Recent content by robhwa

This is my experience too. I have 3 Chinese diesel heaters labeled 2 to 8 Kw. They all produce about the same amount of heat at high, but even then, it is a lot of heat, and I use them for my camper and yurt where I can put them outside and direct the heat inside. I don't trust them in a boat. I...

2003, the same year our CD22 was "born". Thank you and everyone else that contributed to this site over the years. It has been a godsend for specific and general information about CDs, life, and living with them.

Though it varies, your body will produce about 100 watts of heat sleeping, or about 800 watt-hours through the night. Add a partner, and you have twice that, or more energy than a 100 amp 12 volt battery LiFePO4 battery will provide in that same time, and you don't need to recharge the heater...

I have two steps I go through when I take my CD22 out of the water, for a few weeks or for the season. I have detachable fittings to the Honda 100 which can supply fuel from the main tanks, each about 24 gallons, the middle portable tank, 12 gallons, or the long trip tanks, an extra 38 gallons...

Canoeing and kayaking the Delaware was always a favorite...particularly Skinner's Falls in a kayak, usually several times each trip. Two years ago, I ended an Appalachian Trail hike of MD and PA at the Delaware Water Gap, a favorite hiking area, and stunningly beautiful. What a special area you...

You're only as old as you act...case in point, the 70+yo "Robert" that just set a new single-person record for the Great Loop in a 16-ft tiller-steered jonboat! What a trip he detailed, with his waypoints detailing some conditions including his speed at that instant and where he stopped. He...

I first fished Yellowstone Lake with my father in 1964 as a 7-year-old, and returned several times, including with my young son and daughter, nearly always readily catching cutthroat trout either trolling spinners with spinning rods or streamers with a fly rod from a motorized canoe (sometimes a...

A good option if you can carry it. I've used electric fences (with varied success) to keep bears away from sampling and monitoring equipment in my work. If a bear wants to tear things up, they generally do, and boy can they be thorough. I've worked in the arctic, and prevailed so far, but not in...

Here is an easy, inexpensive (relatively) and water resistant way to put a switch in the system without having to run additional wiring to your fuse panel. These inline switch/circuit breakers come in a variety of amps. Make sure and test them before you install. IME, they work well, but an...

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I'm sorry I am being too critical of this guy. My boating experiences include being hit on the port side by a pontoon boat (I was in a canoe), on Park Lake, WA. Passengers screamed and he did manage to slow down. There was no damage to the plastic canoe. Just two days ago, a boat tried to cross...

A great place. If you catch the pass between McNeil and Anderson at Eagle at low tide, about 50 seals will be on the shoal there. We've had a lot of Biggs orcas here lately, and the seals are very nervous.

Minus the threat to other people, I'd agree. I have no more admiration for this dangerous stunt, and IMHO it is a ridiculous stunt, than someone trying to set a time record crossing the US by speeding on the interstates and loading their car and trunk full of jerry cans of gasoline to avoid...

I find the shop manuals to be hard to follow until I already know the procedure. You can find some good Youtubes that show better how to 1) change oil, 2) replace lower unit lube, and particularly, 3) flush cooling system, and particularly 4) replace the impeller.

one more thing...if you take long trips, you'll want to change the oil with your boat on the water. An oil change pump can do this handily and you won't get any oil in the water. If the oil looks really good after removing it, I often don't worry about the filter for a cycle or two. Your new...