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I replaced my raw water seacock over the last two weekends. In case anyone wondered what grows behind a bronze pre-screen take a look at this first photo. This just seems like a really bad idea to have a permanent pre-screen (no hinge). The growth extended to the through-hull, so I had to resort to ...

Sorry to ask the obvious question, but is the raw water seacock open? It needs to be in the closed position to draw from the bucket.

Very nice. You get bragging rights for the first eye candy sailing post of 2023!

New England is a six-state area. Can you narrow that down a little? I just sold my sailboat and may be interested depending on location. See looks like a beautiful Typhoon!

Any marine salvage shop has bins of toggles, turnbuckles, and various rigging parts that can be had for a couple bucks. There must be a marine salvage shop in the Chicago area.

I have the service manual for my Volvo TAMD 40B. Nowhere does it say how much coolant is in the cooling system. Among other spring commissioning projects, I'm planning to flush the cooling system and put in fresh coolant. My question is, how much coolant should I buy? I've searched various sources a...

Yup. We will be there tomorrow morning on our way to the boat. 20% off a couple gallons of bottom paint will pay for a pretty good lunch tomorrow.

Whether we break them up with soap or not, you're still allowing oily water to discharge to the environment. The engine pan should not be allowed to overflow into the bilge. And, yes, I do use a sorbent pad. It may not sound like much oil on a per-boat basis, but multiply that by hundreds of thousan...

Here are a couple more pics from the Cabin Fever Lunch. The first is Fleet Secretary/Treasurer Doug Jesseman at the registration desk showing off the CD logo logbooks that were handed out. The second shows long time organizers Bob and Susan Lascelles at the near end of the table and the newbie organ...

In addition to lunch and a guest speaker, Commodore Fred Mueller gave us a demonstration of the new website and general updates. We elected a new slate of CDSOA Northeast Fleet officers. Our new Northeast Fleet Captain is Dave Hemenway, and Doug Jesseman was elected to another term as Fleet Secretar...

We had a good crowd at the Cabin Fever Lunch yesterday. There were 42 people in attendance. There was a good mix of regulars and newcomers. Here are a couple photos. The first and second are general shots of the room. The third is of our guest speaker, Sarah Thunberg, Meteorologist with the National...

I hope to see you at the Cabin Fever Lunch tomorrow! If you didn't get a chance to register, don't let that deter you from coming. It was just to get a head-count for the restaurant. We have 37 people registered so far, so it should be a good crowd. Our speaker is a meteorologist from the National W...

My Dad gave me the 8-volume set of Tilman books about 20 years ago. It took me a long time to get through it, but it was as riveting as 950 pages can be. For some reason his description of the penguins on the Kerguelen Islands made an impression on me. They were so numerous that it was hard to walk ...

And here are a couple more. The first is the Eastern Long Island Float-in. The second is the Western Long Island North Shore Float-in.

To give a little teaser, we will present a slideshow of all our Northeast Fleet on-the-water events in summer 2022. You will see some familiar faces in the slides, but only if you come. Here are a few slides from the PowerPoint presentation to whet your appetite. The first is the opening slide prese...