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Products We’ve Tried and Loved This Cruising Season

11/23/2019

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   One thing I've got to say about Fidalgo Yacht Club: We're always trying out new products in order to make our extended cruises easier, safer, and more fun (i.e., less problems).  
   Here's a small array of products we tried this past cruising season in the Pacific Northwest, and we recommend them to you. If you try them, let us know what you think. We'd love to hear from you.
   First off, there's the:

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New Shore Power: Preparing Your Boat to Avoid ELCI Problems

4/22/2019

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PictureFidalgo Yacht Club, Anacortes, Washington. Gateway to the San Juan Islands. Preparing boat to avoid ELCI problems.
Fidalgo Yacht Club, Anacortes, Washington. Gateway to the San Juan Islands. Preparing boat to avoid ELCI problems. Leonard Landon, Lorena Landon
FYC members Lorena and Leonard Landon are co-managing editors of Waggoner Cruising Guide. They travel the Inside Passage in their Defever, Got d' Fever.
by Leonard Landon
Co-Managing Editor, Waggoner Cruising Guide

If you don’t already have Equipment Leakage Circuit Interrupter (ELCI) protection onboard your boat, you will want to read this article and learn how ELCI devices can make for safer boating and discover the various solutions available to meet the requirements of this American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC) standard.

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Things I Learned While Fixing My Boat's Fuel Leak

4/16/2019

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Fixing Fuel Leak, Fidalgo Yacht Club, Anacortes, Washington. Gateway to the San Juan Islands. Fixing fuel leak on boat. Picture
Dale Miller. Fidalgo Yacht Club, Anacortes, Washington. Gateway to the San Juan Islands. Fixing fuel leak on boat.
Dale Miller cruises the Inside Passage with his wife Linda on Silly Goose, their NorthPacific 43.
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Discovering the Fuel Leak


I had just completed my filter changes on Silly Goose for the generator and the Cummins when I  noticed a little diesel fuel spilled on the floor of the engine room.  

I wiped it up but noticed that it was at the edge of the checker plate flooring . So I thought to be prudent I would pull up the plate and make sure some hadn't dripped below.  

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Staying Healthy on Long Cruises

12/19/2018

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Contributors: Rich Haynie, Betty Marie, Ocean Alexander 48; Fred Kaufhold, Dream Weaver, Mariner 35; Eric Muller, Dolphin, Monk 36; Bonni Nutter, New Adventure, Pacific Mariner 65; Kathy Perkins, Buster, Nordic Tug 37; Mary Robbins, Prime Time, Bayliner 47; Dennis Thornton, Tonic, Riviera 40; Joanne Wilshin, L'Esprit, Ocean Alexander 44.
  If you’re alive and well, you have a pretty good grasp of how to stay healthy. But maintaining your health on an extended cruise of several weeks or more, requires some extra consideration.  The members of Fidalgo Yacht Club routinely leave port around May and head north to British Columbia and SE Alaska, not to return until July or August.  There’s a lot they’ve learned about staying healthy on a boat in these remote locations and for weeks or months on end.
   Here's what we've learned:

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    About Us

    Fidalgo Yacht Club is best known as a cruising club, whose members share a passion for boats, the Pacific Northwest inland waterways, and a sense of comradery.  Safe boat handling is a priority.  Summer will find us on the water from Anacortes to SE Alaska.  Wintertime we gather together in our clubhouse to gather knowledge from dinner speakers and educational “bar chats”.   We cruise and learn together and welcome new members whether a seasoned mariner or first-time boater.

    A quarter of our membership has made the trek from Anacortes to SE Alaska, often multiple times. Half of us have cruised north of Cape Caution, and almost all of us have cruised the Broughtons. All these cruises were either solo or in small groups.
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