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Cellphone use in bright sun - ricksoth at 6:38pm 02.01.26 Ask All Sailors 5/122 Has anyone found a cell phone that they can see in bright sun, ideally with polarized sunglasses on?
"10 Sailboats to Avoid Buying" shemandr at 1:01pm 02.01.26 Ask All Sailors 8/220 Has anyone else seen this video? It turns out the reasons to avoid these boats is their uninsurabi
Handlauf Oberdeck undicht HJS at 10:40am 02.01.26 Ask A Hunter Owner 7/121 Hallo liebe Segelfreunde ! Ich habe mir vor 4 jahren eine Hunter 38 Baujahr 2008 gekauft.Ich habe ei
PSA: Battleborn High Current at 2:25pm 01.30.26 Ask All Sailors 44/902 Hi all, This is not entirely news, but Battleborn - which was previously considered among the highe
Keel Bolt Condition and small keel damage question (4) Deven R at 11:04am 01.30.26 Big Boats 4/191 Hello fellow Catalina owners. Spring of 2025 I purchased my first keelboat - a 1986 Catalina 34. I s
Rewiring Starter switch jonny356 at 10:24am 01.30.26 Ask A Hunter Owner 7/216 I have a Hunter 356 and have issues with starter. I replaced the starter motor and start switch (bu
Hunter 33 Raymarine Autopilot Ian Thailand at 9:00pm 01.29.26 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/96 I'm looking to contact someone who has fitted, or owns, a Hunter 33 with a Raymarine Autopilot. I'm
location of air conditioner sea water pump trigger Slipin Away at 9:03am 01.29.26 Big Boats 7/194 I have a 2005 Hunter 45cc. Does anyone knows the location of the trigger switch (relay) for the air
Yanmar 3GM30 Slips when trying to engage in forward (1) william24424 at 8:56am 01.29.26 Ask All Sailors 3/308 Happens more often when engine is hot. Last year I'd keep in gear through mooring field because drif
halyard questions Mike8193 at 1:48pm 01.28.26 Ask All Sailors 6/265 Pretty basic questions here. I am progressively doing more and more DIY on my boat. I am learning it
Salon table opinions sought Timm R Oday25 at 1:18pm 01.28.26 Ask All Sailors 14/378 Our salon table is no overdue for an upgrade . I'm confident in my skills as a woodworker . Where I
Hot water relief valve east coaster at 10:04am 01.28.26 Catalina 310 18/588 My pressure relief valve on my hot water tank is 150 psi. The domestic water pump is max 40 psi. I
Hunter 49/50 transformer Laid-back at 5:56am 01.28.26 Big Boats 3/196
Start battery setting DinghySailor at 6:49pm 01.27.26 Ask All Sailors 21/657 The starter for my Yanmar began intermittently working over the summer. The engine now starts only w
Replacing bilge hose on 387 svnalu387 at 2:28pm 01.27.26 Big Boats 1/162
Hunter 41AC Helm Seat Completed (3) dkinzer at 1:51pm 01.27.26 Big Boats 1/143 Ever since we got our boat we have had issues seeing out over the bow while seated in the cockpit. I
Hunter passage 42 inverter question sailor832 at 1:06pm 01.27.26 Big Boats 11/331 I recently acquired a 1996 hunter passage 42 and was looking at replacing the aftermarket inverter t
Has anyone raced their TM 30? GBeck at 12:39pm 01.27.26 Catalina 30 8/296 I've been thinking about racing my boat in the non-spin class on Wednesday nights on a lake in Georg
Planning your cruise jssailem at 9:46am 01.27.26 Pacific North West Cruisers 4/187 I was reminded of a site I found some years ago designed to help a PNW (or BC) cruiser plan their tr
DIY Sailing Instrument (2) brett_howard at 9:55pm 01.26.26 Ask All Sailors 44/1079 A few years back I built a wind instrument and I've been using it for years now and really appreciat

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PSA: Battleborn Sharonov at 10:21am 02.02.26 I am an EE and I watched multiple Will's videos. He does a good job and there is little baitclick or
PSA: Battleborn colemj at 10:20am 02.02.26 He did go from a 1c charge rate to .5c, and I cant remember the reason for that. I think it was
Cellphone use in bright sun - PaulK at 10:07am 02.02.26 We go sailing to get away from our phones.
Something Wicked this way comes.. Will Gilmore at 8:57am 02.02.26 Likely true. But that's a lot of work for a thief to go to, with a strong chance of being caught. M
PSA: Battleborn CrispyCringle at 8:27am 02.02.26 I havnt watched every Will Prouse vid, but I think I have seen all the ones about these 100Ahr batte
PSA: Battleborn colemj at 8:16am 02.02.26 It is fine to describe Will as you did, but the inescapable conclusion has nothing to do with him.
PSA: Battleborn Garbonzo at 8:05am 02.02.26 Bought 2 BB100AH in 2017, added another one in 2020. In 2025 during annual capacity testing, had 2
Something Wicked this way comes.. FastOlson at 7:16am 02.02.26 Harking back to my history studies.... in Spain hundreds of years ago and going forward, the upscale
Windlass on a Yamaha 30? jssailem at 7:15am 02.02.26 The chain drag is due to the alignment of the windlass with the bow roller. If you want to address
Cellphone use in bright sun - jssailem at 6:55am 02.02.26 The new Apple phones boast 1000 nits of screen in normal state, 2000 nits outside. The Samsung Gala
Cellphone use in bright sun - Allan12210 at 6:39am 02.02.26 My solution to the problem is polarized sunglasses that have built in tinted but not polarized reade
Yanmar 3GM30 Slips when trying to engage in forward jtm at 6:03am 02.02.26 Its been a long time but ... I'd think that one of the fasteners to you cable linkage either in th
DIY Sailing Instrument colemj at 5:53am 02.02.26 They can most certainly be made to last many decades. Forgot to address this part. I replaced 13y
DIY Sailing Instrument colemj at 5:41am 02.02.26 Well we are definitely going to have to agree to disagree on this point. A recent example is my aut
Hunter 49 / M-H 50 wiring diagrams JR19454 at 4:56am 02.02.26 If going to lifepo4, it might be worth paying for access to abyc standards. There are some subtle d
Windlass on a Yamaha 30? (2) X24 at 2:34am 02.02.26 You can see how the anchor chain drags both down and across to the left, scoring the deck in the pro
Cellphone use in bright sun - Foswick at 11:58pm 02.01.26 Most (all?) modern phones use OLED/AMOLED screens which aren't subject to the polarization problems
DIY Sailing Instrument (1) brett_howard at 11:47pm 02.01.26 I got Gemini to convert the old C++ code I wrote to run on an M0 feather with a LoRa radio and re-wr
Hunter passage 42 inverter question (1) marcham at 11:02pm 02.01.26 236450n then, an occasional high current will not reduce the capacity by a factor of 2 or 3... it's
Hunter 49 / M-H 50 wiring diagrams marcham at 10:51pm 02.01.26 Thanks for your positive comments The jerk who refused to simply supply the documents was so incred

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