I’m turning 42 this year on board Breakaweigh 1, a C&C44 here in sunny Grenada (Windward Islands) with my Girlfriend, 32. We’ve been living aboard and sailing this boat for over 3 years now, cruising full time for 1 year so far. We do the whole YouTube thing - look up Sailing Balachandra (http://www.youtube.com/Sailingbalachandra) We work from the boat and try to keep up with the maintenance. (Lost a lower shroud yesterday!) C&C are seaworthy and relatively fast boats and they will take you far if you put in the time and maintenance.
Dan Cormier & Nawal Toulany Breakaweigh 1 C&C 44 Grenada > On Jul 15, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Patrick Gateley via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > > My wife is 35 and I'm 36. She's the true sailor. We got out first boat > together 5 years ago (1984 C&C 35 Mk 3). We moved up to a 1988 C&C 44 last > summer. > > Kari's boating history over the past decade includes: > > Chrysler 22 > Newport 30 > Tartan 41 > > She has our entire world travelling planned out thought it might take us some > years to get started. > > Patrick & Kari Gateley > 1988 C&C 44 "Odessa" > >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020, at 9:51 AM, Nathan Post via CnC-List wrote: >> At 38 I am a year younger than Wisper so I help the other 30 somethings >> pull the mean down a bit :). Actually, Wisper is the second boat I have >> owned that is older than me - in grad school in VA I had an Annapolis >> 18 that was built in 1950. One of the early fiberglass boats - similar >> to a Day Sailor or a Rodes but with a weighted CB and no keel. I put >> lots of TLC into that boat too. Unfortunately she was totaled by a >> lightening bolt while tied up in a marina on Lake Erie the year after I >> passed her along to a friend who lives in Buffalo. The lightening >> turned the hull into a colander (mast was not grounded and there wasn’t >> really anything to ground it too). The crazy thing is a few years >> earlier I was caught out in a thunderstorm on Claytor lake in VA - glad >> the boat wasn’t hit then! >> >> I stated sailing when I was 10 and my Dad and I built a 12 foot sloop >> from plywood using plans we found in a library book. Got into racing >> smallish boats in grad school on Claytor lake in Western VA. Now >> looking to do mostly coastal cruising in New England. >> >> Nathan Post >> S/V Wisper >> 1981 C&C 34 CB >> Lynn MA >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
