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Initially Posted - 05/08/2013 : 11:49:10

Hi there,
My name is Becca Oken, and I'm a writer at SAIL Magazine. For our August issue, we're doing a story about the top 13 cruisers under 30 feet, including the Catalina 250. We're featuring short (300-word) contributions from owners of "pocket cruisers" about why they love their boats, along with specs and photos of the boats and their owners. If you're interested in contributing and writing something briefly about your boat, you can use the following questions as a guideline. My deadline is May 20. Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing back.

Here are the questions. They're just a guide, and if you have anything in particular you'd like the share, feel free!

What is your name?
What kind of boat do you own? How old is she? What's her name?
How long have you been sailing, both on this boat and on others?
Where do you live and where do you keep your boat?
Where do you mainly sail?
Sailboats under 30ft are easier to trailer than bigger ones. Do you trailer/travel with your boat? If so, where have you been?
Why did you buy this boat?
If you've owned sailboats prior to this one, how does this boat compare?
What do you like most about this boat? What are your favorite parts of sailing it?
Any fun stories/adventures/memories you have with your boat?

Again let me know if you have any questions! Thanks!

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Ape-X
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Response Posted - 05/08/2013 : 14:05:28

Thanks for the opportunity Becca! Feel free to follow this forum for a few short weeks, the support for the Catalina 25, 250 and Capri 25 is amazing. It is a great resource for me, and countless others.

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 05/08/2013 : 16:14:27

HENK???

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 05/09/2013 : 04:31:05

I think I can hear Henk's quill scratching away in ernest

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SAILMagazine
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Response Posted - 05/09/2013 : 07:33:30

Awesome, thanks guys! If I may ask, who is Henk?

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 05/09/2013 : 07:43:41

Hi Becca... If you go to our Cruising forum and check some threads by "zeil", that'll give you a good idea. They've towed and cruised all over--even live aboard on the trailer on their trips... Lots of material is already there, with pix--Henk just needs to do some condensing for you. If he doesn't respond soon, one of us (or you) can e-mail him using the

button in the post header.

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 05/09/2013 07:46:54

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Response Posted - 05/09/2013 : 15:11:45

Becca,

I can help you with your questions.
Please send me an email (commodore@catalina-capri-25s.org)

Thank you, Russ Johnson

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Response Posted - 05/09/2013 : 16:33:30

Hi Becca -

We are all very excited that the C250 will be included. I personally sail a C25, Swing Keel which I acquired last summer. I got her because of the SK because I sail on a good-sized lake here in CT. Most of the ramps are shallow and there are few if any crane accomodations these days. The forum is a great opportunity to interface with C25/C250/Capri-25 folks from all over. Henk Grasmeyer as he has sailed and trailered his C250 all over as well as completed numerous modifications and add-ons (many of which will be featured in our summer issue of Mainsheet). I have recently taken on the role of C25/C250/Capri-25 Mainsheet Editor so feel free to contact me here on the forum anytime.

Regards,

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Response Posted - 05/09/2013 : 16:59:50

Hey guys,

Let's not volunteer someone else to write an article.
If you think one of your friends might be interested, please contact them directly and let them reply to this post.

Thanks, Russ

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zeil
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Response Posted - 05/10/2013 : 00:18:07

Thank you for your vote of confidence and recommendation... however, you caught us at a bit of an awkward time. Johanna and I are presently in Hawaii doing a 7 week mission service with the Haggai Institute in Kihei, Maui. (Look it up if you're interested). Work leaves little spare time. Perhaps someone else on the forum would be happy to submit an article worthy of our wonderful boats.

If any of our published and/or archived material can be used feel free to do so...
Search in this forum under
"living on board",
all forums,
entire message.
check... Archived post,
Any date,
Zeil.

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philagnes2003
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Response Posted - 05/10/2013 : 03:50:11

Becca, I have a real nice story about our boat and how we got it, I may be longer than 300 words however.

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SEAN
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Response Posted - 05/10/2013 : 04:35:52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDz2ruSehTA

heres a video of our boat , I think its a great boat for a pocket cruser ...
I have a trailer , and when we were shopping we were looking for a boat as big as we could get and still trailer to save money .

we have taken some comfortable vacations on it from NYC up to Marthas Vineyard

but i might fall under the catagory of how much can you over load a small boat :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_OumB_CFRI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGtDkhvQ9DY

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philagnes2003
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Response Posted - 05/11/2013 : 05:19:54

Becca, here is our story:

I married into a sailing family; their fleet was never bigger than 22 feet, and usually in need of “TLC”. In 2003, a good friend of my wife’s asked her what the ideal sailboat would be; she replied “25 foot, a wheel, and a large cockpit”. They purchased a 2003 Catalina 250 Wing Keel, with wheel steering. In 2009, our friend called and asked if we would like to buy the boat as they had purchased a power boat. We assembled a crew to sail it the 130 miles (a Captain, myself, my brother in law and my father in law) from Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn, NY to Greenport NY. My father in law, 83 years old, vacillated over the trip, “I am too old”, “I don’t move like I used to”, “I don’t want to slow you guys down”, finally deciding not to go. In late September, my father in-law drove us down to the marina to start our voyage. As we were loading supplies my father in-law tossed my wife’s friend the car keys and said “I am going!” We left Jamaica Bay with the sun shining and a beautiful breeze. As night rolled in, so did the fog. At the helm, I could see the Fire Island lighthouse as we approached, passed and left it in the far distance as we came up to Montauk. Our GPS wasn’t working, so we were going ‘old school’. The sea was rougher than expected and the only one not affected? my father-in-law! We realized we were off-course and instead of heading into Gardiner’s Bay we were in Block Island Sound and heading toward Fisher’s Island. As we passed Orient, our families were on-shore watching as we emerged through the fog. After 30+ hours, we docked and my father in-law called out: “It was the trip of a lifetime!” We named the boat after him.

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 05/11/2013 : 08:59:40

Sailing took a course change when I lost my Hobie Cat racing crew when my son went off to college.

Having been raised on the coastline of Lake Huron, a boyhood dream had been to some day add my sails to those watched ply the coastline but I now lived in Texas. Needed would be a Great Lakes capable but easily trailered boat. The timing of the emerging dream and a Sail magazine write up about a new design by Catalina coincided... I sensed the design would be ideal.

It took two years to outfit, get to know and develop confidence the boat and I were ready and the summer of 1998 began a series of seven years of annual summer cruises to my native waters and some of the best fresh water cruising the world offers.

My birth place and home of several siblings is Harrisville, Mi. that provided a good launch point. Sometimes I and crew would sail North along the coastline and enter Canada's North Channel and do a clockwise circumnavigation of Manitoulin Island and other times make the ninety mile crossing to Georgian Bay and then a counterclockwise navigation taking opportunities for diversions to locations such as Club Island, Collins Inlet, Mill Lake, the Benjamins, Baie Fine, the
Les Cheneaux Islands, Harbor Island, Covered Portage, Three Sisters and many more.

My Catalina 250 named R&R made ports of call such as Killarney, Drummond Island, Meldrum Bay, Little Current, Presque Isle, Hessel, Spannish and many others serving as a great platform to range East as far as the East entrance to Mill Lake and as far West as the Mackinaw Bridge.

From those cruises, come a wide range of experiences and stories to tell. The memories are sweet and made more so because the Catalina 250 proved to be good choice. Pulling it twenty six hundred mile round trips were uneventful, even allowing camping while road cruising. The water ballast hull provided comfort to Great Lakes swell and several times passages were made when crews of larger boats chose to stay in port. It allowed launching and retrieving at the local harbor ramp not suitable for most other sailboats of similar size. It provided the needed comforts for three weeks of semi-remote
cruising.

On one occasion, my crew had flown in from Southern California. We'd spent the night on Mill Lake at the Eastern extremity of the cruise with only one buffer day to burn getting back to the Detroit airport. We woke to a Southern blow that would surely make crossing from Collin's inlet back to Killarney difficult. Concerned about burning our buffer day at the farthest point, if we could just make the four mile passage into Killarney, the rest of the day would be mostly protected. We chose to go and motored in eight to ten foot swell running into the bay East of Killarney. It was the only occasion that the boat fell into swell that didn't allow keeping visual ahead. When reaching Killarney and stopping at the channel store, the attendant inquired if we had just came into the channel from the bay and I nodded we had. "That must have been some ride, the local fishermen didn't go out this morning, and that is very rare for them."

I'm grateful to Sail magazine for profiling the C250 when Catalina introduced it. Reading the profile intrigued me that this might be the boat I'd been searching for to enable this Texan to embrace Great Lakes cruising. Many years of such cruising have proven it a good choice.

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 05/11/2013 : 10:14:17

Becca--there you go! Arlyn is our long-time C-250 guru. Check his site (linked to in his signature) for lots of photos. (Henk and his wife take the prize as C-250 live-aboards, on the trailer and and on water, but Arlyn was a pioneer in big-water cruising on the C-250.)

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 05/11/2013 10:16:14

AtEase
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Response Posted - 05/12/2013 : 08:13:42

This was on the Catalina Owner's web site...no mention of ANY Catalinas, also a different editor:

Hi all,

My name is Lauren and I'm SAIL Magazine's Assistant Editor. For our August issue, we're writing a story about cruisers under 30 feet. We're featuring short (300-word) contributions from owners of pocket cruisers about why they love their boats, along with specs and photos of the boats and their owners.

Specifically, I'm looking for owners of the following boats:

Harbor 24, Harbor 30, TomCat 6.2, Precision 23, Com-Pac 27, and the MacGregor 26.

If you own any of these boats and you're interested in contributing, please email me at lsaal@sailmagazine.com so I can give you additional information. The deadline (including answering questions I have once you email me) is May 20.

I look forward to hearing from you!

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Response Posted - 05/12/2013 : 08:35:38

Becca, there are untold volumes to write about on the Catalina 250's. For what may appear to be just a pocket cruiser, I feel these boats stand tall and proud with a pedigree to match. (Frank Butler/Catalina Yachts) I've owned my boat for 10 years and it fulfills virtually every need in a very flexible format. From a simple, easy to maintain daysailer to a highly personally customizable shelter on the water, I have never considered upsizing. The complexity, labor and expense of a larger boat tends to reduce your time on the water. Most "yachts" I suspect spend more time in the slip than in the surf. At 6 foot 3, I've adapted to the lack of headroom. If you are not adaptable, you may not belong in the sailing environment to begin with. In the end, there was no other choice out there when I ran the flow chart of purchase decision making. I have trailered my boat from Florida to Michigan several times behind a Chevy van, and sailed the Great lakes and Gulf of Mexico. My 250 currently sits on the lift behind the house ready to head for the Gulf in 30 minutes or less. I had the pleasure a few years ago of starting a thread on our Forum that was read over 6,600 times. So as a member, you will readily find support and answers to any issues you may encounter, but I suspect you've already experienced that. Best wishes.

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Response Posted - 05/17/2013 : 10:02:40

To All,

Becca replied to my email last night and I called her this morning.
I have some clarifications regarding her request.

Sail magazine is writing an article for their August issue about the top pocket cruisers.
There are several writers from Sail assigned to this story.
One of the boats that Becca is assigned is the Catalina-250
Lauren is another writer assigned to other pocket cruisers.

Becca is asking for contributions from Catalina-250 owners.
The section on Catalina-250 is targeted for 300-words and they are looking to include one personal account from a Catalina-250 owner.
She has been happy with the responses so far and more contributions will be accepted.

The deadline to submit your contribution is Monday (May-20).
She can copy your contribution from the forum, but sending an email attachment is preferred (pictures included).
Because of this short timeframe, I have offered to help Becca with this process.
If you have a contribution, please send it to (commodore@catalina-capri-25s.org)

Because there are several writers from Sail and contributions from many pocket cruiser owners, the format of your contribution is important.
Please use the questions she posted as a guideline.

Thanks, Russ

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Here are the questions. They're just a guide, and if you have anything in particular you'd like the share, feel free!

What is your name?
What kind of boat do you own?
How old is she?
What's her name?
How long have you been sailing, both on this boat and on others?
Where do you live and where do you keep your boat?
Where do you mainly sail?
Sailboats under 30ft are easier to trailer than bigger ones. Do you trailer/travel with your boat? If so, where have you been?
Why did you buy this boat?
If you've owned sailboats prior to this one, how does this boat compare?
What do you like most about this boat?
What are your favorite parts of sailing it?
Any fun stories/adventures/memories you have with your boat?

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Response Posted - 05/19/2013 : 12:06:23

Here's an update:
Steve Auerbach and David Crosby have submitted articles.

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Response Posted - 07/24/2013 : 10:22:02

The Sail magazine article has been published on their website.

Sailing Small Living Large: Sailors Who Love their Small Boats
http://www.sailmagazine.com/sailing-small-living-large

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 07/24/2013 : 20:28:43

There's a new thread on that in the General Forum.

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 07/24/2013 20:30:06

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