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    Salty Completes America's Great Loop

    Rosa and I have completed our platinum-flagged Great Loop adventure after 6,891 miles in 200 days. Our unconventional route took us across Lake Superior to Duluth. With the help of AGLCA member Randy Swanstrom and Harbor Host Ken G, Salty was transported to the navigational headwaters of the...
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    Trailer Portage from Duluth to St Paul

    My girlfriend and I are on America's Great Loop except we are taking a little different route than most. We plan to portage from Duluth to St Paul/ Minneapolis to cruise the Mississippi River down to New Orleans. We need to rent or borrow a trailer for our portage. We have a friend with a truck...
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    Great Loop Statistics

    Here are the numbers for my second trip around America's Great Loop which I completed on 11/26/15 aboard my 22' C-Dory, Salty. I left my home in Melbourne Beach, Florida on 4/2/15. I started out with a 90 hp Honda but finished with a 115 hp Yamaha which was installed by Wefings Marine in...
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    The Merits of Trailerable Boats On The Great Loop

    This is my reply to a poster on the America's Great Loop Cruising Association forum on the subject of the merits of trailerable boats. I became interested in doing the Great Loop in 2001 when I read in one of my boating magazines that such a route existed. I was 25 and already had a few long...
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    Mounting Location for Safe

    I want to mount a safe on board. The two places that I have in mind are above the water tank under the aft port seat or in the v berth bolted in the top port corner next to the interior light. I don't want to make any holes through the hull of the boat. In the v berth would be easily...
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    Mini Jacker Mounting Location

    I have a Mini Jacker auxiliary motor mount. I am trying to determine the best position to mount this. How far off the main outboard should this be located?
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    Check Out My Newly Made Bookshelf

    New photos in my album of this project. I'm always looking for ways to store and organize stuff on board and I came up with this bookshelf. I used some leftover plastic from another project and utilized the space behind the table under the port gunnel amidship. I made book ends on...
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    My New Boat Name

    I have decided on a name for my boat. My wife's name is Petra and she is from Slovenia. Not many people in America have heard the name Petra and get confused on how to pronounce it. I tell them it sounds like petrified. Hence the name of my boat, Petrafied. I like a name that is unique and can...
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    C-Dory Videos on Youtube

    If anyone is interested, I have uploaded two videos of our cruise in The Bahamas. This first one is us getting sucked into The Crossing, a cut between Little Abaco Island and the western extension to Little Abaco Island. This was blasted for use by fishermen and saves them the 14 miles of going...
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    Storage Solutions

    I have finished a project that has been on my list of things to do. Two storage shelves under the galley counter. Both made of some kind of plastic that I had laying around the yard. The top shelf is eight inches wide and the bottom is five inches wide. Both have a lip to keep stuff from falling...
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    C-Dory Abuse

    I am just returning from a trip to The Bahamas. While I was there I began reading River Horse by William Least Heat-Moon about a guy that takes his CD22 from Atlantic to Pacific across America. He describes his boat falling seven feet off waves in Lake Erie. Can a C-Dory really take this kind of...
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    Forward Hatch Leak

    The forward hatch on my CD22 is leaking. It seems that the rubber shrank at the corners. Has any one got a remedy for this or do I buy a new rubber seal? Where to find a new one? Thank You
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