SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH OR ON YOUR C-DORY TODAY??
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El and Bill
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Roger --
As you know, El loves your shrimp, and loves boats, but even she thinks you paid a higher price for those limits than you might at the fish market! Whew, what a day. Our best to you and Liz
As you know, El loves your shrimp, and loves boats, but even she thinks you paid a higher price for those limits than you might at the fish market! Whew, what a day. Our best to you and Liz
Roger,
You should have waved when you came by! I was out there too, and that was some nasty, huh? 25 knots at Smith Island and I was pulling pots by myself. The whirlpool off the SE corner or Lopez with the current coming three different directions and the wind snorting out of the W sure keeps the wheel turning. Limit in one pull.
Dusty
You should have waved when you came by! I was out there too, and that was some nasty, huh? 25 knots at Smith Island and I was pulling pots by myself. The whirlpool off the SE corner or Lopez with the current coming three different directions and the wind snorting out of the W sure keeps the wheel turning. Limit in one pull.
Dusty
Dusty
I didn't see you out there,but then I was pretty occupied to look around much....lol....
What boat were you in???and where were you layin your pots??
I am thinkin about gettin out there a couple more times afore they close the season on us. Might have a seat open for someone.....LOL.....
I didn't see you out there,but then I was pretty occupied to look around much....lol....
What boat were you in???and where were you layin your pots??
I am thinkin about gettin out there a couple more times afore they close the season on us. Might have a seat open for someone.....LOL.....
Roger,
In the CD22 (green trim) -- pots down about 1 mile west of SE corner of Lopez (Davidson rock) -- there is a small area where the current isn't too strong and the 10+ inch spots seem to gather. :lol:
I was so busy bailing water out of the cockpit from splashwell running over that I wasn't looking for other boats!!
May try today, but slack is pretty late -- and you know what happens when the pots drag
!!
Rusty Dusty
In the CD22 (green trim) -- pots down about 1 mile west of SE corner of Lopez (Davidson rock) -- there is a small area where the current isn't too strong and the 10+ inch spots seem to gather. :lol:
I was so busy bailing water out of the cockpit from splashwell running over that I wasn't looking for other boats!!
May try today, but slack is pretty late -- and you know what happens when the pots drag
!! Rusty Dusty
Dusty,
Was that bailing water like with a bucket? That would seem to be a lot of water in the cockpit :shock: Was the bilge pump not able to keep up? You fishing guys like get out in the ruff stuff. If I had to bail the cockpit I think I would be plenty scared! Or is that normal for a CD22 to take a little water that you need to get out?
Steve
Was that bailing water like with a bucket? That would seem to be a lot of water in the cockpit :shock: Was the bilge pump not able to keep up? You fishing guys like get out in the ruff stuff. If I had to bail the cockpit I think I would be plenty scared! Or is that normal for a CD22 to take a little water that you need to get out?
Steve
Well NO, it is not normal for gettin that much water in the cockpit . I must admit that it was probably rougher water than we should have been out in but the C-Dory handled it with flying colors. a little water in the cockpit we can live with. a lot of water is a diferent story altogether......lol......
yes Dusty, we know all to well about drifting pots don't we
yes Dusty, we know all to well about drifting pots don't we
Water wasn't all that bad. Automatic bildge pump aft was handling it okay, but I was helping a little. Unusual condition, but when you pull a shrimp pot from 300 ft. the boat stern is facing the current and swell -- with lots of wind the splash well gets full... normal situation and not a problem. Beats the rocking chair!!
Dusty
Dusty
Mr. Fisherman
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Well today I mounted my Fathers Day present, a Navman Fuel Flow meter. The hole that already existed was too large so I had to make a shim. Ever try to center a 51 MM hole into a 2 1/8 opening? Good times.
More to follow soon...
More to follow soon...
Roger/Dusty: WOW... way differant than Gulf Coast shrimping....pulling the net at idle speed for about an hour, goose it just a bit for about 20 seconds to force WHATEVER is in the net (and that gets real interesting) back into the catch bag section, pull her in, dump it into a dump tray, watch out initially for things that bite/sting/poke/cut/stick.... toss that stuff overboard as quick and safe as possible... then dump the good stuff in the cooler. All in about 5 to 20' of water. Hopefully I can get a taste of that on Friday, Sat, or Sunday of the gathering....
Dusty: Looks as if I will be meeting either Tyboo or HelenO at Deception Pass Marina on Friday morning for ride from Land-lubberville to the island of Blakely. We gotta meet if you do not plan to attend the gathering.
Dusty: Still no email from you??? Send me something to make sure I have not hit some magic button and inadvertanly marked you as spam... I have truly missed your input on thigs... Get my email on USS AZ? Sent to me via another retired Navy 06 with command time.
ALL: Heading out to see firework display, clean/load boat to go to Hilton Head NC to deliver a bride to the pier of a wedding taking place waterfront on Saturday, 9Jul05. Heading back to Lake Martin on 10/11Jul, heading to Nashville on 12Jul to cook the BBQ for the gathering, 13Jul cook the BBQ, 14Jul fly out to the gathering, come back eastside on flight sometime Monday 18th of Jul05... Then do some honey-do work around here after being gone 2 weeks to play with my boating friends. Aint America GREAT !!! Happy 4th and Thanks to all who are or have served our Country and Communities in anyway. Byrdman....hitting the road!!
Hit it Willie
Onnn The Rooooad Again.... I just cant wait to get on the roooad again... but that cause Willie never had a C-Dory my Friend..
Dusty: Looks as if I will be meeting either Tyboo or HelenO at Deception Pass Marina on Friday morning for ride from Land-lubberville to the island of Blakely. We gotta meet if you do not plan to attend the gathering.
Dusty: Still no email from you??? Send me something to make sure I have not hit some magic button and inadvertanly marked you as spam... I have truly missed your input on thigs... Get my email on USS AZ? Sent to me via another retired Navy 06 with command time.
ALL: Heading out to see firework display, clean/load boat to go to Hilton Head NC to deliver a bride to the pier of a wedding taking place waterfront on Saturday, 9Jul05. Heading back to Lake Martin on 10/11Jul, heading to Nashville on 12Jul to cook the BBQ for the gathering, 13Jul cook the BBQ, 14Jul fly out to the gathering, come back eastside on flight sometime Monday 18th of Jul05... Then do some honey-do work around here after being gone 2 weeks to play with my boating friends. Aint America GREAT !!! Happy 4th and Thanks to all who are or have served our Country and Communities in anyway. Byrdman....hitting the road!!
Hit it Willie
Onnn The Rooooad Again.... I just cant wait to get on the roooad again... but that cause Willie never had a C-Dory my Friend..Pat Anderson
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Read Roger's saga of Friday a.m. - we were out in it too, a little farther north, smack dab in the middle of the Strait of Georgia at 11:00 a.m., where it was (thankfully) only ~3' seas, but very close together and confused. Seasick crew, cabinet doors flying open, stuff crashing to the floor...the Admiral was not a happy camper...Launched at Blaine, cleared customs at White Rock, originally headed for Telegraph Harbor, Thetis Island, on way to Pirate's Cove, De Courcy Island. Patty pulled me off that idea and we headed south instead to Reef Cove, Cabbage Island (this is TOO good a spot, I almost am reluctant to share it! The cove is tucked right between Cabbage and Tumbo islands, near Saturna, about a dozen mooring buoys and good anchorage as well, nice beach, camping for the kids). The change in direction helped a lot, seas were still big but we now had a much better angle on them. In the morning, all was calmed down, through Boat Passage between Saturna and Samuel islands (scraped on a submerged rock in the Passage, no damage but a little paint scrapped off my brand new skeg, damn!), and we headed up inside for Telegraph Harbour, short visit with an amateur radio friend who lives right on the harbor, or "harbour," if you prefer, and on to Pirate's Cove. Pirate's Cove is a really neat spot too! Lots of boats close together, with stern ties to the sandstone rocks on the shore. Sunday a.m., the run back to Blaine was like glass inside the Gulf Islands, once again a little bit gnarly in the Strait, but nothing like Friday, whole trip back from De Courcy to Blaine was under four hours. Would have stayed out another day, but company coming in from Pennsylvania today. All in all, a great long weekend, except for three hours Friday morning, and even that will fade into a fond (??) memory! Ain't it GRAND!!!
Well got all the teak mounted finally......Think I got fuel tank and battery mounting figured out...(will probably change 3 times before tomorrow morning). Kicker bracket all rebuilt and kicker mounted. Cetol on door is done. Just need to put gloss on dash and bulkhead. new lights mounted ( still need to be hooked up). New Racor mounted. 1 new self centering keel roller on trailer. Batteries all charged up. New ant mts on. (need to solder plug). Need a reality check.... Red Fox has done all his way cool stuff over yrs I was trying to do it all in 2 wks......Tomorrow is wiring day and a couple of little fiberglass projects. Gotta start setting up seafair on Sat then back to the desert for a couple of wks on Mon...I'll Be sitting in the middle of 3 million square miles of sand thinking about C-Dory stuff.
Chuckpacific
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Saturday I woke at 4:30, drove to Tomahawk Island, left the car in the parking lot and began the trip downriver to Cathlamet. I got there at 10 (thanks to flat water and a heavy foot) and Sue drove the car down meeting me right after noon. We cruised the Knappa area of the Columbia up against the Oregon side and anchored that night at a spot called 'Devils Elbow'. The next morning we completed the Clifton (grounding in an outgoing tide situation with 8 inches of water under the hull and having to jump out and drag the boat to deeper -2 ft - water!! Misread the chart on that one!!), Prairie and South Channels ending up at Tongue Point (just East of Astoria). Lots of wildlife sightings on the tidal flats....a number of communities that time seemed to have passed by sitting on the once heavily used side channels. We began a lazy trip back to Cathlamet on the main channel, arrived about 4, left the boat, got into the car and took the Cathlamet/Puget Island ferry back across to the Oregon side before proceeding home. We'll leave the boat at Cathlamet for the next month or so choosing to drive down and spend the weekends on the boat exploring that great area.
Just returned from a Fri-Sun fishing trip at Neah Bay. Fri. got there about noon went out and caught about 10 silvers - none too big, most wild kept none. Had a decent afternoon bite but action was only fair (for that area - super by Puget Sound standards). Went out early Sat AM. with my fishing buddy and his son. Was a little west of Waddah island (maybe 1 mile) in 270 feet of water by 5:15AM - did nothing but bait, set lines and reel fish in for the next 3 hours. Silver fishing was hot - surface to 40 feet down, we had a fish on every couple of minutes with many doubles.
Most were smallish - 3 lbs or so but we got a few larger ones. Everyone had their limits (2 fish of which one may be a king) but one as we kept throwing fish back looking for one good king. Never got it, eventually kept another 5 lb silver.
Outside waters (past Tatoosh) were rough - 6-8ft seas with 2-3 ft of chop on top) on Fri and Sat. so we chose not to run out to Blue Dot (30 miles from Neah Bay). We went past Tatoosh a couple of times to check things out - we could boat safely, but fishing in that was not fun. Those who did make the run came back with kings from 20-50lbs.
Area 4 (Neah Bay) is only open for salmon Tues-Sat so we ran to area 5 (Sekiu) on Sun. Fishing was slower there but we had our limit of silver by about 11AM. Then ran out past Tatoosh into the flattest waters I've seen on the outside. Wish we could have fished for salmon out there because Sun was beautiful until about 4PM. We cruised around a bit looking for schools of Black Rock cod (AKA Black Seabass locally). Found some huge schools of 5 lb'ers and reeled in 7 a piece (limit is 10 each). When we were over a good school, it was crazy - 3 lines down, 3 fish on in 30 secs. , reel 'em up, toss 'em on the cockpit floor and drop down again 2-3 more fish. Then we'd get off the school and have to hunt around for 10-15 mins or so, repeat. Filled the cooler to capacity, filled my port lazarette to capacity (mine's set up as a fish box) and went in. Overall a great weekend of fishing. I was especially happy to share it with a friend and his son who both said this was the best fishing they had ever seen.
Saw a couple of other C-Dory's out there. A 22' foot cruiser "Dances with Waves" and a 16 angler - couldn't see a name - baby blue trim.
Roger on the SeaDNA
Most were smallish - 3 lbs or so but we got a few larger ones. Everyone had their limits (2 fish of which one may be a king) but one as we kept throwing fish back looking for one good king. Never got it, eventually kept another 5 lb silver.
Outside waters (past Tatoosh) were rough - 6-8ft seas with 2-3 ft of chop on top) on Fri and Sat. so we chose not to run out to Blue Dot (30 miles from Neah Bay). We went past Tatoosh a couple of times to check things out - we could boat safely, but fishing in that was not fun. Those who did make the run came back with kings from 20-50lbs.
Area 4 (Neah Bay) is only open for salmon Tues-Sat so we ran to area 5 (Sekiu) on Sun. Fishing was slower there but we had our limit of silver by about 11AM. Then ran out past Tatoosh into the flattest waters I've seen on the outside. Wish we could have fished for salmon out there because Sun was beautiful until about 4PM. We cruised around a bit looking for schools of Black Rock cod (AKA Black Seabass locally). Found some huge schools of 5 lb'ers and reeled in 7 a piece (limit is 10 each). When we were over a good school, it was crazy - 3 lines down, 3 fish on in 30 secs. , reel 'em up, toss 'em on the cockpit floor and drop down again 2-3 more fish. Then we'd get off the school and have to hunt around for 10-15 mins or so, repeat. Filled the cooler to capacity, filled my port lazarette to capacity (mine's set up as a fish box) and went in. Overall a great weekend of fishing. I was especially happy to share it with a friend and his son who both said this was the best fishing they had ever seen.
Saw a couple of other C-Dory's out there. A 22' foot cruiser "Dances with Waves" and a 16 angler - couldn't see a name - baby blue trim.
Roger on the SeaDNA
starcrafttom
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james and i went crabbing saturday and saw no less then 4 dorys. a new owner of a blue dory at he ramp. the girls from the boaty-savay staying the night at jetty park and then two 16 fters fishing the bubble. we got no fish but did get 8 crab. All in all great day on the water.
Well the boat arrived last Wednesday from Texas. On Saturday I pulled the shift cover off the outdrive and disconnected the shift cable (it was frozen). After checking out the outdrive I cut the last 4 inches of the shift cable off so that I could remove the cable. The cable had gotten comprimised at some point and had rusted up solid. I've not removed the cable and purchased a 27' long replacement from Mercer Marine. I hope to install that tonight.
I also disconnected the hydraulic steering cylinder as it is rusted up. I'll finish removing it tonight and see if I can rebuild it. I just talked with the US Rep for Marol. They are the MFG of the hydraulic steering on my boat. He was EXTREMELY helpful! If I can't get the cylinder working myself I can send it in to a place back east and have it rebuilt. That will save me some precious funds! He also told me it would be a simple matter to add the second helm station! Woohoo!
The next task is to remove all the spark plugs and spray some light oil into the cylinders and crank the motor over. Then in with new plugs and get her running!
I will still have to replace the driveshaft boot on the outdrive this summer. But if the engine will run and I can steer I just might make Blakely!
I also disconnected the hydraulic steering cylinder as it is rusted up. I'll finish removing it tonight and see if I can rebuild it. I just talked with the US Rep for Marol. They are the MFG of the hydraulic steering on my boat. He was EXTREMELY helpful! If I can't get the cylinder working myself I can send it in to a place back east and have it rebuilt. That will save me some precious funds! He also told me it would be a simple matter to add the second helm station! Woohoo!
The next task is to remove all the spark plugs and spray some light oil into the cylinders and crank the motor over. Then in with new plugs and get her running!
I will still have to replace the driveshaft boot on the outdrive this summer. But if the engine will run and I can steer I just might make Blakely!
Jack in Alaska
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Received my new BarStar hydr. steering today. Anxious to get it installed.
Ordered some Durabak polyurethane slip resistant(ground up rubber particles) light gray deck coating to spiffy up my worn out deck surface. It is great stuff and color matches exactly.
Bought some new u-bolts to rearrange my trailer side bunks to be able to launch/retrieve in rough water more efficiently & safely Have you ever tried driving on your trailer in 3 footers with a cross current???. YeeeHaaa.
Ordered some Durabak polyurethane slip resistant(ground up rubber particles) light gray deck coating to spiffy up my worn out deck surface. It is great stuff and color matches exactly.
Bought some new u-bolts to rearrange my trailer side bunks to be able to launch/retrieve in rough water more efficiently & safely Have you ever tried driving on your trailer in 3 footers with a cross current???. YeeeHaaa.