It's sad to hear this news John. I can't imagine being the one who passed this disease on to him and learning that he didn't make it. I have cousins who have been rationalizing lots of family gatherin

"Take care of yourselves" so that you protect others. I WOULD be okay with anyone who wants to be cavalier, if not for the fact that their willingness to get and spread the virus to others who are vul

People and their 'bubbles'...it works until it doesn't. Visualize Venn diagrams and you'll see that they must be very small or else. Avoid 'any' gatherings where people take their masks off and get wi

I tried looking for Sam’s Gander 3 --- the 24’ bargeboat back in 2003 on a vacation to New York. As Mark mentioned, he motored it from the upper Missouri to NYC and sold it. We looked thru the records

Hey, who shrunk “The Reach of Tide”? J

There’s at least one image of it in Sam’s final book “Sailing Uphill”.

The cool thing about the 'naphta launches' was the simplicity. As with a steam boat, you needed a burner to create the phase change in the working fluid from liquid to vapor, but in the case of the na

Shielding is nice but overrated. If I could do shielding or something else, I’d rather implement twisted pairs on critical lines. Fundamentally, what you want is signal integrity. And to understand ho

If money's no object, there's always catgut...

These settings work great for batteries that haven’t been sulfated at all. Newer and well-treated batteries will charge and receive their near-rated charge levels with that type of charge regime. Howe

Yeah Cal, be careful with battery maintainers. I bought two GEN4 “Genius” multi-battery charger/maintainer blocks---one with 4 outputs, one with 3 outputs. I hooked them up 4 years ago to 14 golf-cart

Very cool---funny that it has taken over a hundred years for someone to productize something like this. Better secure the dol-motor to the transom better than you do with your existing outboard or it’

Every month I see another abandoned boat downriver near Caterpillar Island also. Usually they are stripped. Circumnavigating Sauvie Island I saw a sailboat at one point abandoned, tied to an old log-r

Thanks Mark- I was surprised (and saddened) not to see you at Sand Island. Val and I stuck with the script, so we landed at Coon Island Sunday late and stayed the night. There were at least 3 boats at

We had a good 3 days and nights circumnavigating Sauvies Island. It was an easy cruise 12 miles downstream from Caterpillar I. to Sand Island and welcomed by Earl, Bo and Dan before sundown. We weren'

Further: State of Oregon Attorney General gave this in request for its interpretations on Navigable Waterways in 2005: “Even if the bed of a waterway is privately owned, the waterway may be used by th

I suggest the circumnav coots gunkhole in that very beautiful cove one night just to piss off any PYC members thinking they own the navigable waterway of that bay. Assholes.

And just to discourage the riff-raff, there are signs at the river mouth loudly proclaiming the place to be members' only. I ignore the signs knowing that the waters are navigable and navigable waterw

It would be an interesting experiment to compare running one vs two motors driving the boat at a given speed. It's likely a wash in terms of loss in the controller and given near identical prop charac

Ditto. If this round gauge is a descendant of the Link-10, which was a descendant of the E-Meter (designed/built in Arlington, Wa.), there’s definitely a need for an external shunt. Worse, to the exte