Re: Stus-List C&C 34

I'll have to echo as well. I own a 1982 C&C 34 w/centerboard. Great boat for the Chesapeake and good all around coastal cruiser, emphasis on the coastal. She has a large cockpit, with limited water and fuel tanks. I have owned her for 12 years but I would not entertain an ocean crossing crui

Re: Stus-List C&C 34

I'd echo some of what others have said... Most boats, if well prepared, can handle bluewater voyages. However, some boats are more comfy at sea than others and a non-bluewater boat (say a C&C34) can beat the hell out of a crew. So while any boat - in theory - could sail bluewater a C&C 34 would b

Re: Stus-List Boating terms

I just read the regs. Wal, you need a full time crew just to bash the bell, never mind where it is. Rich Knowles Indigo. LF38 Halifax On 2013-08-31, at 20:42, Wally Bryant wrote: I wrote: > > Oh, c'mon, I've been waiting for someone to ask me w

Re: Stus-List Boating terms

I wrote: Oh, c'mon, I've been waiting for someone to ask me where I hang my gong that I'm required to bang at anchor every 12 minutes... ___ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cnc

Re: Stus-List C&C 34

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 hea

Re: Stus-List C&C 34

Brent, First thing one need to accept on the ocean is the fact that the boat will start making all sort of interest noises/cracks... After a number of days, you end up understanding where most of them come from. Example, the deck of C&C 30 is laid over the bulkhead but is not mechanically bonded

Re: Stus-List Boating terms

Oh, right... and boaters who don't know horn signals. I had an interesting moment once when a 50 foot powerboat gave three short blasts when leaving the fairway in front of me. I guess 'toot toot toot' is all he could remember from his Tommy The Tugboat days.

Re: Stus-List C&C 34

A 34 would not be my first choice for that trip. I would rather have a Landfall or 30 Mk I . There is a stability chart for C&Cs someplace. My old 35 is 126 degrees and having been laid over by 20 foot breakers I would not want less. Ymmv and IMHO.Joe. Coquina ( anchored in Annapolis)

Re: Stus-List C&C 34

Hello Brent, h ere is my $0.02: I have a 1980 C&C 34 full keel  that I have raced offshore a few times.  So far, the longest race is has been the Oregon Offshore Race (OOR), which goes from the mouth of the Columbia Ri ver to Victoria BC; done it twice . Not any   significant offshore exper

Re: Stus-List C&C 34 (taking a boat across the ocean)

A second year sailor crossing the Atlantic? Be sure his will is up to date and life insurance is paid. Joel Sent from my iPad On Aug 31, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Marek Dziedzic wrote: Stus-List C&C 34 (taking a boat across the ocean) I think we may want to wait for what Antoine (?) has to say (he d

Stus-List C&C 34 (taking a boat across the ocean)

I think we may want to wait for what Antoine (?) has to say (he did it already). But from talking to people who crossed the ocean solo (or very short handed, e.g. two people), the biggest issue is that you have to be on the lookout all the time, especially at night. I heard endless stories about c

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 Mandevill

Re: Stus-List Boating terms

Eat peanuts and pistachio nuts and keep the shells in a big plastic bag for moments when they ignore your yells. I really love it when the jet skis decide to race laps between two sailboats, and some first-timer is fifteen feet away and forgets that you have to turn using the throttle... ("It

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 ve

Re: Stus-List Boating terms

Most feared words on crossing tacks (racing) I will make it... But I don't own it! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 30, 2013, at 23:05, Brent Driedger wrote: > Keep circling my boat with that jet ski and you will get a boat hook in the > face! > > Brent > 27-5 > Lake Winnipeg > > Sent from my iPho

Re: Stus-List C&C 34

Hi Brent First concern is his lack of sailing experience to undertake such a venture. If he wants to experience offshore sailing, suggest he look into crewing with an experienced skipper - perhaps on a delivery?? Second is the boat is very well designed and constructed with no inherent flaws. Tha