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Descending order by original cost. $28000 2004 C-Dory 22' Cruiser $11688 2004 twin 40-horse Hondas, 1200 hours $3895 Trailer, Eagle, Galvanized Double Axle, with surge Brakes $1300 Furuno Marine Radar, Model 1623 $1245 Canvas boat cover _$865 Refrigerator, AC/DC _$860 Inverter/charger (shore...

I use a Resmed Airsense 10 Autoset too. Last night my events/hour was 0.1. Here's a couple things I've found useful. 1. I turned off ramp-up and set pressure to a constant 7. It was originally set to start at 5 and ramp to 15, and I'd wake up with my cheeks fluttering in the wind. 2. I...

I can perhaps understand a warning label on any topic that involves politics or religion or whatever might be controversial, but what I don't understand is why it should bother anyone that such topics are discussed. All you have to do is not click!

On Monday At 9 a.m. the Fox Cities COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic (FCCVC) scheduling system went live, and I managed to get vaccination tickets for my wife and I. On Tuesday we got an email saying they had a glitch and our tickets weren't valid. The first 1000 got valid tickets by 9:15, and even...

I'm 78 with congestive heart failure, so I figured to be at the front of the queue after first responders, medical staff, and essential workers, but I can't even get my provider to schedule an appointment. Of course I live in Wisconsin which has the lowest injection rate of any of the 4...

I live in Wisconsin, and sent this to my care giver ThedaCare: "This evening I talked with a cousin who lives in a small town in Indiana. Her husband got the covid-19 vaccination, and he's not in the eligibility queue. He got it because their care giver has a call list for those willing to...

The UK has approved and is injecting the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine right now, and the EU is expected to approve it in the next few days. Normal refrigeration, 3 bucks a shot, 90-95% effective, seems like a no-brainer, but I heard on the news it's not expected to be approved by FDA here until...

My favorite in Florida is, and will always be, the St Johns River.

Nope; I was on the left side of lock as you're coming in. I have twin 40's so it's easy for me to swing 180 in a diameter of 22 feet (my boat length; forward starboard engine, reverse port engine, adjust each throttle to maintain position), and I can time it so at the end of the turn I'm right...

I'm sorry to see things haven't changed at the St Lucy Lock. Here's a quote from my Great Loop: "Today was my first experience with the infamous Okeechobee Waterway locks, and it was just as bad as the descriptions I'd read. The locks were occupied with several eastbound boats when I got there...

I did the reverse, replacing a Wallas with an Origo alcohol stove. Now I can fix it myself, instead of shipping it to the factory when the circuit board goes bad (at the worst possible time, thousands of miles from home and it hovering around 32 degrees outside :=)

I've never succeeded connecting to a 30-amp gfci plug, and I've tried every sequence of switches on my 22 C-Dory I could think of. I'm not a competent electrician, so I'm not about to try to solve this, but when I went to the ABYC directory online and asked for a certified electrician within...

I don't think the power draw is the only reason for connecting directly to the battery. When you shut the thing off it doesn't really shut off until it thinks it's cool enough. Hooking directly to the battery provides additional insurance it doesn't shut off too early, before it thinks it's...

I bought a motion detector, and try to park where the boat is in line of sight of my motel window, where I put the receiver. I put the detector on the cabin roof, just above the door. One night a thunderstorm blew the detector off the roof and it landed face up in the cockpit, where every time...

I wrote this perl script years ago, showing how daylight time changes in a sine curve. I found the equations somewhere on the internet: #!/usr/bin/perl # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Description: Calculates the hours of daylight, given a latitude and...