The Cape Dory Board

Would anyone have an interest in helping me bring my CD31 down the Tombigbee from Demopolis for the CD get together in Fairhope? I expect it to be a four day trip.

My boat was also a hurricane damaged boat. I made my own stern rail using 1 inch ss tubing with .065 wall. After buying new stanchions and not liking them, I had the old one cut and new stock welded to them. You can not see the repair. As far as the teak, I had a cabinet shop make new ones but to sa...

This is one of the kits I was looking at. http://www.ebay.com/itm/285W-3x-95W-Solar-Panel-20A-MPPT-charge-controller-/270811328184?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item3f0d9ceeb8 If I can get away with 2 panels that will be great. I guess that the added usable amp hours gained from an MPPT might mean ...

I am ready to purchase solar panels and had a few questions. There are so many opinions about solar, series or parallel, what kind of controller regular or MPPT, go cheep on the panels or get a brand name. You get the point. My CD31 has had all the lights converted to LED, the fridge has a keel cool...

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Anyone who is going to the CDSOA national meeting in Alabama and wants to try the pudgy for themself is welcome to use mine.

Big heavy chunks of metal like bell housings blocks and starters collect moisture from condensate. Moisture and dissimilar metals in the starter breed corrosion

Dean, I have been watching your post for the past twelve months or so. Judging buy the questions you were asking I thought you were getting her ready for an extended cruise. If you do not need to count amp hours with the kind of sailing your doing then get a cheep volt gauge if you want. Its going t...

We have had our pudgy for a little over two years now. It does row good. It also tracks behind my sailboat good. I recently made a 10 day singlehanded crossing of the Gulf of Mexico where I towed the pudgy. I found it better to keep the pudgy close to the boat riding on the slick created by the boat...

I bought the Link-Lite battery monitor and it fit in the hole.

I would think getting a Cape Dory to remain inverted would be harder than having a quarter stand on end on the dash of a moving car. We can ask Yve Gélinas who rolled his Alberg 30 in the roaring 40s.

Been in central Texas putting up a metal building in 100 plus heat. Can't waite to get back to Corpus where it is in the high 90s.

Do you have tri color? if so tie both tri color and running lights into it using diodes to isolate the circuits from each other.

I am never necked on my boat because I allways have shoes on.

I attach extra line to my jib halyard, and tie it off at the bow. Shrouds are left adjusted as normal. Backstay is loose but attached, (I have an adjustable backstay anyways). I lift the mast into place while taking up slack on the halyard. I usually do it in the water.