C-Dory...pros and cons

[BC CHASER]

Stabile, quiet, fuel efficient and lots of room.  Best of all they are made right here.

[woodman]

Sisu,

I have a trophy that I really like in the salt water. I use a boat repair shop in Sekiu once in a while for parts. I have gotten to know the owner up there reasonably well. He has told me in the past that the C-Dory is a very unstable bouncy boat.

Joe

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Sisu,

I have a trophy that I really like in the salt water. I use a boat repair shop in Sekiu once in a while for parts. I have gotten to know the owner up there reasonably well. He has told me in the past that the C-Dory is a very unstable bouncy boat.

Joe

They sure ship an awful lot to Alaska......

Stabile, quiet, fuel efficient and lots of room.  Best of all they are made right here.

Auburn Washington is pretty local.....

[BigD]

Pros.  fuel efficient, hold a plane at very low speed, dual fuel tanks, alot of them come with dual outboards, durable, seem to hold value.

Cons.  If I remember they have a narrow beam compared to many others in their class, they will beat the piss out of you in a chop.

For the money i think they are a decent boat.

[Heredoggydoggy]

I read a book a couple of years ago that a guy wrote about travelling across the country by boat with the least amount of portages.  I think it was a C-Dory that he had built for the journey.  Started where the Hudson River spilled into the Atlantic, and ended at the mouth of the Columbia River.  The author was named William Least-heat Moon.  he sounded kind of liberal, but wrote a good account of the trip.  If I recall, the C-Dory did well on the small rivers, but not so good on big rivers with wind and waves.  One of my more enjoyable reads, actually.

[gaddy]

not familiar with the boat but it doesnt appear to have enough rear deck space

[cohoho]

Scott- Whatever you get make sure it has enough room when I come to visit.....

Lots of C-Dory's running Whittier and Seward without problems...   My buddy's dad ran his out of Valdez for twenty years with a 90hp and would go everywhere he wanted.  My charter friend ran a Osprey and it was freaking awesome for ride, but never went on the c-dory? 

[sisu]

Thanks guys. I am in the investigation, research stage. It took me 2 years plus to find the truck I wanted, so this will be similar. But bar the doors if I find exactly what I want!!!

I have patience to a point and then the lure of a new toy just starts pulling.

[JKEEN33]

We looked at these before buying a Arima. Nice boat, but narrow beam. They are really tippy, you have to keep weight distributed pretty well. Tough to have one guy with a fish on and another trying to net it on the same side of the boat. My opinion at least.

[jeepster]

as previously mentioned....

" Flat bottom boats.  Cult following among owners, high resale value.  Extremely fuel efficient when running vs a deep vee, as the go over the water rather than through it. Not as able to run through smallish chop as a deep vee.  "

dont forget they are really light weight compared to other boats used for the same purpose.

personally, id never fish in something that doesnt have a V.... but did fish out of one in sitka, nice boat... but bouncy compared to other boats, but overall definatley not a bad boat. i would be proud to own one.

before i bought my boat, i had a choice between a turn key arima 15 or  an old cdory 16 and went for a project instead....

id go sea-sport or grady white. or do like i did and fix an old glasply up, they are the smoothest rides of them all.

my friends dad has a grady 24 footer, and when we go fishing out of neah bay/sekiu, when the weather kicks up, the cdorys tend to go in early


its not a "Hard Core" fishing boat.

[sisu]

Mind made up. Aluminum or nothing. After a ton of research found too many issues with glass in Alaska unless you go commercial. this is what I was told by several of my friends but I am stubborn.
Thanks for all your input though.
S