Outside Cooking. Built box to hold stove on top for cooking and inside for travel. Also holds fuel & many other bits of gear. Rope holds in place when trailering. Note "D" rings mounted around inside of cockpit to tie in gear. Black 6 sided thing near front corner of stove is cap over 12 volt electric inlet/ outlet for line from tow vehicle to power house battery when trailering or to provide 12 volt power in cockpit.
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- Jan 24, 2020
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Using the Remote We like the slower speeds but spending a lot of time at the helm gets tiresome. With the remote for the auto pilot you can get up and wander a bit. The remote allows you to make little changes. Still like the wheel in hand for major stuff like meeting other boats.
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- Jan 24, 2020
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Two sets of bumpers. The Red bumpers balls, one behind Penny\'s leg, are on a short fixed tether and have snaps that go to cleats. Good for many docks. The green longer bumpers are on a longer line and need to be tied to fit where needed. Some docks are too high or two low and sometimes you raft to a larger boat.
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- Jan 23, 2020
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Garmin 740 Chart plotter w/ Radar in "Overlay" mode. The radar is in \"Overlay\" mode and shows as orange on the screen. Inter-coastal waterway Florida entering the St John River. We found the radar could often pick up navigation buoys before our eye could find them. Very confidence building in strange waters.
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- Jan 23, 2020
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Traveling some interesting roads We love the Electric over hydraulic brakes which allow you to reach down and apply trailer brakes without applying truck brakes. Also, you can adjust the amount of break action from hard stop = skidding & smoking tires to just a bit of bite.
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- Jan 23, 2020
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The boat came with two straps that went from the same eye hook on the trailer frame to eye bolts on the bak of the boat at the same elevation as my home port Orofino. It did not seem to me they would do much to hold the boat on the trailer in a big highway bump, so I went to the clete as shown. I considered a strap that would wrap across the whole cockpit from one side to the other with just one large winch. I rejected that because using the boat for camping (boater-homing") you would need to remove it to get in the boat.
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- Jun 29, 2013
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It seems to me most boats are inadequately tied down to trailer. I'm the 3rd owner, and the boat came to me with three tie downs: 1) the bow chain to the winch and two tired straps on the back that went to the frame. They kept the boat from sliding off the trailer, but the only thing keeping the boat from going forward in a sudden (or worse) stop was the winch post. I added a ring to the frame and add two winch straps to the center of the boat that should keep it going forward very far.
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- Jun 29, 2013
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"Bridge over the splash-well from the swim step to the cockpit of boat. 3/4" plywood, epoxied & painted. Green paint has sharp silica sand for traction. Bridge must be kept slid to outside when boating. You can see crunch on white edge where hydrolic steering arm crunched it when it moved too far to the center of the boat. Note large "Sierra" fuel filter. Filter which came with boat gave problems and left me to be towed in one time. I replaced the original filter with this inexpensive one that still filters out water. I replace filter canister yearly and no problem for last 6 years.
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- Jun 29, 2013
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Overhead storage above center windshield. With the original open shelf we were always being "bombed" by stuff falling from the over head bin. I lowered the shelf by inserting a 2x2 and using longer bolts. The front cover, or door is a piece of 1/4 ply held in place with wing nuts. See next photo for the closed position view. The blue "headliner" lining was our test for the headline fabric. It worked well, but my application was poor so we had a professional do whole cabin interior with a golden brown headliner fabric.
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- Jun 29, 2013
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Two Bears in boating mode. Cabinet door is now a sheet of plywood covering the under sink area. The arm of the helm seat is off as we found it it often in the way of getting in and out of the "fridge" and of the helm seat. This floor covering is now gone. We have gone to carpet runner floor covering (from our local hardware store) and change it yearly. Just visible behind and to right of the helm seat are several "pockets" held to wall with Velcro. They hold keys, wallet, & misc small items.
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- Jun 28, 2013
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Two Bears in "living mode". Note that cabnet door is missing and is now a flat work surface on top of helm seat. Walls and ceiling have been lined with indoor/ outdoor carpet to 1) reduce condensation, and 2) to hold Velcro based pockets and LED lights We purchased plastic baskets to sit on shelves which helps with organization under the sink.
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- Jun 28, 2013
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I hollowed out the foam from under the V berth. I entered froml the side first, and found that it was almost impossible to work in there, so I then entered from the top. Glad I did both. Used Tempress hatches. The first set were "slam" catchs, and due to the very slight curved of the wall, they would not stay closed. So they ended up on top, and "cam" latches on the vertical sides.
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