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Big Gold or platinum trophies for the Admins, Will and Mike. Thank you both!

The best ride is with both trim tabs and the Permatrim. I have tried one boat without either, then the trim tabs and finally the Permatrim. You get the bow down into chop, and bow up going down waves and seas. As above, the Sea Ray has a moderate "V" and the C Dory a flat bottom aft, and less...

Well here we are with the new and improved CBrat site. Welcome back to all of us.

I have used the 3.5 hp Mercury as a dinghy motor and "Kicker" for a C Dory 22. I have also used (and still use) the Suzuki 2.5 hp p 4 stroke outboard as a kicker on a 22 (and currenty on my 18' Caracal Cat). I also used it on the Tom Cat and CDory 25. These smaller kickers will give stearage...

You would be very hard pressed to measure the damage to gelcoat caused by using oxylic acid or bleach. Perhaps a bit more from toilet bowl cleaner. A friend used muriatic acid on my Tom Cat to remove some type of stain, and it permantly damaged the color of the dark green strite on the...

To run a 120 V AC heater would require at east a 1500 watt inverter (12V DC to 120 V AC). On low these heaters pull 800 to 1000 watts. (80 to 100 amps 12 V DC) At this level, you are looking at about an hour max for two group 27 batteries. A 12 volt 300 watt heater woud pull somewhere near...

The "industry standard" wax is Colinate paste Fleetwax 885. There are a number of major players, and some auto waxes--none compare to good dedicated marine products. Some like to use one system: 3M, Smooth, Chemical Guys, Nautical one, Strake, Starbrite, and a few others. I have tried...

If you want to know what the active ingredient is for a compound, look up the MSD (Material Safety Data) Sheet. For Starbrite Marine hull cleaner it is 11 pages. Here is the material: You can pay Starbrite, or you can buy the ingredient in bulk and save considerabe dollars. I don't agree...

Sell these on line or to the factory, so they will be factory issue on all of the boats with scuppers.

Any of the after market swim platforms with ladders can be used with trim tabs. the off set back is considerable. There are side boarding ladders which are not bulky, telescope and not obtrusive. But we prefer the swim step type. I have added both the factory and the after market to C Dory...

In my opinion, the best ladder is a swim step with ladder built in. They have been bought from the factory, or they are an after maket accessory. Amazon has a number of swim platform, plus the ladder starting at $100. Be certain that the installation of the swim platform does not interfere...

If you properly epoxy treat that tank, it may last 40 years. Good plan for the new tank.

The active ingredient of all of these is an acid. Oxylic acid works very well. Use the crystals and make a satuated solution. You can get a lifetime supply for $20 at most paint and hardware stores.

If your "kicker" is only for trolling, and you don't consider it a "Get home motor". then yes, you can run off the main tank. But as an emergency back up, the fuel, battery etc should all independant of the main engine. That redundancy allows start up and "go" in case of loss of the main...

Great tutorials. There should be no complaint about including photos. Well done.