If you can ever find it, get a copy of a 1970s book called The Voyage of Sea Lion.
It was written by an eccentric screenwriter named Will Corry, who composed the first car-chase movie, a cult classic called Two-Lane Blacktop. He used the money to buy an old wooden sailboat, a daysailer, and head out across the Pacific with his toddler daughter following his divorce. He had never sailed before. Reading the book is like watching a traffic accident unfold before your eyes. You want to reach through the pages and shake the guy, saying what the hell are you doing? Somehow, he made it to Australia before being convinced that he was going to kill himself and his daughter. Polynesian women kept trying to spirit his daughter away from him, fearful for her life, along the way. >From the book, he appeared clueless about the dangers. After I read it, I tried to figure out what ever happened to the guy. No trace of him or his daughter anywhere. Just random mentions about his cult screenplay on movie sites. Strange. Jack Brennan Former C&C 25 Shanachie, 1974 Bristol 30 Tierra Verde, Fl. From: Dennis C. Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:47 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List C&C 34 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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