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Do not trickle charge them. Unless you want to check the electrolyte level constantly. Hit 'em once a month (or two) with your 3-stage battery charger of at least 10 amps output. The need to avoid concrete floors ended sometime in the 1950s or 1960s when battery cases started being made in...

We have a 16 Cruiser and have never spent a night on board. Unless you're sure (and we thought we were) you're going to actually cruise rather than day use the boat I'd go with the 16 Angler. 19 Angler has a better berth setup and is wider. Price difference is significant, as are the power...

What's the question here again? 2006 19 Angler sells for $22.6K. That's the bare boat, no options, no trailer, no motor. $20K with trailer and (underpowered) engine still sounds good to me. Find a Yamaha dealer and work a trade for the motor. -- Chuck

How many watts does this critter draw? I had a fume detector in the bilge of an inboard boat which would kill the batter in a week. Typical low capacity Optima battery may only have 30 useful amp hours capacity (until the voltage drops to below 10.5) and with, say, a small 6 watt draw that's...

C-Pup has a new radar setup. -- Chuck

You guys making Canadian landfalls? How do you work your return thru customs to the US? Or is this another thing ignored in your waters? Not sarcastic, I'm truly interested in the procedure. Canadian waters start 30 miles north of me. -- Chuck

Dusty -- How many hours/sea miles on a "tank" of 2-cycle oil in these critters? -- Chuck

Flat bottom boats are indeed "hull slappers." A major CON if you want high speed all the time. On the other hand a major PRO is they're very fuel efficient as they're not pushing water aside all the time and have low hull friction on a plane. I have a Honda 50 on my much smaller, lighter...

Somehow "slick bunk" seels like an oxymoron. I thought bunk trailers were designed to prevent the boat sliding and roller trailers are designed to allow the boat to launch/recover like this. No boat movement on my lil' roller trailer. -- Chuck

Dress warm, the water temperature in Superior stays very cold even in July and August. I don't have my charts handy but recall the good fuel ports are some distance apart and after 1 Sep some aren't in full operation. -- Chuck

John -- Got some details on your trim tab setup? I've considered this for two seasons, but never found anyone with tabs on a 16 footer to get any information from. -- Chuck

Tried swapping the wiring to the other gage? This will rule out a bad gage if it works on the other motor. -- Chuck

I mounted our compass as far forward as I could get it to keep it away from electrical magnetic fields. Not a problem for us as we're used to sailboat compases mounted on the aft end of cabin, quite a distance from the tiller. Compass needs to be checked for deviation with all your electrical...

I've had a gimbled butane stove for years and years. Haven't tried it in a couple of years, but the gimble feature is great for getting something hot in a seaway. -- Chuck

I'm not using chain routinely with a C-Dory 16 Cruiser. For overnight, probably, but just beaching the boat is easy assuming the bottom is kind. If I can find some rubber/plastic chain I may use it more often, but having the chain slapping the deck all day long isn't good. I've fitted an...

What James said! Our 16 Cruiser is the first boat since my Hobie without bottom paint, but she's kept on her trailer most of time and left at the dock as our non-trailerable boats were. Bottom paint is "local knowledge" stuff. Check with the locals. A roler trailer will let you slide the...

The factory design integrates well with the design of the boat and the ladder stows neatly underneath. Teak may look yachty, but is just one more maintenance item I can skip. I just realzed this is the first boat I've had since my Hobie 14 without teak. I don't miss it at all! -- Chuck

Note the letter C doesn't appear in my boat's name. Big enough logo on the side for everyone to know what she is! 8) -- Chuck

It's more than "taste." That taste is chemicals you really don't want in your body. It's solvents, etc. White RV hose is dirt cheap anyway. -- Chuck

Anyone know what the pair of holes are for on the trailing edge of the Permatrim? The size of the critter was a shock, especially after the small size of the SST hydrofoil. The versions for the big motors must be even bigger! On our single engine 16 Cruiser the SST caused the boat to...