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[carel]

I just joined the Association.  We purchased our 1980 CP-16 last September.  It has been waiting under cover all winter and just this month I was able to get it into my garage.  Now I am installing stuff to get it ready to sail.  New compass, electric panel (and some wiring), depth sounder.  I will be initially sailing in Pueblo Resevoir, Colorado.  This represents the end of a 30 year drought for me - I am looking forward to getting back on the water!  As soon as I get CAREL into the water I will send in a picture or two.  Also, plans call for participation in the 2012 Lake Havasu Pocket Cruiser Regatta.

[David]

Welcome aboard.   We also have a 1980 model that will be baptized as soon as we get it out of the boat yard where some work is being done on it. 

[Glenn Basore]

Welcome..............

I too will be at Lake Havasu Pocket Cruiser Regatta next year. I had a health issue which prevented me from going this year.

So, I will see you there!


Glenn

[curtisv]

Carel (and her skipper),

We're an association?  OK then, welcome to the association.

Curtis

[Bob23]

Cap't Carel:
   Also, welcome aboard. How did you endure a 30 year drought? I don't think I would have survived!
Bob23

[brackish]

Carel (and her skipper),

We're an association?  OK then, welcome to the association.

Curtis

Of course, it's in the title, although it feels more like a digital dockside bar.

Welcome Carel.

[curtisv]

Carel (and her skipper),

We're an association?  OK then, welcome to the association.

Curtis

Of course, it's in the title, although it feels more like a digital dockside bar.

Welcome Carel.

Association seems way too ... uhmm ... organized.  But you're right - it is in the title.

The point being welcome Cap'n Carel.  You've picked a fine small vessel and you are in the right place to find people from all over the country who enthusiastically care for and sail their Com-pacs from pocket cruisers to the large CP-27 and CP-35 cruisers.

Curtis

[carel]

Okay, hopefully I am doing this correctly.  How did I survive a 30 year draught?  To make a long story short, I moved to the mountains of Colorado, took up skiing, hunting and camping.  I have been trying for the last 20 years to get authorization for another boat, but have had to defer to a series of motorized or drag along campers.  Finally convinced the Power that Be that we just had to have a boat (the fact that I have given up skiing and hunting helped).  So here we are:  as soon as I get Carel rewired (hopefully two days), and get the compass installed (still trying to figure out where) and we can drag her out into the driveway and teach ourselves how to raise and rig we will be ready to truck on down the 50 miles to our nearest body of navigable water (Pueblo Reservoir)..That will be the easy part as it's downhill all the way.  Oh yes, one more essential step: I have talked my daughter who is an excellent artist to letter the name on the boat (seems important to have done before first launch). 

[curtisv]

Oh yes, one more essential step: I have talked my daughter who is an excellent artist to letter the name on the boat (seems important to have done before first launch). 

Wouldn't want to anger Posiedon.

Oh wait,.. does his juristictional boundaries extend to inland waters?

Quite a story.  Enjoy your first sail in 30 years!

Curtis

[don l]

Welcome, and fair winds

[rdcvsmith]

Really liked that "digital dockside bar" thought....

[skip1930]

"So here we are:  as soon as I get Carel rewired (hopefully two days), and get the compass installed (still trying to figure out where)."

If it's not too late, think about mounting the compass on a teak wood ring to stand off the bulkhead. In that fashion, a compass hole will not be needed through both the outer and inner bulkhead...at least that's how the compass is mounted on my CP-19.
Ohhhhh and welcome aboard.

Once the ring is cut out and the outer bulkhead holed for the back of the compass, four fasteners from Ace, the ones with a wood screw at one end, and a machine screw at the other end, were screwed into the wood. Four drops of paint on the machine screw end locates where the drilled holes are to go. Drill the holes. Place the ring with it's fasteners into the holes. You can reach through the compass hole and place a flat washer and lock washer and a #10 nut on each machine screw. I put a little dab of 3-M 5200 slow set on the backside of the ring to keep out the leaks. Once the ring is screwed down center up the compass and screw that into the wood. If lighted with the red lamp take the two wires, red and black and clamp them into a vice. The free ends into a electric drill and twist the two wire as tight as they go with out knotting them up. That way any juice flowing through the wires cancel each other out to light the compass light will not influence the compass. My compass light is tied into my LED running lights. Any other electric stuff keep on the other side of the hatch.

skip.

[Salty19]

Carel, Welcome to the forum! Sounds like you are anxious and who can blame you?

Skip, there is no inner bulkhead on early 16's.  Only the XL versions have this.  The glass is about 3/8" thick there so a compass will pop through.  I really like your bulkhead setup but the admiral will not let me mount anything there (she sits against that area often).   Oh well...

[carel]

Skip, thanks for the advice on mounting my compass.  I really like that idea, but don't have the same inner/outer bulkhead.  Also, I already purchased a compass that needs a little different mounting treatment.  I do plan on building a wood "garage" for it and will probably put it on the starboard bulkhead (my electric panel is going on the inside port bulkhead).  The reason for that is that the previous owner had something mounted there that left mounting holes which I can use to mount the panel box.  I have been waiting for some decent weather here to get on with finishing the box (varnish needs > 50 deg).  Now I can mount the box and run the wiring to the nav, masthead and anchor lights.  I decided the best place for the battery is in the little covered box at the stern.  I expect after I get Carel in the water a few times and meet up with another CP16 I will see better ways to do all this stuff.  Oh well, gotta start somewhere............

[Billy]

 I really like your bulkhead setup but the admiral will not let me mount anything there (she sits against that area often).   Oh well...

sounds like my Admiral went to the same marine school as your!