C36 International Association

One of our members recently spoke with the Parts Department at Catalina Yachts on the phone. They mentioned the website for ordering parts does not always work and to NOT use it. We know people have mentioned issues with the website in the past. We will advise if we hear anything different.

Hello Everyone,

Fleet 2I would like to introduce myself to those of you who I have not yet met. My name is Cynamon Dawson and I am the newly elected Fleet Captain for the C36 Fleet 2. Since our last meeting, on June 12th, we have made so much progress and I am so excited. One of the accomplishments was naming our newsletter "Catalina Spirit" which you will find attached. I am looking forward to serving as your Captain and I promise I will do my best to meet the needs of our fleet. I am quite confident that in the coming months our fleet will grow remarkably.

by Brad Poulos
Cherimarie #1015
San Diego, CA

About a year after getting my Catalina 36 Cherimarie I began to enter some local club and summer “beer can” races. All of these races were governed by the local PHRF handicap rules and regardless of how one finished on the race course, it wasn’t until the “corrected” times were calculated, that one knew the final race outcome. Frustrated by various handicap adjustments, I fondly recalled for my former one-design racing days (in the Lightning class) where race outcomes were straight forward; and skill, tactics and boat condition were the decisive factors in winning. In the fleets I was now racing in, typically only one or, at best two, other Catalina 36s were in a given race. On those rare occasions, I ignored my usual competitors in various sized vessels and brands and focused on competing with my “equals.”