catalina 30 on Lake Ontario

[rodadams62]

Hello people. This is an awesome site . I have had my cat 30 for 8 years now and have done quite a bit of motor upgrading. First off was the new electronic ignition, rebuilt the starter and the alternator,all new fuel lines, and i had a cooling water blockage in the block so i knew a mechanic who had a spare clean one. Overall its quite asturdy little motor .I live on Lake Ontario which I can access in 5 min. from the marina. Unfortunately my wife has lost interest in sailing and as i am semi retired i am thinking of downsizing to a smaller sailboat. anyway spring is only 5 months away. Cheers.......Rod.......radamuszak@yahoo.com

[sastanley]

wahoo - more C-30s with an A-4!

Rod, welcome...what hull number C-30 do you have?

[jbsoukup]

here's mine.
hull no. 783
Oct. 2012 lake michigan

http://www.moyermarine.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=8612&stc=1&d=1386811959

http://www.moyermarine.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=8613&stc=1&d=1386812660

[sastanley]

OOOOoooo...a folding prop & I suspect a tall rig with the bowsprit! Nice!

Here's my old girl getting launched this summer...my slip neighbor & I (Spencer, now a fellow C-30 owner with Atomic4 & hence a new Moyer forum member, but he has a Mac so he's computer challenged & we don't see him much 'round here ) call them our fat-bottomed girls...of which your pic shows most eloquently jbsoukup!! Awesome pic of her at anchor!!

[romantic comedy]

Hey Shawn, what is wrong with Macs? They are what microsoft tried unsuccessfully to copy, with windows.

I get a laugh when my wife yells at her Dell.

[sastanley]

RC..nothing directly. I just like to tease Spencer because he is always having trouble..his wife is a teacher and they have iProducts all over the house.

More C-30 pics (this one taken from Spencer's #355 of my #511)!

[ndutton]

Whoa - whoa.

How does Spencer sail downwind with the Bimini in the way of the end boom mainsheet?

[sastanley]

Neil..I am on Spencer's boat taking a picture of my boat with the blue sail cover. I measured and ordered/installed the bimini to get as far aft as possible without interfering with the end boom sheeting...it came from the "pontoon boat" selection at iboats.com.. The orange shirt is hanging on the tiller, obscuring the black mainsheet behind it. As you noted, you can see the traveler just aft & above the tiller. I have about 3" from the aft end of the bimini to the mainsheet block.

That is a crappy low-res cell phone pic. The ONLY issue with this set up is if I am really sheeted hard on the main, it likes to occasionally rub the bimini. I am currently deciding the labor/benefit analysis of losing head room by cutting the bimini frame down or raising the boom 4" at the gooseneck (the screws on the gooseneck track are spaced ~2" apart.) I have "P" dimension clearance (mainsail luff) for at least 4".

There is a brief transitional period where it could be in the way on a broad reach, but I did a 30 mile trip with the spinnaker up jibing north up the Bay this summer with no trouble.

Here is a view from the transom...

[ndutton]

Wicked optical illusion from where I'm sitting.

[sastanley]

Then you gotta fly to MD for sail.

'Round these parts, I opted for the bimini before the dodger. That being said, I also wanted maximum deck coverage to the $$. We are more often roasting in the 90°+ Sun than sailing in a 20 knot squall. If I had mid-boom sheeting like the newer boats (and I checked out the cost of a traveler hardware, conversion, etc.. cha-ching!) I would have extended the bimini all the way to the backstay!

Although I've done both 90 degree windless days and 20 knot squalls upwind in this boat...more than once.

edit - And I am no photog either, but I think that optical illusion could be from a lack of 'depth of field', which is very poor on that poor old cell phone's camera. I gotta adjust my f-stop & change my exposure or something..