Recent content by jcordell

Hello Newbie: We recently purchased a 21' Arima Explorer, which has similar amenities to the CD22 Cruiser. We shopped both boats extensively, and I would be happy to share my thoughts with you. I've stayed a C-Brats member, though in the background, because it is a great group of people, and...

Hi, All: I've not posted often, because I am not a C-Dory owner. I was desirous of one but ended up buying an Arima (see below). However, I must say that I have continued to stay engaged with this site, because it is bar none the best general small boat site I've run across--I learn something...

Pat: The trailer would not be an issue for the mussels, because it is probably not immersed long enough for juvenile mussels to settle on it, and it doesn't hold water like a boat's bilge. However, trailers are are a problem for spreading aquatic weeds like milfoil, but those can be detetected...

Bob: Sorry about lack of access to the Science article. I think I sent the message from the UW, and the journal site must have recognized the IP number as a subscriber or something. I can't access it either from my home computer. You are correct that the bilge water in boats is an additional...

Folks: Here is a just-published article in Science magazine about the quagga mussel. I have heard it described as a zebra mussel with an "attitude" and the zebra mussel's "big brother" (they are both in the same genus). http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5811/453 Jeff Cordell...

Folks: Jeff C. here, new member and your friendly local (Pacfic NW) marine biologist (I am a research scientist at the UW). The animals described are almost certainly isopods (you correctly identified them as pill bugs, the common name), from the family Aegidae. These are fish parasites...