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There will be signup on "Event Signups" but it probably won't be for a little bit! It is only October, after all - the event is not until May!

I confess to being a long-time home sausage maker! I mostly use natural hog casings, but occasionally collagen casing, all purchased from one of the two or three reputable companies selling supplies for home sausage makers, butcher-packer.com in Madison Heights, WI, and thesausagemaker.com in...

I admire the Tollys but have never owned one. But I own a 2005 CD25 free and clear and have this past summer experienced paying for a 26 foot slip rental in Blaine Marina at $245 per month from May through September. Big mistake. (We live in Birch Bay, maybe we could have a meet and greet...

I really have to part company with Harvey here. You are at the point where you can tell the factory to omit the Wallas, which IMHO would be the best thing for you to do. After the Wallas is in the boat, your options will be severely limited. The Wallas is neither a good heater nor a good...

Colby, we removed our Wallas many years ago, and replaced it with a Webasto for heating and a little one burner butane stove for cooking. We ended up selling the Wallas for enough to cover most of the cost of the Webasto and its installation. I bought the Webasto mail order from a company that...

This is all way beyond my comprehension. All the batteries we have right now are NAPA flooded cell deep cycle batteries. I would like to get lithium ion batteries for both the boat house batteries and the Northern Lite camper, but I have read quite a few articles on charging them and am more...

Patty here. We have been unable to find the source of a leak in our 25' C-dory. Still trying to figure it out. Have done lots of troubleshooting. Water accumulates in the same area as yours, or right at the v-berth if we've been sleeping. For now we find if we leave the water pump on, water...

Each to his own cup of tea I guess. We loved the Atlantic ICW, the Chesapeake, the New Jersey ICW, the Hudson, the Erie Canal, the Trent Severn Waterway, Georgian Bay, the North Channel, Mackinac Island and Lake Michigan. But we also really enjoyed the cruise from Chicago to Mobile too. There...

Steve, you know, I don't keep a Christening log - maybe I should!

Glad you are back safe and sound, and that you were able to deal with your tire issues without a major disaster! And great job on the photos and description of your adventure, we all really enjoyed the trip vicariously!

When using the flush port we now put the SaltAway dispenser inline with the water inlet. The major issue (NOT the only issue!) when the mechanic at Sportcraft was inspecting the old Honda BF150 for potential trade-in value was that the everything was encrusted with salt. Understandable, since in...

Hey - I know this boat! I christened it at "The Ditch" on Orcas Island!

More than a few people have come to Friday Harbor from California over the years. Plan to make the FH CBGT the centerpiece of a couple of weeks of San Juan Islands cruising!

Colby, it has been a long time since we had a CD22 (since 2005), so hard for us to compare. But the SeaStar hydraulic steering on Daydream, our CD25, seems to work great, and the autopilot has never had a hard time keeping us on course except in the most confused seas! And when Sportcraft...

Les and Kel participated in our "deam trip," the Great Loop. When we were in Alton, IL (just across the river from St. Louis), they came over and we had supper together. I wonder when they are going to do the Loop! But you are right, "dreaming don't make it so," you have to get up and do it!

To answer the question, yes, we did have bottom paint, we had it done in 2016 at Bitterend Boat Works at Hilton Harbor. It is, as it is supposed to, wearing thin now with quite a few spots where the fiberglass is showing through. Turns out that we really did not need it on the Loop because we...

We thought we would put Daydream in the Blaine Marina for the season last May, and we just pulled her out two days ago. We thought it would be really convenient not to have to launch and retrieve at the boat ramp every time, but it didn't turn out how we had hoped. Our slip was way too narrow...

Les, +1 on what Boris said! I followed you nearly every day on C-Brats at least, and it was a wonderful trip vicariously!

Thanks for all the responses, still pondering.

The last time out in Daydream a couple of days ago we turned on the (2005) Raymarine C-80 as we were about to leave the Blaine Marina. The display was only showing horizontal lines. We were only going around to Birch Bay to retrieve our crab pots but it was kind of distressing because we had a...