A MK I is not a MK II, but they are fairly close. What to expect from a MK I offshore: In light air you are not keeping up with many modern race boats, but you are miles ahead of most “cruising” types. Good thing, because the stock 18 gallons of fuel is not getting you real far! A heavy air beat is rough work. You need the *right* headsail up. Too much and you are on your ear and too little is not enough drive. Reefing the main helps some, but the main is too small to take care of all the sail area changes. For short handed sailing I would consider roller reefing almost a requirement. One memorable (in a bad way) trip home from Bermuda saw two cycles of calm-40+ knots-calm. We were though every sail on the boat more than once – 170,150,jib,storm jib, jib,150,170 with main reefs and unreefs thrown in. That was some work. The boat WILL pound and you will pound HARD if the helmsman is not paying attention. Every helm swap woke up the off watch as the boat banged hard while the new guy got in the groove. Almost any modern fin keel boat with flat-ish bilges will do this. For offshore don’t worry about the first main reef. If you need a reef at all, you need the second and anything in the 50 knot range is the third reef and storm jib. Crack off a bit and fun things start to happen. The MK I at least has a close reach mode that feels like being on rails ☺ Once the waves get big you have some new things to deal with off the wind. The boat will definitely surf down waves – we have seen 15+ knots down the face of a 20+ foot wave ☺ ☺ The boat does not plane like a Donzi or a modern planing sporty – you have the stern sunk down and a LOT of helm pressure. Steering is real fun and real hard work too. You cannot just go in a straight line either. The routine was bear off a bit at the top to break loose , kind of like a surfer “dropping in”, and fly down the face of the wave. At the bottom you head up some to prevent the boat sticking into the next wave. This is where the good range of stability and narrow hull help – a big breaking wave on the beam will roll you and a lot of water comes across the boat, but she always feels eager to spring back up and try again. You will be wet though! Speaking of which, having the cockpit hatches come open could be fatal. We had ours latched with much better latches than the stock ones and locked closed. The cockpit won’t hold much water though, it comes in and goes right back out due to being heeled over. For short handed sailing I would for sure bring a drogue device to be able to run off slowly and make it easy to steer. We had a ton of fun pushing hard in rough weather and doing 170 miles the first day out and 180 the second, but it kept 5 of us pretty busy. Standard warning – these are all old boats now and need a good survey before heading offshore. Joe Coquina C&C 35 MK I www.dellabarba.com<http://www.dellabarba.com>
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 08:47 To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Hoyt, Mike Subject: Re: Stus-List Made an offer on a C&C 35 mk2 Ending a race is a location with palm trees is FAR better than ending in a cold North Atlantic foggy port … From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Joel Aronson via CnC-List Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 5:06 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Joel Aronson Subject: Re: Stus-List Made an offer on a C&C 35 mk2 That's right. Also did Annapolis to Newport. She took a lot of pounding on the way to Newport in a nasty NE wind. She handled it better than the skipper! i'm doing A2B again. Congrats on the purchase! Joel On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Josh Muckley via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: Joel raced his 35 to Bermuda in the 2014 Annapolis to Bermuda race. IIRC his is a MKIII. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 3:11 PM Rino Granito via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: Hi, Just looking to hear back from the group, on what I might expect in terms of sail behavior and if she can handle some offshore stuff ? Thanks.. _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com -- Joel 301 541 8551
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