The Cape Dory Board

# 846, the much-admired "Sparrow" is for sale for $8500. Will definitely haggle. Comes with new (2005) roller furling and sails and hand-held color Garmin GPSMap and software. In excellent condition. Surveyed 2004. Currently under shrink-wrap at marina in Harpswell, ME near Brunswick. Emai...

For sale: CD25 #846, “Sparrow”, located in West Bath, Maine. $9000. This is the last Cape Dory 25 ever built. 1982. Excellent condition. New CDI roller furling system, new Rolly Tasker sails. 9.9 Johnson Seahorse with electric start. We’re moving to the midwest, too far from sailing waters. Richard ...

Sailkote is a dry lubricant and, as mentioned, is extremely effective for lubricating a sail slot in a mast, and for other purposes as well. I believe the manufacturer recommends it for lubricating the sail itself, to decrease the wind resistance and increase speed. I don't know anything about its e...

Sailkote really works well. You can get it at your marine store, it comes in a spray can, costs about $10 and you spray it in the sail track up as far as you can reach. I had the same problem you have and now raising the mainsail is very easy.

Anybody have a suggestion for the simplest way to keep the halyards from banging against the mast in the wind? I kind of enjoy the sound in a harbor when there are a lot of boats, but where I am it bothers the sleep of neighbors. What I've tried so far is a sliced tennis ball and a half painting rol...

I can't take credit for it because my boat came this way, but with an old Johnson Seahorse 9.9 two-stroke I can run almost all the time with the hatch cover down because there are air intakes on the cover, one facing forward, one aft. The fumes problem was corrected by the previous owner who ran a p...

There's canned spray paint specially made for outboard lower units. I've used it for 2 years and it works better, if anything, than ordinary bottom paint. Not very expensive (around $9), easy to apply, and one can should last you two or three years. You can get it at a marine supply store. Comes in ...

I thought I'd pass along that at my wife's recommendation I used Soft-Scrub (sp?) with Clorox and the least abrasive Scotchbrite pad to clean scuff marks, red paint, blue paint, bottom paint and maybe creosote off the hull this morning and it worked like magic. The creosote took the longest to remov...