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Which app are we talking about? I see a NOAA Radar US - HD and also a NOAA hi-def radar. The latter sounds like exactly like what one of you mentioned, but they're both $1.99 and there's room for a little ambiguity so I thought I'd ask. Are they really any better than just looking at...

I have the Lewmar pivoting bow roller and their matching Delta anchor. The combination works great with the windlass. Self launching and self stowing. I've put holes in the boat in a few places for projects and I installed my own sink and Wallas stove/heater. Everywhere I've worked on the boat...

Actually it looks like simple physics and trigonometry to me. I'd do it with my sailboat, too, as long as I was certain of no big powerboat wake coming along. 65 ft vs 80 ft would be a 36 degree heeling angle, by the way. Not a big deal. If it started to heel too far, the water would unload...

Potter Water and others interested in fishing Lake Powell: Check out Wayneswords.com, where the fisheries manager for the lake posts all kinds of good information. They actively want people to catch lots of stripers to help control the fish population in the lake. There are different places...

I've been on a few of these and it seems like Chris, the organizer, has a knack for sensing the mood of the group and combining that with his knowledge of the lake from many previous trips. He calls the shots, but it always works out that everyone seems to like the result. That's my impression...

If your tach is off by a constant ratio, it could be a number-of-cylinders setting. If it's off a nearly constant fixed amount, it's some other problem. Example: Going from a 4 to 6 cylinder setting at 5000 RPM should change the tach from 5000 to (5000*4/6=) 3300. I have a newer V-Tec 90...

Or you could subtract 1/8" wall thickness as a guess and use 53.75*33.75*17.75/231 =139 gal and hope for maybe 130 gal usable. -Jeff

I have a Trail-Rite trailer for my 22. The dealer in Ventura gave me an option of going with the factory trailer at the time (2008) or having the local Trail-Rite people build one, as he was about to start using them for his sales, so I went with that. Trail-Rite is very common around here, made...

We've had it here in the San Diego area for a year or so I think. I tried it. You get to listen to a little commercial message and then a recording of what you transmitted so you can hear what you sound like. It works, but if it comes back a little quiet, you don't know if it's your transmission...

Article about Lake Powell in today's LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... ory?page=1 -Jeff

Well, I couldn't wait to do a test, so here I am on Mission Bay near San Diego with a moderately loaded boat, somewhat less than a week's worth of stuff but not real light. The boat does well without trim tabs now that the heavy kicker's in the garage. It still likes full down trim on the...

I too had a marginal result from adding a Permatrim to my Honda 90 V-Tec. There's no tilt restrictor pin and the engine trims so the plate is down in the stern, but I still had to run with a lot of trim tab. The boat planes a bit quicker with a little less bow rise I think, but that wasn't a...

At the moment it's about 50/50 whether I'll be there Friday to leave with you or Saturday noon instead. I was wondering about the lake level also. I can think of at least one beach we've been staying at that will be gone for sure - up the Escalante arm. I think it was Explorer Canyon with a...

I might go a little east after Lake Powell in September to do the Durango and Chama train tides. There are some reservoirs in the area where I might take the boat for a little camping/fishing. Does anyone know of these places or others? McPhee, Vallecito, Navajo, Heron, and El Vado all look...

I was looking into building a 12V adapter for my MacBook Pro a while back, but it turns out I seldom charge it from 12V, so using an inverter is no big deal for me. I did find the information below from a guy who did some measurements of the charging behavior of Apple's Mag Safe supply (the 85W...

I just found out we have a schedule change at work and I'll need to move my vacation a week, so Bossa Nova will miss the group gathering this time. Sorry about that. I was there for a week earlier in July, so I'm doing fine boating-wise. On my moved week, I might go back to Catalina or I might...

That is Rana Verde on the cover. Chris keeps probably the neatest, cleanest, tidiest C-Dory in the world... -Jeff

That formula gives you the speed, in knots, of a wave trough moving through the water, corresponding to the length of a displacement hull being powered along and generating the wave trough. It's not an exact limit, but rather the location of a very sharp knee in the power curve as a function of...

I've had a PLB (portable EPIRB) for years, but I've never liked that one has no way of knowing that it actually works. You can test the battery and do a rudimentary self-test of the device, but you don't actually know if it works. I have a SPOT also, and I like that one can play with it once in...

Bossa Nova is in. Almost 100% certain. I'll probably come across from San Pedro and meet the group at Two Harbors. I might have to leave a day early at the end of the week. I joined the Event Signup, but it wasn't clear to me that this is the sign up sheet you mentioned, as the number of...