SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH OR ON YOUR C-DORY TODAY??

Monday I "took the day off" from fishing and spent the day alternating between relaxing and working on the boat. I completed the radar installation. Tested that yesterday - works great.
Total cost: Radar arch at factory garage sale - $250
Furuno 1712 used - $600
Misc hardware to install - $30
Total - $880
Satisfaction of installing it myself and seeing it work - priceless!
 
Pretty risky (or would that be gutsy), pulled both my Yami F80's lower ends and replaced the water impellers. I only bought the impellers, not the whole housing and kit, hoping the surfaces were still good (they were). First motor took me about 3 hours, tough time getting the impeller to slip off the drive shaft (even after 400 grit light vertical sanding and lightly greasing shaft), 2nd motor was a breeze, about 30 minutes total. The risky part is this is a Saturday, nearest Yami dealer is only open till 1pm, most parts have to be ordered and I leave on the week-long Catalina trip in 2 days! Even taught my son how to save himself $200 or so per engine by doing this himself (when he inherits this boat someday!).

The engines have a mfr date of July 2002, so it was well overdue. A definite set in both impellers, no tears, no cracks in the rubber/neoprene, but have been watching the water pressure gauges closely lately as the pressure at low speed has been dropping (high speed pretty much the same since water is forced by the motion).
 
Tom Elliott took me fishing on the Susan E today. We fished near Possession Point and the Shipwreck and caught three Pinks. Tom really knows his stuff and loves to teach others how to fish.

Warren
 
Retreived the boat from it's secret storage location after Church today. Spent the afternoon and evening loading up clothes, food, ice, dinghy, dinghy motor and lots of little odds and ends.

Tomorrow morning (8/20), we head for Desolation Sound for 10 days by way of Sidney, Nanaimo, Pender Harbor, Lund. If you're in the area give us a call on 16 or 69. We're traveling with a few 6-8 kt boats so we'll have a lot of spare time waiting for them to catch up!

Hope Summer returns soon, Roger
 
FINALLY -- one son and the grandson didn't have football nor basketball games to play yesterday! We got them out on the boat for a little sturgeon fishing (got a few shakers but no keepers -- nothing bit smelt -- only when we changed over to squid did we start getting hits). What a great time! It was Steve's birthday, so after a nice relaxing day on the water, we took him out for a nice juicy steak dinner. Great day! :thup

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I had sort of a spooky thing happen today while out just cruising around enjoying the day and break in hot weather. I had just gone under the Dames Point Bridge (Jax FL) when I saw a log floating obviously from some of the area construction. There was a big cruiser approaching me at a pretty good rate of speed so I turned on the radio and warned him about the log. Shortly afterward the Coast Guard came on the radio saying that someone had just jumped from the Bridge. My guess is the bridge is at least 200 ft high the big container ships go under it. I turned around just in time to see two Marine Patrol Boats approaching and a small coast guard boat. The boat I warned about the log found the body about a mile down river form the bridge dead of course. Terrible way to end a life. Don't know how old or even the sex of the victim. They must have jumped about the same time I went under the bridge. Sorry to post something somewhat depressing but thats what I did today.
 
Well here is where I eat some crow... :oops:

It took me abt 9 tries to dock yesterday by backing into a space beside a short finger pier for the marina crew to retrieve me for storage. There was only one open dock available for retrieval.

I had a 3kt incoming tidal run from the west at 90degrees to the dock. There was a 15+kt east wind.

Each pass at backing into the the current and swinging into the shared space with a 2nd boat on the down wind side was a nail biter. Just when I throught I had secured a firm position with the stern, the wind would grab the bow and swing me toward the other boat. I tried to walk the boat around the end of the dock, but could not secure a hold for a spring. I finally got some help from the marina crew who helped me walk around the end of the dock. It still took 2 aborts to keep from pulling them in the water. On one earlier pass the starboard, outboard, engine stalled and I did not realized it till the last second.

The response of CD25 with HONDA 90s when backing to port is a challenge, compared to starboard, even with the SS 4 blade 15" pitch. This is the weak link and requires more practice, including when an engine is lost.

I did finally get docked, successfully. No marks to anything but my pride.

Lesson learned:
1. Plan ahead and be ready with a 'plan B'; may have to wait till there
is a better site, even if it does take an hour.
2. Brief/review spring line use and safety, if tie point reachable.
3. Check weight distribution POB, not everybody in the cockpit.
4. Practice.. practice.. and practice again.
 
I moved my sounder to the right side of the dash, to make room for the new chartplotter that'll be her tomorrow (yippie!). Then I mounted a RAM ball mount to the bottom of the overhead shelf...just so I can come up with something to put there... :wink
Canvas guy is coming tomorrow to give an estimate on a canvas enclosure to fit my homemade frame...this is assuming that he doesn't take one look at my frame and run :shock:
 
Our adventure started last Tuesday August 28. We left B'Ham and decided we'd go south instead of the usual northerly tour. Went past LaConner with a destination of Poulsbo for the evening. Decided to cruise Oak Harbor Marina as we'd never been in there before when we heard WILD BLUE hailing us on the VHF. Decided it'd be more fun to stay in OH and have a good visit with them. The four of us walked over to the Mexican restaurant. Very tasty meal.

Wednesday August 29: Left Oak Harbor early am. Poulsbo was the destination today. Bill & El (HALCYON) have spoiled us with lingonberry jam that they purchased when they visited Poulsbo. So upon arrival we promptly purchased two jars of the stuff. One is for the grandson as he helped eat most of Grandpa's Joe's. This way he gets his own jar at Christmas.

At Poulsbo we met Bill and Patti. They're new owners of a Ranger 25. It's blue with a bold yellow accent stripe. Patti has the interior all set up to match the outside. Looks very nice and comfortable.

Left Poulsbo with the intention of finding Doug who used to have the 22CD (LIBERTY CALL) at the Port of Brownsville. I'd left his phone number at home so we were just taking a chance that we'd find him at the marina. Pulled into Brownsville and there's Doug standing on the dock. Visited with him for a while. Toured his newly acquired 30' Willard also named LIBERTY CALL. Good visit.

Doug gave us some suggestions as to where to anchor for the night down there but we decided that we'd go north after listening to the weather report. We had hoped there'd be a spot at Langley. There wasn't so we anchored out.....let's just say that there's other places I'd rather stay on the hook for the evening.....

Thursday August 30: Pulled up the anchor very early am and decided to go to Anacortes. Can't count how many times we've been there by land but never spent the night in the marina. Not a problem getting moorage. 85 cents a foot, add $4 to that if you want power. Restrooms and showers are clean. Only problem with the shower is if someone flushes the commode, then the water pressure drops..... Lots of shoppes and little restaurants. We walked to the north end of town, went through the old hardware store. Observed the new construction of a drilling mud carrier at Dakota Creek Shipyard. Huge!

Friday August 31: Arrived back in B'Ham about 9am. WILD BLUE and HALCYON were at the visitors dock. Fred (ANITA MARIE) was on a tractor mission in B'Ham so the three of us were able to visit the WILD BLUE crew before they left for home. Will sure miss not seeing their big red truck out in the parking lot.

So that's the end of our cruising till it's time for the Sequim CBGT. It's sure been a great summer.

Ruth and Joe/R-Matey
 
Well not today but Fri. I turned over 1000 hours on both engines. Given that much of that is trolling time and I troll from only one engine at a time, that's probably 1600 total of on the water time.

I snuck out early fri AM prior to work to do some fishing (not catching).

The sunrsie from Point No Point looking back to the Cascades was nice


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I set up for trolling - the rod never released the entire AM.

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The lighthouse in that early morning glow.


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I moved over to Possession bar a little later in the morning. As you can see, it was bit more crowded over there. Help, I'm surrounded! (well at least the radar works).
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After 4 hours touring Virginia Beach around the Lynnhaven and Ches. Bay area I redeamed myself today. I made my docking with one try and Sea Angel backed and glided into position without any assistance. It was real pretty.

I had to do it right after the previous contrary conditions. Tide and wind were together from the east this time.

My sister-inlaw from Houston was impressed. I best not let any of this go to my head for I WILL be humbled, I'm sure. Maybe the answer is to plan the trips so I do not have contrary current and winds to spin me around on my approaches, else get out the spring lines...

Happy days are here again, I'm underway.
 
Since I'd not been out on the water since the end of August, I finally launched out of Everett yesterday. Initially, I'd planned on cruising south to Edmonds and/or Seattle, but there was a dense fog bank starting in Mukilteo to the south.
Instead, I cruised up to Coupeville (no fog), did a walk about town, then returned in the evening to Everett. Flat seas, very few other vessels, and a relatively warm day. (I did fire up the Wallas since I don't believe I've operated it since last winter/early spring).
 
What a gorgous weekend here in the Northwest! Shan and I went out Saturday afternoon - left Everett around 1:30pm. Headed south to do a little exploring/fishing. While trolling for Salmon, had another boater motor up and tell me that area 8.2 was closed. Guess the fish knew that since they weren't biting. I swear, its too complex out there for me - should of called Tom E. or Chromer or Roger or one of the fishing pros first. Anyway, went further south, where all the other boats were, and then caught a small salmon, though Shan still claims it was a hering. Let the little bugger go of course. Stayed out until Sunset.
Sunday we went up the Snomish river, lots of slow moving, slow dying, molting salmon meandering up the river with us. Beautiful day, shut the engine off and drifted down the river, felt like Huck Finn. Sat up on the bow, lying in the sun, drinking a cold beer.
Cheers,
Tom
 
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Sunday we went up the Snomish river
Tom
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Tom and Shan, wish I'd connected with you. As I cruised past Gedney Island (aka Hat Island), I called out on the VHF on CH 68 for any C-Dory's in the area, just to see if anyone else was out and about.
 
Just another night in the shop...getting "Thelma Lou" in ship-shape. Installed a powerhorn speaker at the front of the cabin brow (hailer and foghorn)...my new fuel tank sending units came in, as well as new anti-syphon valves for the vent lines. Got all of that installed and the fuel gauge now works!!!! I also replaced the fuel filters....geeeze!...they had all sorts of crud in them, and the flow area was rusted!
Just a few more things to tidy up...then we start packing for our first trip!
We leave next thursday for 3 days on the Great Pee Dee River, and a half day checking out Georgetown.
We've decided to leave our trusted canine companion at home for this first trip....there's gators in that area...and she'd make a good snack.
I'm rigging some rods for catfishing, simply because a refuse to be near water without wetting a line.
I'm so excited I can't sleep!
 
Beautiful fall day here with 74 degree WX, SE wind @ 5kts. The Lower Ches. Bay had <1 ft waves.

I recalibrated the Fluxgate Compass & Raymarine Auto Pilot. Now the chart and overlay radar do 'overlay' each other.

The wife and I enjoyed a nice hot cup of tea by testing the Wallas Stove while watching the Laughing Gulls play. This type of day you want to put in a bottle and save in the memory jar.

The docking was smooth and without any assistance; and, on the first pass, even though there was another boat within the slip area.

The AC Power Panel cover did its job today when a pot fell against the AC panel area. Talk about timing, that called for a big Thank You...

Tried using Salt Away on the hull after I flushed the twins with my 'kit' and using the marina's iron laiden well water to cleanup with. I did not expect it to be so easy a task. I think this will be part of my attack from now on rather rinse and wipe.

Both the 'flush kit' and the AC Power Panel Cover' are pictured under 'Sea Angel's Upgrades'. Sorry I have yet to figure out how to include the pix in this text though the directions are out there. The transision from the "Img" to getting the pix eludes me.. I'll keep working on this part.

The Navy jets are practicing, from NAS OCEANA, overhead and a thrill to watch; even better than the gulls.
 
After getting skunked last weekend at Yaquina for salmon AND crab, we decided to drag my oldest son out of Portland to head over to the bay again today (less of a tide change SHOULD have made it better crabbing...yes?) so HE could pull the pots for us. We tossed 6 of them at varying spots and got a sum total of 6 legals. As we were pulling our last pot, a couple fellas called over to us and asked how we'd done -- Steve told them, and they replied that they'd gotten two between them.

We brought 'em home and Jake and Steve washed the boat while I cooked the crab up for Jake -- he took em home, along with some ground elk, steaks and sausage -- we had another great day on the water :thup

Caty
 
Went down to took a look at Fishtales and to start removing personal items that I want to keep. Met with Bob, Catalina Yacht Anchorage, and put in my order for the new boat-- staying with a CD22, although I did take a spin in the Ranger 25- wow.
I will be retiring the name "Fishtales" and will be christening the new boat with a new name-- yet TBD--- maybe "C-taisteal"
My sincere thanks to Bob Nahm, Catalina Yacht Anchorage, for all of his assistance and support during this trying time. Even though I did not buy Fishtales from him, he did not hesitate to assist me in working to determine what was happening with the boat.
My sincere thanks to Scott Reynolds, C-Dory Marine Group, for all of his assistance in resolving this situation.
Bob and Scott have been very helpful in working together to provide a suitable solution to our dilemma.
 
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