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`Seems you're going about your furnace installation smartly, but perhaps for one thing - the high heat outlet. Maybe you've thought of all this and decided the vent behind the pilot seat's right for you. Here's another perspective: In my 22' Cruiser the furnace is mounted under the galley...

Thanks Bob, especially for the noble metals chart and the word on Honda anodes sometimes being other than zinc. `Never thought of that possibility! Now I get to decipher which is appropriate here. Assuming they're zinc anodes under the transom brackets, I'd vowed to buy stock bar zincs and...

Royal Lowell, Jamie's grandfather I presume, is credited with what we think of as the New England lobster boat, which looks an awfully lot like this stubby little thing but with more length v.. freeboard, thus more grace to most eyes. Royal's brother Carroll built many of them, Other downeast...

On my 22 Cruiser with both Permatrims on twin Honda 40s and trim-tabs, on a 600 mile cruise I discovered less speed/efficiency loss trimming with the motors v. trimming with the tabs. The tabs when lowered definitely increase drag, dropping speed, raising fuel-burn, so no matter the objective...

The Cenex in Chimacum still has no-ethanol - I just pressed my tanks with it and a bit of Marine Sta-Bil in mid-October. Port Townsend's fuel dock allegedly sells no-ethanol too, but they want your body part, car, house & daughter.

In Puget Sound and I presume in seawater elsewhere, there's a drive to replace creosote-impregnated wooden pilings to improve water quality. The most common replacement in my town are pilings of galvanized pipe. They've greatly increased electrolysis problems in our already 'hot' harbors...

Reading the other posts on this thread brought a couple things to mind re. maneuvering a twin-screw monohull C-Dory.: Coming to a complete stop, as was suggested, before reversing one engine and going ahead on the other seems like more caution than I think necessary if your equipment is kept...

Thanks for that using twin engines post, Harvey, and for the kind words on my little R2AK ditty. I've been backing & filling my 22's port & st'b'd engines to get into and out of the very narrow channel to my "undesirable berth" in Port Townsend. It's the only way I can turn tightly enough to...

Here’s a photo link from the Port Townsend Leader of the start of the inaugural Race to Alaska (R2AK) in June, the tiny motor vessel Ticket (C-Dory 22 Cruiser) out in front of the race leaders across the starting line. The Ticket was serving as photo boat for veteran sail racing...

Mink Island, July 2015

Hi Pat, Hope it's not too late to sign up for your gathering in Bellingham. Brooks and I would like to come and would arrive Friday afternoon. Pizza, factory tour, potluck, dock talk. Thanks in advance to you and Patty for putting together such fun and interesting activities. Judy and...