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2012 Mercury manual Windcree at 5:49am 05.14.19 Engines and Propulsion 6/498 I just picked up a used 2012 Mercury 4 HP outboard. Does anyone know were I might download a manual
B361 temperature reading ping141 at 2:56am 05.14.19 Ask A Beneteau Owner 10/1939 Hi! My ST60 Tridata display is stuck on -3.5 degrees Celsius. Even Norway is not that cold... Speed
Keeping the fridge/freezer cold while sailing pumpkinpie at 12:05am 05.14.19 Ask A Hunter Owner 19/5101 I'm in the process of purchasing a 2006 Hunter 41 DS. It has a Separate front loading Refrigerator a
catalina 250: replacing antifouling coat and boat stand rig francois.lavoie at 8:10pm 05.13.19 Smaller Boats 0/566 I have a catalina 250 with ballast and swing keel. I intend to sand the old antifouling coat only an
Deck Painting jamieFL at 6:55pm 05.13.19 Ask All Sailors 20/1804 My project keeps drifting. Everything I do sparks more work. I'm working on a 1988 Watkins 25. At
Inflatable dinghy recommendations iamwhatiam at 4:05pm 05.13.19 Catalina 22 34/5658 I apologize if this has been asked already...tried the search engine but didn't see anything recent.
Oops we did it again (2) The Rabbit at 2:37pm 05.13.19 Smaller Boats 3/633 Good times in Miami
Splicing Tiny Dyneema (5) AaronD at 12:32pm 05.13.19 Ask All Sailors 4/3176 I've been using single-braid dyneema (Amsteel, Endura 12, etc.) for a variety of applications. It's
Solids in the water tank (1) Oceanis 440 NY at 12:30pm 05.13.19 Ask All Sailors 12/1001 Hi All, Cleaned out the water tanks (to the best of my ability) and found these pieces of ??? In th
Hurrisheet? WayneH at 10:35am 05.13.19 Weather and Forecasting 2/618 I ran across an interesting website while doing "research". flhurricane.com with a tag line of "Hu
The 170 and an Asym Spinnaker..... Shorefun at 10:18am 05.13.19 Day Sailers 4/536 My boat came with the asym spinnaker which I doubt has ever been used. The hull did not get all the
Easier to replace a Jabsco head than to fix it? limbodog at 7:21am 05.13.19 Big Boats 21/3447 I've got two heads. One goes to a cracked holding tank. We won't talk about that. The other goes t
Leaking Water Tank On Port Tack-O'Day 34' Windchime2 at 4:22am 05.13.19 Ask An Oday Owner 5/748 On out last 2 outings one of the bilge pumps kept cycling on, but strangely only when we were on a p
Prop Stuck on Shaft Steverhnm at 11:49pm 05.12.19 Ask A Hunter Owner 14/1576 After great pains and exhausting all manner of contraptions I finally cut the nuts off my prop shaft
Perkins 4-108 Injector Pump Troubleshooting MrMoses at 10:58pm 05.12.19 Engines and Propulsion 4/3929 Perkins 4-108, Delphi Injector Pump... Over the last month, it took more and more cranks for the e
50 foot Challenger Ketch CPT Ron at 9:15pm 05.12.19 Big Boats 0/937 Yearning to learn more info on the Challenger Yacht Corporation. I understand the President passed
Main Sail What type? (2) pumpkinpie at 7:41pm 05.12.19 Ask A Hunter Owner 14/645 I took a couple pictures of the main sail on the boat that I'm in the process of purchasing I don't
Catamaran Q :) sbcwolff at 6:50pm 05.12.19 Ask All Sailors 11/1489 We are used to monohauls, and have recently picked up a Star Cat 5.6 from someone who wanted to give
Midship Cleat Placement VT Fitz at 6:02pm 05.12.19 Mid-Size Boats 1/673 I've posted a question about midship cleat placement on my '07 Hunter 27 on Ask All Sailors, but I w
Midship Cleat Placement (2) VT Fitz at 5:58pm 05.12.19 Ask All Sailors 15/3254

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Invest 95L (1) Rick486 at 1:39pm 09.07.23 It appears the juju isn't improving too much....if we still had the big boat I'd be talking to the y
Anyone know if this Mercury 9.9 is 2 stroke or is 4 stroke? I seems too old to be 4. Its on a Hunter 260. -- ALEX dlochner at 1:27pm 09.07.23 Take off the hood, is there an oil fill? Is there a round light near the choke on the front of the
In hull transducer dlochner at 1:24pm 09.07.23 In-hull transducers have dispelled the old tale that they need to be installed in a liquid medium.
Anyone know if this Mercury 9.9 is 2 stroke or is 4 stroke? I seems too old to be 4. Its on a Hunter 260. -- ALEX Timm R Oday25 at 1:15pm 09.07.23 I'd say almost with 100 percent certainty that it is a four stroke
H38: What is this Xantrax device under my main DC panel flightlead404 at 1:03pm 09.07.23
Used sail? LakeShark at 1:02pm 09.07.23 I currently have a 135 on a furler but I want to try the hank on variations to see how it goes. Im
Experience with Lite Skin jib - a mixed bag stickinthemud57 at 12:57pm 09.07.23 It's hard to trace the origin of the damage. The initial damage could have occurred while the sail
In hull transducer Ralph Johnstone at 12:48pm 09.07.23 In-hull transducers have dispelled the old tale that they need to be installed in a liquid medium.
Hurricane Hunter aircraft range Benny17441 at 12:47pm 09.07.23 They normally operate to midway in the Atlantic and out to the area of the Hawaiian Islands. In th
In hull transducer Ralph Johnstone at 12:43pm 09.07.23 Requires 2 inch hole . I had to modify mine a bit as it was 4 inch. Don't quite follow if it is a
1999 Hunter 380 Blower location dlochner at 12:29pm 09.07.23 Rest assured, the blower will not be in any place that is easily accessible. :mad: Check the connec
Experience with Lite Skin jib - a mixed bag dlochner at 12:27pm 09.07.23 It's hard to trace the origin of the damage. The initial damage could have occurred while the sail w
Used sail? kappykaplan at 12:21pm 09.07.23 Thanks! You're welcome!
Rudder counterbalance? kappykaplan at 12:19pm 09.07.23 Have a link to this book? https://shop.sailboatowners.com/prod.php?51998
Used sail? morbidfollower at 12:17pm 09.07.23 Try Bacon Sails. https://baconsails.com/bacon/select_sailboat_API.php Thanks!
Used sail? morbidfollower at 12:17pm 09.07.23 Just borrow one. There are tons of C22s out there and I am sure you could borrow one for a time fr
1999 Hunter 380 Blower location (2) Ralph Johnstone at 12:12pm 09.07.23 Welcome to the site. This is an after market install. Hunter did not install blowers in 1999. You
Rudder counterbalance? HeelBoy at 11:32am 09.07.23 Get Don Gillette's Sail Trim guide, right here on SBO. Well yeah but I could just keep throwing p
Rudder counterbalance? Joe at 11:21am 09.07.23 My suggestion is to quit speculating with different folks about this and that... the boat is OVER PO
Experience with Lite Skin jib - a mixed bag stickinthemud57 at 10:59am 09.07.23 Thanks for that. I agree that I did not get proper guidance from the loft, and nowhere in the linked

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