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We are moving up to a 38 foot trawler (bringing it to Alaska next summer) and and need to sell or downsize our CD25. See pictures on page 7 in the Bidarka album. The PowerDrifter on the roof is available but not included. 2005 CD25 $65,000 150 Yamaha 875 hours and a wide selection of props...

Heard on weather radio in Prince William Sound: "Local observations at 1 PM on June 2. At Whittier it was sunny, reducing the visibility to near zero..." I have the audio file but don't have permission to post it.

After reading comments on the thread about hydraulic steering, I started wondering what value people are getting out of their autopilots. I've had one on Bidardka II for 2 years and can honestly say I wish I had put one on the first Bidarka on day one. The value I get out of it ranges from...

While my wife was using her IPhone Navionics App as we were heading toward Montague Is, she noticed she had service as we passed Lone Island. It looks like ATT has an agreement with Copper Valley Wireless and there is a GSM site on Naked Island. Only voice and text, no Edge data.

The Yamaha manual calls for replacement of 3 engine fuel filters at 500 hours, so with 545 hours on my engine, I took the plunge. There are three filters involved, one in front of the engine, one on top of the Vapor Separation Tank (VST) and one inside the VST. The one in front is easy, the...

On my CD-25, the cabin bilge pump is set up with separate DC connections for the the float switch and the helm switch. The original Rule 1100 Automatic pump was designed this way. Last summer the float switch in this pump failed in the on position and since then has completely failed. The...

I bought a NMEA 2000 Gateway for my tablet PC running Coastal Explorer with the idea of making my data network much simpler than a terminal strip with different jumpers distributing NMEA 183 data to the autopilot, radio, and PC. The thought was at a minimum to do away with the USB to serial...

I have the luxury of being able to store my boat inside this winter and decided to check all the hull penetrations on the outside. I removed the transducer and trim tabs and found some water infiltration. I drilled out the holes just slightly past the depth of the screw and found that there...

About 2:30 this morning, the dog started a frantic bark, ran to every door in the house and kept barking. I looked out the window, and saw a black bear coming out of the cabin and leaving the boat via the swim step. Shotgun in hand I inspected everything, other than tracks nothing much...

For the technically inclined I found this guide to NMEA 183 while trying to sort out connecting Coastal Explorer to an S1000 RayMarine Autopilot. It was the first place where I found a reference to NMEA common on transmit and receive as being the same as signal ground on RS232...

I just put a TrollMaster on my Honda kicker. The results, I wish the throttle on my Yamaha 150 was as easy to control. Easy to install, works well, and sure beats sitting on the back deck in the rain guessing where I am going.

I have been using a Gam Electronics SS-2 VHF antenna for the past month and so far haven't seen any difference between its performance and the performance a a Shakespeare 8 foot antenna I had on my last boat. The SS2 is mounted on top of the radar arch on a 24 inch extension mast, and has about...

The Galaxy 15 satellite which carries the WAAS GPS signal has been drifting over the last two weeks and is essentially uncontrollable. Intelsat has been unable to shut the satellite down since it has drifted out of its orbital slot and is still operating (kind of like a moving microwave tower)...

I just got done connecting the Command Link output of my Yamaha 150 to the Sea Talk (NMEA 2000) input of my Raymarine C-80. It was surprisely easy on the electronics side. The hardest part was running the cable from the motor to the C-80. The Yamaha Command Link and RayMarine C-80 are both...

I was trying to determine the way the Guest Charger is connected to the battery banks and ran into a dead end. It appears on my CD25 the two outputs of the charger are tied together into a single wire and then spliced into the DC primary connection from the house battery to the DC bus at the...

If anyone has an encounter with the USCG Adelie (WPB87333) out of Port Angles, look for SN Brady on board. He reports to the Adelie tomorrow after getting out of basic last Friday. If you see him, ask for a hat, I think I have about a 10 hat credit.

The Coast Guard announced today the end of Loran C service starting Feb 10 with complete shutdown by Oct 1. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/Loran/default.htm I know there are some Coasties at remotes sites in Alaska who are looking forward to going home. From a practical standpoint since not...

We are moving up to a 25 this next summer so need to get the word out on a 22 available for sea trials in April. Here are the details: 2005 CD-22 $42,000 2007 Honda BF90D (402 Hrs) 2002 9.9 Johnson (remote control and steering) Wallas...

Anybody know who makes the C-Dory factory radar arch?

When I came back into Whittier today after the last trip of the season, I put the motor in reverse to find nothing happens. Fortunately I wasn't going to fast and was able to dock without any problems. As soon as I looked at the lower unit, the problem was obvious. We were lucky in that the...