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vipermagic
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Initially Posted - 01/02/2013 : 16:03:08

As some of you may remember, my C25 was destroyed in Cleveland during hurricane Sandy. After a fairly exhaustive (and exhausting) search, I wound up dragging this home last Saturday:

I was looking at J24s, a Mirage 25, a Seafarer 26, and a few others... but it looks like you guys are stuck with me for a while longer!

79 C25 #1433 SR/FK - 'Carina' - Destroyed by Sandy
84 C25 #3817 TR/SK
Cleveland, OH

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islander
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Response Posted - 01/02/2013 : 16:41:34

Gluten for punishment huh? Good luck with her! "Second Time Around" sounds like a good name.

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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 01/02/2013 : 16:51:55

A swinger! Lots to talk about... What're the details? Time to update your signature.

(Some of us never leave...

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TCurran
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Response Posted - 01/02/2013 : 18:31:25

Congrats.

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 01/02/2013 : 20:28:15

Ataboy! She looks great.

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cshaw
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Response Posted - 01/03/2013 : 07:57:39

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by vipermagic
 As some of you may remember, my C25 was destroyed in Cleveland during hurricane Sandy. After a fairly exhaustive (and exhausting) search, I wound up dragging this home last Saturday:

I was looking at J24s, a Mirage 25, a Seafarer 26, and a few others... but it looks like you guys are stuck with me for a while longer!
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Congrats!!!!! By the way, for us Florida Boys, what is all that white stuff everywhere? Looks COLD!!!!!!!

Chuck

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 01/03/2013 : 08:37:14

Chuck - we call that reserve supplies for summer fun - we need more of it. Lk Ontario was very low this summer.

Congrats on the boat Viper. Now that you have a boat on a trailer, I have a boat on a trailer, and a few other Lk Ontario/Erie guys are hanging around, we may be setting up for a cruise or something up here. We could assemble a regular flotilla.

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vipermagic
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Response Posted - 01/03/2013 : 08:42:39

Thanks guys! I'm getting pretty excited - she's a 1984, and I finally have a proper long shaft outboard (after sandy sunk my 9.9 evinrude that I had running perfectly). I also found an asymmetrical kite aboard, which will be good fun! I'm going to pick up my old boat from the state pen pretty soon, hopefully my old sails are still in good shape, too.

I'll have to double check the title for her hull number, but I think I moved up like two thousand spots, from 1433 to 3xxx.

Now someone wake up that groundhog, I'm ready for it to be summer again.

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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 01/03/2013 : 09:36:29

You can never have to many swingers at a party. Congratulations.

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 01/03/2013 : 09:44:00

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">[i] I'll have to double check the title for her hull number, but I think I moved up like two thousand spots, from 1433 to 3xxx.
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Well, Iris is a 1984 and she's #4040. You are likely a high 3,000's boat.

What is happening with the old boat are you parting her out? Did insurance just take her?

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panhead1948
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Response Posted - 01/03/2013 : 10:25:40

Mine is an 84 and hull number 4600

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vipermagic
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Response Posted - 01/03/2013 : 13:05:16

I want to say the boat is 3800-something, but to be honest, I just glanced at it. I'll report back this evening.

I'm going to be stripping and parting out the old boat sooner or later. I want to make sure I don't sell anything I'll wind up having to buy in the spring!

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sethp001
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Response Posted - 01/03/2013 : 20:05:58

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave5041
 You can never have to many swingers at a party. Congratulations.
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Awesome.

I've gone gluten free.

Gorgeous boat! Cheers and happy sailing!

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redeye
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Response Posted - 01/04/2013 : 05:51:10

The devil you know... THat is exciting...

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putzmeister
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Response Posted - 01/04/2013 : 11:21:42

Glenn, sorry to hear about your boat. Didn't realize Cleveland got slammed that hard. Was that the boat you acquired at Moriane State Park?

One note, with the boat sitting so far back from the trailer V-block, I wonder how it is affecting the tongue weight, overall balance . . .

Best of luck with your new boat!

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keeldad
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Response Posted - 01/04/2013 : 12:34:19

If Iris is 4040 and Kevin's(Panhead1948)is 4600, Catalina made a whole bunch of 25's in 1984. Assuming that Iris was the first of that year(which she probably wasn't) and Kevin's was the last (probably not either) that's a minimum of 560 Catalina 25's made in 1984. If the Catalina factory produced boats 20 days per month for 12 months (which they probably didn't) that's an average of 2.3 boats per day. Wow!

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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 01/04/2013 : 16:27:19

According to our owners list, they built at least 637 in 1980--probably more! That may have been the peak. Given the time and number of operations from the initial molds to the final rigging, there had to be a bunch of C-25s in production at any given time back then! A little over 6,000 boats doesn't quite put it in the pantheon with the C-22 (over 15,000 and growing), but it's not much less than the C-27 or C-30, which are arguably better known.

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keeldad
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Response Posted - 01/04/2013 : 20:01:06

When you think about it, an '84 swinger is only about 28 years old.

I think I'll refrain from pointing that out to the wife, She might get the wrong impression.

Glenn, Congrats on your new hole in the water. Sorry to hear about the damage from Sandy but glad there is a positive ending to the story.

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vipermagic
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Response Posted - 01/05/2013 : 12:14:57

The devil I know is exactly right, redeye. I had my eye on a Mirage 24 that I really wanted- had a brand new chute, a 2009 4 stroke, and a chartplotter! But in the end, it was a little more money, and I worked on my last C25 enough to know these things inside out. Plus I got a trailer out of the deal!

Cleveland was a mess after the storm. 22 foot waves on the lake, 12s *inside* the marina. The destroyed boat was the one I got from Moraine State Park. I have a lot of friends in the Cranberry area- including a couple that sails a Holder 20 on Lake Arthur - so me and the new boat might make a trip down there this summer!

My boat is hull #3817- 783 hulls before putzmeister's! 84 sure was a busy year at Catalina.

And Steve- I did have to haul it home in the snow haha. We left at 0630 for the 3 hour trip that took 4.5 due to weather, we almost scrubbed it a few times. Thankfully the snow lightened up and the highways were mostly clear on the return. Your thoughts on why the bow roller is so low seem to make sense- I definitely have plans to add some kind of support near the bow, though, as it sits walking anywhere forward of the mast step bounces the trailer around quite a bite. It does look like it sits pretty far back, but tongue weight and towing characteristics are all spot on, so someone knew what they were doing!

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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 01/05/2013 : 13:40:28

Might want to move the winch post a little aft. She would have a lot of inertia if she came sliding forward in a hard stop

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