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Bob, Our Journey was the best boat we could have taken to the SoPac. The 36 was something the 2 of us could handle, while some people had trouble double handing larger boats. And the boat sailed well; we obviously know only a fin keel offshore, but it never broached in the squalls or down a...

Judy has just written (from her journals) about our trip to the South Pacific. A sailboat, Our Journey, not a C-Dory. Here's the link: To the South Pacific. Learning, fun ,experiences, all the pathos you would want. And sitting together for 25 days. If I say so myself (and I am,) an...

I've ridden a motorcycle since 1953. Started without helmets, went to helmets when they became available. The club I raced with charged you $1 every time you got on a bike without one. Started wearing seatbelts when they covered my chest, with our 1988 Camray. They save lives. And, BTW, in...

I took out the cockpit sole, mentioned somewhere before. I could not pull the tank because: one had to remove the fill and vent hoses, which are hard to get to; the tank is held in place by a rear stop (2x4) epoxied to the bottom and I felt if I removed those impediments, the tank would have...

You've used that brand trailer since 2005 (or someone has)? You've been happy with the board setup on the trailer? You want 2 axles and brakes? It sound like all those answers are yes, so why wouldn't you start there? Call Shore Landr, see what they recommend, and go from there. If they...

We've spent part of 15 years on a 25 C-Dory. And that time has been spent anchoring out some of the while. I'll give you a couple of comments. First of all, the C-Cory is a small boat no matter how you look at it. It's has an 8' 6" beam for a purpose, it's trailerable. And second, a v-berth...

Looking at the U-tube, the tool is pretty simple. Why not make your own? 2 strips of steel from HomeDepot, drill 3 holes put in a bolt and there it is. BYW, that tool in the video looks like an aftermarket tool? Boris

Just to keep everything going, I understand that all humans start out as female and those who have an XY chromosome leave that state and develop as males. This change leaves a wide spread for differences to occur. We certainly understand that the process works in the great majority to become...

The heater requires a minimum of 4' of 4" stove pipe. That's a bit much for a C-Dory. 22 or 25? Where would you put it? Why not get a larger P12000 heater? Boris

Here's a quote from our Broughton trip, regarding parking in McNeil Harbour: "After a couple of hours we are again tied up in Port McNeill and meet our friends, Bob & Barbara Evans, who happen to be traveling around Vancouver Island in their motor home. The four of us went to lunch across the...

tsturm, My point was that those rivets go through the joint where the deck and hull join, not through some fiberglass sheet.. Certainly, our boats have a bond with glass and the pop rivets. If you remove the rivets you not only have holes but a weaker joint. That's why I used bolts and sheet...

On Journey On, the rub rail is aluminum with a plastic insert. That said, the aluminum is pop riveted on to the boat at the deck/hull joint when it left the factory. So, it not only attaches the aluminum part of the rub rail but also secures the bottom and top of the boat in some part...

I did a Google search for the Kodiak hubs I needed, with part number. Picked the cheapest, some place on e-bay. Arrived from Florida in a couple of days. Free delivery, no state tax. Fit perfectly. One might ask for an extra layer of wrap; mine arrived with no dings, but some holes in the...

If you want to remove the pressed in oil bearing adapters, take the hub to a auto machine shop. They have (or should have) an expanding tool that will fit inside the pressed in adapter and will yank that sucker right out. If one beats it off with a hammer, there's risk of damaging the...

When I changed the brakes on Journey On's trailer, I bought new hubs from Kodiak that were set up for grease bearings via press-in caps for hubs and a steel grease seal. To change them over to the oil filled bearings, I had to buy the kit mentioned above. A few notes. The trailer had come...

If you're talking about the hatches in the cockpit floor, here's how I solved the problem. As said above, they are ~1/2 in above the floor, but they keep the bilge dry. Installing Cockpit hatches Boris

At 115 lbs,it seems heavy. You'll have to lift all the weight up to the top of the cabin each time you store the dingy; 3-4 times per trip. Try it with a sack of something weighing 115 lbs. When I was young I could lift a 120 lbs. feed sack but not anymore. Also, I bought an 11' dingy for...

To bleed the Baystar/Seastar system manually, without the loss of fluid, feed the drain lines at the motor ram into a clean container. That will capture the fluid one has pumped through from the helm pump and can be taken forward and recycled through the helm again. All the bubble purge system...

Power surges in your house are a part of life and the equipment being powered has to handle it or be ruined. Power surges have nothing to do with the green wire. Also, my inverter has a transfer switch builtin; check yours. That green wire is there to ground the chassis, the structure which...

We traveled twice to see and buy Journey On. The first time we flew from San Diego to Seattle to see the C-Dory line at the boat show. I wanted an Osprey, Judy wanted the C-Dory 25. She won, and we ordered the boat. That's 4800 miles round trip. Next, we picked the boat up at the factory...