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Bottom caps for lawn chair legs, and cane/walker tips come in a fair variety of sizes. Check them out at hardware stores or pharmacy. Rod

1990 CD22 in Syracuse NY $21500 listed as 9/9/14. Has Evinrude eTec etc. Strange place to list it, but they seem to be aiming at retiring sailors; I can dig that. The ad says it also is posted on Craigslist. Might be worth a look for prospective CBrats. I have no association with this boat. Rod

Thanks, Dick. My OB is a 2005, I think, so I guess P/O probably did not substitute nylon for O-ring. I'll be very careful when I pull Luna for the winter. Cheers, Rod

Hi Rcbeach, Can you, or anyone else, tell me if the newer O-rings are a suitable replacement for the nylon washers? I never thought of a nylon one as being a "crush washer." "Crush washer" is what I think of as used on a spark plug, a kind of complicated toroid shape that squashes down when you...

And you don't even have to go sophisticated mechanical systems to see this. My pet peeves even include clothing: Cargo shorts - big, outside pockets very handy on a boat, except that they are on the front and so deep that that a big knife or multitool in there beats your kneecap to mush. Zipper...

For travelling, I got an after-market plug for the iPad2. It's Travelocity brand, and that is the only print on the entire device, so no info on output characteristics. The adapter is dual mode: cigar lighter and flip out 110 V prongs. That way, I could use it in the car, with a 12 V jump...

Hi moydav, Depending on your and your wife's sizes, you might need extra room at the seats. The cruisers' seats are further back than in the angler, and so in a wider part of the boat. In the cruisers, the berths will sleep two but life is best singlehanded. I'm 6-2, and the port berth is long...

@ Surf Scoter ROFLMAO! Rod

I have to weigh in with rogerbum and BrentB. Uncooked FW fish, as sushi, sashimi or ceviche, can be bad news. FW fish can harbour really nasty (read: "NASTY") parasites which can infect people. And, not all of them are just tapeworms. Parasites from SW fish, not so much. These things are killed...

Joe's (Sea Wolf) remarks reminded me of my rule-of-thumb about sailboats: in our size-ranges being considered here, an increase of three feet gives you about double the boat. I think that applies pretty well to C-Dorys. I think our present CD16 cruiser is about one-quarter the boat of our former...

Yesterday (Sunday, 27 July,) I pulled into Poets' Cove to refuel on a jaunt to S. Pender Island. Afterward, I putted through the anchorage/moorings at the park. Chimo was on mooring #13, what a surprise. Unfortunately, no one was home. Sorry to miss meeting you, Chimo, but I hope you enjoy your...

Last week, taking the back road from Chemainus to the ferry terminal at Crofton (both on east side of Van Isle,) we saw our old boat NoddyBleu parked in a garage lot. Returning from Saltspring Isl. later in the day, I was going to stop in and see what gives. She was gone, so I suppose she was...

Hi Ray, I had similar on an old sailboat- the PO had mounted a PVC pipe long enough for four cylinders, zip-tied to a horizontal cockpit hand rail where it wouldn't interfere. In the fixed cap, there was a small drilled hole that took a thin dowel. Remove the loose end, run the dowel in and push...

Hi Blackfish, I decided against cleats for this purpose; to be big enough I thought them intrusive. I keep both sides rigged the same way, and use whichever side is necessary (usually starboard, and I like to back in.) Both bow and stern lines are the same length (about 2/3 of boat,) and I tie...

Aye, Sunbeam - I believe we are on the same page; perhaps we should say we (you and me, anyway) are trimming for "stern up," not for "bow down." Our boats seem to differ: 16 vs. 22, I have no tabs, and a set of Doelfins ( two triangular foils that are not in the prop wash, as is your Permatrim.)...

I'm in the same boat :D as Sunbeam, I get fastest and smoothest ride with the single 50 trimmed all the way in. The wake is far smoother and well sculpted than when trimmed out, even just a little. Forward loading is light, and things may change as I accumulate cruising gear up there. My...

I agree with Bob: Zn anode would do no good. I don't know if even a magnesium (Mg) sacrificial anode would be good enough. Rod

Hi Richard, I've been thinking about this stuff a lot, lately. On NoddyBleu I was delighted by the fuel management system, and all that could tell me. Our present boat, Luna, is much more bare bones-no speedo, knot meter, GPS, etc. She is powered by a 50HP carbureted Honda. So, I started keeping...

Welcome aboard, Blake and Rhonda. You are splashing your boat into some of the greatest waters in the world. You have a terrific little boat, there. Stay safe. Rod (from Pender Islands.)

Small Craft Advisor (No. 87, May/June 2014) has an article about cruising the Florida Keys in a small sailboat, sometime in Feb/Mar (I assume in 2013.) One of their photos, taken from a high point above Bahia Honda Harbor includes a C-Dory in frame left. The view is very long, but the boat seems...