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I have been thumbing through a paperback "twenty small sailboats to take you anywhere" and realize it has some fine boats in it. When I start examining them, lots of the designs are similar to my MkII. (older rig, mainsheet attached to the end of the boom, no boom vang). Has anyone really ever gone on a long cruise on a MKI through II? I read about the voyage to Mexico that one guy made, but no one has written anything else and I have been reading the association a long time. I'm not sure what I'm asking, but surely someone has island hopped down the Bahamas to South America at least once on a C&C 27, I guess I just hope so. Anyway, here's to warm winds of summer and the sailing dreams that we all dream at one time or another. Cheers.
One of the initial reasons i bought a 27 was because a very savvy sailor I knew remembered so happily a cruise he had made from Lake Ontario down to Barbados on a 27 in the 70's. That's just one of many superb and joyful cruises made on simple, small sailboats. Yes, some privations (limited fresh water, constrained space) but a lot fewer hassles (waiting for expensively airlifted parts for your generator). How big was Eric Hiscock's Wanderer? Dream, plan, go.
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
PS There are stories of someone taking a 27 across the Atlantic, but they are unsubstantiated and there's none of the circumstantial detail that makes such a story interesting. The magazines never publish stories like that any more - it's all "how I cruised to paradise/hell/Arctic/Antarctic in my custom 52 and fixed my watermaker."
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David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
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I remember that something like 15 or more years ago we had a guest speaker for our sailors' night at Bronte Harbour Yacht Club who had indeed sailed his C&C 27 Mk V down the St. Lawrence and across the Atlantic to Europe and England. I recall that he reported having total faith in the boat all the way across. However, he did ship it back to Canada as deck cargo, rather than coming back on its own bottom. I really wish that I could remember his name . . .
I also recall hearing, I believe from Fiona McCall, who wrote "All in the Same Boat", that most people who drop out and adopt the cruising lifestyle do so on boats which are 30 feet or less in length, since that makes the economics so much more feasible.
Marcus from Carriden
Mk III, Hull #847
Oakville, Ontario
Marcus Opitz,
Formerly from Carriden, Mk III, Hull #847,
now skippering "Everdina," a 1975 Ontario 32
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