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Hi Bill and congrats on your new ride! In order to be helpful in this kind of situation, other owners need to know the brand and model number of the item you are concerned about (pump, water heater, head, windlass). There is a reason that each carried a 12 month warranty on a 2003 vintage...

We hosted our Pensacola Yacht Club Commodore and her spouse aboard for a sailboat race, along with Father Nick for the Blessing of the Fleet. We love NEBOLINK! Today’s log is here (5 page email) with absolutely no input or work from us whatsoever. I can query the external power (13.3V)...

Dale, I think you are way over thinking about this little trip. We’ve done I-55 as well as I-65 and both are easy for any C-Dory, and also easy for a 65 foot tractor trailer rig. Birmingham has six lane areas in mountains that might seem scary, but semis do it every single day and so can...

Towing a PWC behind your boat risks flooding the PWC engine through the exhaust. Let the boys ride it instead. https://outdoortroop.com/how-to-tow-a-j ... nd-a-boat/ Happy hunting! John

Hi Rick and Anita! +1 for Rogerbum and Bob. We replaced the PO’s trailer with a Bob Austin/ Wefings clone in 2015 for $10,279 with tax. It’s now in the shop getting new torsion axles. The owner estimates replacement cost today of about $17,000 but it’s worth it to be able to trailer and...

Kevin, Thanks for posting your comments. The June 2019 Boating mag has a test on the outboard powered (200/70 Yamaha) Aspen c107, which is also very interesting. I agree with Bob, we have followed and been amazed at the exploits of Glacier Bay cats founder Larry Graf. We will always...

Hi Friends! Thanks for all the comments and suggestions, we really appreciate them. We now have 2 years of retirement experience where we can finally have more than 2 weeks off together. Every cruise gives us more experience re what we enjoy most, whether our ideal cruise day is 20 miles vs...

We had a beautiful day at the Ft McRee cove today…78 degrees, 65% humidity, a great 6 mile beach walk where we saw only 4 folks from boats crossing Perdido Key (no one else around here does beach walks like us). Gulf water is 73 degrees and tending to increase by 1-2 degrees every 4-5 days...

We’ll be trailering to Lake Champlain to cruise there (one way) down the Champlain Canal and Erie Canal to Tonawonda, car rental back to Plattsburg, load rig and trailer to Clinton to launch, cruise down to Alton, rinse, and repeat. So hope to see ya’ll there at Alton again this year! Great...

A 255 fits the bill, plus everyone seems to agree that it's easy to board any C-Dory using the trailer fenders. I agree I'm not going to want to try that after a hip or knee or ankle or thumb replacement. Here’s the pic (hopefully) from when I was 4 years younger...

Hi Patrick! We’ll be around then; splashed for the season yesterday into our wet slip at Sherman Cove marina (about 500 yards from Sand/spoil island). On Google Maps it’s labeled ‘Robertson Island’. May 3-11 we’ll be exploring the Norfolk area by car for a future southern base for a...

Hi Friends! After we trailered back from the edge of the Everglades 4 weeks ago, we did some mods and improvements. And most importantly, traded in our beloved 2005 GMC 2500HD truck for a 2019 Ford F250 Lariat 6.7L Turbodiesl 4WD Crew Cab. Eileen, like almost all beautiful women, thinks a...

What Shore, Your experiences with relatively weak reverse thrust and using throttle-only steering around the docks strikes me as normal for the TC255. With any wind or current, add some Forward RPM to the motor ‘outside’ your intended turn. Consider turning the wheel over to max while in...

Thanks, Bob, for your insights and the link. Impressive that the COB victim had recently completed a triathlon. Only a few dozen Brats have recently done that (and we know who they are). I gather that his owner-issued PFD was a hydrostatic model (p33) and that therefore it would not have...

Brats in a lock:

I'd buy another at $79 just to donate it next year at the Hontoon silent auction, so there's two of five needed... John

“The kit consists of several components: A Charge Regulator installed in the dinghy vehicle's engine compartment monitors the charging current and motorhome engine voltage, automatically connecting or disconnecting the dinghy battery from the motorhome whenever the motorhome engine is started or...

KISS, foolproof microprocessor/VSR and circuit breaker, weather proof connectors and at $104 cheaper than buying all the parts and rolling your own. http://www.lslproducts.net/ToadChargePage.html Truck end hides in the hitch, trailer end installed on helm bus (house battery) and under the...

Colby, My chronic whining was about zero availability of US made LR E ST trailer tires prior to the introduction of the Goodyear Endurance Load Range E in Jan 2017. Load range D and C (yours) and under in high speed ratings was and is and always has been easily available, but not LR E and F for...

BTDT, Glad to read you’re in good humor…when you didn’t show at Hontoon again we all assumed you’d post that “ I THOUGHT about attending, but that gave me a brain tumor with a 6 month prognosis, and the neurosurgeon said that if I thought about it again, it would drop to 1 month.” Think about...