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Duane.......... You make it sound like I'm buying a Mac 26M!
Association Port Captain, Mystic, CT Past member and DPO of C-25 #5032 Now on Eastern 27 Sarge (but still sailing) and posting as "Stinkpotter". Passage, Mystic, and Sarge--click to enlarge.
OK, OK... There aren't any really good pics because it's semi-custom, but it'll look pretty much like this:
...without the closed-in helm of that particular one. And the hull will be dark green. It's an Eastern 27--they make a lot of commercial boats--for the Coast Guard, state agencies, etc. I'll be up in NH next week to see how the construction is going. My sailing will probably be mostly in Beetle Cats.
Here's another one--imagine it with sloping sidewalls next to the cockpit, going up to triangular windows by the windshield, and posts holding the aft corners of the hardtop... oh never mind.
It looks like the modern incarnation of a Criss Craft motor launch for running around your waterway. How could anyone diss that! Very cool, you can pay for it by being a water taxi to moorings on the week ends! Post some photos from the factory when you get back.
The decks are indeed nice, and the cockpit/party floor is huge, partly because I'm putting a single Honda V6 outboard (the Odyssey engine) on an Armstrong bracket on the transom. That's what's on the boat in the first picture above--hidden by the spray. I considered their Volvo diesel sterndrive option--I like that the Honda is outside of the boat, requires no holes in the hull, and tips completely out of the water when not running.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by dlucier</i> <br />"It looks like a Coastie". Very cool! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Yup--all I'll need is a light bar on the roof and it'll be like driving around in a white Crown Victoria with no hubcaps!
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Gloss</i> <br />don't forget the lobster pots and shrimp nets
Very nice boat you will have there. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Thanks! 225 hp generally makes short work of pot warps--they were probably more of a threat to my balanced rudder (with its "hook" just below the skeg) and my Honda 8. But I'll still watch where I'm going.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Duane Wolff</i> <br />Nice, reminds me of an edgewater, only bigger with a quasi cabin.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> To me, that's like saying a Catalina 25 reminds you of a Mirage... <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I changed the title when you chimed in about your Chief biggity wiggity of fleet 89 or whatever it was...... <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> ...actually it was that I was the Katherine Harris of the National Association.
OK, as I recall, the rules here are no politics, no religion, and no stinkpotting. We should probably get back on the reservation.
Just don't let your make-up run. and by the way, that ain't no stink pot...it's a tender to a racing sailboat....at least that is what I would call it.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dave Bristle</i> <br />...actually it was that I was the Katherine Harris of the National Association. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Sorry, Frank--I didn't mean to insinuate that you didn't really win!
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Duane Wolff</i> <br />...and by the way, that ain't no stink pot...it's a tender to a racing sailboat....at least that is what I would call it. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> I could name her "T/T Stars & Stripes". Seems like most of them are RIBs. But she could be a committee boat. (She might actually do that some day.)
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by cat1951</i> <br />Try as I might, I just can't locate the furler on your new boat. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Actually, it's an electric "furler"--probably not present on the boats in the pictures... Push a button and the... ummm... anchor... "unfurls". Push another button and if "furls" back up. One of those things you can do with a 90-amp alternator... And it's just like you guys--I'll unfurl and then turn off the engine... turn it back on and furl.
When I saw your photos I went to the web site and immediately sent a link to our YC BOG with a recommendation that we buy the 26' version for a committee boat. We are tired of almost dieing on our pontoon in 30 mph winds.
Rick: Their plant is outside of Milton, north of Dover and Rochester. I didn't go this week--probably next...
Frank: I drove the 26 that's shown in those photos, with the two Evinrude e-Tech 150s--it's a rocket ship! My first time to 50 on a boat--it felt like it was going to jump right out from under me and leave me in the lake! Actually, it's the same hull as my 27, but just a center console. You'll find it's a very good buy compared to the brand-names, and they'll build it just the way you want it--only the hull is fixed. Part of their economy is that they're not big on glitz. Another part is they don't keep any inventory or pay dealers. They build every boat for a customer. I can't speak to shipping to Kansas... The guy to talk to is Carroll Canney--tell him I sentcha. (No, I don't get anything... )
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