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Our primary boating area is Lake Erie, the home of very short chop (AKA square waves). It's more difficult to keep the bow of the 16 Cruiser down than the 16 Angler because of the center of gravity being 2 feet farther aft in the cruiser. Slamming into Lake Erie waves ain't no fun, but the...

My response would have been (and has been) "Go ahead and call the sheriff." -- Chuck

We'll be starting our 4th season on Amelia Anne fairly soon. In our experience the boat is a 2 passenger boat but a 3d can be seated in a folding chair in the tiny cockpit behind the main seating area, or on the edge of the berth if it's bad weather. This seating isn't real secure. We can run...

The US Coast Guard doesn't care what size engine you have, despite the plate on your boat -- which is only required for boats under 20 feet anyway. Since this plate isn't required for a C-Dory 22 you can put any size outboard you want on them. Not saying this is smart, but there's no legal...

Oh! Show and tell time? Only 4oz heavier than the CDP Compact. .45AC, of course. -- Chuck

Omaha to St Louis is a couple hundred miles each way shorer than my trip from Cleveland to Sister Bay WI back in '03. Up on Friday, including a stop at Camp Perry. Sea trials and back on Saturday. Easy trip, even for us old soldiers! Freight is still the killer unless the dealer is ordering...

When I bought a spare propeller for my 16 Cruiser/Honda 50 the dealer recommended the 4 blade version. I installed it to test and haven't taken it off, the original 3 blade is the spare. No scientific test data but the 4 blade wheel seems to provide a bit more control in rough condidions (for...

"We was robbed!" is the constant losers lament. :P Isn't there a protest procedure in the NFL to challenge close calls? Did I miss the Sea Hawks doing this? :shock: We're not Pittsburgh fans in Cleveland, trust me. -- Chuck

This is why roller bunk trailers are made. We don't have any brakes on our lil' trailer but I prefer to keep the hubs dry. And the bearings and spindles! -- Chuck

Ginger or Mary Ann? Take your choice. I fly single engine airplanes. Twins won't fly on one any more than one will with none. It's a slow drive home on one engine of a twin boat. And your kicker will push the boat darn near as fast. -- Chuck

Steve is right. The 65hp jet drive is the same engine as the 90hp outboard. -- Chuck

Lloyd -- We have a pair of 6 gallon tanks on our 16 Cruiser with Honda 50. Not sure how we'd put the side tanks in there, there's positive foam flotation where'd they go. Not sure the length requirements, but positive flotation is a requirement certainly on under-16 foot boats. Note the VIN...

Anyone mount a FloScan gage on a 16 Cruiser? I bought the 5gph version (AccuTroll) earlier in the season and couldn't find any place to mount it. If I could find a "pod" that wasn't priced as if it was going on an America's Cup yacht I'd put it on top of the dash or below the overhead. -- Chuck

Website says the maximum legal load is 700 pounds. That plus the empty weight of 925 pounds is 1625 which I assume includes the weight of whatever engines are on the boat. Substract 203 pounds for the motor and you get a maximum load of a couple of fish less than 500 pounds. Are you saying...

We've had our 16' Cruiser for 3 seasons now and have never used the cruiser part. The Vee berth is big enough for two adults and the porta potti fits neatly underneath. A single folding chair consumes the entire cockpit. The 16 Cruiser gives up all cockpit space for the berth. The 16 Angler...

Might not make sense for you folks with soft water all year around, but here on the Great Lakes the solid bulkhead is rarely needed and the canvas backdrop makes a lot of sense. -- Chuck

Weight in the ends of the boat makes the hull hobby horse. Especially weight in the bow. Akin to a pendelum effect. More weight in the bow the more difficult it is to stop this motion. That in itself is a reason to not use all chain unless you can stow it elsewhere. Also makes the bow less...

Our sailboat, a San Juan 28 (another Seatlle boat) was documented. Still had to register the boat with Ohio state authorities every 3 or 4 years and display the state sticker, but no OH-NUMBE-RS were required as the vessel was documented. Name and Home Port on the stern. There used to be...

The SST Hydofoil, even in a Honda box and in matching color, made my single engine 16 Cruiser hard to control in choppy Lake Erie waters. Boat would have difficulty coming out of turns and would take a list to one side or the other at whim. I replaced it with the PermaTrim and am much happier...

We used a non-exotic system like this decades ago on Lake Michigan. No fancy carriage and no rails, just railroad ties with rollers on them we'd lay across the beach to the boat house (a garage facing the lake). The few rollers in the water were on steel beams, not ties. Winch in the boat...