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    Budding C-Brats Take Note!

    Greg, I emailed an inquiry and reached a representative of the seller who knows very little about the rig. It appears to be an estate sale situation.
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    Budding C-Brats Take Note!

    The 2008 Honda outboard motor is worth the "asking price"! https://oregoncoast.craigslist.org/boa/6497448058.html
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    EPIRB: I finally bit the bullet

    Bob, Sadly the crew-member (John Fisher) was just declared "lost at sea"! The satellite message was received just hours ago here at New Zealand from crew aboard "Scallywag". The extreme remote Southern Ocean location of the boat along with weather conditions prevented any SAR action...
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    EPIRB: I finally bit the bullet

    The "Around the World Volvo Ocean Race" fleet just left our port of Auckland heading toward Brazil. Ironically two of the crew went overboard in separate incidents aboard "Scallywag" in gale force winds! The second incident occurred just 18 hours ago and it appears neither crew wore harness or...
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    2018 Mercury Outboards

    https://www.boatingmag.com/new-mercury- ... ewsh021518
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    Asian carp Invasion

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/ ... oJYfq6nGM8
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    Auto Pilot Components and Installation

    Randy, Here is some additional information that should be of value to your new C-Dory project. On the home page, click each of the various "subjects" on the left side column and drop down pages of additional information will appear. http://www.autonav.com/html/anav4006.htm
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    Email thread response

    Robert H, My email address has not changed since 2006, the year I signed on. Thanks for the suggestion!
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    Email thread response

    Jason, Consider yourself the privileged one, I get absolutely nothing!
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    Email thread response

    Jason, It appears it is no longer done on this website? I have not received any response to subsequent thread posts in over a couple years!
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    Ready, Willing and Able

    Greg, Welcome to the C-Brats, you will have heaps of fun here, its even addicting! And I share your thoughts about Eisenhower since I was also around during his time in office. You should check the lower right-hand corner of this home page on a weekly if not more often basis for the boat you...
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    Auto Pilot Components and Installation

    Randy, I have had occasion to install several "Wagner" steering/auto pilot systems in past years. They made some high quality equipment that was commercial grade but were not competitive which caused the business to fail. However there are still parts and complete units available at places...
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    Question:Relationshi between clock time & longitude/lati

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y00SLWPy0mg Unless you are using "time" to establish the geographic position of a passing celestial body in the practice of celestial navigation, they have nothing in common. Establishing the geographic position of three celestial body's within a short time...
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    Navigational Miracle or Fiction?

    http://usshaynsworth.org/scuttlebutt/ss ... rimoo.html
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    Great Boat Designer Good Article

    https://www.passagemaker.com/technical/ ... tiful-mind
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    Anchor roller installation

    Locate some "UHMW" about 3/8" thick and shape it to fit the profile of the stainless mount. Pre-drill bolt holes to match the mount and bed using a tube of "Boatlife". UHMW can be found in scrap bins at most of the plastic supply outlets. The material is very resistant to ultra-violet and...
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    Lower Unit Drain Plugs

    When rigging aluminum sailboat masts most of the attachments are made from materials other than aluminum and they will in time experience "galvanic corrosion". A product that is widely used and very effective in preventing this degradation is "Alumalastic". It is also a non-hardening sealer...
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    Gelcoat cracking at cabin to cockpit gunwale connection

    When pounding into head seas, especially when the center portion of the hull is without support of water, the hull tends to "bulge" outward at this point. This causes stress on the "hard spot" where cabin and cockpit meet. You might notice on some similar designs where the cabin/cockpit...
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    Cavitation burns

    These props are cast from molten aluminum. The molten solution could have had some impureties that collected at the outer edge of that blade. Another possibility is the prop could have been removed from the tool before it was fully cured. Unless it occurs on the remaing blades, I would just...
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    1980s c-dory 27 project in California

    "Spencer Johnson" has photos he will send upon request: sjohnson@kinneticlabs.net
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