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

I try to run my carbs dry every time. some times I forget or I Know I will be going out in a few days. If you rinse your motor at home on a set of flush ears then its easy. put on the ears, start the motor, up hook the fuel line and just let it run until it goes dry. on my 90 honda is takes 10 min. or so.
 
Spent the day out on the sound fishing Jeff Head and Port Madison. Couple of strikes, one to the boat and lost it along with a small flounder when jigging. It started off sloppy and then was flat calm for awhile. A nice fall day on the water. We also saw porpoises, seals and some loons I've never seen around here before. Its nice to be able to use the boat now after all the hours of repairs/mods and upgrades.

Also noticed a 16 angler and 22 cruiser at Kingston Marina. FYI if you have never used that boat launch it is awesome. 2 lanes, loading dock, plenty of trailer parking and only $2.

Chris
 
on sunday we did not use the boat at all. I did not work on it at all either. Susan and I drove out past granite falls to do a little hiking. I had read about the Ice caves and the hike in. We got side tracked on another trail hike first into Boardman lake. 1.2 mile round trip but the end is very steep. The hike into the ice caves is only a mile each way and very well maintained. if you have not been into the ice caves you should give it a try. I really want to see it in the spring now. I was surprised with the amount of people that were there on a sunday this late in the year. funny thing is that over half of the people there , including us, had their dogs.
 
starcrafttom":3ewyx1df said:
The hike into the ice caves is only a mile each way and very well maintained. if you have not been into the ice caves you should give it a try. I really want to see it in the spring now. I was surprised with the amount of people that were there on a sunday this late in the year.
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Daughter Jessica and I have hiked up to the Big Four Ice Caves every year since she was a baby (obviously for the 1st couple of years I carried her on my back). After the bridge washed out in a flood a few years ago, we still hiked up there but had to wade across the river to get there. (The new bridge was completed in July of this year.
My reasons for pursuing this "annual event" was that I felt that if we did this "father/daughter" hike each year, that we'd always remember at least one quality annual time together in our lives (and if we had any differences between us, we could always say lets forget those differences and go on our hike.....fortunately we've never had any of those earth shattering differences!).
On our hikes, we now joke that in not too many years, she may have to push me up the trail in a wheel chair and as each year goes by, the trail continues to improve so that someday, that will be a wheel chair accessible trail.
For those of you that have not heard of the Ice Caves, there is a slide show on youtube. Just access it through google by typing in "Big Four Ice Caves".
Since the Ice Caves also happen to be in my emergency response area, I highly recommend that folks not enter into nor climb on the ice caves as they can collapse at any given moment and I've been involved in rendering aid to some that do not heed that advice.
The next time that Bill and El are in the Pacific Northwest, I need to be certain to take them up there as the "Ice Caves" phenomenon are sure to be a part of Bill's expertise.

(In keeping with the spirit of this thread that is entitled "So, What Did You Do With Or On Your C-Dory Today"....I'll have to admit that in recent years the conversations that Jessica and I have during our hike normally includes something about some of our cruises on our C-Dory..... another of our "sharing moments".)
 
starcrafttom":1xkvh4oo said:
If you rinse your motor at home on a set of flush ears then its easy. put on the ears, start the motor, up hook the fuel line and just let it run until it goes dry. on my 90 honda is takes 10 min. or so.
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Peter, what Tom describes above is exactly what I did when I had the carburated 50 HP Honda on our former 16' C-Dory Cruiser.
 
I noticed today after washing my BF135's that if you tilt them up afterwards, there is more water that will run out. So I recommend a couple of cycles on the tilt/trim before winter.
I have no idea if this is specific to Honda.

Merv
 
Grumpy":n8wnes44 said:
I noticed today after washing my BF135's that if you tilt them up afterwards, there is more water that will run out. So I recommend a couple of cycles on the tilt/trim before winter.
I have no idea if this is specific to Honda.

Merv
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I've noticed the same thing on our Honda 45.

Chris
 
Last weekend I drove 800 miles to our Washington home and picked up our boat and drove the 800 miles back with the boat in tow. This weekend I started with the main focus of straightening the wiring mess. The previous owned had 6 pieces of electronics on the overhead shelf. Most of these had home runs to the batteries and the wires were a twisted mess with about 20 yards of back electrical tape everywhere.
Now I have only 4 pieces of electrons on the overhead as 2 were not needed. I ran a 10ga wire with in-line fuse to the battery and then hooked all the instruments to a power strip.

Much cleaner and I picked up 1/2 volt to the strip by getting rid of all the splices. This is only the beginning on the to do list, so many weekends ahead of odd projects.

We have only had the boat for a month and a half, but it is amazing how the list of projects keeps getting longer.
 
Don and Brenda":1gaeg8r3 said:
Last weekend I drove 800 miles to our Washington home and picked up our boat and drove the 800 miles back with the boat in tow. This weekend I started with the main focus of straightening the wiring mess. The previous owned had 6 pieces of electronics on the overhead shelf. Most of these had home runs to the batteries and the wires were a twisted mess with about 20 yards of back electrical tape everywhere.
Now I have only 4 pieces of electrons on the overhead as 2 were not needed. I ran a 10ga wire with in-line fuse to the battery and then hooked all the instruments to a power strip.

Much cleaner and I picked up 1/2 volt to the strip by getting rid of all the splices. This is only the beginning on the to do list, so many weekends ahead of odd projects.

We have only had the boat for a month and a half, but it is amazing how the list of projects keeps getting longer.
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While working on one project I would find 2-3 more that needed doing. One of the "pleasures" of boat ownership. Once the must do stuff was done we have been splitting our time between working on it and actually using it. That helps a lot.

Chris
 
It was a wonderful fall day on the water. Ran about 20 miles down into Case Inlet to Rocky Bay. Anchored up for a few hours and ate lunch. The sky cleared in the early afternoon and I came home with the sun warming the cabin. Beautiful sunset and moonrise.


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Robbi
 
Robbi - enjoyed your picture. Here in Montana we are putting our boats into moth balls. Had the Far West II winterized by local marine outfit on Friday. Took out two batteries for storage in my heated garage today, The recommended way of handling the gas storage here is put in fuel stabilzer and either completely empty or fill the gas tanks

John
 
Thanks. That reflection is not a result of any waxing on my part. I hate to wax. :crook That is the high quality C-Dory gel coat! Heck of a boat! And, for the record, the photo was totally accidental. I was just going for the logo with the sunset in the background. Didn't see the reflection until I downloaded the shot.

Robbi
 
Had friends down to Reef Madness for Happy Hour last night. We spent the night on the boat. Fired up our new Mr Heater and had a cozy evening. Beautiful morning here on Humboldt Bay. The ocean is huge this morning with 21 foot swells as a result of a storm in the Gulf of Alaska. Looks like we won't set our crab pots today for the sport opener. Maybe Wed. we will get crab.
 
Took the C-FLE II to the mouth of the Saint Johns today to watch the Blue Angels air show. It was a beautiful day but seas were about 4' with about a 15 mph east wind making it a little to rough to go outside comfortably so we anchored up in the river and watched from about 2 miles away. All I can really say is WOW. One of the local FM stations narrated the show. Several years ago at the show which is an annual thing they flew so close to the beach they shattered windows in some of the ocean front homes.

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Swapped out a group 24 battery and put in a group 27. It was a 1/2" too big to make it through the lazzarret hatch so moved some things around and tilted it on it's side to get it in. Purchased all the items fr the install of shore power system. I need to cut a piece of starboard for mounting of the battery charger and GFCI to the aft bulkhead, I will mount this with 5200. I placed the new canvas cover that I purchased through Angora canvas, fits great!
 
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