SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH OR ON YOUR C-DORY TODAY??
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After having read the last few posts I remembered how easy it is to forget our good fortune. Sometimes I get a little down cruising this site because so many of you have the Puget Sound at your' doorstep. I spent 9 years, full time in the dive industry and know what you have up there. We, on the other hand live 3.5 miles from the Columbia River between the Deschutes River and the John Day River. This time of year with wheat harvest, everything is dried up and brown. Been over 95 degrees for a few weeks. Sure, we have the rivers to play in but, it lacks the diversity of a marine environment. However, it seems everything has its price. We decided to take the boat out last evening to cool off a bit. Took 5 minutes to get to the launch (two stop signs, no traffic lights), one trailer in the parking lot, no launch fee. Cruised around for a few hours until the kids fell asleep. Docked and retreived the boat without seeing another soul. Hard to say who is luckier, I guess we all are.
Carol and I just returned this evening from a delightful 6 days and 5 nights at the Pleasant Harbor Marina on the Hood Canal. For several years I've heard many good things about the resort, so finally, we were able to enjoy it first hand. With the exception of one day of cruising (to view some of my childhood stomping grounds at Seabeck), we stayed at the marina enjoying the SUN, the pool, reading books and visiting with the liveaboards at the marina. We were in a slip near several liveaboard vessels and we had a great time with them. Carol purchased a toaster oven for the boat (thanks for the idea, Patty Anderson) so she prepared multiple meals with it....quiche, omelettes, homemade macaroni and cheese etc. The "liveaboards" all came over to hug us when we departed today, so I'm thinking that we'd make good "liveaboards".
(The worst part about being gone for so long is the 484 posts on this site that occured in my absence).
(The worst part about being gone for so long is the 484 posts on this site that occured in my absence).
just took two guys salmon fishing for the first time, very fun and equally frustrating... I hooked into 4 big fish, two of wich got to the side of the boat (aprox 20 pounds) lost all four, if forget how hard it is to do all the small things right when you have never done it before, still they had a great time and the water was nice
to whoever it may concern...
all 4 fish were hooked right in front the the big red crains in elliot bay, trolling south in 130 feet of water, fishing at 110 feet, at 1.2-1.5 miles an hour, dodgers and spoons, the two that got to the boat were wild...
to whoever it may concern...
all 4 fish were hooked right in front the the big red crains in elliot bay, trolling south in 130 feet of water, fishing at 110 feet, at 1.2-1.5 miles an hour, dodgers and spoons, the two that got to the boat were wild...
dotnmarty":1ki86xkw said:
You know it is sad. It took a great weekend overnight trip and ended it on a bad, stressful note. As we pulled into the dock @ Coupeville the guy behind us in a big cruiser helped us dock the boat. He and his wife were very nice too. Then as we pulled into the fuel dock @ Everett Marina to pump out the nice kid at the dock helped Meredith with fending off, the lines and pushed us out as we left. I know that's his "job", but he was friendly and outgoing with us as we did what we needed to do. I also really appreciated his concern for my inability to get around effeciently hopping around the dock like a one legged kangaroo. I was in a great mood and relaxed & stress free...and then red Dodge boy pulled his little stunt. :roll:
Oh well. He was only one guy with a selfish attitude. I need to remember all the good boating people out there.
Catch 22":em8jluo2 said:
So Kevin, what happened? Are you saying you're inexperienced buddies gave too much slack at the boat and the fish came unbuttoned? Details, Details. Wow, that must be frustrating to land 4 fish and not boat any of them. Especially when you can keep natives in Elliott Bay. Oh well, it happens.
One of these days, I'll have to share how I boated that big king a couple of weeks ago by myself. It would have made a very funny video! :wink
Pat Anderson
New member
Well, you can't blame me for ALL of them!!!!
DaveS":1tj6u296 said:
Captains Cat
New member
You mean the posts :roll: or the four salmon he lost?? :shock: :lol:
Charlie
Charlie
how i managed to lose 4 fish in one trip....
first of all i set the hook on all the fish when they popped off the downrigger, got all the slack out of the line until i knew "this was a real fish" then i would hand it off to my buddies, two fish were lost during the transfer, or very shortly after, i think the pause in reeling was to blame (i have never handed a fish off before), the first one i saw got up to the flasher but was too far out for me to net, i told my buddy to walk to the back of the boat to get the fish closer to the side of the boat, when he did that he layed the rod down on the gunnel as he backed up and the fish was gone, i think do to a dropped rod tip, so for the next fish (which i cant believe we got a 4th take down on the evening bite this early in elliot bay, i told my buddy, keep the rod tip up and the line tight no matter what, reel as hard and fast as you can, well he did, and he pulled a really big fish up really fast, he was dancing on top of the water with way too much energy, landed head first and dove way back down, i thought we were gonna lose him in the air but he stayed on, after pulling him back up for a few minutes, but never getting him back to the surface, the line went slack and he was gone, i checked the hooks and they wwere not broke or bent... i guess the lesson learned is that while stand up comics are inherently good at making people laugh, they are not inherantly good at fishing, i feel good though because if the fish are in there like that with my normal crew we should do quite well..
first of all i set the hook on all the fish when they popped off the downrigger, got all the slack out of the line until i knew "this was a real fish" then i would hand it off to my buddies, two fish were lost during the transfer, or very shortly after, i think the pause in reeling was to blame (i have never handed a fish off before), the first one i saw got up to the flasher but was too far out for me to net, i told my buddy to walk to the back of the boat to get the fish closer to the side of the boat, when he did that he layed the rod down on the gunnel as he backed up and the fish was gone, i think do to a dropped rod tip, so for the next fish (which i cant believe we got a 4th take down on the evening bite this early in elliot bay, i told my buddy, keep the rod tip up and the line tight no matter what, reel as hard and fast as you can, well he did, and he pulled a really big fish up really fast, he was dancing on top of the water with way too much energy, landed head first and dove way back down, i thought we were gonna lose him in the air but he stayed on, after pulling him back up for a few minutes, but never getting him back to the surface, the line went slack and he was gone, i checked the hooks and they wwere not broke or bent... i guess the lesson learned is that while stand up comics are inherently good at making people laugh, they are not inherantly good at fishing, i feel good though because if the fish are in there like that with my normal crew we should do quite well..
Yesterday I took our travel trailer to a buddy's property for storage and came back home with Valkyrie in tow. I spent the day washing, waxing, draining and filling and all of the other stuff for first time of the season use. I also discovered that both batteries were dead - got three years out of these, as opposed to 12 months for the original AGM's!
Valkyrie is not stocked-up and provisioned and ready for four days on Lake Erie. We were scheduled to leave this morning, but heavy rain lulled us back to sleep. Took it easy today and went to see My Sister's Keeper, EXCELLENT movie and a real tear-jerker with Cameron Diaz in a genuinely dramatic role. Sorry, off topic.
Tomorrow morning we'll be heading out bright (hope so) and early for the big lake and will come back Monday PM. Hopefully with some walleye for the freezer.
Nick
"Valkyrie"
Valkyrie is not stocked-up and provisioned and ready for four days on Lake Erie. We were scheduled to leave this morning, but heavy rain lulled us back to sleep. Took it easy today and went to see My Sister's Keeper, EXCELLENT movie and a real tear-jerker with Cameron Diaz in a genuinely dramatic role. Sorry, off topic.
Tomorrow morning we'll be heading out bright (hope so) and early for the big lake and will come back Monday PM. Hopefully with some walleye for the freezer.
Nick
"Valkyrie"
Well, after delivering Lizzie (the person) to her art camp in Issaquah, we headed up to Everett for another day with Lizzie (the boat). Saw a nice old blue striped 16 footer parked by the fence as we entered the marina. We left the Marina about 1045 and passed the 22 footer, C-Geezer, coming in. Spent about an hour sitting off Hat Island oohing and aahing at a huge whale, not an Orca, just hanging around. Then cruised up north almost to Oak Harbor just to "blow the tubes", "engine no. one has blown the tubes", I proudly announced to Dotty, who long ago stopped asking what I'm talking about. We turned around and lifted the mighty 40hp and started the 5hp kicker. Lots of fun sitting back there like the sailboat under power next to me. I gave him a wave. It took about another hour and to toodle back to the island and pass it on the south side. I announced "engine no. 2 has blown the tubes", started the main, and zipped back to our slip, past break time at the navy base. It's fun to pass in review while all those hard hats line the wall giving Lizzie the thumbs up, with frigates and destroyers right behind them. Back in the slip I buttoned her up, walked away and only looked back twice. At the car I realized I had left the key in the ignition, so back I went and got it. A nice, a very nice, C-Dory day.
Jack in Alaska
New member
Today I made a new anchor pulling buoy set-up. THe old one unraveled the line splices as it needs a swivel in it. I have one somewhere in my shed with way too much stuff in it but could not put my hands on it
I whipped the splices on this one to prolong it's fate until I purchase a new swivel.
I also tied up some new halibut leaders/hooks/swivels and sharpened all the hooks. Our dogfish(small sharks) tear hell out of the leaders when fishing for halibut.
Summer is passing quickly...........sad.
I whipped the splices on this one to prolong it's fate until I purchase a new swivel.
I also tied up some new halibut leaders/hooks/swivels and sharpened all the hooks. Our dogfish(small sharks) tear hell out of the leaders when fishing for halibut.
Summer is passing quickly...........sad.
This evening we returned from a delightful six day cruise. On Tues. 8/19 we launched in the afternoon in Bellingham and got as far as Elisa Rock where we saw three gals in an open bowrider waving their arms for help. Carol and I altered course to find a mom with two teenage girls that asked if I had any spare 20 amp fuses. It seems that every time they turned the stereo on the fuse would blow. (I did/do have spare fuses, but mine are the spade fuses), so after giving them a chunk of tin foil which they wrapped around the fuse, their vessel immediately fired up and off they went. We then continued on to Deer Harbor and spent the night there. At 0-dark hundred hours, with Carol still in bed, we cruised to Victoria, B.C. and moored "on the wall". We spent two nights there enjoying the entertainment on the wall. (ie: musical one man bands, the mimes, the flame jugglers, comedy acts etc.) A walk in town yielded a reggae band for our listening enjoyment. All the entertainment we found reminded us of previous trips to the Florida Keys.
After two days in Victoria, we cruised to Sidney where we spent the night and did several "walk abouts" in town.
Early Sunday morning we cruised from Sidney to Friday Harbor and I purposely timed our arrival at the customs dock at a time when there would be no arriving or departing ferrys, so we would not get bashed against the customs dock by the ferry wakes as has happened recently to other C-Brats (thanks for posting the warning last week.....because of that warning, I was certain to have a ferry schedule on board).
Sunday afternoon, daughter Jessica arrived on the ferry so we had a car to drive around the island and viewed our old property on San Juan Island. Jessica spent the night on the boat with us and then departed on the ferry this morning.
This morning, I spent a bit of time conversing with Tim on "Two Lucky Fish", and then visited with Bill Carli on "Soulmate". As some of you may know, Bill operates a whale watching service on his 25' C-Dory. Additionally he authored a book "Sunset Run" which I purchased from him at the '09 Friday Harbor Get Together. After telling him how I enjoyed reading the book, he said that he had just released a new book two weeks ago entitled "Stone Totem". Now I look forward to reading another adventure story, since I purchased his new book.
After the morning fog lifted, Carol and I cast off our lines and departed Friday Harbor, cruised through Cattle Pass behind three large whale watching vessels. Cattle Pass was smooth as glass, but as soon as we got into Rosario Strait, we found ourselves in thick fog. Not having the time nor did I desire playing bumper boats with a pod of whale watching boats in the fog as they were evident on the radar screen, we opted out of the whale watching scene and returned back through Cattle Pass and on to Bellingham.
Now "Sea Shift" is resting in the shop, after a warm soapy bath and is sparkling clean, especially since I waxed her entirely prior to this trip. (Yes, even the bottom of the hull while scooting around on the creeper).
Absolutely, no engine problems on the trip, as I changed the thermostat on the engines after the one engine experienced an overheat alarm two weeks ago. The new thermostat solved the problem.
So, now since I've read/scanned the 490 posts on this site that were posted since we departed last Wednesday, I guess I'll hit the rack.
After two days in Victoria, we cruised to Sidney where we spent the night and did several "walk abouts" in town.
Early Sunday morning we cruised from Sidney to Friday Harbor and I purposely timed our arrival at the customs dock at a time when there would be no arriving or departing ferrys, so we would not get bashed against the customs dock by the ferry wakes as has happened recently to other C-Brats (thanks for posting the warning last week.....because of that warning, I was certain to have a ferry schedule on board).
Sunday afternoon, daughter Jessica arrived on the ferry so we had a car to drive around the island and viewed our old property on San Juan Island. Jessica spent the night on the boat with us and then departed on the ferry this morning.
This morning, I spent a bit of time conversing with Tim on "Two Lucky Fish", and then visited with Bill Carli on "Soulmate". As some of you may know, Bill operates a whale watching service on his 25' C-Dory. Additionally he authored a book "Sunset Run" which I purchased from him at the '09 Friday Harbor Get Together. After telling him how I enjoyed reading the book, he said that he had just released a new book two weeks ago entitled "Stone Totem". Now I look forward to reading another adventure story, since I purchased his new book.
After the morning fog lifted, Carol and I cast off our lines and departed Friday Harbor, cruised through Cattle Pass behind three large whale watching vessels. Cattle Pass was smooth as glass, but as soon as we got into Rosario Strait, we found ourselves in thick fog. Not having the time nor did I desire playing bumper boats with a pod of whale watching boats in the fog as they were evident on the radar screen, we opted out of the whale watching scene and returned back through Cattle Pass and on to Bellingham.
Now "Sea Shift" is resting in the shop, after a warm soapy bath and is sparkling clean, especially since I waxed her entirely prior to this trip. (Yes, even the bottom of the hull while scooting around on the creeper).
Absolutely, no engine problems on the trip, as I changed the thermostat on the engines after the one engine experienced an overheat alarm two weeks ago. The new thermostat solved the problem.
So, now since I've read/scanned the 490 posts on this site that were posted since we departed last Wednesday, I guess I'll hit the rack.
Pat Anderson
New member
Well, just another great weekend out of Hilton Harbor! Took Friday off and went up to Birch Bay Thursday afternoon, B&E had a wonderful salmon dinner ready for us! Crashed early after dinner!
Leisurely Friday morning at BB, splashed boats after noon. We pondered where to go, weather was a little iffy, so we decided to go all the way over to Chuckanut Bay. Rafted up in the north end, usual stuff, coversation, reading, napping, euchre, food and wine! A bit of practice paddling the Yellow Peril! The weather improved, and stayed bright and sunny if cool for the rest fo the weekend.
Stayed rafted for night Friday night, BIG mistake, a south wind kicked up about 3:00 a.m, not pleasant at all, well fendered but still a lot of bumping. So Saturday we moved to the south end, Pleasant Bay. Scenery is better at north end but the south end is much more protected from the south wind. A bit more of the same, and an inadvertant swim for Pat and Baxter when trying to move from my knees to my butt in the Tahiti and flipped 'er! Didn't make the same mistake again, we cast off and anchored out for the night!
Had our crab pots out both nights but nothing but rock crab and undersized females.
Sunday morning we moved all the way back the north end! Stayed until early afternoon and then back in. Not ready to give up the weekend, so we went back to BB for one more evening. Up at 5:00 a.m., and back to the salt mines Monday morning!
Leisurely Friday morning at BB, splashed boats after noon. We pondered where to go, weather was a little iffy, so we decided to go all the way over to Chuckanut Bay. Rafted up in the north end, usual stuff, coversation, reading, napping, euchre, food and wine! A bit of practice paddling the Yellow Peril! The weather improved, and stayed bright and sunny if cool for the rest fo the weekend.
Stayed rafted for night Friday night, BIG mistake, a south wind kicked up about 3:00 a.m, not pleasant at all, well fendered but still a lot of bumping. So Saturday we moved to the south end, Pleasant Bay. Scenery is better at north end but the south end is much more protected from the south wind. A bit more of the same, and an inadvertant swim for Pat and Baxter when trying to move from my knees to my butt in the Tahiti and flipped 'er! Didn't make the same mistake again, we cast off and anchored out for the night!
Had our crab pots out both nights but nothing but rock crab and undersized females.
Sunday morning we moved all the way back the north end! Stayed until early afternoon and then back in. Not ready to give up the weekend, so we went back to BB for one more evening. Up at 5:00 a.m., and back to the salt mines Monday morning!
Warren (Doryman), just PM'd me asking if the "wall" I was referring to in my above post was in front of the Empress Hotel in Victoria.
Yes, it is in the "inner harbor". We were side tied on the inside of the dock that parallels the wall that is in front of the Empress Hotel. It is an ideal place to moor C-Dorys because of our shallow draft. Obviously, it can be a bit noisy during the day because of the entertainers that perform on the wall, but at night time it was very quiet. The moorage with power was approx. $40 per night. It was an ideal location as we were in the heart of the "Victoria Scene" activity.
Yes, it is in the "inner harbor". We were side tied on the inside of the dock that parallels the wall that is in front of the Empress Hotel. It is an ideal place to moor C-Dorys because of our shallow draft. Obviously, it can be a bit noisy during the day because of the entertainers that perform on the wall, but at night time it was very quiet. The moorage with power was approx. $40 per night. It was an ideal location as we were in the heart of the "Victoria Scene" activity.
Captains Cat
New member
Launched our new (to us) '95 CD16 Angler. She has been christened CAPTAIN'S KITTEN and will be a little friend to the TomCat, CAPTAIN'S CAT., It has a Honda 35 4 stroke on it that runs great, otherwise is a blank slate for me to fix up. (Whoopee!)
The boatyard is getting full! :shock: :lol:
Charlie
The boatyard is getting full! :shock: :lol:
Charlie
Neat little boat, Charlie! With that "blank slate", when are you going to find time to play with them all? :wink:
A while back, I asked Joan if she'd be interested in a bigger boat as a live-aboard; she said, "You can do that with your next wife."
Obviously, Sally is OK with adding more boats to the mix.
Congrats on the new addition!
Best wishes,
Jim
A while back, I asked Joan if she'd be interested in a bigger boat as a live-aboard; she said, "You can do that with your next wife."
Obviously, Sally is OK with adding more boats to the mix.
Congrats on the new addition!
Best wishes,
Jim