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The procedures for locking through are fairly straightforward. You won't need extra fenders, though you'll probably have to clean the fenders you use, as the walls are rather slimey. The lock supplies lines, so don't worry about extras, though a boathook is handy for grabbing a line as it's...

Rosboroughs are made in the Atlantic Northeast, and I've been on one; liked it very much, and if I could convince my wife boating were fun I'd upgrade to one. Link is here: http://www.rosboroughboats.com/

What an incredible sight! If you were holding the camera you could reach out and touch the eagle. The Internet is enriching our lives in so many ways.

When I'm on shore power I have a two-burner hot plate from Walmart, a small electric coffee maker, also from Walmart, a Black-and-Decker toaster oven, a microwave, and most recently I added a Nuwave convection oven, which in terms of savory cooking, is the best item of all. I don't use it...

My neighbor Jeff in the slip next to mine is a professional captain who lives on his boat when not working. His boat draws 3.5 feet, and that's about how deep it is in his slip, and he's about 20 feet from shore. A single screw and no side thrusters, yet he maneuvers his big boat better than I...

Very interesting old engines, but the commentator once mentions getting "free electricity" by using one as a generator. Tanstaafl (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch; Robert A. Heinlein); a flywheel may conserve energy between strokes, but it doesn't add any.

Dave, If your LED indicator is indeed in parallel with the trailer light, it merely tells you there's current to the light, but it won't tell you if the trailer light itself is burnt out. Again, I'm not an electrician, so hopefully an expert will chime in.

After reading the original post again, I realized his LED light had a built-in resistor, and further reading based on Google searches made me realize this is so because the resistance of an LED is negligible, typically 22 ohms for a red LED and a turn-on voltage of 1.8v in a circuit involving...

Here's a picture, I hope: Fun, doing this with the GIMP (Graphic Image Manipulation Program).

It's been a long time since I took shop in high school, but wouldn't the circuit below let the led indicator be lit only when the trailer light is working? The led light and resistor are in parallel, and that parallel circuit is in series with the trailer light. The resister in parallel with the...

I had a leak in my hatch, but it turned out simply to be a loose screw; you might just want to check those first.

That'll be my summer project. It's annoying, having to run around the trailer to check lights, and I have a certain length 2x4 to press the brake pedal, all of which can be avoided!

While it was still a great trip, I didn't get far; 33 miles, about 4 miles past the town of Eureka. I ran into lots of downed trees, debris in 3 to 4 feet of water. You can see my journal and photos here: http://smittypaddler.com/cds/cdc/Ocklawaha/index.htm

My first trip to Florida, I had the original tires on my 2-axle trailer, and only about 1,000 miles on the tires. About 900 miles from home, I noticed the tires were bald for about an inch, on both the left sides. I replaced all four tires with radials, and had the axles aligned; they were...

I keep an Innova Safari Inflatable Kayak on Na Waqa. It collapses to backpack size, and inflates in about 5 minutes. It is a bit tippy; my brother-in-law took a swim the first time he tried it. You can see photos of it being inflated here: http://smittypaddler.com/cds/cd7/fl08/d080317.htm

I just tried it, and I notice it shows tows on the Mississippi. This could be very useful there. How many times have I come around the last bend before a lock, only to discover a tow ahead of me. There was that nice riverside restaurant 5 miles back I could've stopped at, had I known.

You West Coasters are heavy weather sailors. As a long-time sailboat racer, I've always admired the yachtsmen from the bay of San Francisco. A 20-knot blow for those guys is a calm breeze. Just crossing the mouth of the Potomac in 25-knot winds with an incoming tide against the river current...

FYI, my website has moved; the journal for my great loop is at - <a href="http://smittypaddler.com/cds/cd4/greatloop/index.htm"> http://smittypaddler.com/cds/cd4/greatloop/index.htm</a> http://smittypaddler.com/cds/cd4/greatloop/index.htm

If I could convince my wife that boating is fun, this would be a great two-person craft. On the other hand, I'd never be able to tow it with my 6-cylinder Explorer, and I'm sure I wouldn't average 3.75 mpg on the water.

Bight Bight (b[imac]t), n. [OE. bi[yogh]t a bending; cf. Sw. & Dan. bugt bend, bay; fr. AS. byht, fr. b[=u]gan. [root]88. Cf. Bout, Bought a bend, and see Bow, v.] 1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geog.) A...