Seeking information on replacement rubbers for spartan portholes and rubbers for unknown make of alloy hatches. Interested in making contact with cape dory owner who has sailed bule water in cape dory 36.
oshea.parke@extra.co.nz
cape dory 36
Moderator: Jim Walsh
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Walt Bilofsky
Re: cape dory 36
Spartan Marine is on the Web at <a href="http://www.robinhoodyachts.com/sparmain ... ain.htm</a>. The page lists an email address - you can ask them directly about parts for their portholes.Ivan Parke, New Zealand wrote: Seeking information on replacement rubbers for spartan portholes and rubbers for unknown make of alloy hatches.
bilofsky@toolworks.com
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Matt Cawthorne
Re: cape dory 36
Ivan
I currently own a CD36 but most of my blue water experience has been in the form of deliveries of other vessels. I have a total of about two weeks of offshore experience in the CD36. I will be getting a few more this spring. It is not much offshore experience in this boat but you are welcome to e-mail me at any time. I was very pleased how well the boat behaved when in some very ugly Gulf stream waves.
There is a Cape Dory Sailboat owners association as well as a California Cape Dory Owners association. I will e-mail you info on the former. At our last raft-up there were 4 CD36's and I think there are more in the association.
Spartan marine has a nice catalogue. They used to give a 10% discount for the porthole gaskets if you ordered 10. They are easy to install, but getting the old ones out can be a mess. I found that careful use of a rotary wire wheel of the correct size and stiffness in a drill motor cleaned up the remains and left a nice surface. Be careful, a wire wheel can do lots of damage. Spartan also sells some pop-in screens that sort of match the bronze color. They are a bit on the expensive side, but good at keeping the bugs out.
You may find (depending on the age of the boat) that the trim rings on the outside of the boat need to be re-sealed. A few of ours were leaking when we bought the boat (it was about 12 years old) so we re-sealed them all. We learned many how-not-to lessons on that job.
Write back if you have questions or any interesting news that might help other CD36 owners.
Matt
S.V. Patrica Louise
mcawthor@bellatlantic.net
I currently own a CD36 but most of my blue water experience has been in the form of deliveries of other vessels. I have a total of about two weeks of offshore experience in the CD36. I will be getting a few more this spring. It is not much offshore experience in this boat but you are welcome to e-mail me at any time. I was very pleased how well the boat behaved when in some very ugly Gulf stream waves.
There is a Cape Dory Sailboat owners association as well as a California Cape Dory Owners association. I will e-mail you info on the former. At our last raft-up there were 4 CD36's and I think there are more in the association.
Spartan marine has a nice catalogue. They used to give a 10% discount for the porthole gaskets if you ordered 10. They are easy to install, but getting the old ones out can be a mess. I found that careful use of a rotary wire wheel of the correct size and stiffness in a drill motor cleaned up the remains and left a nice surface. Be careful, a wire wheel can do lots of damage. Spartan also sells some pop-in screens that sort of match the bronze color. They are a bit on the expensive side, but good at keeping the bugs out.
You may find (depending on the age of the boat) that the trim rings on the outside of the boat need to be re-sealed. A few of ours were leaking when we bought the boat (it was about 12 years old) so we re-sealed them all. We learned many how-not-to lessons on that job.
Write back if you have questions or any interesting news that might help other CD36 owners.
Matt
S.V. Patrica Louise
mcawthor@bellatlantic.net
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Jerry
Re: cape dory 36
Get ahold of the March 1998 issue of "Blue Water Sailing". There is an article with the results of a subscriber survey of CD36 owners. While they don't say how many responses were received, they say the longest passages among the respondents averaged over 600 miles. The owners tended to rank the boat very high for passagemaking qualities.Ivan Parke, New Zealand wrote: Seeking information on replacement rubbers for spartan portholes and rubbers for unknown make of alloy hatches. Interested in making contact with cape dory owner who has sailed bule water in cape dory 36.
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john churchill
Re: cape dory 36
I replaced several of my gaskets with the spartan gaskets for $12.50 each. i used a piece of 3/4" cpvc pipe cut at an angle to dig out the old gasket which worked well. Sharpen with a file. Used contact cement to glue in place. I also reglued all my screens while i was at it. I am going to replace the remaining gaskets before they start to leak. I got 1/2" diameter spongy neoprene cord at the local hose and rubber supply house for $0.50 perfoot, with about 3' per port required.Ivan Parke, New Zealand wrote: Seeking information on replacement rubbers for spartan portholes and rubbers for unknown make of alloy hatches. Interested in making contact with cape dory owner who has sailed bule water in cape dory 36.