Chris — welcome to the great C&C club! My first sailboat was a 1981 30mkI, hull #677; after ten years, I graduated to a 1979 Landfall 38, hull #009 (I guess I’m going backwards in terms of boat age…).
You’ll find LOTS of 30mkI owners on the list, and a wealth of experience about all things C&C. If you feel it’s as good a value as most of us here do, please try to remember our volunteer host, Stu, who runs this thing out of the goodness of his heart (or sheer stubbornness… :^). This reminds me that I need to send him another donation... We generally try to encourage listers to put their name, boat type/name and where they sail at the bottom of the emails, so we can give proper advice. So it would help us to know where on the West Coast you sail. Again, welcome — and ask lots of questions, you’ll get plenty of good answers. — Fred Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI > On Jul 26, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Chris Hobson via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Still squaring away the details for my second day of boat ownership on my new > (to me) 1980 C&C 30 MK1. Yesterday when I signed the papers, got the keys and > cracked a beer to watch my first sunset in the cockpit, I had mixed feelings > of elation and a good dose of: oh-shit-I-just-bought-an-old-boat. Because who > really knows if the surveyor missed something, or what’s going on between a > hull and a keel joint. I’m not getting any younger and I feel like the fun > happens when you jump in the water and figure it out as you go. Maybe we > should change the definition of what a boat is: A hole in the water in which > one jumps. Anyway I’m proud to be part of the group and always wanted a C&C. > I’m an Ontario boy who’s now on the west coast and ready for sailing, with a > whopping to-do list to get through in the coming months. Wish me luck! > > Chris
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