rgilfert
Senior Member
Registered: March 2012
Location: Bedford, NH / Rattlesnake Island
Posts: 299
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Squeezing the Coronado into the boathouse was a challenge during a NW blow! (Aug 1977) The boathouse opening was only a few inches wider than the boat itself...and given the Coronado's undersized rudder it was virtually impossible to steer at headway speed. The predominate NW wind would frequently catch the boat's freeboard and blow you towards the huge submerged rock beneath the right hand boathouse door. The only way to shoehorn the boat in was to come in "hot" and bang it into reverse. Every year my Grandfather would nail the previous year's license plate to the wall inside the boathouse and when we sold the place in 1984 we had every plate between the year 1919 and 1984 other than one of the WWII years when gasoline wasn't available for recreational use. I wish that I had taken the collection with me when we sold the place!
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