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You might check out McMaster Carr for hardware. I suspect you need high strength bolts/screws, torqued to maybe 100 ft lbs or so. They are pretty good on prices, and will do mail order routinely. Start here. I suspect you want Grade 8 bolts/screws. https://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-hex-...

I used a set of ten foot spruce oars, commercially produced, and conventional oarlocks set on the coamings of a 20.5 ft inboard Bartender with some success. As others mention, you need long oars to get the blades in the water. I rowed from a standing position jusr forward of the CG, or...

Bob, However your procedure turns out, you will remain one of the classiest guys known, and certainly the most generous and helpful boater I know. Wishing you and Marie the best. PS: Stags over Sage Hens, any day! ;)

Tyboo wrote: The barge was outbound so it may have been coming from Hanford, I don't know, but wasn't heading there. Nuclear something sounds likely, though. And it may well have been a small Navy ship on the north side since it was gray and not the typical CG colors. Ah, I should have...

Tyboo, Thanks for the photo, and the heads up re: that barge. It sounds like one of the decommissioned reactor transport barges. They take them, under wraps, up to Hanford for storage/disposal, tug ahead, and one behind, I thought, and usually an armed Navy vessel. Maybe this is different...

Marco Flamingo wrote: I was wondering what would have happened if the rammed ferry would have had a CG escort. Regardless of the stand off rules for the ferries, what are the CG rules when a small private vessel is going to ram a ferry? I doubt that Nap Tyme's hull would have stood up as well...

That photo of the inflated PFD reminded me that we had one go off while in a mesh duffle, which "grew" substantially one day while sitting on deck, awaiting storage as we unloaded at the float. We got a huge laugh out of it.

Just want to reinforce a couple points: 1. A crotch strap is vital. It will keep the flotation in place help keep your face out of the water. 2. Insulation on your torso is also critically important. If you go into hypothermia, even the PFDs designed to support an unconscious person's head...

Whatever model and mode of inflation you choose, it is critical that you blow them up and do a swim with yours on. We sea kayak a lot, cold waters, and we practiced self rescue ... reentry into the kayaks, assisted and nonassisted rescues, the whole ball of wax. And found that the harness and...

Some debate amongst people who have seen the video over what species the shark was. No debate about what happened.

Rogerbum's treatise is spot on. Living in Astoria, we have enormous respect for the stretch of ocean from here to Neah Bay, and Roger has it nailed.

Those Dri Z Air style "chemical dehumidifiers" are worthless. They have low capacity, are corrosive when spilled on metals, and are a real bother to renew. Not to mention expensive. I am with Marco: ventilate, ventilate, ventilate. If you want a gadget, put a small electric fan where it...

There are hundreds of six pack guides who work the lower Columbia River, primarily for salmon, some for catch and release sturgeon. At the height of the season, the river is paved with them, most in open aluminum sleds, with a handful of sports, clad in heavy rain gear. Some of the guides...

Repeating parts of an earlier post, in response to the OP, who was looking for help in learning how to run inlets to rivers and bays: You got the horse laugh when you asked around about boater ed classes because really good instruction beyond whatever your state requires (or advises) for new...

Jason, You got the horse laugh when you asked around about boater ed classes because really good instruction beyond whatever your state requires (or advises) for new boaters is very rare, and expensive when you do find it. In Oregon, new boaters are required to pass a class, now just a day...

Jason, One last suggestion for you. Pick an inlet, not one of the really gnarly ones One of variable difficulty, perhaps with a half decent channel. And spend some time running it, beginning at high slack, and edging away from high slack a bit, to see how it changes. After several transits...

Jason, The best cure is sea time with an experienced skipper, who will help you: 1. Learn how to tell which tide stages are most hazardous, and therefore to be avoided: typically, when the strongest ebb current occurs, most river/bay inlets. This is usually midway between high and low tide...

Much of this discussion focuses on toilet hygiene on freshwater bodies or confined saltwater bays ... and I am impressed with the concern about protecting those waters from human fecal matter. We traveled with an approved MSD on Canadian waters, and disposed of its contents in shoreside toilets...

The NWS says the typhoon remnant, an intense 982 mB low, split into two smaller systems, defusing the intensity of the winds. Their forecasts did not anticipate that. Nobody got it right. Happy I don't have their job.

Tyboo had the cojones to stand on the platform at the South Jetty, Columbia River, and grin at the weather, in the face of predictions of 80 mph winds. I stayed home and eyeballed gnarly videos of the Tillamook Bay jetty at Barview, as wave after wave swept its length. In the end, we never saw...