Recent content by JOHN C

We have a Rossy rf246. It is in Painesville but under cover, but we can still get inside.

John and Susan plan to attend. Already signed up on official sign up site. Sorry to miss Chuck and Penny this year

We still don't know for sure, but I think we will end up at Long Beach Marina in Mississippi (not listed in Active Captain so I didn't find it until yesterday - see the thread on that!). It is on the beach, estimated cost of less than $200/mo with rig/trailer parking thrown in. Some web sites...

We used a butane stove on our sailboat for years. Then we used it camping out west and found it didn't work at all with temps in the 20s. I am told butane is light so leaks head up and (hopefully) out while propane heads down, pools near the keel and then can go boom. Our solution was an...

Thanks for the information and suggestions. John

Yup, tried all that. The phone a number of times, the contact provision on their web site and an email address a found on another site. Nothing. Not the behavior I would expect from a going concern. No response. Re boat pictures: our blog has all the pictures we have, although I would be...

Does anyone know if this place is still in business? They are not answering their phone (and the phone will not take messages) or emails. Thanks, John

Thanks for all your replies. I found a place that will take a trailer about 20 miles north of Gulfport AL for $35/mo. Fenced in 30 acre lot. We have done the FL keys many times. Conditions for launching, rig storage, and even anchoring out have been getting progressively harder and more...

Anyone know a good (inexpensive) marina preferably within walking distance of the beach with rig storage on the Gulf Coast (LA, MS, AL, FL)? We are thinking of staying there for the month of FEB. Thanks John

https://mightywench.blogspot.com/2018/0 ... anada.html We got about 12 mpg over the 700 miles or so of that trip vs 8 to 10 (depending on winds). http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?t=26335 is the idea I shamelessly copied. It turns out someone else did this for his Rossy that I didn't...

http://tarps.mauritzon.net/viewitems/vi ... ed-fabrics This is the place where I bought mine. If you go to Seattle fabrics, it will cost way way way too much. You will need a heat gun, acetone, and H-66 glue. The process needs to be done outside or in an open garage - the fumes are nasty -...

This stuff is used for truck tarps - it is very strong. The good part is that it is glued together using a special contact cement with results strong enough to handle yanking on ropes with a 2:1 purchase so it is within my capability to make a fitted cover (just cut and glue to tighten it up or...

The first year we went to the pnw, we probably could have just sat when visibility got low. Last summer in AK, we would have been sitting for some extended times (might even still be there) and would have, for sure, overstayed our limit in Glacier Bay. Maybe it was an unlucky year, but we did...

The entrance to Beaverstone Bay (Ontario) on Canadian charts is wrong - the track shows you going through the rocks. There are a couple of places in Northern BC that have issues. On both our lap top (open cpn running NOAA charts) and our chart plotter (Garmin 2010C) our route was on land for...

I checked all the blogs I could find for the PNW to prepare for our two trips and there were a lot of them at the time. Many of them had such lists. Recommend a search, there are probably still a bunch of them. The problem is how much money you have and what you can fit. We ran across one...