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

Thanks Jim, Bob....Sounds like a redneck I used to know... :shock:

Actually, Sally, when we brought her little sailboat home from GA, said "now you'll have to get a little power boat to go with my little sailboat".

How could I let that opportunity go. We just came back from a short ride, her first on it, she drove. It's a sporty little thing, nothing like driving the TC....

Seats, radio, GPS, Plotter, Oh My! :cry

Charlie
 
Charlie;

Now is the time to add a 'Lifty Kitty' to get the little guy up with the
big guy. Now, is it ready for a run to the Dismal Swamp in Chesapeake,
yet? If you need a VHF radio, I have a KING VHF7001 (25W) at the house
I use to just monitor the band.

I PMd you abt my SmartPilot CPU. It has been removed & returned to
Raymarine for repair and update. I chose a hot day, Thursday to
remove it with 98 degrees in the cabin, in the marina's barn. I'll expect
it back in abt 6-8wks.

I believe you have the S1 CPU, verses the S1G. How well does your S1
hold its data after recal with power off? Have you gone to the 'Align
Heading" on the controller to fine tune the track?

I guess I will have to stop being lazy and handle the helm manually
without the AP. I know I will have more fun playing 'steer-the-boat",
besides just dock maneuvers.

Now I have an excuse to go to the marina and play at cleaning and
waxing. GEE,, it may even save me $250 if I do it myself. Work must be
done to save the investment and love toy. :roll:

Everyone have a blessed and safe weekend.

Art
 
Art, I replied to your PM. I got none of those complicated things. Just a pump and a computer that hooks up to the GPS and the E-80. No problems, not sophisticated but darn, it works!.


Charlie
 
YESTERDAY (OK - I came home tired last night) the Loose Nut went in the water for the first time in almost a year. That Honda 90 started right up first touch of the key and we ran around Whiskeytown Lake a bit to stir the oil around in the engine.
Sea Wolf (Joe) was kind enough to come up and snap some pictures and e-mail them to me because this technologically challenged person hasn't figured out how to deal with the camera chip and the computer. THANK YOU JOE! Great photos, we will put them to good use.
It took several tries to start the kicker but once it got going we gave it a workout. I just wonder if kickers start hard because they don't always get started up, and maybe the gas in the line to the kicker is extra stale?? It seems to take about the same amount of trying before our kicker finally agrees to run.
The new Furuno radar worked just great - installed a year ago and never turned on after that - and my son just turned it on (no directions) and it worked.
Anyway it wad great to be 0n the water - even just for a couple hours.
Again thanks Joe

The other Marcia
 
The weather at the beach has been miserable for the past couple of days (weeks?) with a rough ocean, and big time fog this morning. I am not sure the Garibaldi Tuna Classic (which is this weekend) is going to be a success where fish are concerned. Today was very foggy, yesterday the bar was closed most of the day to anything under 30'.

Sooooo, I drug the boat home and started hauling all of the fishing gear out, and started getting it ready for Lake Powell. A couple of weeks of scrubbing, and I might have all the fish scales out.

I did see "Auntie Dote" and "Mar's Magic" in their berths.

Steve
 
Yet another great weekend in the San Juans!

Got to Hilton Harbor Friday afternoon, had to wait to get in the water, the big fork lift broke down blocking the way to the lift! About an hour delay, finally got in the water, arrived at Tombolo Cove on Decatur Island, after setting crab pots in Reads Bay between Decatur and Center Island about 7:30 p.m..

Saturday had visits from Jeff and Christie Messmer (Ranger Tugs) and Amy, who were having a picnic on the tombolo, and then from Chris and Janet Erickson (Luna-C). Pulled the pots, LOTS of crabs, kind of made up for a whole season! Lots of paddling with Baxter in the Yellow Peril, the NRS seat is going to be great when we get the D-rings glued in!

Sunday morning, fogged in! Fog lifted on Lopez Sound about 10:30 a.m., out through through Lopez Pass, Rosario still a major fog bank! Boated by Braille to the Rosario side of James Island, grabbed a buoy, had lunch and waited out the fog. Over to Guemes, installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix on David's Acer Aspire One, then back to Hilton Harbor, where we pulled out for the season.

Back home about 7:00 p.m., flushed engine, still have a bit of clean up to do!
 
Yesterday we headed down to Homer harbor and splashed the HIGH TIDE. My son John & wife Stephanie, enjoying their 6th anniversary, along with their two little boys, my wife Carolyn and I boarded and headed out of the harbor past the Alaska Ferry Tustemina and over to Otter Cove. From there to Tutka Bay which is a 8 mile fiord into the mountains. We cruised with the 9.9 enjoying the beautiful day. Then out and up to Jakalof Bay to see the hundreds of oyster farm floats. The bay looked completely covered with colored floats. Then out and up to Seldovia harbor and tied up in transient. I stayedon board baby sitting the boys while the rest walked up the ramp into town. The harbor master walked by and commented on a nice looking C-Dory..........thankyou very much. When they returned there was icecream for all. Then load up and out of the harbor. Instead of heading back we went out into the south Cook Inlet around Poggy Pt. to troll for silvers. It got REAL sloppy, 6-7' seas with a tide rip. Little Jack said to me,"grandpa, this is not good. This is not good grandpa". So we spooled in the lines and headed 23 miles back to Homer. After pulling the boat we went up to John's house and babysat the kids while they went out to eat for their anniversary. We finally left homer and drove the 45 miles back to our house arriving in pitch black at 11:30 PM.
It was a great day and one of the few cruising days that we get each summer.
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Toby and I just returned on Saturday from a 2 week trip on the Comfy Dory down to the Florida Keys. We left our home on the ICW on Merritt Island, FL on Friday morning the 14th and were able to make 118 miles that day, spending the night in a little cove at the north end of Lake Worth. The next day's travel through many Manatee and Boating Safety zones kept us down to only 85 miles with an overnight in a little bay behind Oleta State Park in north Miami. 3rd day we made it down into Biscayne Bay where we cruised around Key Biscayne looking at the beautiful homes and boats and then a few hours anchored on a sandbar swimming a relaxing. Spent that night further south behind Elliot Key hiding from the wind. Next day's travel was down through Biscayne Bay into Card Sound, Barnes Sound and Blackwater Sound and then through Jewfish Creek and under the US1 Bridge to Key Largo. For the next week, we explored the Middle Keys all the way down to Bahia Honda Key which was our furthest point south before we turned back up the Keys. We caught some Mangrove Snapper, Lane Snapper and I had my first time catching the elusive Florida Lobster. Caught 7, but was only able to keep one of legal size. What a thrill! We snorkeled through some beautiful water and saw all kinds of coral and tropical fish. We took 3 days coming back home from Key Largo. It was our longest trip to date at 767 miles round trip! Only had a slight problem with the Honda 75 which I solved by changing out the fuel filter. AC system with 5000 BTU wall unit through the front window with power from a 1000 EU Honda made the warm days bearable. Typically it was about 95 degrees outside and in the cabin by the time we stopped and set up the AC for the night. We slept in 70 degrees at night and I usually got up at about 4:30 to refill the generator each night.
We decided that next year, we will probably trailer the boat down to Bahia Honda and use that as our base to explore the lower Keys and maybe even the Dry Tortugas.

Tad and Toby
 
Slowly getting the classic in shape. New v-berth cushions, storage drawer inplace of pottie and new seats made with only the folding mech. retained. Yesterday the teak rails were removed and sanded with 8 coats of varnish starting today. Have not decided what to do with the dead-dead exterior finish. " Any ideas or solutions to the problem?"
Ron
 
Hi Marvin,

Yes, it was a great trip and fortunately I kept a log/journal so that we can remember it! Without a daily record of the trip, we just cannot remember the details like we would like to. It's even hard to remember what happened yesterday without writing it down.

I do not know about whether Bahia Honda has a storage facility. We did not stop at the park, but planned to contact them in the near future to get an answer to that question. Even if they don't, I have to believe that there is some facility near where they could be stored.

I was somewhat surprised that I did not see any C-Dory's during the entire trip, although our little boats would only qualify as tenders for the Mega Yachts that line that section of the Waterway.

Tad
 
I splashed our C-Dory today for the first time. The trailer lights came in yesterday so mounted them last night. I had trouble getting the ground connection to work using the mounting hardware so ended up drilling fresh holes into the trailer and they worked immediately. I've also almost completed remounting all the hardware with oversized holes filled with epoxy. Only one place with some rot where one of the flush rod holders was mounted.

The launch went without a hitch. After all day of blustery weather with showers the sun came out and it was almost flat calm on Puget Sound. She pops up to plane at 8 knots, cruised at 19 knots at 4800rpm. Not a cough or hiccup from the Honda 45 which hasn't run in over 3 years. Went from Eagle Harbor down around Blake Island and back with osprey, seals and sea lions to see. An awesome day on the water :mrgreen:

Chris
 
marvin4239":3nvfftuz said:
Tad sounds like you had a great trip. Do you know if there is a place to store your truck and trailer at Bahia Honda? Thanks for sharing your trip.
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Bahia Honda State Park does have a ramp and a few places to park truck/trailer. No idea what the charge is for either. I'd suggest you give them a call to see what their current situation is. The campground books up months in advance, the marina generally doesn't. You can also anchor just outside the marina, but there is some exposure there depending on wind direction.

Bahia Honda is one of our favorite places in the Keys; nice small beach, showers at the campground, and a snack bar with ice cream. :wink:

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Iput up 4 eye bolts so I could use carrabeners to hold up a privacy curtain.i also installed a new Uhf antenea. I got some more eye bolts to hold my big fender line. I used a carrebener for the fender and a smaller one that the line is tied to.I drilled a hole for the eye bolt and it is mounted above the hand rail. The eye bolt is mounted on the the top and the line runes underneath the hand hold to the eye bolt to hold it. Will post pictures soonWe also went out but it was white caps. It was too rough for us, the wind was causing white caps. :D I am happy for the time, but sad that I have to go to work tommorw
 
FIshing Fishing Fishing

we caught, and put in the boat 6 pinks. how ever it would have been 16. i lost 6 fish i could not get in the net, tom lost two at the boat and 4 more that i hit with the net and knocked of his line. he said it was expected as he was fishing with his wife.. now what the heck does that mean. :crook

good day on the snohomish river , spectacular clouds and lightning, and not at work

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Don' cha know! While Tom is out fishing, we are busy doing exciting things like emptying the Airhead! And doing a little color restoring and waxing, cleaning the interior, amd generally getting ready for a long road trip to Page, AZ, in five days for our 10 days on Lake Powell!
 
Splashed Fan-C-Dory at Campbell Point on Table Rock Lake in Missouri. Plan to do a couple of weeks, more or less, still waiting for Texas to cool down. Tied to a buoy off the Brother-in-law's house then a T'storm popped up so [ since he didn't know what was under the buoy Jan, Snack and I took a vote and headed for a nearby marina for a restful nights sleep..

Tomorrow the FEDEX man is supposed to deliver our new anchor and rode so MAYBE we can start hooking it. This boat had a 9# Danforth with maybe 75' of 3/8 rode - it will have a 22#Delta, 300' 1/2" and 20' of chain. I joked that I had dangles on my key chain bigger than the anchor that the boat came with who sells folks these things ?? Danforth says the 9# is good for a 27' boat in 20 kt winds - course they don't say how much concrete it is buried in !
 
Heading out right now to the Great Dismal Swamp Canal and Lake Drummond for a short cruise into NC. Will post some pics this afternoon. The fall weather is starting to come in and it is cool enough to attempt the swamp.
 
Just got back from my last weekend out at Neah Bay.

Friday - left mid day and drove past the Sequim gathering on my way out to Neah Bay. With better planning I could have been there but I had to go out and retrieve my boat. It's been moored at Neah Bay since July and it was time to get it home. We got there Fri. around 5PM, loaded stuff into a cabin we rented and then went out for a brief fishing attempt. I caught about 3 small pinks but didn't feel like keeping them. We quit around 7:30 and went in for a great pizza (Linda's wood fired pizza is awesome!) and a bottle of wine.

Saturday - We hit the water around 6:30. We fished off of Waddah island for awhile but got nothing. Then we moved out to the middle of the straits and got nothing. Moved out to the end of the straits (half way between Tatoosh and J-Buoy) and I picked up two very large but wild coho. After about 4.5 hours of mediocre fishing, I decided to go out to the NE corner of Table Top. That was a 45 minute trip but it really paid off. We were there for about 45 minutes and picked up 4 hatchery coho. One was about 8lbs and the other 3 were around 12-15. After I had 3 in the box, I even through back an 8 lb coho and wound up trading up for the largest of the trip.

Sunday - Today we didn't bother to fish. Just slept in, put the boat on the trailer and headed home. All-in-all a great weekend.
 
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