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I had to replace a caliper assembly and I decided to replace all my brake tubing with a Tie Down Engineering flexible line kit. When it came to filling and bleeding the system, I couldn't get fluid to flow. I tried a few different vacuum techniques and a couple pressure systems. No luck...

I've been trying to find the photo from the magazine cover a few years back with the C-Dory 22 jumping a big wave. It was on a magazine cover, but I can't remember the name. I'm not guessing the right words for Google or the C-Brat site, or maybe the photo's not even online. Any hints? -Jeff

I wasn't sure where to post this. In my photo album is a picture called Wallas Control Guard. I bought a door handle at the hardware store and mounted it as a curved guard in front of the Wallas control knob and switch. Now no one can bump up against it in rough seas or drag a coat across it or...

I did a little searching the forums but didn't find a thread on boat heights. I looked up the Erie canal website and they show 15.5 ft as the lowest clearance. I'm about to put a radar on top of a 18" or 24" mast or arch and it got me thinking about the subject. This is on a CD22. Also, road...

I found a LOT of old threads here on radar and read them all and learned some stuff. I'm about to buy a radar unit to go with my Garmin 4212 plotter screen. They make four versions now from about $1000 to about twice that. There's an 18" standard and a high-definition version, both having a 5...

I've been reading a bunch of the Wallas posts and haven't seen comments about using it underway. I assume it works that way or people would be commenting and there would have been warnings in the manual. I've just had mine running in the driveway a few times to check it out before taking it on...

I ordered a Wallas for my CD22 a couple months back and took my time finishing the last details and just got it running today. There's a yellow light glowing up through a little window in the cooktop. Seems to be on all the time, even when the stove's off. Seems the stove draws 150 mA all the...

I wish I had made a better note of the name on a dinghy I saw this weekend. It was about 12 ft long and only three feet wide I guess. Standard dinghy diameter tubes. Three people would fit, one in front of the other, and it had an engine mount built into the transom. I think the name was...

My new 22 cruiser was ordered by someone else, without sink and stove. Then the order was cancelled and I bought the boat, planning to install my own sink. I see the factory sink, tank, pump and faucet can be bought for just under $200, which doesn't sound too scary. I've been researching the...

On a whim today I tried using my 90 main and Hi thrust 9.9 kicker on my 22 cruiser to do the "big boat twin engine" maneuvering we all see around some slips and docks. To my pleasant surprise, it worked quite well, even though the engines are quite different and mounted very close together. At...

I bought an LED bow light that mounts with a rubber pad to the inflatable dinghy tube. The adhesive they sell at West Marine is about $20 and I guess I'll buy it if I have to, but I wonder what else would work. Does anyone have any good experience with something else? Jeff Lastofka

I'm a mechanical engineer, so I find this kind of thing interesting. It occured to me to figure out how hard an outboard is pushing on the back of the boat. To use round numbers I assumed 90 HP and 30 MPH. One HP is 550 foot pounds per second. 30 MPH is 44 feet per second. So the calculation is...

I've looked through the posts and didn't find a discussion of what lengths of lines people are really deploying. The books say with a 7:1 scope you get almost 100% of the anchor's holding power. Obviously this assumes something about the bottom. If you hook onto something substantial...

Thinking about steering linkage for kicker with main up/down: It suddenly occured to me that the Cabella's rods are not expensive and they're made to quick connect/disconnect, so I could buy two and set the length on one for steering the kicker with the main down and the other for the main up...

Hi, Looking through the old posts has partly answered my questions, but: On a new 22 cruiser coming with 90 and 9.9 I was going to mount the kicker to starboard where all the main cables are, to keep the port side clear for swim step use. This makes the engine install more crowded, and I've...

Hi, I'm getting a new 22 cruiser with a Honda VTEC 90 and High Thrust 9.9. The dealer and I thought we'd have the engine shop make an offset kicker mount to clear the trim tab and then have a connector link between the engines so the main steering would steer the kicker. Both have electric tilt...

Hello. My name's Jeff and I'm buying a new 22' cruiser with a Honda VTEC 90 and a Honda 9.9 Hi Thrust kicker. Both will be power tilt and connected to common steering with a dual throttle quadrant to keep things clean and simple I hope. The only other non-standard additions are an anchor...