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You always want to isolate your electronics from the engine starting battery to avoid spikes, low voltages etc during the starting phase from damaging (or having to reset the the auto pilot or worse. You want the house battery to be isolated from the engine start during loads, and the ACR...

The problem with all chain is the weight. In the PNW, there are reasonably high tides. As you go further North, the tides become very large (25')--so you have to account of the depth, up to 100 feet. Even in my large boats (up to 62' LOA), I only carried 200 feet of HT chain on each of the...

Excellent. Much better than when the boat was new.

The covers I have pruchased from Angola are better finished than those from King that I have owned. I have aso seen some good covers from King. It depends on the Seamster/tress. If you have basic canvas working skils it can help in the design and effectiveness of the cover. There is another...

John has some good advice, but I would disagree with the "dangers" in the two areas noted. Tombigbee Waterway to Gulf Coast Waterway: All of this is very relative to experience and tolerance for marine traffic, currents etc. We don't consider Mobile, its Bay, or even the ICW both around...

I have handled the insurance, by either getting a rider on my policy--and charging the renter, or telling the rentor to show proof my item was covered by their insurance, or a separate policy. I used this on the RV I was renting as a business, and the couple of times I let trusted people use my...

Ask to see if anyone will be willing to take you for a ride. I would if I had not "aged out" of C Dorys. As I understand, you are interested in a 22. They can be purchased for less than $60 to 80K. For the most part a C Dory boat is a very personal item, sort of like renting out your...

Yes Tom, I read your yesterday's post on "Balancing"--but still don't understand how your access each cell individually to give specific current to that cell. Are you saying that the 1000ma of current is balancing each cell as it needs it? What voltage are you applying to "balance" the cells...

Do you cut into the battery case to measure the individual cells? Or is there a buss bar or similar where you can check the voltage of each cell? (There are going to be 16 cells in a 48V battery, with both series and parallel connections between those many cells to give the 48 volts and large...

I also looked at the Haswing review--one trolling motor got more 1 star reviews than 5 star! That is a new low. No way would I even consider a product like that. The 600 watt solar, will turn out to probably produce 300 to 400 watts reasonably average reliably--and that is assuming no cloud...

What is backing hte plate on the inside? Did you over bore each bolt hole, cut back the edges then fill with epoxy, and then drill the hole for the bolt thru the epoxy? What size bolts secure the plate? How are you going to put an anchor roller on the bow? Thanks.

A simple 2 x 4 frame and a tarp as above works OK-you do want to keep snow and frozen rain off the boat. So minimum of a tarp. Many of us buy the fitted cover from Angola Canvas. Angola has patterns for all of the C Dorys. Then accomidate radar arches and similar accessories. Good value and...

You can do significant damage to a C Dory by intentionaly slamming into waves. The forward bunk platform can delaminate from its tabbing, You can even break the laminate from the floor forward, from the hull. None of this is good for a boat of any sort. The first C Dory 25 had been badly...

I tried to edit above, but "time ran out" I should have caught that you were not spacing the Coosa off the bottom and sides to avoid a "hard place". it does not make as much a difference in a cored hull. 'but I aways spaced the bulkhead off the outer skin layers, using a foam spacer. The...

No I am not reading the ply "map" backwars. Yes, put the mat down first on the bottom. Have you tried bending the 23 oz triaxial over the filett? We used to use 24 oz woven roving, before the bi and tri axials. The heavier rovings do not bend well on a short radius. The strength of the...

This looks as if you are laying the 23 oz triaxiel directonly on the bottom? I would use the same layering on the bulkhead to the bottom. Just one of mat, and 6 oz cloth over the stern facing layer of Coosa.

Off the cuff, I can give only one piece of advice, rather than stay at the Lodge near pickwick dam, you can either stay on your CDory on land at Pickwick State Park campground, or the Corp of engineers RV park on the other side of Pickwick Dam. There are a host of places we have lauched and...

The issue could be finding the proper spring--or rebending (and / or retempering that spring. I wonder how it got "stretched"? The new spring should be 316 stainless steel. Do you know the brand of the deck pipe ? Attwood, Perko, Suncor, Whitecap, Sea Dog, West Marine and some Chinese knok...

You are really limited with the Toqueedo. Any wind or current shoots the "mileage" to bits, of course depending on which way the wind is blowing or current. I owned a Torqueedo 1103 for about 12 years--it was an excellent dinghy motor and I highly recommend it for that use. As for pushing the...

Call the factory. I am not sure these are the same in the 22, 25 and Tom Cat.