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

Monday afternoon, I took my wife out on L. Ontario. We ran out to 100' depth, and then spent an hour or so drifting: I made coffee; then my wife read a book stretched out on the sofa-lounge in the cabin (see photo album), while I took a nap in the cockpit seated in one captain's chair with my feet propped up on another.

Then, "coming to," we saw a freighter making its way eastwards in the shipping lane. On a whim, I decided to go out and take a look at it. It was 10 miles out: a nice run out and back @ 22-24 mph. The freighter was pushing quite a large bow wake; not much visible behind...except for the large swells, which were fun to "ride" as we headed back to shore.

C'est la vie! (It's the life!)
 
AFTER A 20 MONTH HIATIUS I FINALLY GOT THE C-DORY BACK ON TO THE WATER HERE AT COFFMAN COVE AK.
THE DAY WAS SOMEWHAT CHALLENGING WITH 4 FT TO 6 FT SWELLS DURING THE EARILY PART OF THE TRIP TO AROUND COFFMAN ISLAND AND ON TO LAKE BAY. MY FRIEND BILL AND I DRIFTED WITH THE TIDE WISHIN' FOR SOME FISH FOUR 4 OR 5 HOURS,.
BUT WE DIDN'T HOOK UP WITH ANY.
WHEN WE WENT TO RESTART THE MAIN 100 HP THERE WAS AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM. PULL STARTING A 100 HP MOTOR IS QUITE A CHORE BUT IT GOT DONE.
WHEN WE GOT THE BOAT HOME IT WAS TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE ELECTRICAL PROBLEM WAS.
AFTER SEVERAL HOURS OF DIAGNOSITC TESTS I DISCOVERED THAT ONE OF THE CRIMPED CABLE ENDS INSIDE THE BATTERY SWITH BOX WAS LOOSE. I TRIMMED BACK THE CABLE AND CRIMPED A NEW END ON BOLTED THINGS BACK UP AND PUT THE H2O EAR MUFFS AND WATER ON TOUCHED THE KEY AND IT FIRED OFF JUST LIKE IT IS SUPPOSED TO.
IT WAS GOOD TO GET THE BOAT BACK ONTO THE WATER, NOW TO CATCH SOME FISH!!
REGARDS TO ALL,
 
Wednesday morning's weather was so nice that we decided we'd go to Point Roberts, WA. This is something we've talked about for years and NOW we were going to do it! We'd have lunch there!

On the way north we poked our heads into the the marinas at Blaine and Semiahmoo (To Starcrafftom, your Dad's boat is looking good).

Then on over to Point Roberts. I don't know what I'd been expecting but for any of you who have been to Lopez and walked to the 'village' ......well all I can say is that there's even less to do at Point Roberts! From the fuel dock we started walking into 'town'......sometime later we noticed this gentleman talking to some folks with BC license plates. We asked him where the 'town' was and he replied that "This was it".........he asked us where we were from and we told him "Bellingham"......he shook hands with us and said how pleased he was to see some Americans. That nearly everyone he meets is a Canadian. It reminded me of one of those scenes out of a WWII movie where the Americans came in and liberated the town. He was so excited about meeting us that I didn't have the heart to tell him I'd been born in BC. We left this kind man and started walking down Gulf Road.

Went into a place name Captain Bob's. Basically a bunch of groceries and some clothing. Passed the first restaurant which appeared to have more of a dinner menu. We just wanted something like a hamburger. A bit further we came to this little cafe type place. Very laid back and quite hippie. Immediately made me think of an ex sister in-law who couldn't wait to put patches on her jeans back in the 1970s. We ordered veggie wraps. Not bad. Even had some avocado in it! Oh, the dog who came in to visit everyone is named Rescue! Then the walk back to the boat! By that time I was ready for a nap. Point Roberts is not a bad place just boring. Joe said that the only reason he'd go back there would be for gasoline or to clear customs.

From Point Roberts we went to Sucia. The docks were already full so we used a mooring buoy for the first time. A lady from one of the yachts paddled over to our C-Dory. She questioned us as to whether we were able to sleep on 'that little boat'. We assured her that we did quite often and it was not a problem. This morning we had our oatmeal and coffee and went back to Bellingham. We cruised into the south entrance of Squalicum Harbor and located that new Ranger 25 (the one we passed a couple of weeks ago on the way to Port Townsend). Wonder if they plan on naming it? Then over to the launch ramp. Home before noon. Just had a great time. Weather was fantastic. Dolphins, sea lions, a family of geese (mom, dad & four little babies). Just precious!

Ruth and Joe
R-Matey
 
Caryn is out of town which gave me a great opportunity to work on some boat projects over the 3-day weekend. The major project completed was the installation of a Furuno 1623 Radar. But first, I installed the Radar Arch that I got from the Factory Party in January, via Barry and Patti of C-Cakes. Long story short, Barry was one of the grand prize winners of the tall Radar Arch for a CD-22. I knew they already had an arch installed on C-Cakes so I decided to ask Barry what it would cost to take his prize off his hands. Barry graciously offered to make a deal, one too good to pass up and we were the proud owners of a beautiful spanking new radar arch. Thank you Barry and Patti for your generosity and willingness to work with a fellow C-Brat. Pardon me for waiting so long to publicly acknowledge you but I was waiting to install the arch before telling the story.

I still need to figure out the wiring connections of the radar to my Garmin GPS. Any help would be appreciated. Other smaller projects completed were, installing a stainless steel hold down clamp for the wobbly table. It works great, no more wobble! I installed Folbe rod holders on both sides of the gunnel. For you fisherman, the Folbe rod holders work great! They're a little pricey but they make pulling out the rod when a fish is on really easy, especially when you have long handles on your rods. They work much better than the rod holders clamped onto the Scotty down riggers, imho.

Projects left to complete. Finalize the installation and configuration of the radar. Install and configure the Raymarine S1000 Wireless Autopilot. Attach a connector bar between the main and the kicker. Then, after all that is done, Caryn and I will both be able to fish from the cockpit. Just in time for our big trip to Uclulet in August. We can't wait!
 
We've gotten to really re-introduce our 7 year old daughter to the joys of boat cruising the past few weeks. (due to medical complications and then a boat/ramp mishap that cost most of last summer we haven't done much boating the past few seasons.) The first Sunday afternoon we were in we met up with many friends at a local waterfront restaurant, yesterday we went to Havre De Grace, MD to eat at a dockside cafe and play on their large playground, and today we met up with my brother and her cousins for some swimming and tubing. Then she got to watch ScoobyDoo on the boat while we got to hang out with grownups at the dock until everyone decided we had to call it a weekend. What a fabulous weekend, and how wonderful to really be part of it all again!

Bonnie
 
Spent a nice, 4 days out of TeraMiranda Marina in Monkey Island, OK. The azaleas were blooming... wow... shades of Byrdman, Pat! The local menu also reminds me of Byrdman... maybe he came by and instructed them on proper food groups: Deep fried peaches, The Pig Pile sandwich, and Mr. Ozer's breakfast - crunchy hash browns, browned onions, bacon, sausage, tossed in cheddar cheese with two over easy eggs on top! And, biscuits and gravy comes with every breakfast...... aarrgghh.

A local Raymarine guy finally fixed my off and on E-80 setup. Turns out the original installer had grounded the SeaTalk cables.

My little sis and I fired up the little Magma Newport grill on some local, thick ribeyes and life was good...

Good, up 'til I fell into the water and lost my glasses in the 18' deep dock area... 'Had to hire a diver to come get them. Quite a neat character.

Also met my dockmate, two boats down - an author from Arkansas... now that is some real professional source of serious BS.

Swapped out my 9,000 Btu A/C unit for a portable 12,000 Btu unit from Pep Boys that weighs less, is smaller and uses fewer amps!! Yay!

One of my cats had an infection, so had to take him with us to the boat so's he could get his twice daily antibiotic. He did not like that trip at first, but I had a really hard time getting him back off the boat. Like Jim's Molly, he liked to patroll the gunwales.

All in all a wonderful weekend on a great craft! Thanks to all of you who's info has helped in setting this up!

John
 
Launched at Keystone at low tide. (nice ramp no problems) and took a straight shot at San Juan Island to look for Orcas or any other critters. Very interesting sea conditions varying from flat calm to confused chop to some big Westerly swells left over from the day before plus the usual well known tide rip spots.
Found no whales so dropped into Mackaye Harbour on the bottom end of Lopez to sit and eat lunch in the sun with our friends who came along for the ride. Nice spot but very exposed to wakes and anything fom the West.
Then a return back to the Port Townsend side. Nice ride with some following swells.
What a contrast to the rest of the weekend !!
Didn't see any fellow brats bust must have just missed Mac and Sarge in the PT area.

Merv & Kathy
 
Cathy & I joined Rick & Donna "Foggy Dew" for a great weekend on Lake Martin in one of their favorite coves. We had our own little part of the world with very little intrusions from outside. Geese stopped over for stale Triscuits and left overs, eagles did air shows, a snake came by at night to check out Ricks floating chair and then there was the late night Armadillo rooting on the shore.
Donna was the fastest at the noodle race but then Cathy & I were rookies.
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Cathy & I enjoying a little noodling. Picture taken by Rick on Foggy Dew.
 
Took C-Cakes out for a day of lazy "fishing" and poking around by Cypress Island. Saw an unnamed 16 moored to a private buoy on the Rosario Side of Cypress and ran into C-Dancer Peter and Caryn who were heading across Rosario into the San Juans. Lunch at pastoral Olga, so peaceful it was a time to just sit in the sun and watch the resident Otter. A nice day.
 
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Following up on a tip from friends, I stopped by John Wayne marina this afternoon. There, as reported, was Evviva, the latest Westport 164' Yacht. It was actually anchored in the cove South of the marina. Beautiful to look at but a tad steep at
$ 30,000,000! This is a publicity photo I stole...
 
I was puttering up the Clear Channel in my Classic returning from a morning cruise on Galveston Bay and I passed a TomCat coming down from Clear Lake. First other C-Dory I've seen in the Galveston Bay area. Hope they were having fun, I sure was!

Mike
 
Saturday I was commitee boat for the Yacht Club race.
Today PJ and Sue (SEA3PO) and I cruised up to Ventura for breakfast. As we were leaving, we saw another C-Dory tied up at the ramp. We went ove to say "Hi" to Ron on the "Little Cute-C" he was taking his son and his family out for a short cruise, so they cruised back to Channel islands Harbor with us.
A beautiful day on the water.
 
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