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I belong to another group, http://www.watertribe.com and I'm having difficulties accessing it because of incompatibilities with Linux. I never have any trouble on c-brats, and I like the way the site is designed. Is there any information about how this website is built? Is it home-grown, or...

I hope nobody else makes this mistake. When I first installed a compass on my C-Dory, and I wanted to build a deviation table for it, I drove around my brother-in-law's circular driveway with the chartplotter on, stopping every few degrees to record the magnetic compass heading versus what the...

I can only answer some of the questions. I use Ritchie for my fixed compass, mounted just aft of the center window. I have a hand bearing compass, but I've never had to use it. Coordinating between GPS and magnetic compass is simple; I get on course using my Garmin 2006, then look at my...

I've towed my 22 Cruiser to Florida four years consecutive now from Wisconsin, and I get mileage consistent with what you describe, and I have no trouble on steep inclines. I'm amazed that V6 does so well, and I'm sold on Fords. My next auto when this one wears out will be another Explorer.

After crossing Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan in spring fog, I spent a lot of time installing radar, which I've since only turned on occasionally to practice and make sure it's still working. But I'd do it again.

You'd have to make that four. I had a Wallas, used Clean Heat, and eventually replaced it with an Origo alcohol stove. A stove with a motherboard? Sort of the opposite of KISS, and not something you'll repair on a frosty morning with raw bacon already in the skillet.

My alarm went off a few years ago, but only when I was idling. Turned out to be a partially stuck thermostat. As I recall it was pretty inexpensive to fix. Might be worth a try before doing anything else that's more expensive.

While I admire the jogger's courage and common sense in taming the pit bull, she shouldn't have had to do what she did. Dog owners *MUST* be responsible for the actions of their dogs. We have a dog, and my wife often complains that the only thing he will hurt is a fly, which he loves to snap...

This isn't exacly on topic but it's about a bad boater that met a guy who wouldn't put up with it anymore. My latest BoatUS magazine has a great story about a guy who got waked in a no-wake zone. He got in his car and went to the next bridge in the bad boater's path, and parked in the middle...

I agree, we need to start talking to each other without devolving into, "Oh Yeah! So's your mother!" The Wisconsin Supreme Court can't talk, and they're about as useful as those appendages on the chest of a boar hog.

The trouble is today's biased news reports, which are slanted both ways, so when you see the truth you can't recognize it. I wish there was some way to get unbiased journalism where you could believe the numbers. I'm a liberal and think Bob Reich is correct; his explanation seems to fit the...

Last year my dog Ben and I were attacked by a large great dane. I wasn't hurt but Ben's vet fees were over $500. His longest laceration was 13 centimeters (about 5 inches). Ben weighs 60 pounds and the great dane shook him like a rat. Now when we go for I walk I carry a stockman's cane. The...

I have a Ritchie Explorer compass mounted on the flat surface just aft of the front window. It sits on a pedestal, and is removable with a click of a button. I remove it, and also my radar screen, when I want to put in my air conditioner. Here are some photos when the a/c is installed...

An occasional application of Comet Cleanser with a little elbow grease is a lot cheaper, and works at least as well.

You see fishing boats like this all over the Great Lakes.

I have a Garmin GPSMAP 2006 Chartplotter on my C-Dory, but most of my navigation on my Great Loop was done with Fugawi on a laptop, the reason being I couldn't figure out how to install my own calibrated charts on the Garmin, and I could do that with Fugawi. That was back in 2004. Does anybody...

Chuck, I learned my lesson about overfilling a few years ago when I had the oil changed on my twin Honda 40s in Florida. The mechanic put oil in and told me it had to settle for awhile, and went to lunch. I was impatient to get going, and when I checked the dipstick, not realizing how clear...

I'm on my way back to Wisconsin from Long Island, New York, having bought there a used Norseboat 17.5. It's on an EZ-Loader trailer with oil bath hubs, which I'd never seen before, and had no knowledge of. About 200 miles into the trip home, I noticed the oil level, which you can see through a...

When the economy heats up, demand for gasoline will go up. Earlier this year a petroleum executive said he expected gas to go over $5 a gallon before the end of 2011. If it goes over $4.50, a lot of economists say it will seriously and adversely affect the economy. With that and the unrest in...

One more thing about locks. There's a website, http://marinetraffic.com/ais/ that locates all commercial traffic in the world, including barges on the Mississippi. If you have internet access on your boat, such as a smart phone, you can go to this website and see what tows are near locks...