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Over the weekend we practiced boating skills and survival drills on DoriDaze to get ready for a trip to Alaska. It was 3 to 5 ft waves in the St. Helena sound (South Carolina) Took on a lot of water and had quite a bit in the cabin. Looks like water is running between the gelcoat (where is...

I am continuing this thread because I did a copy and paste on the survival advice from the posts that printed out as 4 pages. I forwarded these posts to potential guests. I just finished reading Beating the Odds on Northern Waters and found that most of those 200+ pages in that book are boiled...

Greetings and hope your trip is going well. I need to learn how to detect your Spot, but if you are between Beaufort, SC and Charleston SC, we have a dock with power and water just off the ICW. Email: larhayden@gmail.com

Okay. We will get the EPIRB and PLB(s). Ditch Bag and assemble personal bags. And read either Deep Survival or Beating the Odds. Thank you greatly for your time to respond to these posts. But, we have no guns and do not plan to bring any. Other than bear spray, we have thought about...

Status: Permatrim delivered today. Prop ordered from PropTech (16 inch pitch). They coordinated with C-dory for the recommended prop sizing. Now- on to the most important. The 7 steps to survival. The wait at port or anchor till weather goes by. And the equipment needed if abandoning ship...

Again, thank you for the responses. I ordered the permatrim last nite off the Shipyard Island website and it has already shipped. Also, ordered charts from Bellingham press. Now, the prop--current prop is 3x16x21.5R. I plan to look for 3x16x17R ? At WOT the RPM was 4000, around 20 knots...

Great! Thank you for the info. It is what I needed. To answer a few of your questions: 1) We have a Garmin 741 w/radar and sounder 2) We have coastal explorer --but no paper charts 3) We have a kicker, but changed from 9.9 to 6 HP to use on dinghy I am a bit concerned about the tides...

We are towing a used CD25 (2007) from South Carolina to Prince Rupert this summer (2015) then doing the inside passage of Alaska. Have been upgrading the boat based on blogs from this site. Have made many upgrades, but am running out of time for research, so need to ask advice about the...

thanks greatly. I have requests to both of the guides in your posts about their availability.

Greetings. We are planning a trip to Sitka Alaska during the summer of 2015; towing the CD 25 from South Carolina to Prince Rupert and then boating to Sitka. If you have any recommendations for fishing guides (salmon) in Sitka, we would appreciate your insights. We have 4 grandkids coming...

thank you for the replies. the dink is an air floor. I really do not care for speed on the dink, so 6 HP should work fine. Also, thank you for sending the recent threads----that discussion really hit the mark. I need to get better at searching the posts of the past.

Greetings. I have 9.9 Suzuki kicker motor for a CD25. Just got a dinghy that can take a 5 or 6 hp motor. And, I would like to swap out the 9.9 for a 6 HP in order to use it both for the dinghy and as an emergency motor on the CD25. Do you think a 6Hp motor would do well enough?? Has...

Folks, we are planning a trip to Maine in July. I want to query this blog to find out where others have gone. What would be the best way to format the search for this specific information? My searches are not working too well. Thanks, Larry.

We live 30 miles south of Charleston and recently anchored off Bulls Island in Cape Romaine Wildlife Refuge. There is a public dock you can use during the day. You can use your bikes as well. Larry and Christine.

We just purchased a 2007CD25 that was never used and now outfitting it for cruising. We just purchased the NuWave. I believe it will work well for the boat. On house current it boiled water in 75 seconds. I will test it on the boat next week with a 2k Honda generator and will let you know...

Greetings, the bilge paint on my 25CD is flaking off. Has anyone used flexseal-a rubber paint to touch up the bilge? Or is regular bilge paint the best choice?

Thanks to all. It was something trapped in cooling line. Will take advice about servicing and keeping spare impellors, etc. Hope to launch her soon.

Greetings. I just purchased a cd25 with a 2007 Suzuki 150 EFI. I have ordered a manual for the engine. The engine starts fine, but no cooling water comes from the engine block. I assume there should be a stream coming out of the block. The engine has only 29 hours, so it has been doing a lot...

I have just purchased a CD25 and need a trailer and tow vehicle if anyone on the east coast has anything available. thanks, larry hayden larhayden@gmail.com

Greetings. We want to buy a CD 25 or TomCat -- or perhaps a 22. We decided to follow a model of having a trailerable boat - and C Dory is our first choice. We live near Charleston SC, and want to buy a truck so when the right CD is available, we can tow it. We would like to have a slide in...