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Met Martin (Nomad) and his lovely wife for Happy Hour yesterday. We enjoyed their company and Comox is a beautiful town. Left Comox at 6:35 am today and had a nice calm crossing of the straight of Georgia and are now in Powell River at the Westview Marina. Waiting on tomorrow's weather before...

Made it to Comox around 1:00 pm Nice town. Martin we get with us later. Best food since Friday Harbor at the Mediterranean restaurant walking up the hill to the grocery store. Ginny likes this place. Saw Martin's boat the Nomad in the same marina. Will-C what tomorrow's weather brings...

Martin, Ok, I'll blow off the Campbell River stop. Dodd's Narrows redistributed some of the items in the cabin today. It got a tad lumpy coming out of the narrows all the way into the Nanaimo Harbor. I'm going to try and keep from banging up Babygirl anymore tomorrow. So It might take me an...

Martin, We are Nanaimo for the night. We will probably head for Comox tomorrow. If the wind lays down. Then on up to Campbell River on Sunday. Then over to Desolation Sound the following day if the weather is right. We left from Bellingham then did Friday Harbor for a night and the next day did...

When we are home I have plastic square buckets that I freeze in our chest type freezer. We use a cooler for the over flow of stuff that gets ejected from the refridge by my better half. We always use block use when available but also like ice for our drinks. In desperate situations I might even...

Ron, Thanks for posting our need for a seeing eye dog. The new boat is called Tinytown. I'm not sure what channel the pleasure people use in Canada but I usually monitor channel 16. Our boat is a dark blue R-27. I got some info from Martin of Bridma and I guess we will head up thru the gulf...

Thanks Pat. We are in Idaho falls and headed for Coeur d Alene Idaho tomorrow. Then North Bend WA next and then to a Bellingham campground where we will stop and try to get our wits about us or whatever that means. I'll give a call you when we get settled. We will try to make the C-Brat...

I would think adding a couple of hand hold rails where you think you would need them would fairly simple and relatively inexpensive. Some have added rails right on both sides of the front brow. I would get in touch with a local owner and arrange to walk to the bow with the boat in the water. I'm...

Thanks everyone for the information. We will probably stop and hit campgrounds near Baker City,OR and Logan, UT and then on to Bullfrog. D.D.

Not going till late September but just wanted to get an idea of the suggested route. I usually research some campgrounds for stops along the way. Thank you both for the heads up on Salt Lake City. It can't be worse than Chicago. D.D.

Just wondering what folks that have made the trip would suggest in the way of what routes to travel to trailer our boat from Bellingham to Lake Powell. Thanks D.D.

Bob, We were turned away three times trying to make a reservations this trip. Once we arrived with a made reservation we were never turned away. Maybe I was not clear on that. We are not really resort campground people. Never much cared for the KOA people. We use a Good Sam's card. We are just...

I would think buying local might cost more but maybe their services would include getting it inside the house for you. Just saying IMHO D.D.

No we never just pull in an RV park. We use the internet via hotspot to see what might be available. Then my wife calls and asks for a 50' pull thru. Our 23' C-Dory was 53' overall. We really are about 58'. So I don't think "cuteness" played any part in equation. We never mention boat unless...

We are working our way to Bellingham WA from PA. We have been turned away from three campgrounds so far on this trip. A KOA in Cheyenne a private one in Jackson, WY and another whose location now escapes me. We always get the jokes about there isn't any water here. I tell them it's supposed to...

We had Wefings our dealer install a 9500 BTU unit on the roof of our 2008 Venture. I believe Ventures had a somewhat reinforced roof. It required a 14" hole and it didn't get any extra reinforcement. We saved the removed piece in case someone wanted to return the boat back to stock. We could...

I would think Marc from Wefings phone # 850-670-8100 might move it for you for a decent price. He sold ours pretty quick and saves you from a bunch of would be tire kickers who may or may not have the dollars to actually buy it. JMHO D.D.

A side by side on Yellowstone Lake our 23 is on the right and Jay's Hunky Dory 22 is on the left.

Just a few real life observations. First there is no disputing a 22 simply could handle the higher speeds in a chop that a 23 can. Not top speed mind you but cruising speeds where the 22's banged up the occupants to extent they just had to slow down. So I think the hull differences are...

We had a 2008 Venture that came with a fully insulated interior. We had a 150 hp Yamaha four stroke the boat could easily cruise a 27 to 30 mph in fairly smooth conditions. It came with standard storage under the V berth cushions with hatches on the sides an the center front storage area had a...