Looking through the latest BoatUS mag I found this: a _smart_ anchor! :o) https://www.minnkotamotors.com/learn/featured/raptor Who knew we needed one of these? But now that I know they exist...

Thanks for showing that, Andrew. Rich

Thanks, Andy. I've been afraid to go up the McKenzie to see what it's like up there. So much that I knew will be gone. <sigh> The "completed" signs may be saying that the property has been checked

Bert's junk shop, next to the Embers nightclub on Hwy 99N in Eugene, is going out of business, and he's got a bunch of used garden tractors. When he wasn't going out of business he often thought his

I went for a drive today. Up to Detroit to see what the fires did back in September http://andrewlinn.com/2020/201115_burn/index.htm

Single- width driveway? If it's double-width you can probably manage to back the trailer in, with practice. I got a _lot_ better at trailer backing after I got some neighbors who park a line of dead

Mark, You might take a look at this page: https://www.grainger.com/category/material-handling/lifting-pulling-positioning The winches subcategory has a wide range of electric, air, hydraulic, and

Mark. It's a bit slow, but quite powerful--and I seem to have to move recalcitrant trailers alluhtime--but, i often use HF chainfalls to pull things around. I often have to lift boats from one

I have a very similar problem with my Caledonia Yawl with a driveway a bit steeper but boat much lighter. Tried that same HF winch with a 110->12v adapter and it takes SEVERAL LIFETIMES to winch it

Of mounted to your trailer why no use a 12volt winch and battery on the trailer? Any WARN or knock off winch rated for that weight would work. Sent from not here

Hi group, My Tolman skiff on the trailer is 25 feet long and the street in front of my house is 24 feet wide, so no way can I back the trailer up my driveway. So, anyone got a suggestion for a 110

Case, Good point... I’ll be there. I don’t really know anybody, so I won’t count 😑😊. Cap’n Keith

Thank you John. For me it's been a hard year with no water time. Hopefully maybe next year will be better. At least it's giving me time to get improvements done to my boats for when I do get to be out

We should skip the After Thanksgiving float. The float isn't just a bunch of individual boaters that happen to be on the river at the same time, it's also a social event where we eat pizza and BS. We

I'm gonna schedule the usual Coot messabouts for next year as if there's no COVID. I hope that sometime next year we can get together again, probably still with precautions. In the meantime, I'll put

It looks like there's gonna be no way to have the Flounder's Day Feast this year. <sigh> The 29th is me and Mary's usual pizza day, so I'll be eating pizza and thinking of all of you a day

Reading the rules no more than 6 people from no more than 2 households per gathering either outdoors or indoors. Guess there’s no rules for multiple individuals who “don’t know each other”

I just heard that Governor Brown has set a stay home order shut down for 2 weeks starting on the 18th. This will be during the holiday and the Thanksgiving paddle. Is this going to cancel another fun

Magic Harbor was only published on the Interweb. Don Berry was an early adopter of online publishing, and had a Web page way back when. He's gone now, and his online works survive only on the

Thank you John. Is this book in the Coot library I'd really like to read it. Elaine