Ah, men and their dreams. A couple months after I bought my first monohull, an
O'Day 27 with an inboard AT4, an article came out in a regional sailing
magazine about a guy who had bought a sistership but with an outboard. He was
going to sail it to some Scandinavian country. He left Mandeville, sailed into
a storm off the Mississippi coast, battled the weather for 20 or 30 hours and
finally washed up on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast. The
magazine showed a picture of the boat on its side well above the surf line.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
>________________________________
> From: Edd Schillay <e...@schillay.com>
>To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
>Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:59 AM
>Subject: Re: Stus-List C&C 34
>
>
>
>Brent,
>
>
>I know people have made trips across the ocean in rowboats, but I can't
>express enough how much I agree with John and Maryann. As someone who owned a
>1978 C&C34 for many, many years (it was the Enterprise-A), we got to know the
>strengths, weaknesses and limitations of the boat very well.
>
>
>Over the course of our ownership, we took her a few times on the Around Long
>Island Regatta, the first half of which is run on the ocean-side of Long
>Island. As John and Maryann state, in light air and a little chop, the C&C34
>will move like a dream. In heavy air and high waves, you'll actually hear the
>hull "crunching" under the stress. In one of those races, we were up against
>18-25 winds with 9-foot waves and, after a few miles, we all thought it would
>be safest to turn around. We call that one the 5% Around Long Island Regatta.
>
>
>I have almost 40 years of sailing experience. I would not want to do any ocean
>voyages on a C&C34.
>
>
>
>All the best,
>
>
>Edd
>
>
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