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I've guide books I can't bring myself to throw away but.... Since giving up trailer boating I need to free up book shelf space. Books are free if you will reimburse me for postage from northern Idaho. First come & etc. These are all Great Loop & eastern Rivers. I can't give up my Puget Sound...

She’s brought us lots of good times but its time to swallow the anchor and let someone else enjoy her. Two Bears is for sale at Sportcraft marina in Portland, Oregon; their web site: sportcraftmarina.com. We lived aboard for 2 to 4 months at a time while boating and “boater-homing” and took...

I’ve been interested in stabilizing binos but haven’t yet bit. There have been several threads here the past few years, but at $1,000 plus still not in my range. Then this showed up on Amazon. Not only is it 4-16 power, but it does lots of other things also. All for under $500. ATN...

I've been a fan of Active Captain for years. Yesterday I was reviewing some Marinas along the Snake and Columbia Rivers. I noticed that Irrigon, Oregon which has a city run marina was no longer listed. It was listed in the fall of 2017 when I was considering joining the Snake River group/...

I remember a few years ago some discussion about Fireworks shows, both US and Canadian in Puget Sound. Where best to anchor a boat and how to see several shows on different days. We're a bit away and wonder if things have changed and someone has that info available. Chuck

For several years we’ve chased a leak in the V berth just in front of the helm. We had been having trouble with the helm side window and the seals there were bad, so we thought that was our problem. We finally fixed the window and thought our leaks were history. Our trip to the Florida...

Life is full without your blog to read and discuss each morning. Will you please go back and start the Great Loop again.

Planning to launch at Bullfrog & head down lake. What services are there? Car gas? Groceries? Sporting goods? Looked on line several places & get Nat Park Service camgrounds, but nothing else. Do I need to do my shopping in Green River before I arrive at Bullfrog? Chuck

Two Bears is home again after being “on the road” for 83 days and 7,710 road miles. From mid August to early September we spent 21 days boating down the Mississippi River from St Paul, MN to the Meet in the Middle Gathering in Alton, IL which was 646 River Miles but just 609 GPS miles. This is...

Upper Mississippi River We hope to get away from home in Northern Idaho by the weekend of August 8, trailer to Minneapolis, launch there and boat down to the Mississippi River Gathering the weekend after Labor Day. Allowing time for driving, launching and getting organized we’d head down river...

I have an I pad and used it recently on Two Bears and powered it with a adapter in one of the "cigarette lighter" power outlets. The adapter has a USB port and I just plugged the I-pad into that. Over the coarse of a few hours the I pad lost charge, even with the green light on for charging...

My Suzuki motor book talks about draining the oil by removing the plug and catching the used oil in a pan. Easy to do when the boat is on the trailer but it can be messy and not always convenient or possible when the boat is in the water and the hundred hours comes up. Shops seem to use a pump...

Last fall I attached a fuel pump to the outlet of the "kicker" motor and drained both tanks. I did not change the fuel filter, thinking that I'd put a few hours on the motor in the spring and then change, so than any "junk" kicked up by the draining or spring refueling would be caught in the...

A C-22 "Salty" has completed the Great Loop and has posted his statiticsl on the Looper's forum. I was hoping he would post it here, but it's been a while, so I've copied his post below. By: irlboater on January 3rd, 2014, 3:47 pm I have compiled some trip statistics from my recently...

Boating while wearing sandals & shorts is our ideal, but here in Idaho our sandals & shorts season is only a few weeks long. September is the nicest boating month of the year but it’s not always sandals & shorts weather. Lake Powell in September with its 90 degree days is great sandals &...

Home from the Sidney Gathering & doing the cleanup after a good trip. Found about 1.5 gallons of salt water under and in front of the port-a-potty space. Where did it come from? If thru the anchor hatch it would be rain water, not salt water. The Bow Eye Bolt to the trailer winch that is...

Two Bears is home again. We spent 15 weeks traveling the US living in Two Bears, our CD 22. We spent more than 3 weeks on the Eire Canal in August. Then did the tourist thing and visited friends by truck in the Northeast for two weeks. We trekked to North Carolina for the Gathering there...

Both of my outlets will no longer reset. I'm running an extension from a multi-outlet on my incoming shore power line for my 110 needs. How much risk am I taking if I replace them with a standard home outlet? Chuck

We just returned home from a 2 &1/2 month, 9,000 mile “walkabout” to the southeast aboard “Two Bears” which followed us aboard a single axle trailer. It was a great trip and we came home with quite a list of “diamonds” and “bricks.” (Diamonds are things you take reluctantly which prove...

Just returned home with my rebuilt kicker, a 6 hp Suzuki - to the tune of nearly $500. I'm the 3rd owner of a 5 yr old boat/ motor with the main a Suzuki 90 which had 200 hrs when purchasing last April (2010). I didn't pay much attention to the kicker, which would not have made much difference...