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

Well, I finally got Sea Lion wet. Went to Coon Island for the night.
Had an absolutly fantastic time and finally put enough hours on the new motor for an oil change. WOO HOO! Just in time got Halibut next week.
I notices when I got home, however, that someone helped themselves to my bearing buddies :evil:. I guess overnight parking has its hazards. No problem though... I can repack bearings with my eyes closed.
 
Several days ago, I asked Carol what she'd like to do for Mothers Day. She said, "Go Cruising". (What a woman!) She invited a girlfriend and her two daughters to join us. So we launched at Everett (at peak of minus tide) and the 6 of us cruised over to Langley. (We didn't see Harbormaster Ben as he had just left the port). Did see a buddy of mine that I use to work with. (He and his wife have been living on their 32' Catamaran Sailboat for a year and in 5 days she will retire and they plan on sailing south to Mexico). We then walked to town and then returned to Sea Shift for the cruise home. I'm definitely lovin' the chartplotter/radar/autopilot on the new 22'. Also very happy with those twin Johnsons "purring" behind me. It was a pleasure to be able to share the cruise with "guests" on board....something we couldn't do with the 16'.

PS...the weather co-operated with a beautiful warm sunny afternoon :smiled
 
Ray good to hear you got everything back together. Shearwater went in at Newport (slip B10) Saturday. Did a shake down cruise on the bay new hydraulic steering works great. All set for the halibut opener, going down Wednesday afternoon will see you there.

stevej
 
Yes you will Steve. Try not to laugh too hard when you see me backing Sea Lion in with the motor home. It is a lot different than what I am used to. I should be there Wednesday afternoon to early evening.
 
I spent my day washing the salt deposists off of Sunset Ride after fishing and catching halibut in Kachemak Bay Monday and Tueday. Weather kicked up on Tuesday afternoon so headed for Jackalof Bay to wait out the sudden breeziness until we could cross back to Homer. Was also good that we sought refuge for our first time fishing buddy, who spent a short time chumming then a good deal of time sleeping. Fishing was not real good, as we caught only two 30 lb. halibut.
 
Hello from Afar!! As of this writing we are in Scotland!!! Lots of boats but not a darn C-Dory in sight . But am wearing my C-dory Hat, and Tomorrow will have on my C-Dory Shirt too. We are having a great time here, Will journey to the Isle of Skye tomorrow to visit my favorite Scotch Whiskey Dsitillery, Talisker.
Then back south to London and Wales... Will head home Monday see all you Brats later!!! ARRRGGGGGGGHHHH!!
 
Yesterday evening we installed Daydream's new cabin grab rails from Brooks Marine. A half-length one over the galley and a full length one over the dinette. More than once in a bit of rough water we wished we had them, I think they are really going to be nice. They were a breeze to install, they just slip in under the screws that hold the roof grab rails.
 
I know the boating season has already started but today I got going on my first real push for the fishing season and took the Lynn Marie up to her knew slip at the Warrenton mooring basin. This year we actually have permanent mooring status and won't have to move around all season as we come and go from various C-gatherings. The cool part is that we're down in the middle of the rest of the C-Brats instead of the other end of the marina. Even got a slip that I can come into with the helm/starboard side against the dock which I always feel more comfortable at.

With all the fish talent around me I may even catch a couple extra fish this year. With Saturday the start of out sturgeon season it looks like I'll be ready.

Tim
 
PS_Rick":esodr35q said:
Good luck Tim and say hello to Mike if you see him.
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He already did. I just happened to be at the harbormaster's office when Tim pulled up.

Tim - Sorry I couldn't stick around to grab a line for you, but I got kids in grade school, you know! You got an excellent slip. The afternoon breeze is almost always from the west-northwest, and it will hold you right up against the dock. I, on the other hand, always get shoved into the big Tollycraft. We went back down to check it out, and the Lynn Marie looks great sitting there. The Raven will be there soon, followed shortly by the Heron, so it will be a CB CD dock, for sure. And by the way, the blue hose on the rack at the nose of the TyBoo is a C-Dory hose. Help yourself anytime.

Geez - I feel like a new member here. I will be back to my old self soon enough, and thanks for your thoughts.
 
Glad to see you can find some time to post! Has Skipper settled down with the kids? Did Elliott find a good home? Oscar's neutralization went like a breeze (not rubbing it in!), he went off to Lopez the same day he had the procedure, no whining, you couldn't even tell, bouncing around like his same old happy self. All the guys winced and made that patented covering-up motion when I told them, though...
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Geez - I feel like a new member here. I will be back to my old self soon enough, and thanks for your thoughts.
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Took my brother-in-law on a neat little cruise around the Alameda estuary. Saw Rana Verde (Chris?) heading back in from the C-Dog Delta/Bay Extravaganza. Decided to venture out into SF Bay, and things didn't look too bad so we shot over to SF under the Bay Bridge. Rounded the corner at Pier 39, started heading over to Alcatraz, but it was a tad too lumpy so we head back in.

A few pics...
 
I ran outside to check the alignment of the screw heads on the cleats. Sure enough, they were all aligned the same way. :o
Da Nag, now see what you started. :roll:
 
Today was the first time I parked the TyBoo25 on the first try with no crashes. After nailing it perfectly the second try last time out, I discovered that my problem was being too cautious of the Tolly right next to me and making the 90º turn into my slip just a bit too late. The boat would square up and slide over to the dock alright, but was too far back for anyone to get out. With the breeze that comes up everyday about noon hitting it square on the side and blowing the boat away from the dock, somebody has to jump out and grab the side to hold it in. We found out a long time ago that reaching over to the dock from the back doesn't cut it (the boat pivots on a fender and the bow shoots out). But if I cut a little closer to the Tolly, she slides in just fine.

A few more tries, and maybe I'll be able to park it by myself and get out of the cabin and onto the dock in plenty of time. When I had the TyBoo22, I preferred to do it without help. If I hit reverse just enough to stop it, there is plenty of time. I have to figure it all out, because the 25 just fits the family and there's no going back. I still prefer the 22 for fishing, though.
 
OK, this past weekend: Hood Canal shrimpin'! Drove down to Twanoh on Friday afternoon / evening, arrived about 7:00 pm. My cousin Chris and her husband Larry have a nice place at Twanoh Tides, an older development maybe 1/4 mile from the State Park. They came down to the State Park, we got launched, Patty motored over to the buoy in front of Twanoh Tides and Larry and I took the tow rig back and parked it on a vacant lot in their development. Had a nice evening with Chis and Larry, and their kids and grandkids, and then spent night on board, very nice! Hood Canal shrimpin' is only open four days, Saturday - Wednesday - Saturday - Wednesday, for four hours each day from nine am until one pm, and this past Saturday was opening day. About eight am, it was crazy - dozens of boats, maybe hundreds, doing a mad dash from whereever to the favored spot. The water was awash with wakes! To have more bodies for limits (80 per person) all the kids and grandkids came along, six on Larry's Arima 19 Sea Ranger and six on Daydream! Off to Larry's "secret spot" and promptly at nine, the pots went down. Well, for us, it was fairly disappointing. The only variable was the type of pot, we were in the same spot, and using the same bait. But Larry has McKay pots and we had no-name pots, and on inspecting them I could see the McKay pots were a lot better design, shrimp could get in but much harder for them to get out of Larry's pots than ours. We pulled pots after an hour, we had :( only six shrimp in our first pot, about 26 in our second pot. Larry had 58 and 80 or something like that. And so it went for the four hours. But by one pm, we had ten limits, 800 shrimp among us. Back to Twanoh Tides, a little detour at Alderbrook to check out Bill Gates complex. A shrimp feed for dinner (YUM!), another night on the boat, up for breakfast and back home. We are going to have another go this next Saturday by ourselves, see if we can do any better. Saw two C-Dorys out there, Island Hopper and U4EA (Euphoria, I suppose). Honked and waved.
OUT
 
What a free-for-all, Pat. A frantic dash for free food. Clashing, sloshing wakes, tossing small craft like the yellow and red tub toys in my agitated bathtub. Sounds like fun.

I opted for a quieter, middle-aged pace and more compliant, austere cuisine: Nuts and tuna fish sandwiches on a weekend at the UW dock. Depression-era jazz, nature's critters, and my log book were my companions while encapsulated in the bubble of my new camper back.
 
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