The Cape Dory Board

On my cd 28-the installation of a drive protector-the hard plastic round thingy-made it impossible to change the stuffing box packing without pulling the engine-however-I went years and years without replacing the packing until an incident occurred where the vent hose got wrapped around the prop sha...

As long as you have gelcoat on the hull-it can be wet sanded and compounded and waxed back to life-my cd 28 is a 1974! and I still bring it back to a shine every year-ok the port side was re-gelcaoted after hurricane Bob in 1990-but there is very little difference in the end result on either side-th...

I just purchased a new furuno 1623 model radar-anyone have any experience with this model or its installation? my old furuno died-so this is an upgrade-any new ideas on wiring other than to cut the cable and reconnect in a junction box? -I don't make it a habit to sail in the fog-but in Buzzard's Ba...

Shouldn't you be concerned with the fact your boat yard charged you for something that didn't need to be done and they apparently can't tell the difference between gel-coat and a paint job?

A lot of my associates play golf-they don't sail-and they all have skin cancer-I would wager golfers have a higher occurrence of skin cancer than sailors and they get hit by lightning more often (much more often) than sailors-if you really want to be careful-use zinc oxide (the white stuff) on your ...

this tropic has been discussed at length on the board-take it from me-I have cd 28 hull # 13 from 1974-these boats do not have "chain plates" in the conventional sense which are strips of stainless steel that run vertically up through the deck and are bolted inside the boat to a bulkhead. ...

I also own a CD 28 and have looked towards buying a larger boat and like you an considering an Aillied-in my case the 33-which is very comparable in specs to a cd 33-the allied has a shorter waterline-narrower beam and weighs more-anyway-the 1st Aliied 33 I looked at was "hammered"-it had ...