1984 C&C 35 mkIII owners

[902bouy]

Hello I'm new here, and just seeing if there are anymore owners of C&C 35 on here.

I've owned mine for four years now. Also in Nova Scotia.

If anyone else is around I'd love hear hear any upgrades or improvements you've made.

[902bouy]

Some more pictures of Breezin'

[902bouy]

Forgot to add them in the previous post. Whoops

[TheOffice]

I've got an 83 Mk III and love it. Mostly I am on cncphotoalbum.com.

Great boats, great owners.

Adding a manual faucet in the head. Will make the admiral very happy. I've replaced every hose, line, pump, hatch lense, clutch ...

Feel free to ask any questions.

Joel

[902bouy]

I'll check out that site you mentioned.

Maybe I'll add a manual faucet the same time I replace my shower drain bilge (doesn't pump anymore)


Brandon

What kind of engine do you have in yours? I have a yanmar 20hp model 3gmf. I've had a few issues with over heating lately, and wonder if you had any issues and what you may have done to solve such a problem.

[Orion Jim]

Overheating is normally an impeller, a thermostat, or very likely at your age, a heat exchanger which needs an acid bath at your local radiator shop.

[902bouy]

I've changed the impeller before (should still be okay atm).

A new thermostat. Maybe a good idea. But now that you mentioned it, I think the heat exchanger is giving me my issues.

Thanks for the advice,
Brandon

[902bouy]

Since my last post I have resolved the over heating issue.

The main cause was I found a piece(s) of the impeller got sucked up the tube and was clogged at the inlet of the heat exchanger. After I got those out I also cleaned out the heat exchanger my self. And it was super easy I used a solution call Barnacle buster and worked wonders. I just used a 5 gallon bucket, a bilge pump, and two tubes to connect the bilge pump to the inlet of the heat exchanger and the other from the back of it lead back to the bucket.


I also replaced the mixing elbow last spring when I cleaned out everything else.

[902bouy]

Last year I also added solar panels to the boat. I ordered them from amazon after looking around at many different options. And felt they had good reviews on them and priced good.

They were called Renogy. I got two 50w square solar panels because I wanted the panels to be on the stern on either side of the swim latter.

I did the installation myself, and it was pretty straight forward. Only part I had to rig up customly was mounting the panels to the rails. I used two BBQ mounts per solar panel to hold them.

Then I had to run all the wires the least invasive way possible and went through a vent in the stern, then ran the wires along the starboard side to the navigation table where I was going to put the MPPT charge controller before connecting to the battery's.

I also hooked up a lcd display screen to show me charging and battery information. In my opinion is worth the extra money.

[TheOffice]

Nice work! Sold my 35 last year, but will always have great memories.

[902bouy]

Thank you, and they are great boats I hope I'll never have to get rid of this one.

It's up on the hard right now waiting for the spring so I can redo the C&C smile and probably repaint the bottom. Then it should be good to get back in the water for the season.

[hiseyii]

HI New 1984 MKIII owner. love her. Icebox does not drain. any ideas are welcome

[Walltrip]

Thinking of replacing my Martac folding prop with a 3 bladed feathering and wonder if anyone has made this update?