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

Finished my 4th coat of Pettit Interprotect 2000E hull sealer on my hanging boat at the marina. Lots of prep work. Tomorrow I start on the bottom paint. I am sore all over. Be glad when its done. I'm getting too old for this.
Had the boat for over a month and havent even run it yet, but I'm confident it will be worth it.
Boat will be in the water and ready to go at the marina 1/4 mile down the road.

Good night.
 
Tried to get the Lowrance LMS-337C DF to talk NMEA 0183 to
an Icom 422 VHF. DSC and all that good stuff. Yikes...(I posted a
question about it on thehulltruth.com - I won't repeat it here.)

Mike
 
Yesterday we took Kingfisher in to Canvas Riggers for full cockpit canvas. They have just opened a new "shop" near Anacortes with a 15 ft door so thay can take a CD with radar arch and do the work safe and sound inside.

Had instant withdrawal symptoms so we went to the Farmhouse for sustenance and had the pleasant surprise of meeting up with Ruth and Joe !! That put us in a better mood ! Thanks guys, you are always so cheerful.

Today, no "toy" outside to play with so I spent a pleasant hour or two in the non intellectual pursuit of fillling out the electronic applications to:-
a) Talk to the FCC and get a FRN number
b) Fill out FCC 605, file it and pay for a "Station license" including Schedule B which should get me a new MMSI number
c) Fill out FCC 605 Schedule E , file it and pay for it which should get me a Restricted Operators License.

In the course of a) I supplied all pertinent data about myself, which all had to be re-typed in to the 3 other forms even though the "system knew" who I was because I had to give them my FRN number first !!

Now I will wait and see what happens.....

After all that, If I don't get to see and talk to one of those "hovering alien spaceships" I will be upset.

Merv
 
Well I finally broke down and took my 'baby' to the canvas shop Monday to get a full mooring cover. I've been using 2 sections of lightweight material so far, had to replace it every 2 years for about $150. Since this boat has proved to be a keeper, I decided to spring for the cover. They are installing a zipper just after of the cabin to split the cover into 2 pieces to ease in the handling weight and also provide easier access inside while covered. Should be done this Friday, they have been doing boat covers and biminis for over 40 years.

Funny thing (which I'm getting used to), the canvas shop manager called me back later Monday and said he thinks he could have sold my boat about 20 times so far today! I simply told him DON'T even think about it...!
 
Finished the electronics install (well, the part inside the boat. The
new transducer still needs to be mounted), and got the GPS talking
to the radio. Now I just need to find someone that also uses DSC
to see how well this all works.

I coded my own MMSI and tried an individual call. Obviously, I didn't
pick it up, but it is kinda cool how it works.

Photos in our album...

Mike
 
I picked up my radar today - a 3 year old Furuno 1712. Checked it out at the owners house. He bought a new to him used boat with it on but took it and the radar arch off to fit it under his car port. $700 for a working radar. Have to get it mounted on the $200 new radar arch I bought at the factor dinner. Hopefully by Poulsbo I'll have it attached and working. Not too bad - radar and arch for less than $1000 total!...

Also spent today fixing the things that were screwed up when the batteries were replaced at Searay Lake Union in Redmond. I took the boat there for a variety of service items - 100 hours on both engines, new steering cable and idle cable, new coupler on the trailer, new brakes, new batteries and re-seal the transducer through hole. Took them about 6 weeks to get to the work. I picked it up two weekends ago and when I got home I discovered that a number of lights were non-functional as was the second bilge. I figured a fuse or two might have gotten blown but didn't take the time to track things down until today.

Couldn't find any blown fuses so started poking around some more. Here's what I discovered
1) One of the two batteries was not tightened down - e.g. the batteries holder was not attached at all - it was simply hanging loose.
2) Both batteries were sitting on wires. When I lifted one, it was on top of three ground wires which were not re-attached to the negative terminal of the battery.
3) The other was sitting on the leads that go to the bilge pump. No damage was done to the leads but probably would have resulted in wear through since they were under the battery that wasn't clamped down and were pinched in the corner of the battery box.
4) One of the wing nuts from one the terminal on the batteries was rattling around loose in the box. Whoever worked on it, dropped it and didn't bother to fish it back out - a new one was installed instead. Not a big deal but later on when it found its way onto the cockpit floor it would have made me worry.

Bottom line, I spent about 1.5 hours repairing the repairs.... I'm not wildly impressed with the electrical work there. Tomorrow, I go out to see how the did on the engine work. I'm hoping that was done by a different guy. Mon AM I call SeaRay to give them some feeback on the work. :roll:
 
This morning, Steve and I started the installation of the remote kicker speed control I got him for Christmas -- got the "rear" part finished and went in to start the electrical connection and mounting the controller. Took off the cover from the electrical panel and Steve touched one wire and everything went out....he said, "What did I do THIS time?" :) He pulled the wire back in the position it was in before he pushed it back a bit and voila! the lights came back on..pushed it .... off .... pulled it ... on. We called Sportcraft Marina and said "Houston, we've got a problem." As usual, they said to bring 'er in and they'd fix whatever it is....Jerry took a look when we got there and couldn't delve into it right then, but said it might be a bad switch or something else.

Sportcraft had some excitement Thursday night when some cops in high speed pursuit all the way from Canby chased the culprit at 60MPH about 2 AM (if you have been there, you know how white knuckled THAT drive must've been) and the guy crashed the gate, hit a brand new 22 CD and knocked it into 3 others, pushing them all....and hit a twin 150 Max right off the mounts (it's hanging by a thread), by knocking it into some rocks AND ruined the trailer of a nice looking Duckworth that is there on consignment. The guy fled on foot and the cops were unable to catch him...they heard a splash in the water, but local residents think that was just a beaver startled by all the ruckus that went in the water.

I asked them to make sure there are no high speed chases in their storage lot while the CatyMae is there :lol: They're going to see why the anchor now hits the boat when it is tightened with the windlass -- and finish the installation of the remote kicker control -- hoping we get her back next weekend.

We'd taken the boat in a few weeks ago for tuneups on the motors -- when we went sturgeon fishing last weekend, Steve asked me if I'd changed the prop on the motor. I looked at him like..."are you serious?" and answered no, I didn't. He was getting 6000 RPMs (we've never gotten over 5200 before the tuneup) and AND we were going 28 MPH (tops before was 23.8, I think) -- we thanked Sportcraft for the turbo charge!

Caty
 
Got the rest of the split loom installed so the rear port speaker wire is
now properly hanging, and installed the helm cover. As usual, it
wasn't about to be re-installed just by screwing it on. The holes were
long stripped out. However, I put some red oak on, and then screwed
the cover into it. I've seem some of the sliding setups, but it was way
too cold outside today to do anything fancy. This will work anyhow.

And then we vaccumed an entire winter's worth of project saw dust and
fiberglass dust out. And removed all the spare parts, screws, wiring
stuff, etc. It's off to Honda for a checkout on Tuesday.

Also, I re-wired the cabling going up the center hatch. Got all the
wires inside a 3/4" split loom casing and held on with 1" ring clamps.
Looks cool. No wire ties. Took at least a month to get those 1" black
ring clamps.

Mike
 
rogerbum":w7i4dhld said:
Gosh - I hope they catch that guy! He should be charged with attempted C-Dorycide or something.
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fersher! I'm betting the guy with the Duckworth would be happy to take care of that feller! I'd be sick if that was my boat. I guess they'd stopped the guy in Canby and when they asked him for his license, he took off -- guess he KNEW he'd be goin to jail if he hung around.

Roger...reading your post...don't think the repairs done at the dealer gave warm fuzzies at all....hope they can work to C-Dory's (and their owners) expectations -- are they overwhelmed with a lot of work? Sportcraft is hoppin busy.
 
Ahhhh
Finally found time to get out today-- first time since October!
Pulling away from the dock was a whole lot of fun--- almost ran into the rocks! Every time I turned to port-- I went to starboard, and when I turned to starboard-- I went to port. WHAT THE????????????

I had a new ram installed on the hydraulic steering- they install the lines wrong. 10 minutes and I had them switched back to where they belong and I was going where I wanted to go.

Saw some whales about 3 miles out of the harbor. Went out around Anacapa Island over to Santa Cruz Island, fishing several areas for little action. Water was in a mixed state today- kind of like a washing machine.

All in all- a fun day on the water.
 
rogerbum":2q5wu8gh said:
<stuff clipped> Tomorrow, I go out to see how they did on the engine work. I'm hoping that was done by a different guy. Mon AM I call SeaRay to give them some feeback on the work. :roll:
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Well - I went out today to fish. Launched at Edmonds around 7AM and motored over to Point No Point. The engines ran fine on the way over. We trolled around on the port engine for about 1.5 hours and then I went to switch over to the starboard side. Started fine, pushed the throttle forward the engine speed went up but it wouldn't shift into gear. No bad noises, just no pleasant light "clunk" and no prop turning. This is the furst time the boat's been run since the 100 hours was done and since the lower units were removed to replace the impellers. Given that I heard no bad noises, I don't think anything is damaged in a serious way but perhaps the shift linkage is loose someplace. I pulled the cover off the engine - didn't really know what to look for but didn't see anything obvious (other than the fact that a broken cable tie was left inside the engine cover).

So to you marine mechanics out there...
1) What's the most likely source of the problem? E.g. what's the most frequent cause for a Honda 40 to not shift into gear when it should?

2) Am I wrong to assume that there is a high probability of of a connection between the service that took place just prior to me using this and the problem? The service was 100 hour service + replacement of the impeller and the same on the other engine + a replacement of the idle cable on the other engine + replacement of the steering cable. I'd normally assume that this was a new problem - but given the lack of attention to detail on the electrical work, I'm not real confident in the other work either.
 
Oh - on a happier note..

We saw Checkpoint II fishing point no point, another blue 22 CD with no name fishing down at pilot point and an older red 16 ft fishing there too. We got one keeper blackmouth around 11AM at Pilot point - a nice fat 24-25" fish. Then we ran over to Possession (on one engine) and picked up another smaller one (23"). Then ran home to Edmonds.

BTW - on one honda 40 wide open 4500RPM, 9.2kts. Not quite on plane.
 
Roger,
I had a somewhat similar predicament about a year ago. After considerable "tinkering" around, I found the "simple fix" was to tighten one of the screws on the side of my shifting binacle. It had spontaneously loosened up (ie: had not had any work done on it), and was just loose enough that one of the shifting levers wouldn't catch enough to drop one of the engines into gear.

Hope, your problem is this simple. (I would suspect that if this is the problem, that perhaps the mechanic working on your vessel my have accessed your binacle and inadvertently caused the problem).

P. S. When I had the problem, I was again glad that I had the twin engine set up... :wink
 
Last week my daughter asked if I'd take her and her boyfriend (of 3 yrs) to Catalina to see the marathon this past weekend? After mulling it over for about 2 1/2 nanoseconds, we planned it and went (not without some scrambling though to get new batteries and a myraid of other "to-do's" that needed done since it hadn't been out for months. Friday we were to leave early afternoon, that went out the window with my daughter's extra long appointment for her new job to start next week. After an hour and half drive at rush hour, we left the dock at 7pm to head for Catalina. Our 'sunset' cruise turned into a night cruise with fog (1/2 - 1 mi vis). Throw in some wind, lumpy seas -- we travelled slow, got there a little after 9:30pm, radar perfect, all systems fine. Had a wonderful weekend, even the Wallas heater fired up and ran on cue. Saw a gray whale with 'her' babies and a pod of dolphins to escort us back to the mainland. What a life, one of those great to be alive weekends!
 
Steve, that post put a big smile on my face! Your daughter asking and planning stuff with you... the boat making the trip doable in the conditions... whale babies and dolphins... not just "great to be alive", but great to have this boat in our lives. :D

We spent most of the day cleaning Wild Blue (took all the cushions/rug runner out and vacuumed them while Joan wiped down and scrubbed the entire interior. I even got the truck washed. It wasn't a trip to Catalina, but we were "messing about in boats", and that ain't bad.

Thanks for sharing!

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
I got my boat back from the Gulf and want to show off the new teak wood rod holders Lee at Wefings made. They double as roof supports for the AC
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Home in the slip at the Ridge Marina on Lake Martin
 
I drove my boat back to SeaRay Lake Union at Redmond to get the new problem fixed (starboard engine doesn't shift into gear). I explained the problem with the substandard electrical work. I indicated that if it wasn't for the clear errors in that work, I'd give them the benefit of doubt on this problem. However, given the lack of attention to detail on the battery replacement, I assume that the new problem was caused by the 100hr/impeller replacement work. I got a sympathetic ear and agreement that there really wasn't an excuse for the electrical work. They'll supposedly look at it first thing tomorrow and hopefully will get it fixed quick. I'm hoping that I'll have the boat back in time for Poulsbo but may be visiting by car.
 
Hey Jeff!

Lookin' like a real Cruise Ship with that A/C, radar, and In Motion Satellite TV Dome (?) !!! Hot Tub on board?

What brand of A/C unit is that? How many BTU's? How about the starting and running amperage?

What kind of generator do you have, or do you just run it on shore power?

How well does it cool the CD-25?

Did you pick out the unit yourself, or did Wefing's?

Joe.
 
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