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Welcome aboard. Yes your plan is very viable. The ocean can get rough in those parts, so pick your days. There is lots of good cruising from all of the way from SF Bay down to Monterey-Phiffer cove further down is also a potential harbor. A C Dory 25 regularly ran from SF bay to Catalina...

The "handle" is nothing more than a piece of SS sheet metal bent to a certain set of angles. Using the afore mentioned tape and some creative metal bending can make one for a few dollars.

I have stayed at Brown Bay RV park several times for a week each time in our lives 42 foot RV. It is a nice park--you get to see all of the traffic coming thru Seymour Narrows. I did not boat with a C Dory out of there. We had a 14 foot Valco aluminum boat and 25 hp outboard. I have gone by...

The C Dory is very "sea worthy" it is like a ping pong ball. Bounces around on top. The major issue with the C Dory 22 is it is not "self bailing" Like the 25 and Tom Cat 255 are). To be "self bailing" it would need a sealed cockpit floor, which is above the waterline and scuppers which...

This refers to turn button and "Common Sense Fasteners" I made a complete camper back using the turn and lift the dot fasteners. No sewing necessary and stronger with the use of HL 66 Viny Glue. I used ShelterRite from SailRite, and high grade clear vinly. Much cheaper. Local Canvas shop...

When Mark Grove was a C Dory (and Ranger Tug) Dealer, there was a Apalachicola gathering each fall for about 8 years. None in many years. Mark dropped the C Dory and Tub line, plus more recently retired and sold the dealership. Now the closest gathering is at Hontoon Island in the first...

It has been done. But, you have to remember to really pick your days. This passage is across the Gulf Stream, which against the Northerly winds, make very steep and dangerous seas. I have friends who have to wait weeks to find the right day to cross with 50' boats. Have plenty of days, cash...

All of the more reason to use the PowerTech Prop. They are available in a number of different patterns from 12" to 30", inch by inch. I have used a number of PowerTech props and they have been very satisfactory. There may be some incentive for the factory to use a Suzuki "branded" propeller...

Colby excellent write up and photos. Thank you! Have you considered a comblete rebuild, with 2500 hours on the engine? You are half way there; new bearings, new rings, maybe bore out the cylinders and oversized the rings vs just polish them. New gaskets, check the valves in all perameters...

Our albums have been corrupted by the change of platforms/server for CBrats. I have "discussed" this with the administration, and there is nothing they can do about it. In my case (as others) images other than those posted by myself are repeated many times in the album. Other photos no longer...

I have both built hydraulic steering systems on a new boat, and replaced cable on an existing boat. The replacement of the cable steering is fairly easy. The hydrauiic involves not only the changing of helm, but running of the hydraulic lines, then the system bleeding. On a duel engine boat...

DaveinRI: "Four blade props (or the new sci fri looking ones) might get you there" Yes flashing would void the warantee. However one of the guys who does the flashing, can easily restore to stock (more $$$$). The ECU memory will record the flashings, so this can easily be discovered. I...

These flashed motors do not have the variable valve timing. With the stock 150's, I could get close to 50 mph on my Tom Cat 255. Cruising speed easily in the 35 knot range. Not sure where I would want anymore speed than that. One day, after a week at the Apalachola C Brat gathering, I raced...

You have some severe storms in the PNW also. When we had the Cal 46 in the John Wayne Marina, Sequim during 4 winters we tied the boat down just as if we were expecting a hurricane. There have been very high winds in that area during the Pacific Northwest windstorms, Gulf of Alaska storms, or...

I want to thank the several C-Brats who offered us help before and after Hurricane Iasia hit. We had no wind damage and no damaging storm surge. 8 miles away, on the other side of Pensacola and on Bayou Chico, the story was entirely different, with a friend loosing both of her cars and the...

Some times those original tags come off and get lost. Just saying you can have a new Data Tag made at any trophy engraving shop. The boats certified for 300 Hp were no different than ones tagged for 400 Hp. The Suzuki 150, 175 and 200 are all on the same block, and weight is almost identical.

OK--in this instance it would have been better to use the verbage "Center Console"--and the answer is yes. Same C Dory hull since 1987. The Center Console could be a wet boat. In moderate weather there is a fair amount of spray--no problem with the Cabin Cruiser, or (Cape Cruiser) because...

The Cape Cruiser/Venture, is a different hull. It was a rogue build, to compete with the C Dory. There were "non compete clauses" litigated and the spoils went to the C Dory factory, and they got the molds for the Cape Cruiser. They then produced the boat as a Venture. At 2008, is the...

Thank you for the question. I have never towed my boats with a full cover in place on the road. I have towed with the slant back over the cockpit, and that works fine. I have also towed with the pilot house windows covered with canvas. I have never sustained major hull damage from rocks...