Recent content by barefoot

If you do travel north from Sanford, shortly before Hontoon Island and FL 44, odds are you will wind up in Lake Beresford, a lovely area. If so, I offer three hints: 1) GO SLOW; not all the debris from the tornado has been removed or sunk yet. 2) Near the far end to port you'll see a C-D 16...

I'll rush in where wiser souls fear to tread. My reply is based on what I know from major and minor repairs on plenty of fiberglass cars. 1)I don't know how thick the C-Dory gel coat is, pretty dern thick where I repaired a major blemish low in the bow, but it doesn't matter because... 2)If the...

Monday (?) saw a C-Ranger 21, looking band new and being towed towards Hontoon Island on the St. Johns. Alas, it turned in to the street as I turned out and I was so suprised to see my first one that I didn't catch the name as it flashed past. Are you a C-Brat? Only a doctor's appointment kept...

I could win this thing walking away IF I'm not disqualified. To explain: A few years ago, after retirement, quitting smoking, and developing a THING for ice cream, I reached 286, this at 6'0". I lost, regained, and lost, barely holding at 235-240 by early last year. Then I got lymphoma, a...

Sounds great, solving the problems that led me to choose the 16 over the 19. Will you be doing opening windshields, for those of us in Florida (and other places in summer), a problem with the 16?

Captain D Glad you stayed an extra day as I enjoyed visiting with you Saturday morning and meeting your wife. Interesting that you were still OK for provisions. The weather is due to improve, so you should be able to mess about in your small boat (to coin a phrase) and maybe head up and down...

Our lighted boat parade was last night and it ends at a little marina (bait, boat ramp, and motel) just below the pond here, within sight. Also berthed there is a big tour boat like an old-time double-deck steamboat that a couple built over many years as a retirement project. It is usually the...

That was me who considered one or two small motors on a 16, mainly because I mostly just putt around. I decided against the small single because even here there are some large bodies of water to cross, especially in a hurry ahead of a sudden Florida storm. Small twins (and a main with a kicker)...

When bird netting was first suggested, I got some, but we are not supposed to drape netting on our boat houses, lest it compromise people's views down the lake, and my neighbor was adament about that. It's the reason it took me so long to cure the problem with the dirty birds. She sent for the...

Crows are said to be clever and they have defeated anything my neighbors and I tried, BUT now, absolute, total victory. Maybe forty times a day for the last three days I've looked out to see not one crow on or near the boat. They just land on the boat house roof, stand around a while (looking...

Thanks for the feedback, all. Glad to hear the 50 should be OK with "stop and go driving." Mainly, I still think a pair of 20s would be so cool, but am glad I won't have to swap before I want to. No sand in it as the water has been too shallow even to launch. Already have stabilizer in the gas...

Some may remember that I have an EFI 4-stroke 50 BUT am coping with seemingly endless manatee zones, no-wake zones, marina zones, some very shallow water, and now, chunks of houses a tornado dumped in the open water. You may also remember that with almost all slow running I've considered...

It was a busy week for this 16: I painted the interior, just a personal thing, but I'm much happier in that small space with a uniform, neutral color than with bright white and busy speckles. I renamed it for fourth or fifth time, maybe escaping the perils of forgoing a renaming ceremony, as...

Big annual swap meet in DeLand, 15 miles inland from Daytona on Hwy. 44 at the Volusia County Fairgrounds, April 13-15, Friday - Sunday. I am not connected in any way except for scoring a bunch of great junque last year (and just installed), also selling a big jon boat, a small trailer, and some...

One old-timey (i.e. low-cost) trick here for boats without fancy lightning protection, is to carry a pair of jumper cables. If need be, clip one end to the mast (or other high point) and drop the other end overboard. As to protection or not, consider houses in high-lightning area. Do you want a...