Thank you very much. It's highly unlikely that I'll be sailing solo, as the Admiral is usually along. Your comments about how it is rigged up are spot on. Thanks!
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Dennis C. via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Excepting entering or leaving a slip, the ease of singlehanding is more > dependent on how the boat is rigged rather than its size. I routinely > singlehand my 35-1 for both day sails and transits. All halyards are run > aft to the cockpit and I have a wheel pilot. > > Now, for the docking part. Touche's home is a nice, protected slip with 4 > point mooring and midships pilings. Wind and current play little part in > docking. It's fairly easy to dock by myself. I dock stern in and use > propwalk to pull the stern into the slip. > > Touche's current transient slip is a different story. It's a floating > pier with double slips which have no midships piling. If the wind is > blowing the boat away from the finger pier, there is nothing to prevent it > from getting blown into the boat in the neighboring slip. To complicate > matters, the finger pier is on the starboard side. When docking bow in, > putting the engine in reverse pulls the stern to port, away for the finger > pier. It can be a challenge at times to get the boat in the slip, scramble > from the steering station, leap unto the dock and tie it up with both the > wind and the propwalk working to pull the boat away from the finger pier. > > Just something to think about. > > Dennis C. > Touche' 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > > I am thinking of a 1978 C&C 36. Can anyone give me any intelligence on > these boats? > > I currently have a C&C 30. I like how stiff it is. Would anyone know how > the C&C 36 would compare? > > I'll be using it for coastal cruising in Nova Scotia. > > Would it be too much to handle for an old guy (65 years of age). > > Any comments would be appreciated. > > Thank you. > > Mike Casey > Halifax, Nova Scotia > > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > >
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