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I've sailed the Potomac in two days in a 19 foot undecked British yawl, but that's not the way to cruise it--there's too much history. Get a chart and look up Mallows Bay (great anchorage--WWII ship boneyard), Pope's Creek on the Maryland side--good crabs; Pope's Creek on the Va...

Les, Tyboo, et al., As I'm sitting here, stewing and pondering on it all, with my 18 gallon Moeller tanks sitting in the shed, and my newly tuned and filtered boat sitting on the hard tankless, and my 20 gallon tanks ordered from C-Dory but apparently not to be seen for weeks to come, and custom...

I talked to a local chandler and got a recommendation of a local fabricator who is supposed to do good work--called him, described "Snowdon", and got a ballpark figure of about $750 or so for two new metal 25-gallon tanks, with guage senders installed. Hmmm--$500 for 20 gallon plastic factory...

...So, after being given to understand that I'd hear in about two weeks that my 20 gallon tanks were being shipped, I drained my tanks, and got them outta "Snowdon" so she was all set for bigger things. Two weeks went by, and just on general principals, I called yesterday to see where my tanks...

More pondering on the tank issue. (Yes, I do have a little too much time on my hands, today.) A couple of months ago, when I first started considering replacing my 18 gallon crud catchers. I'd read about Tyboo getting twin 24 gallon tanks and being really satisfied with the process. Then I...

Joe, Larry-- Thanks a million. As it happens, I wandered back out to the boat, and like a monkey with idle time, began diddling with the fuel hose. At one point, the fuel line happened to be pointing up while I was pumping away, staring off into the distance. At that point, I discovered I had...

Okay--I've ordered two new twenty-gallon tanks from C-Dory. They told me the rumored 25-gallon tanks aren't gonna happen, at least any time soon, so I decided to go with what they have. Next, today being clear and sunny, and spring's coming and all, I went out to the boat, on the trailer to...

Corey, We just bought ours used a year ago--I would check the fuel tanks for condition, and any accumulated sludge at the bottom--ask the owner if he can run the tanks dry, or if the last few gallons are hard to get out--that would be a clue that there might be some crud built up. See the fuel...

Thanks a bunch for the help--sounds like a little common sense, a strong back (or a tractor bucket), a little time, and a hose with a primer bulb is what it will take. That, and a wife that doesn't mind running a mite ruff for a while. The ideas for most of the above, except the wife, were...

Okay, so I admit it--I'm cheap, and at the same time, I'm all thumbs. I've made the decision to replace the twin 18 gallon tanks I've got on "Snowdon" ('99 22CD) with new tanks from C-Dory (hopefully the biggest they've got that will fit). However, when I can find them under the ice in the...

Tyboo, thanks for the reply. I'm putting off springing $500 for new tanks, but 48 gallons sounds awful good to me. I finally worked up enough nerve to empty one tank so it reads flat empty on the guage--but I can see it still seems almost 1/5 full. What giffs? No coughing or spitting from...

Greetings, Upper Left Coasters--It's November on the Chesapeake: 81 degrees, balmy winds, boats out the kazoo on the move. More and more C-Dories around here as the days go on. We were out on Lady Snowdon this afternoon, and crossed wakes in the South River with a CD 25 by the name of "River...