The Cape Dory Board

This is a great boat project for someone who is handy. Anything I get for the boat is going to the yard. Before I take any money I'll make sure the yard will release the boat. I don't want to leave the yard on bad terms, and I don't want to see the boat go to the boneyard. Make an offer...917 301 50...

My cape dory 25, Surprise, was swept off the jacks during hurricane Sandy and sustained minimal damage. Some scuffing of the hull and I lost about 6 feet of rub rail. Nichol's Great Kills Park Marina (Staten Island, NY) wants about $3,000 for their salvage work. (They basically put the boat back on ...

My Mom (84 years old) and I ran up a boom awning from a canvas drop cloth I'd bought at Home Depot. It is about 8ft X 7ft, with a bolt rope sewn in all the way around, and covers all of the companion way hatch out to the end of the boom. It is supported over the boom by spreaders that are made out o...

I want to go to LEDs for all the lights on board and I was kind of hoping that I would be able to get away with just getting new lenses for the port & starboard lights and then putting in an LED bulb with a bayonet mount. (by the way I collect bayonets, so if you've got one laying around the hou...

I want to go to LEDs for all the lights on board and I was kind of hoping that I would be able to get away with just getting new lenses for the port & starboard lights and then putting in an LED bulb with a bayonet mount. (by the way I collect bayonets, so if you've got one laying around the hou...

Any body know where I can get new running light lenses for a cape dory 25? Mine are all bleached out...don't know why...probably from over sized bulbs used by the previous owner.