Hi all
I'm not currently a CC19 owner, but we have a yacht based on the Orwell and I am considering downsizing - for various reasons, but primarily the usual issues around cost / work involved versus the amount and type of sailing we actually do.
The Cape Cutter is one of the boats on my (very) short list of possible alternatives along with the Swallow Yachts Bay Cruiser (although I suspect they are out of my price range).
I have seen there are a couple of Suffolk based Cape Cutters on this forum and I have also seen at least one in the Deben on a mooring previously, but I wondered if any local owners would be kind enough to let me have a look at their boat in the flesh (once the weather improves and people have actually launched their boats!) and perhaps give me some thoughts on how you have found them for East Coast cruising? We are Ipswich based to Orwell / Deben or anywhere else in the locality would be great.
In the past we have tended to do summer cruises to the Netherlands / Belgium, but currently it's generally much more local probably from the Ore and Alde down to the Crouch usually with an annual trip up the Thames. I'm working on the basis that for continental cruises we would be making the crossing on Stena Line with the boat on the trailer rather than sailing her so in reality it's more coastal cruising.
Many thanks in advance
Jon