Yah, I looked at 30 boats, but some of the earlier ones were Hunters and Catalinas. Only the last 5 or so were C&C 25s.
I wouldn't have renamed my boat but it was "Peas and Rice" or "Peas and Carrots" at the time. I was all set to name her Waterslug, submarine lingo for shooting a blank. Then, at an 80th birthday party for my uncle, I got talking with one of his Marine Corp buddies who served with him in the Aleutians in WW2. The conversation quickly turned to the weather they experienced, the frequent Williwaws. So Williwaw stuck. Most people associate Williwaw with Joshua Slocum. While cleaning up the topsides to put on the new name, after the renaming ceremony of course, I saw the outlines of two previous names: Puffin, a great name, but too common IMHO, and Cachamay, also a great name, and I had to google it to find out what it was (a national park in South America). I've never seen another Cachamay, but have since seen a couple other Williwaws. I looked at a yellow C&C 27 named Lemon Pi at a donated boat auction a couple years back. Some guy bought it for next to nothing and sailed it back to Nova Scotia, I think. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Brass <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:30:40 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Stus-List Rudder Re-build/replacement now transom hung You only looked at 30 boats? What a piker. I dragged my then girlfriend around marinas and yards in PA, NJ, and Chesapeake Bay at least one weekend a month for a year and a half before I found Belle. I was actually going to Annapolis to decide which of 3 Columbia 26s I was going to buy when I noticed an ad for a C&C 25 named Pi (think Math teacher and Greek symbol) in the Annapolis Capital, and decided to stop for a look while enroute. What can I say, I fell in love with the boat that morning and bought her over the phone. I’ve owned Bell for over 18 years now, and every time – EVERY TIME! – I go forward for the first time I whack my head on that verdammte cross beam under the mast step and say to myself “CRAP, I need to duck.”. Either I’m a slow learner or the repeated impacts are causing selective memory loss. Rick BrassWashington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark G Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Rudder Re-build/replacement now transom hung The support under the mast in the cabin is very robust on the 25 Mk1. (Not only has mine resisted the weight of the mast and the tension on the shrouds all these years, but it has withstood the repeated impact of my forehead.) .
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