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SG200 and Firefly Garbonzo at 6:52am 05.14.19 Musings With Maine Sail 0/540 OK, My vintage BATMON from Ample Power (you gotta be old to even remember that product and company)
2012 Mercury manual Windcree at 5:49am 05.14.19 Engines and Propulsion 6/523 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 10/2238 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 19/5455 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 0/605 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 20/1934 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 34/5953 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 3/640 Good times in Miami
Splicing Tiny Dyneema (5) AaronD at 12:32pm 05.13.19 Ask All Sailors 4/3764 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 12/1166 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 2/668 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 4/582 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 21/3865 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 5/783 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 14/1712 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 4/4324 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 0/965 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 14/657 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 11/1613 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 1/765 I've posted a question about midship cleat placement on my '07 Hunter 27 on Ask All Sailors, but I w

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Best bottom paint for frequent diving/cleaning American_Mainsail at 8:02am 12.21.23 Petitt Trinidad is the is the gold standard for scrubable bottom paint. Before puting hard paint o
Best bottom paint for frequent diving/cleaning thinwater at 8:01am 12.21.23 Petitt Trinidad is the is the gold standard for scrubable bottom paint. Before puting hard paint ov
New to me boat with rotting bulkhead Timm R Oday25 at 7:58am 12.21.23 The tops of both bulkheads were indeed screwed into a recess or groove . Seems like the Oday factory
Best bottom paint for frequent diving/cleaning RitSim at 7:55am 12.21.23 Excellent information. Thanks
Best bottom paint for frequent diving/cleaning American_Mainsail at 7:16am 12.21.23 I'm very much interested in the same thing, Nachismo. I'm interested in exactly your question. I am
How dispose of sailboat? jssailem at 6:55am 12.21.23 While Hadley was on the hard waiting to get the motor reinstalled, I observed two boats being dealt
Best bottom paint for frequent diving/cleaning BigEasy at 6:55am 12.21.23
How dispose of sailboat? QCI at 6:06am 12.21.23 Thank you, rwsanderii. It has crossed my mind to just arrange the disposal myself and cover all base
Wood light/wiring mounts Project_Mayhem at 5:57am 12.21.23 Probably not worth fabricating as you can buy a new steaming light on amazon for $15-20.
Wood light/wiring mounts tailboom at 5:32am 12.21.23
Wood light/wiring mounts Ralph Johnstone at 8:40pm 12.20.23 If you're handy and have access to woodworking tools, you could make the same design of mount from S
Opinions? Navigation Laptops! higgs at 8:07pm 12.20.23 Chartered a Jeanaue 47 in the North Channel, Canada last summer. It has some very tricky navigation
Considering a move to Lake Lanier/Atlanta area Stu Jackson at 7:24pm 12.20.23 Lake Lanier has an active and supportive sailing group. Dottie Toney is the Fleet Captain for a Cat
Beneteau Oceanis 34.1 Review ron2photo at 7:03pm 12.20.23 Hi William, I like the way you are thinking. I had a 1972 Pearson 26 and decided it was too small I
Wood light/wiring mounts Gene Neill at 6:57pm 12.20.23 The wood mounts are definitely DIY. It was probably a pretty solid setup when it was new.
How dispose of sailboat? shemandr at 6:36pm 12.20.23 This thread should be recommended reading for those posters who are looking at a boat in substandard
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 6:27pm 12.20.23 The original valves on the O'Days are just that, valves and not real seacocks. If the Marelon valv
Prop rotation question Rich Stidger at 6:26pm 12.20.23 If you tell Martec the year and sailboat model and engine/transmission combo that you have, I can be
Thru Hull Replacement? (3) Randall Schmidt at 6:25pm 12.20.23 Here are shots of the thru hull I cannot close
H36 "Bulkhead" separation? chichiflys at 5:47pm 12.20.23 Thanks all. Definitely will keep an eye on it, but for now will continue with the 37 other projects

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