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One more thing…you’ll never finish a trip with finished compost ready for your garden. Composting takes time. I’ve worked with multimillion $ systems that companies said could produce finished, stabilized compost quickly. They all failed. In the case of a composting toilet, you’ll need some time...

Retired compost scientist here, known to many students as Dr. Poop. Yes, you need to mix it. The coconut bark is a “bulking agent”. The purpose is to help aerate (add oxygen to) a mixture of poop, bark, and water. No mix, no mixture. Your gut is anaerobic, so your poop is too (initially), and...

A problem with stern power and/or trusters is that C-Dories are relatively flat-bottomed, and thus move sideways easily, and have a lot of “sail” area above that can catch that wind. You need a fair amount of forward speed to keep “steerage”, too slow and the wind, tide or current take over your...

Just got back from there. A little rain, but nice and warm during the Puget ice storm, and the rest of the country…well, glad we missed that. Problem is…no Puget Sound and no islands. Maybe if Lake Meade would fill.

All of the above, but I also found a long-handled set of vice grips (i.e. Triplet TT-200) gets used for a lot of things, including reaching behind bars tanks to pick up a dropped nut, reaching to and pulling a line, and retrieving a valued lure from a Dogfish mouth.

Commenting on two issues already brought up, and a n additional suggestion. I repowered to a Honda 100 from a more than 20 yo Honda 90. The older motor worked fine, but so many hours I didn’t trust it for long trips any more. Wow, am I ever pleased, particularly the increase in nmpg, both at...

Yes, interesting, but explainable. Usually we think of boats and cars depreciating, and land and houses appreciating over time. No one would question an increase if this was a house. The key seems to be supply-and-demand as well as how the quality of the boat holds up over time. Demand for these...

Welcome to the list. I was born in Havre de Grace, and don't remember any part of my childhood not fishing, crabbing and hunting (body booting!) the Bay. I have a C-Dory at my place here on Anderson Island. I did bring my father's center-cockpit crabbing boat (rigged for line crabbing) here for...

...or pulling a 200 lb halibut aboard...

One more potential disadvantage of twins, though I only know of this happening once here at Anderson Island with our ambulance boat when they ran across a bar at high speed. You normally run both twins at high speed, so two lower units down. If you hit something hard you can damage both, and...

Where you are within the region can make a lot of difference. We get about 50 inches of rainfall here on Anderson Island, and I like to get to the "rain shadow" of the Olympics just about any time during the rainy season. All of October can be wet depending on where you are. There isn't as much...

I'm a retired forestry teacher. I've rarely encountered $10K a log, but floating loose logs are valuable, and often captured and used. Cedar, in particular could bring a high price. My current house was built largely from logs washed from the Nisqually River into the Nisqually Reach or from...

This comparison might be helpful. https://www.mby.com/video/best-2-3hp-ou ... est-117786 Though the test is on tenders, the Suzuki 2.5 is clearly superior to the Honda 2.3, much more than the 0.2 hp difference would imply. Also, note that the Torqeedo, which says it is a 3 hp equivalent...

Rob (me) and Marcia lived nearby in Cedar Park/Lake City for 32 years, now on Oro Bay at Anderson Island. We made multiple camping trips cross-country starting before our two kids were even born. They are adults and we are now a little dispersed, but when we do get together, there is a lot of...

Interestingly, I also have a brand new (2021) Honda 100, which I am very pleased with. It replaced my Honda 90 with >2500 hrs, which worked all this time, but I am very glad I repowered. Mileage and max speed are increased. I hoped noise would be (quieter), but that doesn’t seem to be the case...

We've been out in south Sound also, and see orcas every day from our porch or boat. These are the transient Biggs orcas that eat seals and sea lions. The dramatic increase in seals (threefold since 1980's) in recent years meshes with salmon (major decreases since 1980's), since it is estimated...

Yes, you just need to get on the front, and tilting and dropping is easy. I thought I might have to cut the rail tubing, which wouldn't be that much of a problem, but I didn't. I used a removeable mounting plate. The dowside right now is that I had to remove the anchor winch. I never liked...

Part of the problem with "going really slow" for trolling is that when it is windy you need to go fast enough to maintain steerage, at least on my '22 cruiser. C-Dories really suck at going slow on a course with their flat bottoms, high cabins, and light weight. My solution for going <1 to 3...

We Have used the 5-gallon bucket with toilet lid on our CD22 and truck camper for many years. Yes for the peat moss for sure. The female boaters have trouble getting the #1 into a separate container (I use a marked 1 liter Nalgene). We have found that “Smelleze”, which is often used in hospital...

Excellent guidelines from someone that knows local conditions. Operating consistently at WOT is a good way to support repair shops, and boaters around here quickly learn their limits the hard way. I was fishing at Neah Bay (the most western point in the continental USA), last week. Good fishing...