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RB; Martha Stewart of ASA
On 29 Jun 2004 14:06:45 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:
Funny how RB focuses so much on "quality" instead of sailing ability, because
his boat is rather low quality but is supposed to be a pretty good sailing
boat.
A C&C is is "rather low quality" says Spirt!!! Perhaps he can find ANY link
that indicates C&C as other than one of the better builders around for
production boats.
RB
Anomalies
C&C had such market momentum that if it was often possible for it to
produce less-than-perfect designs that still sold well. It also
introduced models with great fanfare that quickly disappeared without
a trace. Here are a mix of barefaced failures and efforts that fell
short of the company's own high standards.
MEGA (1977)
Ford had its Edsel, C&C had its Mega. At the height of its success as
a builder and designer of first-class yachts, C&C produced this
turkey. The concept of a one-design 30-footer at the price of a
25-footer was admirable, but too many cooks - or concepts - spoiled
the broth. By the time C&C had finished making the Mega trailerable
(with 8-foot beam and retractible fin keel) and giving it standing
headroom, a self-tacking jib on a seven-eights rig and a
transom-mounted rudder (with tiller steering), they had a slab-sided
brute that didn't go to weather well. In 1977 the company leased the
23,000-square-foot-shop of the defunct Grampian Boats ostensibly to
build the Mega (but actually to provide an alternate plant should the
Niagara-on-the-Lake facility go on strike, which it didn't), and also
reserved a line at the new European plant for it. Less than 100 were
ever built, and trailerability was probably the single criterion that
led the concept awry. The demoralized design office held its own "what
to do with a Mega contest" - one entry suggested sinking them to make
breakwalls. Custom shop head Erich Bruckmann made the best of a bad
thing by converting a Mega hull into a cruising powerboat. Mega Putt
Putt is still tooling around at eight knots.
http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/archive/cnchistory/c2c.htm
Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!
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