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The "Ageless Wander" has attempted a number of adventures with his 16 foot modified Jon Boat. He lelt Pensacola Pass on Saturday, July 12, morning at about 7:30 AM, and arrived in Fort Myers on Sunday Evening. By the next morning he was offshore off the East Coast of Florida, with the intent...

I wish all of our extended family of C Brats Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year. May your waters be smooth, and your cruises long this next year. May your motors run well and no core delamination raise its ugly..bilge. Marie, Gigi and I send our love to all of our friends out...

To all of our C Brat extended family, Marie and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. Despite many problems in this world, we all have many blessings to be thankful for. We are honored to have members of two or our extended families represented at our Thanksgiving Feast: James and Betty of Molly...

We often have C Brats with used electronic gear, or trying to find a replacement of one component where they don't want to replace an older single component or even just a bad cord. In Today's Panbo blog There is a piece on Max Marine Electronics. (Two separate links--first the article and the...

Merry Christmas to all out there in C Brat land. We have a wonderful extended family. Next year make it a resolution to go to a c Brat gathering, and meet some of our characters for "real" From Bob, Marie and to all canines and felines, a Merry Christmas from Gigi the Mini poodle.

To my friends who knew my close friend of over 60 year: C A Derivas. C A Passed on this morning. He was a master mariner. In 1973 he circumnavigated the World in 18 months, in a 32 foot boat he had built with his wife and two teen age girls. CA also raced this boat, including the...

I suspect that many of you already know about this project: Moananuiākea is Hōkūle‘a’s 15th major voyage in her first 50 years.. This is certainly a publicity filled voyage, yet it is epic if they are really using ancient navigation techniques, No power or engine aboard. A page of diagrams...

It has been since Feb 1 since we have a post from "Hardee" (Harvey on "Sleepy C). Has anyone seen, or heard from Harvey? How about our Sequim brothers--seen him around town? It is not characteristic for him not to be posting very regularly. I know he had some motor cycle trips planed--and...

Here is a link to the website for Race to Alaska which starts this next week! Race to Alaska I get carried away with the race, and usually get up several times at night to check the tracker and cheer for my favorite team. Harvey usually is on the safety committee, but I haven't seen any...

Due to some glitches in the mechanisms of the site, the ad for second C Dory 25 owned by Randy Irwin ad was not able to be answered. I just found out about it. Randy bought Thataway, my 2007 C Dory 25 over a year ago. He already had a 2004 C Dory 25, and had wanted to buy "Sea Weed"...

Gigi brings the message of Merry Christmas and Happy New year from the gang at Camp Thataway to all of our extended family at C Brats. May your New Year bring Peace, Prosperity and more C Dory Adventures.

Just a few minutes ago, we had a direct lightning strike on one of the boat trailers parked on our lot. (Flash/bang-no delay, and Marie saw the strike). If we had a C Dory on the trailer, there would be a lot of damage. We will inspect the trailers in the morning. Moral, do not every go out...

We as Americans share a heritage with our Canadian brothers and sisters, and although Queen Elizabeth is not "our monarch" she is still revered by many of us. We all send our condolences to the Royal Family and her "subjects". My daughter and her family spent a little over 2 years in London...

I bring very sad news. Brenda Russell notified me today. Bill Russell passed on August 27 and services were held on August 31, 2022. Bill and Brenda bought their C Dory 22 Falcon in the fall of 2004. from 3 Rivers Marine, Crystal River, FL. They took their first long river trip, in the...

I would hope that the above post is not "spam", an advertisement for "Owen and Sons Trailers"... They have a good reputation, and if this is spam, then I would be disappointed, in that I felt that Owen and Sons would be above putting spam out for their trailers.

This boat was recently purchased by a boater in Juneau: There are more photos, but I hope that the owner hops over to the C Brats soon and he can tell us more about the boat. He is building a Tolman 23'6" wide body, so he knows about semidorys. He has described the boat as a 1989 model...

Many of use love a good sea shanty. Power and Motor Boat has daily subjects. Todays was on: An English group named The Longest Johns. During this interview there is history of the group, and several sea shanties. If you just want to skip to their music, then Here is a 57 minute video at...

For those of you who are sailors, ex sailors or want to be sailors, here is a great video of 2021 in the sailing world! This is from the Scuttlebutt web site which is a daily upload for my computer. The majority of these boats is way beyond my pay grade, despite having raced ocean racers up...

Thanks to ssobol for posting about Defender having the "Webasto Black Forest 31 Qt Fridge Freezer" for $250 or $199 if you join "Defender First". They apparently are still in stock. We ordered one 6 days ago and it arrived today. It is very similar to other chest freezers in this size...

Angel passed over the Rainbow Bridge March 1, 2021 at 5 PM in the arms of Bob. and Marie. She was born in April 2006, She was rescued in September 2010 from the Pensacola Pound, and has been the sweetest dog we have ever owned. She loved the C Dory. She came to live with us less than a month...