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    Fuel Polishing

    Most people have the pump pull the fuel through the filter so the pump is handling clean fuel... But in general, pumps push better than they suck... If I were designing your recirculating design I would have a coarse screen and a water separator at the intake of the pump just to keep nasty...
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    San Diego CG vessel collides with Sea Ray, killing 1

    A double tragedy - for the the family of that child, and for the young men on the CG boat who intended no harm... I have spent years around law enforcement and the hardest thing to teach these young officers is that they are absolutely required to intervene when another officer is making a...
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    suggestions welcomed for boat name

    Since this seems to have happened suddenly, how about SUDDEN SEA The alliterative 'sea' is triple meaning, the Sea, C-Dory, SeaRay.... Gets the job done in one swell foop...
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    The Cruising Adventures of Wild Blue and crew...

    Of course we know you are joking... No one in their right mind would drink DIET Dr. Pepper while eating chili cheese fries... :huh:
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    Suggestion Box for C-Dory Factory

    Those who have built a business from scratch and survived quickly learned one fact... Either you go the extra mile for your customer, or they will go the extra mile to your competition...
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    Radar Question

    Yes fried does not unfry, but a scrambled data set on the GPS will cause it to take from ten minutes to an hour download a fresh ephemeris to finally figure out what day and time it is and then find the position... Likely, the radar energy is being picked up the GPS antenna and the resulting...
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    Diesel Additives

    Let me be the contrarian here... We have multiple diesels on the farm... I never use any kind of additive... They always start and run, even the bulldozer that will sit for a year at a time without running... Keep the tank full right up to the filler neck to preclude condensate from building up...
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    Susan E Add HyJacked

    I found a great deal on a new Garmin 496 GPS for half of current list price... Fella wanted payment via Paypal only... Having used them over the years there was a comfort factor there that relaxed my suspicions over such a great deal... I talked to him on the phone... I finally felt...
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    Oil is here

    Umm, well were I a TV reporter wanting to do a shot with the oil stained beach in the background I would hire Bubba and his 12 ga shotgun to accompany me... When some pissant hired by BP to run folks off comes around to tell me I can't do that, I would have Bubba explain to him that BP does not...
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    camperback windows

    In moving Levitation home from the canvas shop in April and later to the marina (32 miles) I opted to leave the new camperback up... Carefully towing with one eye on the mirror I went as fast as 50mph and did not see any problems, shaking, billowing, etc. Don't know how fast one could go and...
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    The DAMNABLE Rain

    Yup, oh dark thirty here and waiting for my son to get ready to go to the marina... Two weekends ago we worked in 90 degree temps sanding the bottom and putting on the first coats of epoxy primer and darned near had heat stroke.. THe following weekend we had rain and cold, rain and cold, but we...
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    Power Mover

    Resembles a modified airplane tug... I have a gas motor unit for moving the plane ~4000 pounds... denny-o
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    Need help settling on a boat name

    Here are some musical terms for those looking for musical boat names, all of which contain the letter C in some form, and may be respelled or hyphenated to make the more alliterative of C-Dory... Disclaimer: This is not an exhaustive, scholarly, treatise on the letter C in musical terms...
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    New CDory Plant Information

    Me as the buyer looks at the posted price on the boat and thinks they are getting filthy rich... Me as the factory owner looks at the posted price on the boat and wonders how I am going to make payroll on Friday... Scott, I suspect a picture log of a C-Dory build would be welcomed on here...
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    Jay's RETIRED !!

    Ya know, young, vibrant working folks like us find geezer discussions like this really, really annoying! denny-o 71 years young
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    Heavy Seas Boating

    There are times when it is better to be on shore wishing you were on a boat than be on a boat wishing you were on shore...
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    interest rate for home depot credit card

    I have the HD Commercial Contractor card (a simple application)... You are not to carry a balance forward of the billing date (i.e. you pay it off every month) but it is handy for charging items and then writing one check at the end of the month, plus you have an itemized list of purchases...
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    SeaSport Out of Business

    Notice that Ranger keeps close tabs on the mumblings of its customers, past, present and future...
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    Garmarine or Raymin?

    I have Garmin in the boat, the plane, and the cars... So I guess, that is a vote for Garmin over the others... Actually it wasn't planned that way, it just turned out...
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