One other source of information for the area.

I live in Oriental, on the Neuse, and have a weather station with live cam here. http://OrientalWeather.com

In addition to the individual LEDs I have used to make my fixtures I recently came across an item called a Sylvania "Dot It". I was impressed with how white, and bright these little fixtures are. They are battery operated but easily adapted for boat use. I bought one at Walmart and paid, I...

Hi 1. You may enable up to 5 cards to be used. They can be used over and over. As I indicated in a previous post, I enable a 1 gig card and can probably put all I would ever want on that one card, at one time. 2. When you place the information on the card, it has all the detail. You scale the desire...

I purchased the unit along with the swivel mount, Map Create, NauticPath and data cable. I'm impressed so far. For anyone that might be interested, I used a 1 Gig SD card I had with the MapCreate. It worked fined. The manual said at the time of printing they had tested up to 512 MB cards. The MapCre...

That is my (former) Suburban. The most amazing thing here is that Chip and I both continued together and made the trip to Bimini. I had to buy a new car the next day in order to continue the trip. We ended up waiting for our friend Wade (Hunter 260) at the ramp. Wade had blown 5 tires on the way to ...

I also purchased one. They have a simulator that you can download. You can try all the features on your desktop.

http://www.lowrance.com/Software/PCSoft ... efault.asp

I have some lazy jacks I made for my X. I made some for my previous 26S and wanted them for my X as well. Really aids in single handling. When I lower the mast, the lazy jacks are moved forward under the hook for the main tack. There is a picture on one of my mods pages: http://www.thecyberbuddy.com...

I have the Sirius mounted in my boat now. The antenna is inside, just behind the head unit.
Tom, there are regional Weather Channel weather reports on Sirius.

I use an LED anchor light that I converted from a Davis Mega Light. You can see it on my mods page at
http://www.thecyberbuddy.com/Sailing/Page8.html

I had the same problem. Maple leaf stains were especially troublesome. I tried a number of things. I saw a post on another site that recommended "Clorox Cleanup" spray. It did the trick.

We now live in Oriental N.C. and have our 26X in a slip there. On my site ( http://sail.defino.com ) you can see some additional sailing videos including the trip to the Dry Tortugas last year with the Conch Cruisers ( http://conchcruisers.net ). They were all Macs on that trip. Like Moe said, if yo...

I tell the story that at age 49 my wife bought me a book on sailing. It was something I always wanted to do. I read it and picked up several more books. For my 50th, she bought me a Hobie Cat 16. We sailed it a few times and she said "I'm ready to go somewhere now". So I looked around and ...

I bought a set of replacement plugs from blue water yachts.

http://bwyachts.com

The purpose of the spreaders are to decrease the compression force imposed by the shrouds on the mast by increasing the angle of the shrouds to the masthead. Decreasing the spreader length will decrease the angle of the shrouds at the masthead and will increase the compression load.

I've launched a couple of times from Elk Neck State Park. Very nice facility. They do allow overnight parking. Just indicate when you will return on the little envelope you will find at the ramp. They have a large parking / setup area. The only thing you have to watch is that the ramps are not well ...