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Hunter Owners Store Response tfatland at 11:05am 10.19.25 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/438 Good morning. I am wondering if anyone else has had problems with the Hunter owners store respondin
Best way to fill small wood rudder crack? (2) JBP-PA at 9:21am 10.19.25 Damage Repair 7/739 I'm starting on a project to restore a Trinka 10 I bought. The rudder blade had a small Crack that g
Considering buying a Beneteau Oceanis 37 (or 373) shday8 at 9:20am 10.19.25 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/320 Hello, I'm planning to visit a few 3 cabin versions and was wondering if there are any potential pr
FRESH WATER FLUSH (1) Doug on Long Island Sound at 9:03am 10.19.25 Catalina 275 0/196 Here's an easy mod to eliminate salt water in the holding tank. It only takes one 'T', one straight
TRAVELER UPGRADE (2) Doug on Long Island Sound at 8:44am 10.19.25 Catalina 275 4/268 I wanted to eliminate the friction that was being caused by the part of the cam cleat that captures
Beneteau Oceanis 46 2007 - lines Kawanager at 2:39am 10.19.25 Ask A Beneteau Owner 10/571 Hello, could anyone help me with the lines. My boat has a Selden 304S Furler and in mast main shee
Hull preparation (4) unclejack3 at 10:21pm 10.18.25 Ask All Sailors 19/1013 Hi. Need to repaint hull so am sanding it down with 40 grit,,quite hard to get paint off, is the bla
Sleeping offshore capta at 6:27pm 10.18.25 Ask All Sailors 23/1799 It is very difficult to say this nicely to cruisers and other distance sailors. Why in the fracking
Keel repair (2) unclejack3 at 2:38pm 10.18.25 Ask A Catalina Owner 0/18 Have a boomaroo 22 (Catalina) and the swing keel pivot hole is completely rusted. There seems to be
Keel repair (2) unclejack3 at 2:26pm 10.18.25 Ask All Sailors 6/487 Have a boomaroo 22 Australia (Catalina) and the swing keel pivot hole is completely rusted. There se
Potential damage to alternator diodes (1) Scott T-Bird at 1:19pm 10.18.25 Ask All Sailors 9/563 Yesterday, I was pushing my boat along at WOT for about a 5-minute spell and I detected slightly dif
Invest 98L --> TS Melissa --> Hurricane Melissa (3) JamesG161 at 10:49am 10.18.25 Weather and Forecasting 22/1468 All models are to many days out to predict this Tropical Wave, but.... GFS runs head on to Dry Ai
Mixing oil....... NYSail at 8:10am 10.18.25 Ask All Sailors 4/313 So doing my annual oil change. Unfortunately I put oil into a clear container (leftover from last ye
How To: Removing fuel tank on Catalina 310 (8) max_sailing at 1:07am 10.18.25 Catalina 310 5/561 Hi 310 folks, I recently had a fuel tank leak on my 310. It took me a while to figure out it was t
Placement of engine cover cable eyestrap PEMS at 5:59pm 10.17.25 Catalina 310 5/430 The cable that holds the engine cover/cabin steps when angled forward was removed by a previous owne
New Cal 29 owner rigging questions MeandmyCal29 at 5:10pm 10.17.25 Ask All Sailors 11/488 Hey, folks. I've finally let stupidity take over and broke my vow to never own a boat. I was given a
Bookmarks unclejack3 at 1:56pm 10.17.25 Ask All Sailors 11/500 Hi. I can save a thread by saving a bookmark but where can I find them to retrieve it? Thx
flushing long shaft outboard tilted (1) newsailor72 at 9:21am 10.17.25 Ask All Sailors 11/523 have a Macgregor 22 with a tohatsu 6hp sailpro that has a flushing port. boat is in a slip. With th
C350 Howard Jones at 8:14am 10.17.25 Ask A Catalina Owner 6/335 I'm going to have a survey done on an 06 C350. Does anyone have any first hand experience with this
Tired of bashing my knuckles on the dodger frame - shorter winch handle? JimHansen77 at 2:16pm 10.16.25 Big Boats 15/932 2002 Hunter 356. The clearance between the end of an 8" winch handle for the jib and the SS dodger

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Starter voltage JohnSn at 10:16am 11.28.25 With a Fully charged house bank, it starts very perky. Given that the battery voltage is 11.2V in t
under 2ft draft - options for far off shore trailer-able boat? Paceship.org at 9:48am 11.28.25 FWIW, I notice that the PY 23 was one of the boats in the MORC Midget Offshore Racing Club class.
Can't attach (certain) picture (2) Paceship.org at 9:39am 11.28.25 235642 Here's the file info of the objectionable picture.... Notice the screenshot of the picture i
Can't attach (certain) picture Paceship.org at 9:34am 11.28.25 that isn;t ot/ i'm on Android.....the issue picture is a screen shot cropped to remove phone header
Starter voltage Richard19068 at 9:34am 11.28.25 At 60% charge refers to the Victron Battery monitor counting amp hours in and out. In my quick te
Happy Thanksgiving, all! Leeward Rail at 9:23am 11.28.25 I'm grateful for the ability to feel gratitude. The opposite of gratitude is disappointment or eve
under 2ft draft - options for far off shore trailer-able boat? Leeward Rail at 8:56am 11.28.25 FWIW, I notice that the PY 23 was one of the boats in the MORC Midget Offshore Racing Club class. B
Starter voltage JohnSn at 8:43am 11.28.25 Thanks for the feedback! The house bank is just a few weeks old. Deep Cycle, US Battery 300Ah made
Can't attach (certain) picture dlochner at 8:12am 11.28.25 Attachments are restricted by size and by file format. A now common format from iPhones is HEIC, thi
Can't attach (certain) picture kappykaplan at 8:09am 11.28.25 I get the errors in the screenshots but I can attach the error screenshots - so what does the forum
under 2ft draft - options for far off shore trailer-able boat? jssailem at 7:56am 11.28.25 You are correct, the terms are not interchangeable. They look at different boat characteristics. T
under 2ft draft - options for far off shore trailer-able boat? Paceship.org at 7:28am 11.28.25
under 2ft draft - options for far off shore trailer-able boat? (2) rgranger at 7:19am 11.28.25
Depth sounder replacement on C30 jssailem at 6:47am 11.28.25 Mike. Having a depth sensor is fine. It will not keep you out of shallow water, nor from running ag
Cleaning a Diesel Tank Captain Larry-DH at 4:03am 11.28.25 Here is an idea. https://keenanfilters.com Here is a product that may be helpful. https://www.fuel
Cleaning a Diesel Tank sailme88 at 3:26am 11.28.25 When I had the tank polished on our previous boat, the tech had what looked like Bresnan Distributor
Cleaning a Diesel Tank (1) thinwater at 10:52pm 11.27.25 Many thousands of 5000-7000 gallon oil, chemical, and food product tankers are cleaned every day thr
Cleaning a Diesel Tank jssailem at 8:17pm 11.27.25 Here is an idea. https://keenanfilters.com Here is a product that may be helpful. https://www.fuelr
Starter voltage dlochner at 6:29pm 11.27.25 How old are your batteries? What kind of batteries, FLA, AGM, LFP? How are you estimating the SOC?
Happy Thanksgiving, all! (1) Will Gilmore at 5:19pm 11.27.25 235634 Happy Thanksgiving sailor. -Will

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