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Has anyone installed Raymarine EV100 on 356 clmooring at 7:31pm 05.28.19 Big Boats 6/711 has anyone installed a Raymarine EV100 on a hunter 356? If so where did you place the components an
Question on fiberglass repair (2) Bay Tripper at 6:22pm 05.28.19 Ask All Sailors 5/1683 Hello, I am still relatively new here, and I have done a lot of searching online and on this fo
Hot water heating system bwasileski at 5:24pm 05.28.19 Ask A Beneteau Owner 33/5590 Hi I have a Beneteau 423. Hoping to get some help. I replace the hot water tank last year and since
Electrial Question sailor420 at 2:57pm 05.28.19 Big Boats 12/1211 We run our fridg and freezer 247. When we loose shore power from a storm or something our batteries
Portable Holding Tank Overboard Discharge dlochner at 1:55pm 05.28.19 Ask All Sailors 19/4261 Quick backstory, as a Great Lakes (shark free and unsalted) sailor our boat does not have a macerato
Thoughts on dinghies? limbodog at 1:54pm 05.28.19 Big Boats 25/4009 Dinghy - from dingi the Hindi word for "small boat" I know I'm going to need one sooner or later, bu
LYNNETTE, an Eggemoggin 47. (3) TomY at 1:20pm 05.28.19 Ask All Sailors 18/2283 Spirit of Tradition genre for racing and daysailing. 47'6" long with a 9'0" beam, she's designed to
3rd Reef on a 22 ? Rltgold at 12:22pm 05.28.19 Catalina 22 31/3446 Thinking of adding a 3rd reef to my 22. For my first reef I installed a Harken reefing system which
Yanmar 2GM20F Vibration dennismenace111 at 12:09pm 05.28.19 Engines and Propulsion 17/2881 I recently purchased a Watkins 29 that had sat unused for a few years. I bought the boat on the Wes
Shallow (shoal) vs deep draft (Oceanis 38) Michael54321 at 10:44am 05.28.19 Ask A Beneteau Owner 7/3673 Hi Beneteau owners I have been in the market for a used Beneteau Oceanis 38 for some time, and rece
Hot water tank relief valve acepilot123 at 10:35am 05.28.19 Ask A Hunter Owner 7/628 when I heat the hot water tank, three way, webasto, engine or 110 v all is well until I turn on the
Loss of Sailing Super Yacht Rick D at 9:40am 05.28.19 Ask All Sailors 45/3615 I'm sure many of you have seen this, but I didn't see any posts, so here's a link: https://www.saili
Yanmar 2GM20F - Filler Cap (neck) & Subtank (3) Hunter28Austin at 9:22am 05.28.19 Ask A Hunter Owner 6/1442
Strange refrigerator sounds Levin at 8:13am 05.28.19 Ask All Sailors 2/371 Hello all... So I'm having a strange problem that I can't seem to find an answer for even after sea
Powering bilge pumps Bill lee at 7:51am 05.28.19 Ask All Sailors 8/528
Macerator Woes odaydokay at 7:45am 05.28.19 Ask All Sailors 10/1493 Over the years we have had a lot of discussion about these beasts. I have a Jabsco 18590-2092 (2007
Chartplotter Visibility Jessitt at 7:41am 05.28.19 Ask A Beneteau Owner 5/1688 Hi all, I'm new to this forum and just purchased a 2013 Oceanis 45. It seems that the positioning o
Raymarine C70 Update Northstar1014 at 7:10am 05.28.19 Ask A Beneteau Owner 7/7248 Hello, I have the Raymarine C70 (original) on my new-to-me 343. The chart plotter and radar work, b
Mid ship cleat (4) Mechone at 7:02am 05.28.19 Ask A Beneteau Owner 15/2464 Just another way of installing a cleat without drilling into boat. I machined up 2 aluminum pieces.
Multi purpose halyard tom.p.brown at 5:00am 05.28.19 Ask A Hunter Owner 6/508 i have a 203 Hunter 306. yesterday i climbed the mast to place a new antenna. when i arrived i notic

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Cabin sole Crazy Dave Condon at 5:42pm 08.23.24 Call Al Fooks at the forum store. He can advise
Need Concern over Iithium battery charging of device batteries. dlochner at 5:20pm 08.23.24 I'd say you are safe. The only thing I'd caution you on, be sure to not deplete the batteries below
Kirie Elite 29 Ulysses_Dan at 5:19pm 08.23.24 Thanks for your reply! I may need to break out the chisel. The bottom nut looks a bit corroded and
Need Concern over Iithium battery charging of device batteries. dLj at 5:14pm 08.23.24 I'd say you are safe. The only thing I'd caution you on, be sure to not deplete the batteries below
Need Concern over Iithium battery charging of device batteries. dlochner at 5:04pm 08.23.24 The battery and solar charger are sold as a compatible set, where that compatibility includes the s
Looking for a spares kit for my 1999 Yanmar 4JH3E diesel engine (2) jviss at 4:23pm 08.23.24 Westerbeke sells spare parts kits for their engines. Westerbeke PARTS KIT A - o Harbor Freight an
Need Concern over Iithium battery charging of device batteries. Kings Gambit at 3:15pm 08.23.24 The battery and solar charger are sold as a compatible set, where that compatibility includes the se
Cell Phone Boosters SkiingSailor at 3:11pm 08.23.24 I use a Weboost cell booster. In areas with sketchy coverage (1 bar coming in/out), lots of them her
Looking for a spares kit for my 1999 Yanmar 4JH3E diesel engine Ralph Johnstone at 3:08pm 08.23.24 Forgot to mention that you may be able to find your shop maintenance manual and/or parts manual for
Need Concern over Iithium battery charging of device batteries. dlochner at 3:00pm 08.23.24 There are some ifs here. Are the batteries LiFePO4 batteries or some other chemistry? Is there a co
Looking for a spares kit for my 1999 Yanmar 4JH3E diesel engine LastDiveBernie at 2:54pm 08.23.24 Thanks Ralph! Much appreciated.
Treadmill alternative for the boat. Hello Below at 2:54pm 08.23.24 Sue is 5'-6" and I have full standing headroom at 6' so she should be fine. Yes . . . maybe. A typ
Looking for a spares kit for my 1999 Yanmar 4JH3E diesel engine Ralph Johnstone at 2:45pm 08.23.24 Haven't ever heard of any spares kits out here. Very easy to sit at your desk with a parts catalogu
B&G Foward Scan Questions Ralph Johnstone at 2:40pm 08.23.24 A simple and inexpensive method of entering shallow waters is to take a dinghy into an anchorage or
Hunter 40.5 diesel heater Windpilot at 2:13pm 08.23.24 I have a Webasto AirTop with two outlets in the master cabin. Where did you find space for the duc
Megayacht Bayesian sank dlochner at 2:13pm 08.23.24 If the crew would have closed the big openings as the storm approached, this would likely have just
Megayacht Bayesian sank jssailem at 2:08pm 08.23.24 You live as a passenger on a great big yacht; closing hatches and maintaining watertight integrity i
Cell Phone Boosters jviss at 2:03pm 08.23.24 Thanks, but I don't really need Starlink. I just need to boost the cell signal, mostly for data, in
B&G Foward Scan Questions (2) jssailem at 2:02pm 08.23.24 The reason we install the sonar transducer near the bow is to enable the return signal to give us in
Treadmill alternative for the boat. mermike at 1:58pm 08.23.24 Exercise bands work great.

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