SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH OR ON YOUR C-DORY TODAY??
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True, it's not KISS, but then if it breaks one can presumably get along without it and continue the cruise, etc.
I think it sounds like a nifty idea if you have reduced neck mobility, and even maybe if not. I'm interested in which one you chose, how you set it up, etc. I've been thinking of a rear-view mirror for the boat (like a waterski mirror), and for me it looks like mounting it just above the passageway to the V-berth would be about right (so I'm not just looking at the inside of the area above the door or etc.).
I am thinking of mounting a rear-view camera on my tow rig though, and possibly on the boat (second camera on same setup) for when I'm towing. Ever since I had the incident with the M-Y Wedge failing, I've been wishing I could see the engine as I tow. However maybe the one camera on the tow rig would allow me to see it through the windows. Just a glimpse would tell me if all is okay, and one camera would be simpler/more desirable. I'd wire it to be able to have it on whenever I wanted (not just when tow rig is in reverse).
I think it sounds like a nifty idea if you have reduced neck mobility, and even maybe if not. I'm interested in which one you chose, how you set it up, etc. I've been thinking of a rear-view mirror for the boat (like a waterski mirror), and for me it looks like mounting it just above the passageway to the V-berth would be about right (so I'm not just looking at the inside of the area above the door or etc.).
I am thinking of mounting a rear-view camera on my tow rig though, and possibly on the boat (second camera on same setup) for when I'm towing. Ever since I had the incident with the M-Y Wedge failing, I've been wishing I could see the engine as I tow. However maybe the one camera on the tow rig would allow me to see it through the windows. Just a glimpse would tell me if all is okay, and one camera would be simpler/more desirable. I'd wire it to be able to have it on whenever I wanted (not just when tow rig is in reverse).
Larry Patrick
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Has marina install a stern pump with check valve so it wouldn't keep cycling when not needed. Before when we left and flipped switch to auto pump it went on every minute,it burned itself out and needed replacing.
Sunbeam:
I bought the 7" LCD Generic sold by Buyee on AMAZON, $50.99. It is the complete monitor/camera system with 10 meters of cable for the camera. It has infrared imagining for nighttime as well (can see about 20 or 30 ft at night). I mounted the monitor above the window above the helm and added a switch that turns both the camera and monitor off/on. It works for me.
There are many systems to choose from on AMAZON, some are wireless (though require batteries). Good luck.
I bought the 7" LCD Generic sold by Buyee on AMAZON, $50.99. It is the complete monitor/camera system with 10 meters of cable for the camera. It has infrared imagining for nighttime as well (can see about 20 or 30 ft at night). I mounted the monitor above the window above the helm and added a switch that turns both the camera and monitor off/on. It works for me.
There are many systems to choose from on AMAZON, some are wireless (though require batteries). Good luck.
I started a thread on Rear View Mirror/Monitor systems. Here is the link:
http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?t=23404&highlight=
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?t=23404&highlight=
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
Robert H. Wilkinson
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Just watched a video of the Rosborough 246 on you tube and in the list of videos that popped up after it there appeared to be a Cdory. Of coarse I had to watch it - was taken from a larger fishing boat and the Cdory was following in its wake across a bit of nasty water.
Name of video was "Why you should check the weather forecast" posters handle was Superscott69.
Anybody seen it?
Name of video was "Why you should check the weather forecast" posters handle was Superscott69.
Anybody seen it?
Yes - I came across it before. While the conditions were a bit "sporty", the C-Dory following in the other boat was IMO in no danger on it's own. It just chose to smooth out it's ride by following in another boat. Pretty standard practice in my book.Robert H. Wilkinson":7w2dhyb8 said:
South of Heaven
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YESTERDAY 9/14: I had the day off from work and took the 16 to The Boston Harbor. I launched in the Charles around 11am and eventually made it to Spectacle Island by 1pm or so. It's about a hour ride up river to the locks because of the speed limit. I hung around S.I for a while then continued to Long Island and then headed east to Deer Island. This was about 3pm or so and the water changed dramatically! There was heavy seas from south of Deer Island to the entrance of the inner harbor. It was hard to make headway because the waves were coming from different angles and crashing on the port and sb side and the bow. It was sustained 3-5 feet waves. HAD A BLAST THOUGH! LOVED PUTTING THE 16 through a good sea trial. All the other boats did a double take when they saw my boat out there going up and down. Love it!
I don't winterize my boat so need to go out every few weeks. Central Puget Sound was beautiful today*. Friend and I went from Bremerton to Brownsville, only saw a few other boats. Stopped by a smoked meat shop and bought a little smoked Copper River salmon.
*it was not beautiful the previous week, nor later this week. LOL
*it was not beautiful the previous week, nor later this week. LOL
Cindie and I have been solidly working a couple of house projects for the past two months but I plan to get busy with boat projects soon. In the meantime....
Reposted for your enjoyment from John Vigor's site today. I think this is very close to how many of us relate to our boats when they are not actually floating.
What real sailors do in winter
I WAS ONCE ASKED by someone who had spent a long time in the sub-tropics: “What do northern sailors do in winter?”
Well, some go skiing. Some flee south in RVs. Some go away on cruise ships. These are the dilettantes, the dabblers, the amateurs, the superficial tire-kickers.
And before you accuse me of using big words you can’t understand, let me explain that a dilettante is someone (especially someone French) who follows sailing for an amusement, a diversion. Someone who doesn’t take sailing half seriously enough.
The real sailors are reading books of ocean adventures. They’re studying boat plans and looking at ads for Herreshoff 28 ketches. They’re making plans to get time off from their partners, and continue their clandestine affairs with their boats.
They’re poking holes in the shrink-wrap so they can get inside and sit on the saloon couch for a bit, maybe making a cup of coffee on the stove and searching for the half-bottle of rum they hid in the cabinet for medical emergencies.
They check the bilges for water and crank the motor over half a turn by hand, so the impeller doesn’t take a fatal set. They check that there’s air circulating through the cabin, to deter mold. They switch on the VHF, listen to forecasts of raging storms, and grin to themselves, snug in their winter refuge.
They read with delight the logs of their past year’s cruising, and dream of those lovely lazy breezes and warm seas. They play back in their minds, time and time again, the peaceful nights at anchor, the early-morning call of the loon, and the shrill cry of a kingfisher carrying breakfast back to a forest of open beaks.
The thing about serious sailors, as opposed to those dilettantes, is that they are in love with their boats. They can hardly bear to be parted from them. They tend and care for them. They talk to them as if they were flesh and blood. They nurture them. They praise their good qualities and pardon their faults.
And in that definitive demonstration of ardor, they look back, long and hard, when they part. That’s what real sailors do in winter.
Reposted for your enjoyment from John Vigor's site today. I think this is very close to how many of us relate to our boats when they are not actually floating.
What real sailors do in winter
I WAS ONCE ASKED by someone who had spent a long time in the sub-tropics: “What do northern sailors do in winter?”
Well, some go skiing. Some flee south in RVs. Some go away on cruise ships. These are the dilettantes, the dabblers, the amateurs, the superficial tire-kickers.
And before you accuse me of using big words you can’t understand, let me explain that a dilettante is someone (especially someone French) who follows sailing for an amusement, a diversion. Someone who doesn’t take sailing half seriously enough.
The real sailors are reading books of ocean adventures. They’re studying boat plans and looking at ads for Herreshoff 28 ketches. They’re making plans to get time off from their partners, and continue their clandestine affairs with their boats.
They’re poking holes in the shrink-wrap so they can get inside and sit on the saloon couch for a bit, maybe making a cup of coffee on the stove and searching for the half-bottle of rum they hid in the cabinet for medical emergencies.
They check the bilges for water and crank the motor over half a turn by hand, so the impeller doesn’t take a fatal set. They check that there’s air circulating through the cabin, to deter mold. They switch on the VHF, listen to forecasts of raging storms, and grin to themselves, snug in their winter refuge.
They read with delight the logs of their past year’s cruising, and dream of those lovely lazy breezes and warm seas. They play back in their minds, time and time again, the peaceful nights at anchor, the early-morning call of the loon, and the shrill cry of a kingfisher carrying breakfast back to a forest of open beaks.
The thing about serious sailors, as opposed to those dilettantes, is that they are in love with their boats. They can hardly bear to be parted from them. They tend and care for them. They talk to them as if they were flesh and blood. They nurture them. They praise their good qualities and pardon their faults.
And in that definitive demonstration of ardor, they look back, long and hard, when they part. That’s what real sailors do in winter.
Marco Flamingo
Active member
I'm working on my boat, of course. I figure that I've climbed in and out of my trailer about 800 times since August. I've come to appreciate steps on the fenders and now see fender position as important as tongue weight on a properly setup trailer.
I just finished one of the books recommended in an old thread about what to read during the winter (for us northern boaters). Totem Poles and Tea is about the experiences of a school teacher/nurse living on the inside of northern Vancouver Island in 1935, where she taught grade school in a one room schoolhouse. It turned out that I had been to the little settlement of Mamalilikulla. While staying on Minstrel Island years ago, our hostess showed us her collection of trade beads and said that the beach in front of Mamalilikulla was a good place to look. There were still a few broken down buildings covered with salal. I didn't find any beads, but poking around those islands was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again.
The book is good reading for those interested in the area. Having messed around in Blackfish Sound, Kingcome Inlet, Alert Bay, etc., it was fun to read how remote the area once was. I'm hoping that the other book recommendations are as good. Now back to my many boat projects.
http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibit ... z4a02b.jpg
Mark
I just finished one of the books recommended in an old thread about what to read during the winter (for us northern boaters). Totem Poles and Tea is about the experiences of a school teacher/nurse living on the inside of northern Vancouver Island in 1935, where she taught grade school in a one room schoolhouse. It turned out that I had been to the little settlement of Mamalilikulla. While staying on Minstrel Island years ago, our hostess showed us her collection of trade beads and said that the beach in front of Mamalilikulla was a good place to look. There were still a few broken down buildings covered with salal. I didn't find any beads, but poking around those islands was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again.
The book is good reading for those interested in the area. Having messed around in Blackfish Sound, Kingcome Inlet, Alert Bay, etc., it was fun to read how remote the area once was. I'm hoping that the other book recommendations are as good. Now back to my many boat projects.
http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibit ... z4a02b.jpg
Mark
Trailer Fenders to use as steps :thup :thup I think you want good sturdy ones. I love mine, after having to use a step ladder to get from the ground to the cockpit on my sailboats, fenders are really great.
I am in the process of reading too, "Old Glory" Raben. Just getting into it, a boat trip down the Mississippi in the 70's.
No on my Boat, but on really nice CD-25, I got to ride in the Portland Christmas Ships parade, past down town Portland and up the Willamette River to Milwaukee.
Thanks Rob, it was a great night on the Jean Marie.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon
I am in the process of reading too, "Old Glory" Raben. Just getting into it, a boat trip down the Mississippi in the 70's.
No on my Boat, but on really nice CD-25, I got to ride in the Portland Christmas Ships parade, past down town Portland and up the Willamette River to Milwaukee.
Thanks Rob, it was a great night on the Jean Marie.
Harvey
SleepyC :moon