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When I heard about this I was curious to see if anyone here knew the guys who got rescued. Sounds like conditions were pretty bad; glad to hear everyone made it out.

I know that beach well. If someone was really friendly and approached it like this: "Hey man, I hate to ask you this but that log you tied up to, the reason I put it there is that I have a bunch of guests coming - I'm not saying get off or anything, but it's going to be really crowded on...

Kind of funny to see this in the local paper last yesterday - will be hanging on to a couple of hard copies to prove to my kid when he is a teenager that I didn't have him just because I like grounding people and telling them to clean their rooms...

I don't do it often or anything but maybe once a year, I'll throw a little wire hook in the drill, spray a bit of WD40 in the bottom of a yogurt container or something, and soak all the swivels overnight, and then put the hook through the swivels one at a time and spin them for a bit. It's...

Bad news here I'm afraid...a whole year making that fancy boat and then all of a sudden, there I am, minding my own business just west of Tent Island, and everything goes sideways. First a fishing reel starts making this horrible sound like it's being forced to unwind against its will, so I...

Feels like I've been waiting a long time to be able to post an update like this. My design, my build, my boy, my first fish on the boat, and the first fish he's ever seen. He's just turned two and isn't speaking in full sentences yet but he does shout the word "boat" excitedly a lot. But now...

That's diy awesome!

Nobody take this post too seriously, it's intended purely as a joke about my own quirky take on the world but when I read the above about an entourage escorting it East, on some level I was kind of like "ha good" because at my heart I'm basically a Western separatist (although I admit to having...

Things got weird enough for a while there that I went back to a chip and dip strategy...if I'm putting money into anything other than an index fund, it's a blue chip, on a dip. When there was the chaos in the Rogers boardroom I figured it would rattle Shaw's price a bit and I have done really...

Even in the Gulf islands, tons of wood in the water. Had to pick my way slowly through lots of sections. Hard to convey on camera but logs everywhere.

Look on the bright side...if you average out the temperatures and rainfall numbers over the entire year, the downpours probably cancel out the heatwaves and this year ends up looking really typical!

I just use heavy galvanized chain for the bottom ten feet or so. If you're in any kind of mud, what happens is the chain sinks in and doesn't really corrode much. The last time I replaced mine, the bottom ten feet were in really good shape after five years in the ocean. The vertical stuff was...

If I'd seen that after blowing up the Johnson I'd probably have taken it. Looks like about an '82 to me. It has the thru-hub lower, which is better and easier to find props for, and comes with the best carb/intake combo they had on that generation. Tough motors. Almost wish I needed another...

Well why don't we all look on the bright side: we'll all still be buying lots of fuel, even if it hits $4/l. Politicians and bureaucrats who live on our tax dollars, as well as government agencies with big fleets to rely on, will be using gas cards and we'll be paying for those...so there will...

Oh maybe a more specific answer would have been useful for you also: if it goes through your transom, it depends on what your transom is made of. If it's something like coosa board with glass on either side, or solid glass because you have an inboard or something, 291 is great for that and your...

I use 291LOT more than anything else but it's entirely dependent on what substrates you want to bond. 291 will do something stuff better than 5200. 4200 will do some stuff better than 5200. 5200 will do some stuff better than 291 or 4200. You tailor the product to the task. I use 291LOT most...

Well, it sure would have if I hadn't built a lightweight little skiff to zip around in. I/O double eagle 206... wasn't exactly the Nissan Leaf of West coast boats. Full load of fuel for me now is 45l. I could probably do two complete salmon trips from Ladysmith to Thrasher on that. Summer...

Snap swivels - I have not used them myself but people keep telling me to use the ones from Pitbull Tackle. Although to be honest, somehow I am not getting the impression that a Pitbull duolock would be the kind that would never bite me.

These are people I know a bit from Ruxton Island...they were over for a few days and came back to no freaking truck! F250 to 350 Dually conversion, with the little picker shown in the photo before it was mounted. It's a work truck and was not insured for theft, so this is a huge loss. If you...

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