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The helm on the bridge of the Polar Adventure is operated by joy stick and is navigated 100% by electronics. Joy stick integrates bow thrusters and twin engines. Helm photo was by my son this last summer while being cadet observer on board transporting crude between Valdez and Anacortes...

polar adventure helm

I keep my car on the land and my boat in the water year round. My CD25 has been in the water continuously since July 2004 except for 100hrs engine maintenance in fall of 2004 and bottom painting and anchor locker drain hole fix in Dec 2005. The water at my winter dock is brackish and the...

Miss Pam in winter

Ken, I am not planning on gluing the split edges back together. I am thinking to slightly overlap the edges and then snug up the cable tie at the opening. If I am not satisfied with this or if the edges don't overlap enough, I will buy a second boot and cut out a segment that would go on the...

Thanks for the link fix Mike. My boat came from Three Rivers Marine in your sunny state mid summer 2004. It had cracks in the boot when it arrived here in NY after just a month or two out of the factory and basking in the summer Florida sun. I think the rubber was defective but being such a...

The link in my previous post did not work. On the West marine site search for the THT cable boot.

I bought one of these http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/st ... artial/0/0: to fix the same problem. I have cut it so I would not have to undo the fuel line, engine controls, steering, etc. The holes on the flange of the replacement boot do not line up with the old disintegrated rubber boot...

Tyboo, I finally gave up my passion for wood boats when I realized I was spending more time varnishing and painting than on the water. (duh!) As I got older I also got laziyer. I finally gave up wood and sailing and love my now classic, Decraguard interior CD 25. My only regret is that there's...

"If god had meant us to build fiberglass boats he would have made fiberglass trees" My first sailing yacht was mahogany on oak built by Hinckley in Maine in 1946. While I like my CD 25 there is nothing that can equal the feel or beauty of a wooden boat. When people used to work for a living it...

Exactly where on the fitting or on the pipe nipple does the water come out. Is the male pipe nipple cracked. Is it undersized?

I have seen this misconception before in this thread. Wood mouting blocks can be fastened to the inside of uneven glass surfaces with Bostik urethanes or 3M 5200 or 4200. The tricky part is holding the piece in place while the urethane cures. Duct tape works. So does celophane packing tape about...

Aside from the need to fuss with the tow line when backing or repositioning the dinghy to the side when docking with the other side to the dock, what are everyone's thoughts about towing the dinghy?

I remember back in the early 60's when I was around 12 or 13 watching a space launch while on my father's boat. We were on vacation and crossing the Great South Bay in Long Island, NY. We stopped and anchored to watch John Glen and Walter Cronkite on a 10 inch or so portable black and white tv...

Santa brought me the Fuji 14 x 40's in a waterproof Pelican case to boot and they are great. Haven't tried them on the boat yet, but the resolution and clarity of targets 1,000 feet away from my second story window at the house is amazing. Boater's World had them on sale for 999 befor Christmas...

I have posted about this before. Stainless steel is a misnomer and the assumption that it will not rust is erroneous. So called stainless steel is an amalgamation (alloy) of iron, nickel, and chrome as well as lesser trace elements. Iron atoms on the surface of 304 or 316 (marine grade with...

I was a very happy person. My wonderful girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married. There was only one little thing bothering me ... it was her beautiful younger sister. My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore very tight miniskirts, and...

alandgin: info about HIN's is here: http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hin.htm Don, I agree that the guy making the labels on the Dymo tape machine used to mold numbers and letters into the hull might also be the guy that drills holes in rubrails to ensure that rain water will leak into...

Gee, this is interesting. "I" = September 2004 a month later. How was hull # 42 built now 4 months after hull number 72. A further check of "Our C-Dory's" shows other HIN's in sequence from earlier in 2004 with the correct coding. See C-Dragon HIN # CD025070B404. Hull # 70 "B404" = February, 2004.

As a former builder of small sailboats I look at things like Hull Identification Numbers on boats since they have a coded meaning per Coast Guard Regs. HIN of the ebay boat from member list: CD025042H304 CD0250 = manufacturer and model, 42 = hull number, H304 = August 3, 2004 (date of...