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New pics of topside on the linked page.

YEAR/MAKE/MODEL: 1976 Cape Dory 30 Ketch (CD30K) REASON FOR SALE: LOCATION: Oriental, NC PRICE: ENGINE: Yanmar 2GM20FV (1997) L.O.A.: 30' 2 1/2" L.W.L.: 22' 10" Beam: 9' 0" Draft: 4' 2" Displacement: 10,000 lbs. Ballast: 4000 lbs Sail Area: 437 sq. ft. Ketch Mast Height: 38 1/2' ...

Ken, I put one on a Yanmar and love it. The display is probably not waterproof but has been water resistant with no degradation. The sensor goes on one of the fuel injection lines. I run mine in 12v mode from the instrument panel. You do have to know the fuel line diameter exactly because of the way...

Sleezy I know, but you are here.
LUVIT, CD 30 Ketch is for sale (see CD buy/sell forum).
What's free is delivery from Oriental to your homeport (Cape May to Key West). You get a good boat and I get a last trip on her.

Stewarts GB works for me. Most of the rest don't. Last time I got Bariets? it was packaged at the "red dot" store with BlackSeal rum.

Ron, I've seen such a wrench but not recently. The usual method from my experience is a flat long thing like a big screwdriver or chisel and a compact hard thing like a hammer. Just make sure it is turning off and not on (loosen vs tighten). Sometimes when you get upside down and turned around you l...

Randy,

The bilge pump switch has a red "pump on" light. But I never noticed it the whole 6 hours. Maybe an audible of some sort would get my attention, unless I turned it off, of course.

On my recent trek to Charleston and back with the admiral aboard I had a close call with the Bilge pump. On day four, after shutting down the engine from a 6 hour run I noticed the voltmeter reading way too low. Initial assumption was alternator had gone bad. I opened engine cover and immediately sm...

Pete and Dick hard at work;



Lou hard at work?

Here we have the three CDs and our mobile cocktail lounge. Joe and Libby Shapiro were our hosts. JOLI FOUR got underway at dawn and was back in within minutes with engine trouble. Don't you know the President of Hatteras got a wakeup call. They were back underway in hours. We should all have such se...

I've been into Cape Charles. Busy fishing village with some small town charm. Good breakfast at the drug store (mile hike or so).
Sometimes you have to cross the big water to make any progress.
Smith Is and Tangier are on the east side too.

Your AC ground has to go to ground for safety reasons. Unless you want to put in another external ground plate you have no choice but to use the DC ground as common. If you are using shore power all the time you want a galvanic isolator anyway. Keep it simple, may not be cheap but it is better than ...

I've been looking for an economical wind instrument and these guys have it.

http://www.esgdirect.bigstep.com/catego ... UCIDs=5783

Russell, Yesterday while it was raining here, I looked at my leak with the portlight removed. The leak was at the top of the hole between the liner and the hull. I had put a good and tight cover over the opening out side. The bondo they used to seal the space between the liner and hull is broken in ...

Russell, I have just pulled the three aft portlights on my 30 ketch, mid 70's. The cabin topsides and inside liner come together at the side where the portlight hole is. If there is water between the liner and topside glass it can migrate to the portlight and run down and around. I suspected this an...