Recent content by Jim Lefers

I've done both the Cumberland and the Tennessee in 2016-2017 and have both of the guide books that Jerry Hay sells. I seem to have maybe already given away the Tennessee one ( cruise 2016) but have 2 of the Cumberland ,one from 2012 ( a cruise that fell thru) and other from 2016 (cruise that I...

Tex, it's Jim Lefers in my 25 dory,I'm planning on coming,don't know if I'll motor up ( I'm at 224 umr ) or put it on a trailer and pull up and then come home by water. Downstream is so easy and relaxing. Pulled it to the upper navigation limits on the Cumberland River ( June)and came down it...

Floyd,sorry for my delay in responding ,I'm sort of old and out of it with the new internet stuff. Ok you want to run the Tennessee ,get a Quimpys book that shows all the marina's ,the river is so used that gas and facilities are available easy. Get a current corps chart, have a marine radio...

Just completed a great Cumberland River trip with my 25',twin 90 Honda's . Trailered from St. Charles,Mo. To Granville Marina in Tennessee and launched and cruised upstream to Celina ,Tn. which is as far as the corps maintains a channel .Started very slowly down the 380 mile River with the dory...

My 25C Dory has twin 90 Honda's ,I bought it used and had I been able to buy it new would have got the starboard engine clockwise and port engine counter clockwise. That lets each engine neutral the side walk of the props. Someone said in a reply that the most important thing is to have the...

So life moves on ,my damage is really slight ( though expensive) but it's a boat and stuff is difficult to replace. So the door frame ,after shattered glass, and door handle and lock removed ( and viewed by ins.adj. is viewed I can proceed with a attempt to press it straight and order a...

The door was closed as it was a cool rainy day and I had a 'MrBuddy' heater going...it sucked the door open and also some bedding and dishcloth etc. out of cabin. Frame will somewhat straighten and will make temp.repair. It'll just push my Cumberland trip back to mid June ,mite not be able to...

I got caught in a small tornado here in my Marina Saturday 4/29/2017 and it sucked open my cabin door and slammed it into the stop ,bending the door frame and shattering the glass. Anybody know of maybe a wrecked 25 that I could get a door from,I've talked to the factory and they referred me to...

Thanks Bob,Jerry Hay responded to my email and said it would be very risky so I think now I'm gonna launch at Granville Marina and motor up to head of navigation at Celina and then idle on down. Haven't made up my mind about pulling out on the Ohio at Golconda Marina as we did last year when we...

Last year we towed our 25' to Knoxville ,Tennessee. and cruised down to the Ohio and up to Golconda,Marina and pulled the boat there to return to our port on the Mississippi umr224. This year I want to do the same on the Cumberland and my question is if its navigable from just below Lake...

Last summer after buying our 25 C Dory I found on Amazon site a Whynter ( fridge)FM-62DZ dual lid that had 5% damage for $488 (free shipping)as opposed to$640 for new and purchased it. My intentions were to put it on slides under the port helm seat but after it arrived I realized it would hit...

We bought our 25 cruiser in May and boat here in Missouri on the Mississippi where we keep it on a hydro hoist at umr225 area. So I put almost 200 hundred hours on the twin Honda 90's pulled it and changed the oil (every 100)on engines and lower units pulled it to St.Paul ,Mn. to do a slow...

At the junction of fox hill and boshertown a new subdivision has been built ( Charlestown) and we are in there. We keep our dory on a lift at Lake center Marina about 7 miles from our house.the dual door appeals to us and we don't want to mess any more with ice we got spoiled with a32' pontoon...

Has any one tried a Wynter ( I could be wrong on the make) 12-120 volt refrigerator with two lids ? Wanting to put one in our 25 cruiser that came without refrigerator when it was new.Boat is 06 and I bought it early may and have put almost 200 hours on it cruising on my home waters here on the...

New price, $13.750. Thanks, Jim