I've come here as a former SeaRay owner because I know there have been many discussions about mattress toppers.
I recently purchased a 3" NovaForm gel mattress topper from Costco and put it on the bunk bed in the cabin. The couch back folds up and hangs to form a bunk bed. Since I lower the...
I have had icing of the coils a few times over the years. Each time it was on a very humid day and I had let the cabin door open enough that the load of humid air caused it to ice over. I set a fan on the coils for an hour or so, melted the ice and all was good.
It may have worked for the last two years because the power pedastal you were connected to did not have a GFCI. That happened to me when I moved to a different marina, one with GFCI's. I began tripping the pedastal as soon as I plugged in my power cord. At first I was in denial, but I kept...
I would look closely at the manifolds and risers as the cause. I had a similar problem years ago, cylinder was full of water. Turned out to be a crack in the riser from the water jacket which allowed water into the cylinder. Replacing a manifold would be a lot cheaper than $5000.
Here on Lake Erie we get seiches quite frequently. Happens when we have strong sustained SW or NE winds. We can have a water level difference of 6 feet or more from the western end of the lake to Buffalo.
I also suggest the Power Squadron courses. I would suggest the next course in the series which is Seamanship, then Piloting where you learn to navigate by plotting courses, both manually on charts on nav software. Also, the Power Squadron has a very good weather course
My wife and I cruised from Port Clinton in western Lake Erie to Grand Bend a few years ago. We left the week after Labor Day and the weather was fantastic. One word of caution. As we proceeded north of Port Huron we soon ran into an area that was full of commercial fish nets. Had to be very...