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I picked up my CD 22 from the shop today (fuel pickup in the second tank had deteriorated after replacing the other one in the spring) and as I hooked it up I saw a big chip of gelcoat down to the fiberglass about 6 inches above the bow eye. I do not know when the damage occurred as I had not...

Turns out there is tent camping available at nearly every lock! Only costs about $5 a night if I'm reading it correctly!

I am headed up to Canada in a few weeks to help get my daughter settled in grad school at McGill in Montreal. I have some free time so I figured I would wander around for a bit and do some tent camping and lots of biking. It's not practical to haul the C Dory up there for this trip but I could...

My boating season is rapidly drawing to a close unless I can find a way to cool off. Tomorrow will be nice and cool but then it's 90+ for the foreseeable future along with that lovely Carolina humidity. I'm looking for a simple fan that I can move around while at anchor. I won't be sleeping...

All of the electrical stuff worked normally today but I oculd not get the fuel to draw from the starboard tank. I checked the vent and it was clear as far as I could tell. It has little screens over the opening and they were clear. When the engine started to run out of fuel, I quickly unscrewed...

Here's the odd thing about the electrical issues - the circuit breakers never tripped when I was actually using anything electrical. At least that's how it appears to me. The windlass was working jsut fine one day and the next day the breaker had been tripped. All of the other electronics were...

Another beautiful day in North Carolina today with cool morning temperatures, light winds and a cloudless sky. Since I'd figured out the windlass situation - and had my spare anchor in hand - I figured it was the perfect time to take my ten year old son and his friend out for a float. At the...

One thing I'm going to do as a result of this is get a multicompartment box to hold fuses and then label each compartment as to which instrument, etc. uses fuses of each type. Much easier to do that sitting on shore than to try and figure it all out on high seas at the wrong time. I am also...

So I took the multimeter, tool bag and kid out to the boat. Took a long hard look at the circuit breaker. Could not see the yellow arm that comes out when the breaker trips as shown in all the pictures I looked at on the web. I then tried to get a closeup picture to post here (even though I...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them out and report back

Haven't been to the boat yet but looked up the Lewmar circuit breaker and I see what you guys are talking about. Mine apparently did not trip as the yellow lever did not appear. Pressing the red button also did not trip it. Any other thoughts of things I can check when I get out there today...

Thanks I'll check it tomorrow and post pics if it's not obvious to me how it works

Went out for a day cruise last week and my Lewmar windlass refused to work. Never had a problem before. I hit the switch and nothing happens, not even any sound. I checked the two inline fuses and they looked good. The thermal circuit breaker back by the battery, however, appeared to have...

I waited on hold for an hour with Garmin. A spectacularly uninformed agent finally came on. I told him I was using Garmin Express to download the charts and he said that's not what Gamrin Express if for. Huh? I asked him what it is for and he said it is used to download updates. I then asked...

On hold with Garmin support for over 40 minutes so far. That's given me ample time to search the various forums for suggestions. Turns out there's no end of problems with Garmin Express, their chart update utility, thus rendering my unit useless as it did not come with Lakes preinstalled. I've...

Online with Garmin chat support this morning. He was unable to offer any suggestions at all and suggested I call support - and then gave me the wrong number. I found the right number and called to find out the wait is over 30 minutes and that I should call in the morning for best service - of...

I may travel all the way across the country to Portland just to get this done! The latest "fix" didn't work either. Perfect boating weather today to go lurk in the backwaters and watch the eagles' nests but it's too tricky to do without the chartplotter :(

Apparently I needed 7 GB on both the microSD card AND the main computer hard drive. This was not clear to me. Good excuse to clean up the Mac but the only real way to make significant space is to move off the 83 GB iPhotos library. Making a brand new full disk image back up before I try to...

This new echoMap chartplotter is driving me nuts. During a long chat with a Garmin rep the other day, I found out I needed a microSD card in an adapter to fit into the echoMap. Turns out that's not quite true. You need a miscroSD without and adapter. Not a big deal but it pointed out his lack...

I bought a nice new Garmin echoMAP 74DV for my 22 to replace the Garmin 498 that quit working. The new chartplotter has all kinds of fancy things including DownVU sonar. The box clearly says Preloaded BlueChart g2 but somewhere it noted that lakes were not included. I asked the West Marine...