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The reawakening of El and Bill's "What I Should Know Before Buying a Boat" thread made me think of this again. In that thread are links to movies in their photo album. I tried to load a movie into my photo album and got a message to "wait." So I let it sit overnight to load a movie into the...

I was looking for information on rebuilding a fuel injection pump on a little Yanmar engine (not C-Dory related) and found only one YouTube video that addressed my problem. From a guy in Australia. So I thought I would look at his other videos to get some idea of his credentials. Here's the...

Some of you have looked at my photo album of the cruise we did on the River Lot in France in 2017. We chartered a canal barge from a business called Le Boat. There was recently huge flooding on the river and the marina housing the Le Boat vessels broke free and floated down the river. Not...

Our smoke detectors went off twice during the night despite all windows closed and the air handler turned off. Fortunately, they stopped both times without me having to climb a ladder at 2 am. We can barely see across Dewatto Bay (1200 feet), but nothing across Hood Canal. This morning I went...

With the WA restrictions on recreational boating being lifted soon, Beth and I are considering a cruise to South Puget Sound. When talking about it, we realized that we have been south through the Tacoma Narrows on only one occasion to spend a night at anchor at Kopachuck State park about 20...

A search here showed one mention of this product (recommended for a tool kit) with no comment. I just bought some for sealing the teak trim on my other boat's windows and thought I'd mention how it worked. I actually applied the stuff prior to getting it out from covered moorage and seeing...

A friend sent me a YouTube link because of another hobby of mine. Here is an interesting use of an induction burner in the small scale smelting steel. If you don't have lots of time to waste, you can skip to 1:20 and see the induction heat to 1,400 degrees in one minute. It is like magic. Mark

She was actually excited to come home and find this in the livingroom. The distributor was selling these 9' Newport Seascapes on ebay for $400 including shipping. It is PVC, but for $400 it only needs to last a couple seasons. Mark

Here's the details on Saturday night's Seattle Boat Show CBGT from 6 pm to whenever (in a new post so you don't have to read all the way through). The address is 2015 2nd Avenue the Tower 12 Apartments (the NW corner of 2nd and Virginia). Tower 12 is listed online as having public parking...

I looked at Ranger Tugs but then figured that I could save $230,000.00 by buying this boat instead. https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/bod/ ... 62866.html Hopefully, the broker won't get around to deleting the craigslist post for a couple of days. Every time I went to look at the boat I...

The Seattle Boat Show is scheduled for January 24th through February 1. The "Boats Afloat" has been moved from South Lake Union to Everett (????), so that will obviously change the regular shuttle service between events. January 25th is a Saturday and I think that Saturday night is the...

We were sitting in our apartment having a glass of wine when Beth said that she saw a whale spout in front of the Bell Harbor Marina. Usually we see dolphins or sea lions, so I was skeptical. Sure enough, it was travelling very slowly south towards the mouth of the Duwamish River. Then it...

A record was set at Yellowstone and I was there. NOAA weather said nighttime temps would be in the mid-20s. The actual low at Bridge Bay was 20 degrees. Coldest temp on record for that day. I had two sleeping bags, one inside of the other, and slept in my clothes. At Lake Powell, I slept...

I shouldn't be looking at boats on craigslist. I always thought these would make a perfect PNW cruiser. https://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/boa/ ... 46247.html Mark

I'd never heard of blue lingcod. When I caught one at Kyuquot, Beth and I went all through the BC fishing regulations to see if there were special rules. I finally decided to take it in to the processor. The processor said he had seen some of them before and that nobody was certain as to what...

I just finished my "sort of" circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. Kyuquot Sound was the last part of the west coast of the island that I hadn't been to. We launched at Fair Harbour to spend 10 days on Kyuquot, Checleset Bay, and north to the Brooks Peninsula. The Forest Service road in...

One of the non-boating websites that I frequented has a "files" section that has Excel spreadsheets. Another site has a "list" of substitute parts and vendors for hard to locate items. I've looked around on this site and haven't found anything similar (which doesn't mean that it isn't there)...

I just returned from a week on Clayoquot. I don't have the boat cleaned up yet and put away, but the freezer is now full again (it's a little freezer). I checked out most of the boat launches on Clayoquot and Barkley. I was going to launch at Grice Bay, based on some postings here. When I...

If it hadn't squeaked, I wouldn't have seen it. A doe came running out of the woods, so I knew that something was up. I looked around it the wild strawberries and found this little guy. And I mean little. Its hair is still matted. I'm now sitting in the house hoping that mom will come back...

I got a chance to try my tire pressure monitoring system on my trailer. I went with a cheapo 4 wheel version. They make two sensor systems (for motorcycles), but they were more expensive. Two sensors go on my trailer tires (27 feet away) and I put the other two on the front tires of the tow...