New Owner Questions

[krafty81]

Thanks. Learning as I go. Broker offered to go over systems with me "for an hourly fee". I said no thanks.

Depending on where you are there's a ton of CTY owners in the SD area!

Open to a meetup! My boat is at Pt Loma Naval Station

[Ron Hill]

Krafty : Think I would have put a "Stop Payment!!" on that broker.
You are probably best to talk to a Catalina owner especially a C34 mkII like yours (close production year).

A thought

[Stu Jackson]

A few years ago I met a "new to them" C34 owner at a local nautical park.  She explained that she'd convinced her husband to get a sailboat after having motorboats for many years, and asked if I could explain some things about her boat to her.  Her most basic question, as I recall, was where the anti-siphon valve for the head plumbing was located.  I have a Mark I she has a Mark II.  It wasn't in the nav station locker and I finally found it behind the TP roll in the head.  But when I asked her if he'd looked at her boat manual...she was also unaware of our website.  Point being, you may be abler to save a new owner some time, but nothing beats learning for yourself given the enormous amount of information found right here, including just about every single manual, and nothing you can't find on the internet, you know all that stuff many of us did not have available a quarter of a century or more ago.  Good luck happy learning. 

[Ron Hill]

Guys : Let me expand on Stu's comment. There was NOTHING but the Mainsheet tech notes that were published every quarter!!  There was NO INTERNET. This site did not exist until about 1999!! and when we first got started you had to print everything!!!

A few thoughts