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My experience with Honda products, including numerous motorcycles, outboards, cars, and generators, has been positive over many years. For me they have been great products and I don't hesitate to go back to them. That being said, if I were to re-power our 25 cruiser from it's present 150 Honda I...

Hi Mary, I know you said you did not want to get involved with a dealer at this point, however, when we were looking a few years ago and were visiting in Calif. we stopped in to the dealer on the Oakland side of the estuary, the Outboard Motor Boat shop, I believe it was called. Great folks...

I thought the ethanol article was interesting and informative, I believe that the more we learn how to deal with E10 the fewer problems we will have with our boats. I use E0 whenever I can and take precautions when I have to put E10 in the tank, I think last year as I used both fuels I probably...

We returned from a nice vacation trip to the Cook Islands (Rarotonga) a couple weeks ago. I think about 32 miles to drive around the island, nice that our little rental Suzuki got good milage and the top speed limit was 40 KPH because the price of gasoline worked out to about $16 US per gallon...

Casey, Don't forget a good dust mask if you are going to be sawing through your glass deck. I too found a small flexible hand saw to work well cutting out the foam, and a paint scraper to get close to the hull. plastic garbage bags for the scrap foam and a hand vac will help keep the mess down...

Dutch 123, There is a very easy and inexpensive means of making a flush hatch for the vee-berth storage. Lots of boat builders have used this method over the years. I removed the foam from the bow of my 25 and installed regular hatches because I thought it was a cleaner way of doing it but...

I guess finding a trawler type 34 footer will be a matter of searching yacht brokers, internet ads and the usual weekend trips to where there are boats for sale. In the Bay Area there is no shortage of that, lots of used boats to choose from, until you find something that works for you. But...

Hi Peter, And welcome to the site, it will be interesting to hear about your boating experiences way up in that neck of the woods. I will be thinking of you as winter draws nearer to upstate NY and I realize that some folks up in your area might think of coming south to where we live to warm up...

Jack and Pat Welcome from a couple of other central NY C-braters, we are from the Utica area but do a lot of boating on the canal. On our last trip we put in at the Seneca Lake State park and wandered up the Seneca-Cayuga and Erie canals and to the west a ways, lots of great boating and villages...

B&B Sure good to hear from you guys and good to know all is well, what an inspiring and challenging voyage. We hope the last few days on the ride home are peaceful with good weather. Rich and Kathie

Bruce, Great photos, looks like you had a nice trip and saw a lot of the canal system. Things don't look to good on the eastern portions of the canal. I believe they will remain OK on the western side. The Seneca Lake State Park is a great place to launch and start a canal trip on the western...

Kathie and I put AnnaLee in the water at the north end of Lake Seneca last Monday, 8/22 and headed up the Cayuga Seneca Canal and then west on the Erie, great cruise but cut it a few days shorter then we intended as we followed the storms progress. The Lock Masters convinced us on the way back...

Pat I believe you are absolutely correct in draining your fuel tank. I went through this earlier this year. I used a rotary hand crank pump ( similar to the Bass Pro Shop sample you show) to drain the tank on my 25", about 40 gallons in there, it worked well. Unfortunately once the water...

Kevin and Chris, Welcome to the C-Brats from a couple other Upstaters. Kathie and I launched AnnaLee at Seneca Lake State Park last Monday and arrived In Fairport yesterday. We are in the Fairport Library now catching up, of course I had to check the site and saw your post. Lots of great water...

Hi Mat and Joyce, This has to be the best place to check out the C-Dory line, both pros and cons. The topics in the forum cover every aspect you can think of, I have never come across a question or situation concerning the C-Dory that someone before me has already brought up and others have...

B&B Wow, over 2000 miles since we first met you guys in Virginia just a few months ago, what an adventure! Glad to hear from you and good to know you are safe and making good progress, keep the posts coming. Rich and Kathie

I checked with my wife and she remembers the old Ghost towns name, it was Drawbridge, built as a duck hunting and gambling resort, you had to walk 3 miles along the tracks to get to it. It was located just north of Alviso and hit its peak during prohibition and then the depression came and the...

Hi Ron It's been years since I have done any boating in the south SF bay but I did have a sail boat in the San Leandro Marina for a number of years. I never got as far south as Alviso, I had a keel boat and there is a lot of shallow water down there. However as far as spots to overnight in, the...