Valid comments interspersed.

"Bobsprit" wrote
No boat that I can find, with any reasonable production history is as low
priced and poorly regarded as the Coronado 27. A quick look around the web sees
several for sale in the 3-9K range. The more expensive ones aren't selling of
course.

One cannot judge the price of the good ones from looking at the poorly
kept and maintained junk you see on the Internet. The fact is excellent
examples of the Coronado 27 are so beloved by their owners that they
aren't on the market. Boats that are easy to find and in good shape are
examples of boats people can't seem to like and enjoy enough so they
sell them. Your C&C is a good example of this fact.


Now, let's compare to the C&C 27 MK V. Valued at around 20K it's actually
improving in value over the past few years, along with most other C&Cs. The
reason? Quality, known to the sailing public by a fine reputation that Coronado
owners can only dream of. The C&C simply does everything better and faster, and
it looks like a boat doing it. The Coronado looks like a bloated Dunkin Donuts
inflatable toy given out with a large coffee. It's just plain ugly and ungainly.

Like I said, there are plenty of used C&C 27s around because nobody
likes them. They buy them and realize this is not the boat for them so
they turn around and sell them. You have done this yourself with the
crummy, entry level production boats you've owned. You found nothing
about them that endeared you to them so you turned around and got
rid of them like tossing into the trashbin a bad pair of shoes.

Neal claims that he's made a Swan of his Coronado, but all we see is bad decor
and a bent boom that everyone agrees is a concern. He compounded his folly by
ordering sailing from an internet seller, and they look it
By the way, the reason to boom was ruined in the first place is because Neal
didn't understand the first thing about the physics of a mainsheet and it's
placement.

My Coronado is probably the best-kept and best-looking Coronado
27 in the world. She and many others almost as nice are right now
plying the waters of the world with owners so satisfied that they
continue to voyage and cruise to their hearts content and never
plan to sell their vessels because they realize nothing better exists
for any price.

You're welcome,
S.Simon