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Here's a link to a pdf (jpeg was too large) of my power schematic. It shows all proposed electrical wiring on the boat except individual fused DC circuits. If you're on a desktop you can use the little "+" icon in the upper right to zoom in. If you're on a cell phone just zoom with your...

This switch needs to be at the helm in the event of a LiFePO4 house battery shutdown. It switches the house loads between the house battery and the start battery. The cables coming from the batteries to this switch are AWG 2 and fused for 60A. This is far more capacity than is typically needed...

What are you referring to as crucial controls. Isn’t the switch panel in the photo the standard location used for all C-Dory Cruisers? I will be redesigning (fiberglass work) the helm area, but I’m planning on putting critical switches (horn, wipers) in the same general area. Yes, I apologize...

Here's a link to a hi-res jpeg drawing of my helm design. If you're on a desktop you can use the little "+" icon in the upper right to zoom in. If you're on a cell phone just zoom with your fingers... https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o1qdsn4h ... zb3to&dl=0

Oh man - such good feedback! I'll address ssobol's comment first. Will get to Bob's hopefully tonight. I'm also going to try to figure out another way to post the helm drawing. The C-Brats website resizes the jpeg, causing small details to blur. There are three reasons I like having the little...

Helm design 12

I’ve had plenty of time to think through the helm design for my 22’ Cruiser restoration and would like to offer it up for criticism before I start modifying the fiberglass at the helm. Keep in mind that I’m an engineering nerd so there will likely be things about this design you don’t like and...

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I have a 25 gal. Moeller Marine starboard plastic fuel tank that came out of a 1999 C-Dory 22’ Cruiser. The port tank cracked when I tried to remove a fitting, so I decided to replace both tanks with new. If you want it you can have it, but there’s a catch… I don’t have time to box and ship this...

fuel tank

Of course that makes sense. Thank you.

I’m about to cut a 3” hole in the deck of my 22” Cruiser for my new Lewmar Pro 700H windlass. It seems logical that this hole would be centered over the middle of the anchor locker, but the Lewmar installation instructions, which don’t explicitly call out a location, show an illustration (see...

anchor locker

Thanks. Clearing cache and cookies fixed it.

For the last few weeks I’ve been wondering why the C-brats website was down. Now I’ve discovered I can access the site from my iPhone and the problem lies with my desktop. Any idea what I can do to fix this? I get a msg that says “This site can’t be reached. Www.c-brats.com refused to connect...

Ever since a previous owner of my boat told me that one of the original plastic fuel tanks had cracked and leaked gasoline all over the cockpit floor I’ve been uneasy about putting the old plastic tanks back into my 1999 22’ Cruiser, which I’ve stripped and am slowly restoring. Last week I tried...

new port tank embossed label

new port tank paper label

new starboard tank paper label