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    Passing of a beloved C-Brat

    Wish I had the pleasure of having known her,sorry for your loss.
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    A thought

    Hardee you made me curious about what is a fuzzy beachball?
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    A thought

    People we meet boating and camping are the friendliest ,willing to help out. The stress of everyday work and commutes are gladly forgotten and everyone just wants to enjoy their time on water ,or at a slip or campground. People are quick to grab a line to help you in . Met about 16 couples at...
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    New to us, but part of C-Brats

    Congrats,lots of good times ahead with a boat. We enjoy ours a lot.
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    Running inlets or river mouths

    Thanks Hardee. The more I learn the better I feel about boating everywhere.
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    Last trip of season

    Kinda sad to see boat -n- camper winterized sitting idle. Will be happy when we can extend our boating season and go to Florida for winter. Just joined a gym today trying to keep the diabeties and High Blood pressure at bay. Some other aliments already got their foot in the door. The older I get...
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    Last trip of season

    This was in our truck camper,but still ties into boating. Saw a nice C-Dory parked along the Hudson river named C-Date. We were near troy NY one day a lot of big boat traffic on river there. Some barges 3 deep, we are thinking of traveling in boat on Erie canal and Hudson, but realize better be...
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    Running inlets or river mouths

    Hardee just joined Boat US last season,didnt know about their classes,but will check thanks.
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    Running inlets or river mouths

    I would love to take a course on everything you could learn about boating. From navigation,to maintenance ,to chart reading also old school navigation .of course everything safety ,understanding tides,figuring slack tides ect. Long winters around here ,would be a great way to past the time. But...
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    Running inlets or river mouths

    We have plb attached to our life vest along with waterproof vhf. We camped at Hunting Island S.C. Was on a pier watching an inlet that entered the ocean,looked like what you described . Where wind and waves met at entrance they were wicked,said im glad not to have to go thru there. Different...
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    Removing wipers

    The Marinco 11.5 wiper blade worked #33004 it snapped in place ,works without needing phillip screw.
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    Removing wipers

    Thanks Dave good tips.
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    Removing wipers

    Thanks all,just received a replacement wiper lower half. Twenty three dollars for wiper half, entire arm $48. Ordered it from a local boat store. This looks like the right one ,but its missing the little metal tab that the Phillips screw goes thru. So you cant connect it. Thinking of buying best...
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    Removing wipers

    Was out there today trying to get the entire wiper arm free from threaded rod. Took out the allen set screw,tried prying off but no luck. Whats the trick to removing them? Im trying to locate entire arm or wiper blade half of it. Im going to Napa tomorrow and looking on west marine also going to...
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    Outboard motor rams

    Thanks for info.
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    Outboard motor rams

    Not sure if the part name is correct. Talking about the 2 rods that outboard sets down on. Just wondering when your underway,and rasing and lowering motor getting on plane ect. Can you damage them by lowering to far with outboard. Was just moving boat to its winter spot under a metal carport...
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    Lake Ontario

    Just got back ,looked at Lake Ontario marinas Olcott,Oak Orchard,and others, all nice areas to boat from. Also Oneida Lake marinas,Brennans marina ,visited Niagra Falls camped at 4 mile State Park on Lake, nice campground big sites to fit boat if needed. Campgrounds at Thousand Island were...
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    Marc Grove at Wefings is a great guy

    Enjoyed buying a boat from him, good person to deal with.
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    Lake Ontario

    Thanks Rob and Dave taking a trip up there this week to look at marinas,will check those. Just got back from a trip to Elk country in PA, friends we met at Erie invited us up to their land was nice saw Bull Elk chasing cows ,first time seeing them up close. A lot of Big Mtns in that...
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    Pulling a C-Dory with a Truck and Camper

    We enjoy camping on the boat. Spent 30 nights on it last season. It was nice to have truck camper on the trip to Florida last winter. We drove 15hrs to get to where we wanted to boat. Took a two and a half days to get there. Enjoyed having the room in truck camper. Its like a small...
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