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Hi Greg. Would you mind sending a few more photos of the interior and exterior of your 16'? The engine has how many hours? You've owned the hull and the engine (each) how long? Sold my 22 Cruiser last year when I couldn't justify $50k sitting around unused most of the time. Still have the...

This 22 Cruiser sold this weekend.

2000 22 Cruiser, $37,000 (Portland, Oregon) Outfitted by the Kent factory. The boat has blue accent and new interior Sunbrella upholstery. It is in excellent condition, enjoying a recent $7,000 upgrade. A comparably outfitted new 22 cruiser will exceed $64,000. It has all the standard cruiser...

Unless you need to troll VERY SLOW (say, walleye) I'm perfectly content with my twin 40 Hondas that troll at about 1.8 mph. I have a sea anchor (small kind, not the safety parachute style), but never need to use it to slow further. I prefer the redundancy of twins in a salt water environment...

I use two tow vehicles. The whimpy one is my 1999 Landrover Discovery (maybe 200 hp?), which does just fine in flat to moderate hills but would not be my first choice since my tow rig is a 2002 F350 Crewcab with a highly modified Powerstroke (intake, exhaust, chip, injectors and transmission)...

Similar circumstance. After much debate I went with Optima Blue Top dual-purpose gel cell batteries. Top stuff but quite expensive. Figured what the hay at this point. My boat was outfitted by the factory. It lacked an enormously important primary breaker that you should have installed in the...

M1911, Coming to your rescue... You need not purchase a new C-Dory to be entirely happy. I bought mine off the C-Dog site a few months ago, a 2000 model 22 Cruiser with twin 40's, more or less fully loaded with all electronics including chartplotter and radar. The asking price was around...

Hi Don, I'll try to be as helpful as I can, but I'll condition the "quality" of my reply by saying upfront that I'm mostly repeating what others have told me. I just installed a windlass on my 22 Cruiser. If I'm not mistaken Lewmar/Simpson makes both the Horizon and and the Sprint windlass...

Thank you, Ken. I should've thought to look in Chapman's. Roger, out of curiosity, have you ever had reason to deploy? If yes, was the experience about like you expected? John

I'm trying to understand whether to purchase a sea anchor. For those reading this, the type of sea anchor would be something like the 9' Para-Tech to be deployed at the bow in open water and heavy seas when it is not possible to run for shelter. If the purpose of a sea anchor is to create the...

Thanks, guys, I'll go to Costco and check it out. John on C-Trial

Jeeze, Jammin, you got a little story to go with those awesome photos of the Sea of Cortez? C-Trial

Greetings fellow Dorian, TyBoo Somewhere you were writing about earlier troubles getting your FF transducer located correctly. I, too, have a Garmin. I'm in the process of installing Bennett M120 trim tabs and will have to move my transducer to a new location. Two questions. 1. Ultimately...

Do I remember correctly that the Brat site has an archive of old stuff and a different way to access this (or am I confusing this with the C-DOG old-archive link)? I think I once saw reference to some Brat member seeking the administrators approval to join some Brat tech discussion group. Is...

Mike, I remember the last thought. I see just such a side-mounted seat in the West Marine catalog. Must've overlooked it 20 times but noticed it last night. It appears to do just exactly what you described. Might order one and see how I like it. The photo isn't nearly big enough but the idea...