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There is a great product made to protect gun barrels called Barricade by Birchwood Casey, it comes in a spray can. It has protected my old shotgun when hunting ducks in tidal flats and I have used it on sensitive instruments while dyno testing underwater motors for work. I have not tried this...

Lake Owyhee

Lake Owyhee

Lake Owyhee

I'm glad you are keeping the tradition going. I really enjoyed last year but can't make it this year. I'll be back another time, though. Karl

I have a 75 lb black lab, Tango, that enjoys trips on all my boats from canoes, drift boat, jet boat and C-Dory. I start training my puppies very young to have good canoe manners -- they always have to sit or lie down, and they ONLY jump in or out when given permission. It has never taken long...

I have a 2008 22' cruiser, when I mixed gel coat I add a few drops of brown to the white base until I get a good match, I don't use any black or other color.

I'm working to clear my schedule and attend the Friday Harbor gathering and join in on the PLI cruise. I appreciate all the information from the seasoned boaters into Canada as this will be my first trip with my C-Dory. A special thanks for the info in traveling with a dog as I plan on...

To keep my kicker from dragging while it is tipped up, I built a mount that changed the mount angle to vertical. See a photo in my album, Nowhere Fast.

I built a cedar strip canoe designed to fit on a roof rack beside my radar post. 10.5' long and extra wide, it can carry two people and my black lab. It only weighs 30 lbs and I can single handedly launch and retrieve it with a removable davit and pulley system that extends the rack. I don't...

Four years ago I bought a 22' cruiser of the same year with similar problems. Your paint looks a little different color than mine but on my boat it was "just" an adhesion problem. I believe the manufacturer did not clean the hull properly in all places. What I noticed on my boat is that some...

But I would need another half hour to blow Dodge when the bad weather arrives!

I'm a strong supporter of electric propulsion but feel the optimal battery/motor/speed/range is still not there. The Arc-1 has a 220kW-hr battery and a 500 hp motor. If you could truly run at 500 hp, the battery would be depleted in less than 35 minutes. Now a boat that size would be launched...

Excellent use of a beer break. Great idea to jack up the bow.

I also repaired the tabbing as per the advice of Dr. Bob.

My 2008 22' cruiser had a similar problem. It has the glassed in floor in the cockpit and water was accumulating under that and creeping into the cabin through tabbing that had pulled loose from the hull. I traced the water source to the screw holes holding the fiberglass gas tank covers to...

Thank you, its kind of weird being a newbie at my age but us newbies count on you old timers to show us the important things. We'll post the photos.

I posted some photos from the extravaganza in my photo album. The text string was too much for my poor phone...

Tight mooring at the duck club