with during the ordeal.
Wind Song managed the storm far better than her skipper and crew. We were shaken up "a bit." The next day, Laurie stayed with some family friends in Onancock, and I went back out into the Bay, still feeling my sea legs from the night before. My father and another family friend joined me. The wind was still out of the north, our intended bearing, so we motored the entire way. I was not in the mood for a leisurely sail at that point. We made the 5-hr trip without incident. The following day was a beautiful 10 hour sail from Onancock, Va to Nanticoke, MD. Wind Song was home.
A month later, Laurie went sailing with me on Wind Song. Less than a year later, I married her. After all, she is pretty, graceful, and tough, just like a Cape Dory.
Wind Song is due for an overhaul this coming year, summer '05-summer '06. She is resting in Tyaskin, MD awaiting her new wiring, electronics, paint, brightwork, and canvass. We are planning on moving to the Calvert County, MD area in mid 2006. I'd like to get her ready for another 27 years of service.
-Trey Porter
s/v Wind Song
Yes, I am a wordy CD25_ Owner
Sorry to dissapoint those among you who appreciate short stories. No, Wind Song is not a CD25D. No, I don't have "D" envy.
-Trey
-Trey