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Ft. Myers has a nice River District area to visit. Pelican Bay at the north end of Cayo Costa is a great anchorage. You can go ashore with a dink ($2 per person cash park fee) and take the free tram to the gulf beach. There is a manatee pocket south of the park docks for dinghy exploration. Tween Wa...

I have to say, once again, how terrific it is for you to share all that detail with the community. After reading it, I doubt many of us would dare try it ourselves.

I can attest that it is not all that hard. I used 3 wheels to get ALL the striping off. Putting on new just takes patience and care.

Thanks for posting that good info. Proactively posting for the good of the community is a class act. I know many others here do it, too.

Mike,

I have the 75s with one original hose and it has a very slight kink. I was not surprised as the hose it short and offset, as you know. I replaced one and just used good quality marine hose. I have no idea about specifics at this point. It, too, has a slight kink.

Just FYI - we have owned our boat since Jan 2015 and never seen a drop of leakage, so have never touched the glands on the rudder posts.

When you say you stopped getting voltage, that implies zero output. I had that happen once and found a fuse in the control box was blown. Replacing that restored operation and it has worked fine for several years.

Are you sure the brushes are your problem?

Thinwater, I surmise you are illustrating using the existing cleat on the gunwale but routing the line such that it does not foul the dinghy. That still leaves the line stretching across the deck where one could trip on it. By using the added cleats, that possibility is eliminated. Fortunately, on m...

I added cleats to the curved transition from the inner hulls to the transom. The fiberglass there seemed substantial and I used large, thick fender washers as backing plates. I have never heard of them being supplied by the factory.

If you do the math, that equates to approximately 6.5 gph. For comparison, because we are happy doing 7.5 kts almost all the time, we burn 2.2 gph, which is about 3.9 statute miles per gal.

Thanks for posting this, Dick.

Just FYI - The Owners Rendezvous is a totally separate event that Rhumbline sponsors.

Thanks, Mac. I forgot to mention a few more things that I carry that you listed.

A few more:

We have a 10 inch sediment filter in our fresh water system and we carry at least 3 spare filter cartridges.
Spare chargers for our electronic devices.

In addition, we carry: interior lights (all LED now) - yes, the cheap ones do fail bulbs for the nav and anchor lights (prior to switching to sealed LED (highly recommended) anodes for rudders, props, dinghy engine dinghy spark plugs dinghy prop nut and washers bilge pump (with integrated float swit...