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Any Time we are crossing we would be happy to have company. The thing that you need to understand about crossing the Strait of Juan De Fuca, is you can pick a day and time you want to cross, but the Strait dictates if you will be able to keep that date or not. This body of water should only be...

Susan and I want to make this trip this year. Our work schedules have always prevented us from making it before. Now that we are retired Covid has kept us away. If things get better and maybe we get our vaccines this could be the year. We'll See. Welcome to the C-Brats Carlyle. We are from...

Thanks Bob. I am glad I came across this thread. I think this mod will work good for me.

Can anyone give me specs / where to purchase a diode that is appropriate for The electric Lock out modification?

When ordering a new actuator, be aware that they are specific to dual or single axle trailers. A dual actuator on single axle will apply too much force and visa versa. Harvey, I have been told that in washington and canada a trailer the size of a c dory must have brakes on all axles. Ours had...

Our boat came with a Go Light Mounted on the bow railing. While we almost never use it, it is operational and we want to keep it that way just in case. Ours has both a hard wired dash switch and it also has a wireless remote that we do not even keep in the boat. Since we have had the boat, on...

On the boats that I built I put a single layer of 20 oz tiaxial epoxy fiberglass over the plywood bottom and then the coating of graphite epoxy. This is how Ray Heater of Rays River Dories builds his boats and they are renowned for there durability. Not quite as slippery as UHMW but slides over...

I have built a couple of drift boats and am familiar with different types of drift boat construction. You can find one of them in Roger Fletchers Drift Boats And River Dories, the 16' Rapid Robert. The problem with UHMW bottoms is that it expands and contracts at a much greater rate than the...

Wow! $19 for a hat. Thats doable, but I don't know about $20 to ship it.

Harvey If you want to try out a sample before you buy, I have plenty left over. I only used about 3oz. out of a 16 oz. bottle to do all the stainless on our boat. You are welcome to try some on your boat. Just let me know.

I am bringing this post back because of a product I found that worked really well on our boat. In early spring I spent a lot of time buffing waxing and detailing our boat. I wanted to use good quality products and since many of you have recommended Collinite wax, that is what I went with. I was...

Susan had to drag this one to the cleaning table

Lingcod 2020

Sekiu Lingcod 2020

The chain is not noisy at all if you put a short a short snubber on it. If room allows, I like to let out the 100' of chain and about 5' to 10' of rope. This eliminates the need for the snubber and the rope does not touch bottom or get muddy. Chain comes up much cleaner than a rope lying on the...

We have changed our anchor rode set up several times since we've have had our boat (22 cruiser) and what we have settled on is 175' of three strand nylon with 100' of 1/4" chain using a tapered long splice that I did myself. Before that we had 250' 8 plait and 50' of chain. The 8 plait gave us...

I installed a new steering system in our 22 over the winter and used this system to bleed it after install. It worked like a charm and is easy for one person to do without spilling or wasting any fluid. My new Baystar system came with 2 quarts of their expensive fluid, as they figure some will...

I forgot that I did one other project during the shut down. I installed a freshwater wash down on the boat. This should be really nice while out fishing. Will be able to do a nice job filleting fish right on the boat with this. also will be nice for washing down that new motor. This was a pretty...