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Combiner / isolator ? markwesti at 10:39am 07.24.18 Ask All Sailors 2/291 This is embarrassing , 25 yrs. ago when we first got our little Westsail it needed a bunch of stuff
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Hunter 426 Electrical - and Alternator hatchmick at 4:25am 07.24.18 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/564 Does anyone have a electrical diagram/schematic of a 2004 Hunter 426 sailboat showing the alternator
Roller Furling Line Excess on O'day 25 supercub at 2:59am 07.24.18 Bigger Boats 10/1510 My 25 has a 9.9 on a transom bracket. My furling line is long enough to get sucked into the prop whe
Fickle Columbia-- finally pclarksurf at 12:00am 07.24.18 Catalina 22 11/773 9SQpzGbYj80 Jealous of everyone getting their early starts this year-- finally got a schedule windo
Tapered vs. Non-tapered Battens (1) Sailavie1 at 8:54pm 07.23.18 Smaller Boats 3/1707 Wondering if there are any performance benefits with tapered vs. non-tapered battens on a full batte
Proper Through Hull for Sink and Cockpit Drain rustyw007 at 8:22pm 07.23.18 Catalina 22 1/859 I have an 80s era Catalina 22, and I'm not at all impressed with the thru hull fitting for the sink
Boat electricians in central Florida? Gene Neill at 8:15pm 07.23.18 Ask All Sailors 3/351 Need to do a complete rewire on the Albin Vega. I'm considering doing it myself, but I'd like to buy
Seaward Products Mark Maulden at 7:56pm 07.23.18 Ask All Sailors 2/407 I need some info and/ or parts for my princess stove. Seems Seaward is no longer around? Someone e
Beneteau 361 refrigeration problems361, John Dibb at 6:46pm 07.23.18 Ask A Beneteau Owner 21/4688 After several weeks of the refrigerator system tripping the breaker occasionally we arrived on the b
Benetea Oceanis 400 - problem furling Main Sail Go For It at 6:02pm 07.23.18 Ask A Beneteau Owner 15/2386 I have always have difficulty getting my main sail furled all the way into my mast. It unfurls fine
Size of the slug on my out haul main. Tommy 12 at 5:33pm 07.23.18 Ask A Hunter Owner 6/730 I'm purchasing new sails for my 1979 hunter 27. I have all my measurements for the sails, slider, et

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Pearson Ensign a good first boat (given context in the post)? jssailem at 11:02am 08.02.23 I trailered and sailed the Montgomery 15 for 18 years. Terrific boat, very easy to solo sail a bit s
Pearson Ensign a good first boat (given context in the post)? jssailem at 10:54am 08.02.23 All of these boat in a size less than 30ft are easy to sail solo. With skill you can likely solo sai
Pearson Ensign a good first boat (given context in the post)? (9) rgranger at 10:53am 08.02.23 Good info... So you mentioned swimming off of your boat... and solo sailing...so here are two more
Battery Confusion.. jssailem at 10:48am 08.02.23 Led lights are A great modification to the traditional lights used in boats from 80's. @JoeWhite
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather jssailem at 10:29am 08.02.23 It is weather forecasting...:cool: We can bat 500 :yikes: and be better than most. :biggrin:
Alder Barbour Refrigeration Hayden Watson at 10:20am 08.02.23 According to the AB manual that John linked to, there is over-voltage protection, but it is at 17v.
Applying Cetol question JamesG161 at 10:14am 08.02.23 @Ralph Johnstone has the best things to use on Teak and its final finishing. He has pictures too.
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather JamesG161 at 10:08am 08.02.23 Just in from Dave... "Running under sail at 6 to 7 knots! Love it!" Jim and John
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather dLj at 10:07am 08.02.23 Damn straight!
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather JamesG161 at 10:03am 08.02.23 @jssailem and I spent several hours today on skirting the weather issues. @dLj is now on the correc
Alder Barbour Refrigeration Hayden Watson at 10:02am 08.02.23 Hello all... ... I also suspect something to do with the high Float Voltage (have seen on Danfoss s
Battery Confusion.. Timm R Oday25 at 9:56am 08.02.23 While I agree with everything that's been already posted , I humbly offer a few thoughts . Our 12 vo
DIY tiller tamer fails ('68 Javelin) Hayden Watson at 9:55am 08.02.23 Interesting, Hayden - I had tried straight across, but the boat still either moved away from the wi
Ruddercraft Lower Pintle Failure AndreInPortland at 9:50am 08.02.23 It's definitely frustrating that they have a clear manufacturing defect. I just called Ruddercraft a
Pearson Ensign a good first boat (given context in the post)? Anchored87 at 9:49am 08.02.23 Revisiting this idea... and following up on what @jssailem said... I think we could be more helpfu
VHF Handheld Timm R Oday25 at 9:45am 08.02.23 Batteries plus has custom built several battery packs for me .Very reasonable prices .
VHF Handheld smokey73 at 9:21am 08.02.23 I had an old Ray100 handheld. I sent the battery pack to a "battery rebuild service" and they made m
VHF Handheld rgranger at 9:16am 08.02.23 If you know an electronics gearhead, you could get them to replace the batteries in your beloved Un
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather kappykaplan at 9:16am 08.02.23 Here we go, let's hope for good luck and mother nature's blessing! Absolutely! :beer:
Applying Cetol question rgranger at 9:15am 08.02.23 I ran across this article a while back. I'm not endorsing... just passing this along https://www.p

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