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

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Nancy H":1x9lxyw7 said:
Hi All,

Well, for the past two weeks I haven't gotten anything done on or with my C-Dory. :cry: I've been laid up with a broken wrist. :crook I fell while working on 'my other boat'(44' trimaran) and broke up some bones in my left wrist. The surgeon spent two hours putting it back together a week ago with 'plates, screws,& pins'. Since then, I've been taking lots of pain pills and groaning a lot. I am learning how to type with one hand. :lol:
I hope to be healed enough to get to Blakely, but I won't know for a couple of weeks.
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OK, here is a picture of the newly installed floor under the galley. I am going to enlarge the opening by one board width on each side for better access under the floor.

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And the drawers - three drawers and one bin, due to the hose from the sink being in the way of the fourth drawer (may go to the Work Release slide outs, if they will fit, when feeling flush).

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There are some other pix in the Detail Photos of the Cabin Interiors section. I guess I need to do some sanding to get the slopped glue off just for aesthetic reasons...will probably cover it with the non-skid stuff anyway.
 
Co-incidently we have what appears to be the same plastic bins that you have Pat. They are even arranged the same way. We found the best buy on them at the Target store in Lk. Stevens. Rather than putting on a "floor" like you did, we found some plastic coated wire racks that were just the right size to place under the bins, in order to elevate them to facilitate the drawers being used. We did not have to move the "inside wooden rack" on the aft cabinet door. In order to keep the bins from shifting while "underway", we purchased a "spring loaded" curtain rod and put that in place. (I did have to "block" under the wire rack legs closest to the doors in order to level the bins). At this point in time the blocks look a bit "crude" but eventually I'll get some of the "plastic tree" material to go there. (Don't remember the cost of the plastic bins, but I don't believe they were over $20.)
 
You have excellent taste in retailers there Rev! Ours are from the Issaquah Target - $6.99 each, if memory serves. They are nice and commodious too. We used to have nine bins like the one on the top left, three stacks three bins high each, and that was fine except we had to always be taking two out and shuffling them around to get to the one on the bottom...The pull-out drawer bins are a LOT nicer that way. The floor was just a vague memory from Lopez of how Jim from Work Release had his drawers set up, but his drawers of course were the pricey pull out basket jobbies - and I may yet go that direction. As it turns out, Jim went to greater lengths to custom fit supports under his floor, I just bridged across from the inside of the cabinet to the hull. Ain't it fun! And when I rebuild this floor, I will NOT slop glue all over hell!

DaveS":1aajgxbn said:
Co-incidently we have what appears to be the same plastic bins that you have Pat. They are even arranged the same way. We found the best buy on them at the Target store in Lk. Stevens. Rather than putting on a "floor" like you did, we found some plastic coated wire racks that were just the right size to place under the bins, in order to elevate them to facilitate the drawers being used. We did not have to move the "inside wooden rack" on the aft cabinet door. In order to keep the bins from shifting while "underway", we purchased a "spring loaded" curtain rod and put that in place. (I did have to "block" under the wire rack legs closest to the doors in order to level the bins). At this point in time the blocks look a bit "crude" but eventually I'll get some of the "plastic tree" material to go there. (Don't remember the cost of the plastic bins, but I don't believe they were over $20.)
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Wade, you can do it, and I'll wager you can even do it in a somewhat neater fashion that I did! I may have to do this again just for pride, to make it look nice!
WadeV":3av83dnp said:
Pat, I am totally impressed--I bet that floor thing is something even I can do--can't wait for the pics. Crank up that little camera.
Wade
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Won't be doin' anything on my C-Dory for a while. :cry Instead, I'll be 60 miles North for most of the summer. I decided to take a job as an Engineering Tech for the State of Alaska DOT. Turns out that I'll be living in a motorhome working 6 - 12's as a construction inspector :shock: , rebuilding the road at Caribou Creek... Looks like I'll be doing my cruising/fishing on Sundays this summer. Not much time left for doing stuff on the little boat. Oh well, most of it's done already. :lol:

I hope the messages don't pile up too bad while I'm out of town. It's hard enough to keep up as it is...
 
That calls for an Aircard in a laptop...or if no cell coverage, a satellite internet connection on top of the motorhome!

AK Angler":2whzglna said:
I hope the messages don't pile up too bad while I'm out of town. It's hard enough to keep up as it is...
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Finally got to the cabinet space under the Wallas/sink. Built a level "floor" the width of the two doors. It actually begins about 3 1/2" in from the lower edge of the front of the cabinet doors. This also creats a storage area between the new floor and the bottom of the boat. Then I cut an 18" wide door in the front of the existing cabinet under the two doors that hinges out and down so to access this space better than just down through the 3 1/2" space. The new level floor is L shaped on the forward side, the wider part on the back. I moved the stove fuel tank to the rear and it sits on that. That gave me tall storage in the space that the tank was in.

And yes Mike I trimmed it in teak. Never can tell who may look inside the cabinet doors.

Okay, the pic is in my album page 3. I'll try to add it here.

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I've been fiddling around with mounting an extra bilge pump in the stern for months. I had it all mounted and wired but not plummed into a through hull fitting. Today I said bung it, busted out the drill and augered a 1 1/4 hole through the side of the boat and finish the job off. I surprises me the number of reason I could come up with to put off the hole drilling. The factory pump coupled with the new West Marine 1250gph unit should handle any wayward waves.
 
Heh...me and B~C were on the same wavelength today.

Replaced the only thing I absolutely hate on the new boat - that *@$#&*$ automated computer-chipped bilge pump. Replaced it with a float switched pump - now maybe I'll get a full night's sleep instead of listening to that pump whine every 2.5 minutes.

If anyone wants an automatic 1100GPH Rule pump, it's your's for nuttin'. If you're really hard of hearing, and don't care about the guy trying to sleep next door, it just might work out for you... :mrgreen:
 
Arrrg, that thing is an ear-atating durn thing. If folks are tired of hearing that thing kick on just about the time they doze off and don't want to replace it, turn the thing off and go to the local Home Depot and buy an water alarm for $9 that will for sure wake you if you develope water issues.
 
Great weekend on the Potomac and Chesapeake! Low temps in the 50s and highs around 75 and sunny!

Installed the Raymarine SL72PLUS RC Radar/Chartplotter, the antenna on a tower on the cabin top and the display where most folks put it, just to the left of the helm under the electronics shelf. The top is really only 1/4" thick but enough for my 200+ lb bulk to sit on without flexing. The shelf is chock full of cables now what with all the excess wires from the scanner and the seatalk junction box and the GDS 20 depth sounder module for my Garmin 182C. Looks like rats sleep there but everything is coiled up nice and neat. Will need to put a little cover over it to hide the stuff.

Moved the horn, installed a new 8' vhf antenna on a folddown mount. Took off the little Shakespeare vhf antenna and installed the Raymarine GPS 120 WAAS GPS on that mount.

Cut a hole in the dash for the ST6001 Autopilot control, the Dash is about 5/8" thick!! Didn't want to mess with the SeaStar hydraulics yet, have got the Potomac River C-Dory gathering at my place next weekend and could see me without steering if something went wrong. Built a little shelf mount out of 1/2" seaboard for the hydraulic pump but didn't mount it yet.

The only thing I didn't do is get out in the boat!! :sad But, wonder of wonders, everything works!! :!: :D :D Now I gotta figure out how to use it to maximum effect and prove to my better half that I really do need all that stuff! :wink :wink

Charlie
 
OK, again not "today" but Saturday. Launched at Blaine, out to Point Roberts to try our hand on the last weekend of ling cod season...no luck. Our real purpose, though, was to cross the border with Daydream to get the customs clearance jitters behind us. We motored from Point Roberts back in to White Rock (you have to see a map or chart to understand Point Roberts, Boundary Bay, White Rock and Blaine!), tied up at the City dock - room for all of two boats! Cleared Canadian customs by phone only, got a clearance number, logged it. This part is a piece of cake. White Rock has a really neat long pier out to the breakwater / marina / City dock, we walked into town, bought our three day crabbing licenses for our June 24 - 28 trip into the Gulf Islands and had fish and chips at one of the two hundred fish and chip restaurants along Marine Drive (well, maybe there aren't actually two hundred, but there are a LOT!). Back to the boat and motored over to Blaine, tied up at the Visitor Dock. Called US Customs, two officers came down. This part was strange, they truly did not seem to know what they were doing. Got all the ID, vessel info, Canadian clearance number, did a cusory inspection aboard, they said we were cleared. I then asked for a PIN number (knowing it would be my phone number), so I could do phone-in customs clearance in the future, and he asked for my credit card! I told him I didn't think there was a fee, and he said I was correct, and apologized. (????)He then told us things were changing in the phone clearance procedures, it works for now but may not work in the future, no more explanation than that. So we shall see.
 
Yesterday, I took one of my buddies from work and we launched in Everett at about 1300 HRS and cruised down to Seattle (Elliot Bay) and back to Everett. It was "bumpy" practically the whole trip. Even though it was a gorgeous sunny day with both Mt. Rainier and Mt. Baker visible, those electric windshield wipers got a fairly good work out as waves and spray kept the top side of Sea Shift from getting too dried out! It was sure comforting to hear the purr of those twin Johnsons as we plowed through the waves. My buddy was impressed with the sea worthiness of the vessel when some of those waves crashed into us! I finally tried out the remote for the auto pilot. For a brief period of time when the wind slackened a bit I was sitting in the "barber chair" (forward facing seat), steering Sea Shift by pressing " + or - 1 degree or 10 degrees. (Pretty Cool :smiled ).
 
Today? Wonder of wonders. Les took a day off and we took a dad's day trip in Sea Salt to the Lopez Islander for lunch. Weather beautiful, food outstanding, and the scanty new bathing suits kept the conversation and eyeballs very focused! Good bote, good trip. Happy Father's Day to you other dads.

Dusty
 
Left Bellingham Saturday morning about 8AM, destination Decatur Island, but stopped briefly at Blakely and said hello to Fred and Robbin while they were refueling the Anita Marie. After Decatur we went to Anacortes. There was at least forty Nordic tugs tied up & one of them was the Nordic Star that was at Lopez with us in May (remember it's for sale $218,000). After Anacortes we went to LaConner. They were having a boats "For Sale" show but no one was trying to sell a C-Dory. As we went past the boats there was a woman in a Bayliner who yelled that she liked our boat! Towards the south end of LaConner tied up to the dock was a green 22 CD with twin Hondas (40s). No name or registration numbers. Laurie, I sure hope that you were able to go out on the Laurna Jo yesterday as it was our kind of a boating day with most of the Puget Sound (where we were anyway) being smooth as glass. Finally arrived back at B'Ham about 3PM. Gave the R-Matey a good bath and tucked her away till next time. Just a beautiful day!

Ruth (and Joe, too)
R-Matey
 
Sawdust":2v059ccg said:
Les took a day off and we took a dad's day trip in Sea Salt to the Lopez Islander for lunch. Weather beautiful, food outstanding, and the scanty new bathing suits kept the conversation and eyeballs very focused! Good bote, good trip.

Dusty
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Dusty, glad to hear that you managed to get Les out of the "shop" and into the "high seas" for a day of R&R! Anxious to hear a more detailed report on the performance of your new "bote"!

(Since, I had to work today, I didn't make it out in the salt water.....however I did manage to get our Fire/Rescue Boat out on Lake Stevens today with all the jet skis, water skiers and managed to locate a few of those "new bathing suits" you referred to :wink )
 
Thanks Dave -

Lots good, little bad. Bad was the 289 buck fill up!!! Miss my 22 a lot, but for the long trips, like here to Swiftsure or Neah Bay -- or even C-Lou country -- the Orca is way cool. Cruising at 25 knots or so at near idle is a new experience. Come on up!

Dusty
 
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