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Left the house at 06:30 and made it to the halfway point Williams lake around 10:30 last night. 600 miles no problems other than the Seattle area traffic. Beautiful drive wish mostly blue sky's and a spectacular sunset. Greeted by another pretty day today and will be on the road shortly. Link...

All the upgrades and boat work is finally done (see the fishing to Cruising transition thread for details http://www.c-brats.com/viewtopic.php?t=23975 ) and we leave this Saturday (6/25) for Prince Rupert. The plan is to spend 15 days exploring the West side of Prince of Wales Island. Due to the...

Harvey, Would have preferred to have more chain but it's one of the limitations of having a spool type windless. Chain requires a lot of room on the spool and you loose rode length at a disproportionate rate by adding. I opted for short but heavy, the 3/8" chain weight is around 1.3lbs per foot...

Finished up the EZ anchor windless install and anchor roller mounting. Had to have the roller diameter reduced by 3/8” and build a couple spacers. Still have a ¼” gap between the ears on the roller assembly and the anchor so will build a couple plastic washers to bolt to the ears and take up...

Spooled with 280' of 1/2" rode and 15' of 3/8" chain

EZ anchor 2

EZ anchor front

Thanks for the comments Greg, was pleased how the hatched installed windless electrics turned out. Keeps it all in one place! Completed the shelf over the plumbing and prop storage. Aluminum angle “iron” is used to support shelves and both have piano hinges to allow full access. Mounted the...

Additional upgrades 2016

Webasto tank installed and additional storage

Access to plumbing and prop storage

What everyone else has said plus fishing patterns. Get over a school of salmon or tuna and my favorite is to set for 15 minute loops, keeps you on top the fish as the wind and current pushes you into a spiral pattern. Zig zag when on the hunt. Plus You can use the remote control to make course...

Finished up the head and pluming this weekend. Two inch diameter end to end with Whale three way valve and Whale “Gulper” pump. All in all the install went reasonably smooth. Found that a 1” pvc pipe fits the prop shaft hole perfectly and had two treaded stands laying around so turned them into...

Completed pluming and spare prop storage

Head and holding tank combo

More upgrade pictures Bob, no conversion to a wet shower (maybe next year). My hope is we can manage with a solar shower between marina visits for this trip. Only remaining item for the Webasto move is to install the tank, added a muffler to the exhaust and did a double wrap with insulation by...

Side vu down vu transducer

Garmin 7610 overhead mount

Heater exhaust installed