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For interested brats, here a few images taken while we were in Apalachicola in late October and early November: http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... _album.php We stayed on C Eagle from the gathering to the seafood festival. I will add more photos taken at the actual gathering later...

We recently added a small, powered subwoofer to add bottom end to the small speakers in the pilot house; a big improvement in sound quality. These waterproof speakers mounted in the forward corners of the house sound good for their size but bass was lacking for much of the music that we play...

After wrestling with my Lewmar Pro Fish 700 windlass on our CD 22 for 2 1/2 years, it finally froze up. The Lewmar never operated reliably on my setup as it required an unreasonable amount of finesse to move the rode in and out of the locker without it jumping off the gypsy or jamming. I plan to...

About 6 weeks ago, we went out for a cruise on the Tennessee. As usual, he engine started and ran perfectly all day and we clocked about 40 miles before overnighting. The next morning, we headed out into the channel and opened the throttle but the Honda would not get above 3500 RPM and had a...

For Wildlife enthusiasts, here are some images taken in January 2009 of several species migrating through the Merritt Island National Widlife Refuge near Titusville Florida. Some of these. like the Kingfisher, gator, red bellied woodpecker, White Ibis, Wood Stork and Herons are residents. We...

Just wondered how many C Brats spent New Years on their CDs. After the Christmas 'Holidays' over which we mostly cleaned, cooked, stepped and fetched for our family of 7 grandkids and their parental units :smilep , we decided to rest our minds and renew our spirits by hanging out on C Eagle...

Recently, my bride said that she wanted a tub to take a hot bath when aboard C Eagle. Naturally, I always do what Im told, so I evaluated several design alternatives (most of them expensive ). In keeping with Bill and El’s KISS principle, I finally came up with a solution that needed no AC...

I was just wandering as I was looking through my log for 08, how many days C Brats spend on their boats in a year. To my surprise, I discovered that we have spent 61 days so far; about 90% were sleep-aboard. When I retire, maybe we will just live on our CD. Spent 4 days last week enjoying the...

A coule of weeks ago I redesigned the frustrating single wiper switch arrangement and resplaced it with two independent DPDT switches. I did not have a chance to take photos of the washer hardware which is shown below. The DPDT ON-OFF-MOMENTARY switches are configured so that 2 switches allow...

To add some general low intensity lighting to the cabin, I used a 6 ft run of LED rope lights. Very low power. I plan to design a circuit to allow them to be run at very low intensity as a night light.

I recently completed a small project to permenantly mount a small LCD TV, external Shakespeare amplified antenna and digital converter box so that we can watch COLLEGE FOOTBALL while cruising. Here is a link to the components for anyone interested: http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ...

For those bugged by the CD wiper operation: I finally got around to modifying the AFI 1000 wipers to eliminate the annoying run on problem of the factory setup. I added a DPDT switch (ON-OFF-Momentary ON) for each wiper so that they can be controlled individually to run continuously or in a...

For Gearheaded Brats - I am always looking for ways to minimize the number and weight of the tools that I carry on C Eagle. I recently replaced a set of SAE and Metric box end wrenches with only 4 total wrenches made by Gear Wrench. This model is called Quad because each end wrench has 4...

Hello Brats, While attending an airshow at the Huntsville International Airport yesterday a summer thunderstorm came up suddenly and caused 12 injuries, 1 fatality. At 2pm we were positioned just north of the airport to get some shots of vintage aircraft and the Blue Angels when a cloud front...

Finally got around to adding teak trim to the cabinet doors cut into my CD 22 commuter many moons ago. The new trim makes the original stuff look bad, so I will need to refinish it. Hmmmmm....... Will I ever learn to leave well enough alone? :roll:

For interested Brats, I just added a water level sight tube to my commuter version CD 22. I understand that most standard CDs already have a water level indicator, but my CD came without a water tank. I made a few other mods as well which can be seen in this album group...

I finally got around to installing and wiring a rode counter this weekend after solving my problem of the rode jumping off the gypsy of my Lewmar Pro Fish 700 windlass. The counter is a surplus 12V resettable interval counter that I bought from Skycraft Surplus in Orlando, Florida ($11). The...

I have a small confession to make about playing hookey from work this Monday and Tuesday. I decided to move my office to the Tennessee River and set up shop on the hook in a shady cove out of the channel. As I sat in the cockpit typing away on my laptop, I realized what I had been missing. The...

We took a few shots of Ospreys setting up housekeeping on the channel buoys near Short Creek on Lake Guntersville. They seemed to ignore us as long as we stayed back 25 yards or so and we enjoyed their acrobatics. We also saw a deer crossing Short Creek and were surprised at how fast he could...

For all of you sage brats out there who have been using radar for 40 years or for those who have GPS and Radar overlaid, this will be an old hat DUH...... Some others may find this example of going the separate radar and GPS route and interfacing the two to navigate to waypoints of interest...