SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH OR ON YOUR C-DORY TODAY??

Tim -

After dinner I am going down to check on the TyBoo. Do you want me to glance over the other green CD down there? Me being the nervous type, and close to the docks, I will probably not miss too many days of checking up on things.

Oh, and here is a bit of info you may not have been aware of. That blue hose hanging on the aluminum-and-stainless-pulp-mill-style rack just across the dock from your boat is for use on any C-Dory it will reach. Please take the time to rinse the twigs off your deck before leaving the dock. Where the cripe were you sturgeon fishing, anyhow? You must have run under some low trees. Sure you weren't bass plugging?
 
Thanks Mike,

I appreciate the offer to keep an eye out for us. It's a long ways up the road to check things out on a regular basis.

Part of our sturgeon trip was up towards the end of alder slough. Didn't have much luck there either since the smeltamandors haven't been much of a run yet this year. That water in there was a lot warmer though and my guess would be somewhere around 61 degrees. I can tell that by reaching over the side of the boat and sticking the upper 1/3 of my hand in. That's something that you can do from the back deck of one of these here 22 footers without the risk of landing head first in the crick.

Tim
 
If you can't buy your own (or another) C-Dory, how about watching someone else but theirs? Over the weekend I helped a friend purchase his new boat up in LaConner. It was great climbing around in it checking out the modifications/additions that had been done, as well as the differences between a 97 vs my 04 (w/hidden galley). Some great ideas on that boat I will borrow for mine! Both of the previous owners were retired and kept the boat in great condition, and used it relatively little - 160 hrs - since 97! If guess if your not in your own boat - be in someone else's!

I'll try a pic - 75 Honda + 8hp kicker with steering bar.

 
I can state with a reasonable degree of certainty that the sturgeon are not feeding in the lower Columbia yet, but the crabs still are. But, it was cool to go fishing! Yesterday the water out there was flat calm and no wind, so I called a friend to set a trip for this evening after work. Today, the wind was blowing and the water was a bit choppy, but the anchor held, we got to practice fishing, and watch a sailboat race up close. A little too close for a moment. The water temp in the channel was 52º - a little cool yet for the big fellers.

Tim - I know you are reading this one! Your boat is still floating just fine. There is one suggestion I might offer, though. If your inflatable PFDs hanging on the inside of the aft bulkhead are auto inflaters, you might want to pick another spot to store them. I made a nifty little cubby hole in in the closet on the aft wall of my boat just to hold our auto-inflate PFDs. Sunday when I launched the boat, I discovered two of the them had auto-inflated and I had to dig around to find the deflator valve just to get them out of the nifty little cubby hole. Me thinks they might absorb some moisture through the back wall, even though it is cored where they touched it. I went ahead and pulled the rip cord on the other one. Of course, this is the third year for the things, and I had never replaced the pill or the cartridge in them. So now is a good time, anyhow. We kept them up in the V-berth the last two seasons with no problems, but they were only against the wall for a month or so before they puffed up.

We're going to try the sturgeon fishing again next Saturday, late morning. I think that is the last day before the two week closure, but maybe I better be certain in case we do snag one. Might even run up to a sweet spot above Tongue Point. Then again, might not. I have only two spots where I have caught lots of sturgeon, and it is real hard for me to like fishing them anywhere else.
 
Thanks for the tip Mike,

May just have to move them up to the bunk, always wounder about self inflating of the susspenders but from what I understand that they continually absorb a bit of moisture. Given that I always take them and the cushions out of the boat during the winter and store them indoors where we run a duhumidifier. We keep it in our utility room and the house stays pretty much at between 45 & 50% year round. It's one of them little Sears jobs but works just fine. Not just good for the vest and cushions but it even keeps the crackers crisp.

I have been planning on a Saturday fish trip as long as the weather is going to be good on Sunday. I have to haul some stuff back from Dad's place and have to take off the truck cover to get stuff in but it also has to stay dry. I'll know more by the end of the week. I may even go above the Young's Bay bridge and give that a try. Saw it on a fishing map.

Tim
 
No. I was responding to the topic. What did you do on your C-Dory today. I caught the fish. Why did you think it was an ad?
 
No sir, that ain't no ad! He's just mighty proud of that fish. I would be, too. And if I were close to Milwaukee, I would sure take him up on the CBGT suggestion!

I whipped up a Stormy II album and linked it to your profile, David T., so you'll have a spot for some more pictures!

Nice fish!
 
Cool Tyboo, thanks.

I don't catch that many of that size....but I have been thrilled with my C-Dory.

I started fishing in March this year, and with the pilot house (i was used to a grady-white dual console) i am totally comfortable. Everybody asks me about the boat...there must not be that many in the midwest.

I will continue to post fish pictures, but my ability to land gator brown trout should not be the deciding factor in retaining me if you are brought up on charges.
 
Beautiful fish David! Looks like you've got some good spots up there and Bill and El are interested too!

A word of caution about your signature block, there lots of other types of "pfisherman" out there too that will suck up your e-mail address, phone numbers etc and you may find yourself the target of spam or even worse. Of course, you being a "man of law", you can probably handle that and more! :lol:

Again, great fish, send us more pix.

charlie
 
Recently I bought a new used tow vehicle - a 1984 F250, 351 cleveland, long bed, extended cab. After replacing the main seal and oil pan gasket, the vehicle is in great shape - only 117kmiles, runs strong. Already had a heavy duty hitch and wiring but wasn't rigged for the electric winch. I spent an hour or so yesterday installing the wiring for the winch and took the boat out with the new tow vehicle for the 1st time this AM. Tows better than my Isuzu Trooper - the F250 doesn't even know the boat's there.

Launched at Eddie Vine ramp just north of Shilshole at about 6:30 AM today in search of ling cod. Spent most of the time near Restoration point but no luck - just some flounder. Ducked into Blake Is. for a brief pit stop - can't believe I've never stoped there before. Very nice, have to go camping there some time this year. While the fishing was nothing to write home about, the weather was great and we had a generally nice time cruising about and watching the seals and sea lions.

Did have one strange occurence - was crusing NNE at 15 knots quartering into the chop when the port engine raised up and starboard seemed to dig in deep. Pitched the bow up and right a couple of feet and dumped everything off the table. Had to throttle back to keep things under control. Didn't hear a big thump so I don't think I hit anything hard - inspection indicated no damage to either engine but was a wierd thing none-the-less. Anybody else have something like this happen to them? Maybe we should start a thread on "unexplained/unexpected handling issues, wakes and waves"...
 
After my vacation slowly changed from cruising to the Bahamas, to the Florida keys I finally got to try the salt. Do to recent employment I only got out for four days but I have CD $$$ coming in. :smile What an awsome experience. After waiting for Bluchart maps for ten days I went without them. I had Two gps's and a AAA map so I wouldn't get lost. My destination was Dog island about 70 miles east. Launched out of Tyndall Airforce base by Panama city inlet. The fuel seemed to hover at about 15 gallons and I thought she gets great mileage. Soon after the engine died. What looked like fuel in the tank in the bright sun was really a shadow cast by a cutting board leaning beside it. Won't make that mistake again. With one tank empty I broke the 1/3 rule and (kinda freaked) and found fuel not to readily available. The marine chart would have been handy for fuel as well as depth also. We stayed inside a huge bay one day/night and found it very easy to find 1ft of water 1/2 mile from shore. We often had to lift the motor to shallow water drive and skim the 12 inches to find deeper water. Not fun... When I did find a marina on the VHF it was 15 miles to the west. Our destination of Dog Island was about 15 miles east. I could have made it but decided to not push my luck. Thunderstorms where predicted and it was gusting to 20 knots at times.

The tide table on the gpsmap76 was neat. I new in the morning we would be high and dry. With just enough time to cook breakfast my wife and I pulled the boat to deeper water after it began to float and headed up the intercoastal to return to Tyndall.

The boat was way heavy with 20+5 gallons of water. Full fuel. Two big coolers and one medium cooler full. One big action packer for of camping gear/cook stoves and BBQ. And all the other stuff one collects.

New additions tried together for the first time where the Permatrim and a Solas 4x13x15. Both performed great. But hard to tell what gets the credit. I was dissapointed in my boat's performance in the past. It was running a new 3x13.3/4x15 Michigan prop. I had a bad squeal (loud)at 2300 rpm that sounded like the belt tensioner pulley bearing going out. I had the hood off many time listening with a stethescope. Well it must have been that michigan prop because it stopped when I removed it. (POS) I noticed that the engine is quieter at low RPM. Might be the permatrim sticking out over the prop or the Solas with smaller exhuast ports?? MUCH smoother prop operation at all speeds. I read about prop vibration but the change was dramatic. I can't see ever running a 3 blade again on this boat. Ran over several 4 ft rollers and had a blast. The hull would hang in the air as I crested the wave and usually would set down smooth. Ready for the next one. I lost about 2mph and 300 rpm on the top. Much less prop slip. The 4x7x10 Solas on the 15 kicker worked great also. The props really made the boat!
 
OK, yesterday we began the long process of putting our "stuff" back on the new Daydream. Hopefully we will be very selective about what goes back on. The increased amount of storage is really nice! Got a home "shore power" cord ginned up - a 30A 125V connector that plugs into the boat on the end of a standard orange three wire extension cord - this will also connect the Honda 2000i generator to the boat's shore power system. Heated up the hot water, ran the fridge, turned on the charger, plugged stuff into the outlets, just for funsies - all working as advertised! Glued up the chart rack David made, we'll see how I did when I pull the support out tonight! Most importantly, Patty installed the carpeting in the aisle, which with the shape of the CD25 aisle requires some good measuring and cutting. Fits perfectly! It is amazing how important the carpet is to the "hominess" of the cabin! A bit more to be ready for the Memorial Day cruise, but we got a good leg up yesterday! Pix in a few days...
 
Busy weekend for the SeaDNA
1) The black rubber bow roller that came with the Ez-Loader trailer split and needed to be replaced. Bought a new no-mar one from West Marine and put that on.
2) Replaced the old "fully automatic" Rule 1100 (runs every 5 min model) with a RuleMate 1100. Pried out the base of the old pump and a little fiberglass came up with it. Seal that up and installed the new base with JB-Weld as recommended on the recent bilge pump thread. After making the initial hook-up, discovered that I had no voltage at the pump and the old one probably didn't need replaced. Then I discovered that even though the pump is wired to a switch at the helm, it was fused through a fuse in the battery box in the starboard lazarette. Why - I don't know. Had extra fuse space on the panel at the helm (I had checked all of those fuses previously...). None the less, the fuse holder that was used in the battery box was filled with very thick (and apparently salty) water. I can't see a way for water to have gotten into it - but it did.
3) Installed the 2nd bilge pump in the stern bilge well - this is the std. Rule 1100 with a separate float switch. Don't have it wired in yet but will in the next week or so.
4) Got out fishing some on Memorial day. Put in at Edmonds and cruised up to Mutiny bay to see if I could find one of those elusive puget sound halibut. I didn't - caught lots of nice flounder (released them all) and had a decent lunch at Port Ludlow. Weather was calm most of the day and in most places between Edmonds and Port Ludlow so it was 20+kts cruising for most of the time.

Overall, another excellent day in the life of a C-Dory owner.

Roger on the SeaDNA
 
We watched the Patriots toss tea bags off the British cargo vessel, Geddes, into the river in protest of the hated tea tax. Then, the party began in Chestertown, MD, with music, parades, dancing, and a little downed grog. Great time -- east coasters should mark this gala event on their calenders for next year. The cruise up the Chester River is worth it for that alone, but to have a party at the top end? Great!
 
Roger-

"I discovered that even though the pump is wired to a switch at the helm, it was fused through a fuse in the battery box in the starboard lazarette. Why - I don't know. Had extra fuse space on the panel at the helm "

The bilge pump is usually wired directly to one battery with its own fuse and switch and does not go through the main battery switch or the helm fuse panel so as to allow the pump to be left on when moored without having all the other electrical/electronic circuits activated. This of course, is to allow for rain water or leakage removal without incurring all the hazards of leaving the rest of the circuits activated.

Sounds like you had a great day on the water! Joe.
 
On our way to Stevenson, Washington (on Wa 14), Sunday, we noticed two tall ships in the Columbia as we passed Washougal so we stopped at the marina for a better look. We got the name of one of them (Lady Washington) and after a quick online check found out that they were leaving for a return trip to Vancouver on the 30th. We returned the next day by boat and followed them as they made their way back downstream. Unfortunately there wasn't much of a wind and they had to use power........nothing like seeing a tall ship "furled out"......
I posted a few pics in our album.

Chuck
 
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