Steve:
I was on the dock to let his lines go when he left our club to begin his
circumnavigation and I was on the dock to receive his lines when he
returned. The boat looked pretty much the same on his return....the
bottom needed a cleaning but that was about all I could see. It was a
C&C 35 MK I.
On his departure, I gave him a dozen chocolate bars......on his return,
he gave me a big bag of kelp he had dried that he was eating on his
journey.......I didn't eat the kelp.....wasn't hungry enough!
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2016-02-01 10:30 AM, Stevan Plavsa via CnC-List wrote:
There's a Russian guy who did a solo circumnavigation with a 35 Mark
one that he purchased for the princely sum of $1000. You can find his
youtube channel but it's all in Russian. He's from Canada IIRC and the
trip took place a few years back. I'm surprise more people don't
mention it on this list.
Here we go:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-sailor-returns-after-solo-round-the-world-trip-1.2649695
The Mark II is one of the prettiest designs to my eye.
Steve
Suhana, C&C 32
Toronto
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote:
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 J
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 JJ
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
<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 <mailto: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..
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