Cape Dory sailboats (fg)

[rbgarr]

Ted Hood designed the Cape 30 for them in the early 70s. They were similar to (and in competition with) the Bristol product line at the time but I think they were one of the best designs ever built by CD.

A write-up and links to pdf's here; http://www.capedory.org/specs/cape30.htm

Some photos here: http://webpages.charter.net/mstrozik/?C=S;O=A

[TimH]

A little less chunky than the Alberg designs.

[rbgarr]

[bamamick]

We had a Cape Dory dealership on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay years ago, and there were dozens of them here. By and large I would say that they were probably the slowest boats for their size ever built, en masse. BUT, I would also say that they were very seaworthy and I would have had the utmost confidence if I were told that I had to cross an ocean in one. It just would have taken awhile.

Mickey Lake

[paladin]

The smaller ones have crossed the Atlantic....

[JimConlin]

Ted Hood also designed the Bristol 32, which looks similar.

There were some very nice designs built in that era. From such designers as Alberg, Hood, Tripp, Rhodes, S&S, Gillmer, and MacLear. They're mostly good boats today.

[Wes White]

I had an old model 25 back in the late 80's/early 90's that I used to sail from the panhandle of FL down to the Bahamas and back during summer breaks. Real seaworthy, but undercanvassed, too much weather helm. My young wife and I honeymooned in that boat on one of those cruises. I started installing a 4hp Kubota diesel in it (tiny little thing, used to power signboards along the highway) and had plans to re-rig it as a yawl with a bowsprit to try to do something about the sail area problem and to combat the weather helm a little. In the interim, the family just got too big. That was a perfect size for a couple to cruise in, though. Wes White