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Getting ready to replace our chartplotter with a 9" Garmin, and a new SH VHF with ais receive. The existing icom radio has never worked well since we got the boat, now I'm reading that maybe it's compass interference (although the radio's pretty old, so maybe it's just the radio). Anyway, why...

Looking to replace a very old icom fixed vhf unit with a standard horizon, either the gx1800G with gps, or the gx2400 (that has ais receive, even tho we're not in a heavy traffic area). But we went out yesterday in our 16', and the handheld standard horizon HX890 (3 months and 4 trips old)...

On a 16' cruiser, you need all of the space you can get :) We bought this childrens potty a few months ago, and I had the need to try it out this last week. We have a regular porta potty, but for day trips, which is all that we do, it just takes up too much space. This was excellent for me -...

Earlier this year I posted questions about the best kicker for a 16' cruiser, and got a lot of great advice, as usual. We ended up getting a short shaft 5hp Mercury (our main is a 50hp Merc), and went out for the first time yesterday. We were running in a river that feeds into the ocean, and...

Our Mercury 50hp (2006), running great until a few weeks ago, started spewing fuel. On taking it apart, it appears that the float inside the VST has either imploded or exploded! :) We've ordered the parts to fix it, but wonder if anyone has any idea why this might happen? thanks! - Karen

Just about finished on our summer mooring cover for our 16' cruiser. We did NOT want to drill holes or do upkeep with snaps, so I made this cover with Sunbrella fabric that attaches with nylon webbing and/or elastic to the two top handrails, the two back handrails and the ubolts on the back of...

So, we have a 2006 Mercury 50, and a new Mercury 5hp. We were changing out fuel lines and fittings to go to a new portable 6 gal gas tank. Every site we went to said to buy the Mercury male fitting (as pictured in the right of this photo). So we did, several times. NO way did they fit to...

We can't figure out how water is getting into the helm seatbox. After a medium relatively short rain last night, we had about a 1/2 cup or more of clear water sitting in the helm seatbox, in the aft midline area. There wasn't any appreciable condensation inside the boat, in fact it was...

We've tried to think of something we could make make to get in and out of the boat at dock, and we decided to get this for the time being. We didn't want to drill holes in the gunwale, and didn't want something hanging over it that would impact the surface, either side. We wanted to make...

We're replacing our inline fuel filter, and replacing the current water separator with a Parker Racor 3213 with a s/s top assembly, but we also just recently bought and received a large Mr. Funnel to add to the water removal system :) Anyone had any experience with this, positive or negative...

Has anyone found an online company that does lettering that looks like the C-Dory logo, i.e. domed, black with a gold (or other color) shadow, and the ability to have the first letter of each word larger than the rest of the word. There's a ton of companies online out there, but who knows what...

This is probably a silly idea, and hopefully someone will say so, if so - we need to recarpet our bunks (and we've looked at synthetic, etc.), so what if you used marine grade carpeting, and just used strips on the top, like 1/4 inch from each side of the board, and glued it down. hmm, maybe...

While we have our 16' out of the water and cleaning the hull of some barnacle "residue" (thanks to Thataway for his suggestions in an earlier post), we're wondering about ablative bottom paint. Not the up the sides kind of paint, but just on the bottom where we can't get to the hull because of...

Anyone have preferences among the following three - this is just for a 16' cruiser in the bilge area....1 - Pettit EZBilge, 2 - Interlux Bilgekote 3 - TotalBoats TotalBilge (online it says Epoxy based, but how can that be true without a hardener?) Not only do we want gas and resistance to...

Getting ready to buy new pfd's - anyone have opinions on which brands are the most comfortable. I have quite a "thing" about "things' rubbing around my neck. Looking for manual/auto, but not necessarily hydrostatic. Was looking at this Onyx brand (I know Mustang is one of the most popular)...

We need a new kicker on our 16' cruiser, but in addition to weight and shaft considerations, we're trying to find approximate dimensions (widest point of width and depth) of the cowl of a 4, 5, or 6hp recent year model gas kicker - I think most mfrs will be about the same. We don't have ANY...

This follows my earlier post in search of an easy way to access the bow eye bolts. We decided to take out the small bulkhead near the bow, which was attached with just top and bottom brackets, and a bit of caulking (and some flow in foam on one side), and behind that were two blocks of foam...

so, we're going to take out the bow eye (2006 16' cruiser) because it looks like something's leaking up there, so we can epoxy, redrill, etc., - we're slowly doing that on all of our fittings. This is a pic with a camera with zoom, boy, it's difficult to get in there (and I'm Karen - 5' and...

We're getting ready to paint the deck and put in some Dri-Dek, so I thought I'd jazz it up a little between the seat boxes with some ocean creature pics with some acryllic artist paint. We'll see how long it lasts, but I've done the same on sidewalks, and still looks good after 6 or so years :)

We have a 2006 16' cruiser, and the ceiling, walls, and deck are very bumpy and striated. I don't care about the ceiling and walls, but it would be nice to flatten out the deck by screeding some product in, in at least the aft bilge area for easy cleaning, but without raising the height of the...