What's the farthest trip you've taken on a CP-19 or CP-23?

[DayTripper19]

Well I thought that word I was using was pretty tame.  But subbing 'stuff' for stuff in my post almost had me ROTFL-ing!  GOOD STUFF here guys.  My list of areas for cruising is steadily growing.

[kchunk]

My wife, myself, and two kids (ages 13 & 7 at the time) spent 4 days and 3 nights on our 23. The distance wasn't great, South Dade Marina to Marathon (about 65 miles if I recall), but we were completely independent, spending each night anchored out. The picture below was off Butternut Key, our 2nd night. It was a great and memorable trip!

We planned about 20 miles or so each day, anchoring for dinner, a little swimming and exploring. We showered in the cockpit, cooked on the Magma over the stern rail, slept below and out in the cockpit (it was July in the Keys).

By the time we docked in Marathon we had just finished the last of the potable water, the holding tank was full, the ice was gone (but the melt water was still ice cold), and I cracked the last beer as we were tying up.   

The opportunity for things to go wrong was certainly there, but all in all, it was a great trip!

[bmiller]

Our long trips necessarily start with a substantial road trip. Those can be an adventure in themselves. For example our first trip was to So Cal and sail to Catalina Island. We live in central Colorado. About two hours from  the house we shelled a bearing on the trailer. It was Saturday afternoon. Several things fell into place and I was able to rebuild the axle in the parking lot of a roadside restaurant. The sail to Catalina after a trip up to Newport was quite easy after that. After rebuilding the remaining axles our next trip was to San Carlos Mexico with the intent of sailing across the Sea of Cortez. We spent nearly a month aboard Pooka mostly on the Baja side of the sea. A truly wonderful trip. Next we went to the PNW with the intent of sailing up into Canada. The road trip out was uneventful and the sailing into Canada was fantastic. However the trip home was not. One of the brake calipers seized, in the rear view I saw a semi drive through a cloud of smoke. Holy Stuff!!! That smoke was from me. Another roadside rebuild and off we went headed for home. Can't wait for the next adventure.

Edit: I just noticed the title asked for 19 or 23. Disregard everything I typed.

[kchunk]

You 27 drivers a so full of shit!

[curtisv]

Well in terms of adventure in a really small boat I can't come anywhere close to 400+ miles in a CP16.  That puts me to shame - I've gone less than half the distance and did so in a bigger boat.

My best is about 200 miles (distance from where I started) over not quite a two week period in a CP23.  I've never tracked my distance over ground for a trip let alone a whole season.

Quite a few times I've been up against a 2 knot current (along the outer shore of Cape Cod or in Nantucket Sound) and sailing to windward in light air.  I've always opted for the less than one knot VMG for 3-4 hours rather than admiting that I'm going nowhere and dropping anchor and waiting for the tidal current to reverse.  Just out of curriosity, does that count as 4 hours at 4 knots headway (16 miles sailed), or does it count as 4 hours at 1/2 knot VMG (2 miles sailed)?

Curtis