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Hi all, We've decided to "move up" and do some more extensive cruising. As such, Seaweed is for sale. An extensive list of feature upgrades, brand new electronics in 2014, and a brand-spanking new aluminum trailer with less than 50 miles on it make this one quite different from the rest...

Well, as everyone has opined, I really found a need for a wiper delay for at least the helm location. I was really interested in making something that didn't disrupt the existing system, or need to be wired to the motors, etc. I went to my "go-to" source for all of these kinds of projects --...

I made a few mods to the V-Berth to make it more useable. I started with a small inspection hatch at the center of the forward bilge. I cut out a circle the right size for a hatch: There was about 2 gallons of NASTY water in there: After cleaning it all out, installed the inspection...

Well, we all need plenty of USB power outlets for our "stuff" right? [Warning: This one's pretty "geeky" - sorry!] So I found the Marinco USB outlets. They are pretty nice. I put three of them in the boat. One aft at the back corner of the entry table: One forward at the co-pilot seat...

I did a few things to organize the cabinet that is on the port side as you enter the 25. The spare prop was always a storage problem, so I made a mount to hold it up and out of the way until (hopefully never) needed. First I epoxied a pad to the hull at the very back of the cabinet after...

I found a neat water filler bottle available on ebay and amazon, similar to this: http://www.amazon.com/Wash-Bottle-Widemouthed-Distilled-Water/dp/B005MIPSYI It is really great for maintaining the battery water levels when you can reach "way back in there" with a cup or other filler. I got a...

I found these "puck" style LED's on ebay for a reasonable price. They drew less than 100mA at full brightness. The nice thing about them is that they already had PWM and other circuitry to make them polarity independent, and constant brightness over the entire operating voltage range of the...

I installed a small chartlight at the co-pilot seat location. First, I bought a cheap USB LED light with a goose neck on Ebay from China for about $5. I also bought a stand-alone red LED element with the right parameters and a resistor at radio shack to set the brightness. Some info about...

I used a narrow piece of plywood and glued some small drawer organizers onto it. I added a few bits of teak trim and then screwed it to the narrow ledge that the previous fiddle was attached to. Nothing fancy, but very useful! We do very little cooking on the boat. Usually eating out or...

I took some individual LEDs and soldered a resistor to them and then sealed and put heat-shrink on the leads. Sidebar on LED resistors - skip to way down the page if you already know all this. I wrote this for a paper some time back. ================================= Unlike incandescent...

I replaced the factory courtesy light bulbs with LED's for both power consumption savings and robustness. I replaced the festoon bulbs in the cockpit lights with an LED version. The package and part number of what I used is shown here: The swap was very easy. Unscrew the cover, remove...

Got my Lowrance EP-60R hooked up to the Raymarine A98 this weekend. Took some data going out and back ~20mi each way. Just some data for anyone reading and interested. 2007 C-Dory 25, 2007 Honda 15., Full fuel, half water, no waste. 2 passengers (~290lbs combined). Going out was 5-10mph wind...

Looks like I'll be getting a new plotter :( :( :( :( :( Anyone every hook up a Raymarine ECI-100 to one of their plotters? Says it works with the Honda BF150. Would be neat not to have to buy the fuel monitor I was planning to install over the winter..... Experiences? Early-adopters?

Load Rite or Venture? Opinions?

I use two types of canister fuel on the boat, 1lb propane for the grill, and small butane for the galley stove. I made two PVC storage "lockers" for two each of the canisters. They live attached to the sidewall of the starboard-aft cockpit seat. Each of the caps have a line attached to keep...

I mounted an auxiliary outboard bracket to the stern of my 25. It is a Panther 55-0022 adjustable mount. Here is what the bracket looks like in the fully up position. Here is the fully down position. Both positions clear the trim tab by a wide margin. I added a cleat as a security...

I posted some of these pictures in another thread before they were all done, but I finally got everything finished up this past weekend and had a test run on the boat. Hence, the "update". Starting with the re-hash of the other thread: I had a local aluminum welder-guy bend some tubing into...

I put together a few pictures on how an overly-anal geeky engineer (me) makes up a battery cable. First strip the cable to match the ferrule of the lug Then crimp the lug to the cable Make sure the crimp has a VERY good mechanical connection on the wire Next, I put the lug in a...

I don't know about you all, but I HATED those roller slam latches on the cabinets and drawers on Seaweed. That hollow, empty-sounding, SLAM! drove me nuts. I thought about, and experimented with various thumb-turns and push-open/push-closed latches, but none of them seemed to work well for me...