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An alternative to the air-head is a composting marine head made by the Sun-Mar company http://www.mtlion.com/sunmar/marine.htm It's similar to the airhead, but doesn't have a seperate liquids (urine) tank. Everything goes into the composting tank. To deal with the added liquid burden, the...

I presume you weren't towing the boat. That coulda been ugly. I hit a moose with a Datsun Pickup on the Seward Highway up in the pass between Portage and Summit lake a few years ago. The moose rolled right over the top of the pickup, landed on it's feet and ran into the woods with no evidence...

I presume you weren't towing the boat. That coulda been ugly. I hit a moose with a Datsun Pickup on the Seward Highway up in the pass between Portage and Summit lake a few years ago. The moose rolled right over the top of the pickup, landed on it's feet and ran into the woods with no evidence...

Seward is a fun place to visit over the 4th. You can watch the mount marathon race, and all the festivities associated with that, the sea-life center, exit glacier, perhaps take a day cruise to Kenai Fiords. It's a much easier drive from Anchorage than Homer - 3 hours or so. Wish I could be...

Another issue is I.D. for return. I've never gone through U.S. customs when they didn't do it in person, and they require proof of citizenship for everyone on board. That generally means a birth certificate (or naturalization certificate or green card) or a passport. Drivers license won't do...

The trip from Anacortes to Skagway is fantastic, and, with good planning, well within a C-Dory's reach. You mentioned you also got charts for: Going across the gulf is a whole 'nother ball game. There have been prior discussions about that; you might run a search for them. My feeling is...

Interesting Dan. I know "organic" compounds such as methane are found in the atmospheres of of the outer planets, so I guess it kind of makes sense that they would be "abiotically" (is that a word?) present in terrestrial formations, too. I guess we'll have to stop calling oil a "fossil" fuel...

I canoed the Yukon from Whitehorse to Dawson City as a teenager 30 some years ago (good lord!). It was with a junior-high school group from Anchorage. A couple of motorboats accompanied us. It took about 2 weeks in the canoes. Really great trip. Two small rapids to negotiate - Rink rapids...

Gary R: If you acquire a spousal unit for launch and retrieve MAKE SURE it is a FULLY MARINE COMPATIBLE unit. Non-marine compatible spousal units WILL NOT FUNCTION in launch / retrieve mode. Jim

I came across this the other day. It's the first (shipping) Mac (OS-X) compatible charting and navigation program I've seen. I knew there was another one in development by Barco software, but it isn't shipping yet. This one (MacENC) is apparently compatible with ENC vector charts (such as...

I recently re-read "The Last Hero" by Peter Forbath. It's a novelized account of Henry Morton Stanley’s (Dr. Livingston, I presume) expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the governor of Sudan’s Equatoria state after General Gordon and the rest of the British in Sudan had been overrun by the...

Actually, I was talking about tying up to a "dock" (the thing is - in "correct" marine terminology, a "dock" means the piece of water where the boat is floating while tied up to a wharf or pier, while a wharf, pier or float is what you tie up to - the floating piers in marinas are correctly...

From the line drawing, it looks like there is a molded in side extension of the consol to the right of the helm seat, and the engine controls are mounted on this. They probably don't want to add a door because it would require an extensive rework of that plan. Someone ought to show them a...

Several years ago I was visiting a hospital in Ouagadougou. I saw a guy laying on a stretcher with a huge divot taken out of his backside. Turns out he'd tried to break up two donkeys that were fighting, and one of them had bitten him. I was really amazed at the size of the wound - like 6 or...

Several years ago I was visiting a hospital in Ouagadougou. I saw a guy laying on a stretcher with a huge divot taken out of his backside. Turns out he'd tried to break up two donkeys that were fighting, and one of them had bitten him. I was really amazed at the size of the wound - like 6 or...

Not really much of a story there. I'm a nurse Practitioner, and had been working in rural Alaska clinics when I saw an add in a professional journal for the U.S. State Department looking for Foreign Service nurse practitioners. I thought, "hmm, that sounds interesting", and sent in a resume...

Bummer! For the non-Alaskan crowd, Kotzebue is a large (3,000 is large in Alaska) Inupiaq community just above the Arctic Circle in North West Alaska. It's off of the road system (way off); so I'm guessing a trip to the factory won't be an option for Kotzebuecdory. He'd have to fly or barge...

Doing the inside passage is a big trip, but I think it's within the capabilities of most C-Dory owners with a modicum of experience. It's certainly a popular route, and lots of people do it every year in all kinds of boats. I've actually made the trip before, albeit many years ago and in a...

The boat was underpowered with 130 hp, and it clearly does better with 190. I probably need to work on finding a better prop than the stock one I have on it now. I do get a bit of water coming in through the scuppers now, but not to bad. If I'd been able to repower in a time and place of my...

I always knew I'd have to repower some day, but I naively hoped it would be at a time and place of my own choosing. Given the luxury of a choice, I probably would have repowered with twin outboards on a bracket. Maybe I will someday, but hopefully not for another 20 years.