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Keel getting corrosion (3) Eagle2man at 3:43pm 04.21.24 Ask An Oday Owner 8/647 Has anybody seen this before, getting corrosion of tan on keel. The boat is only in salt water for 5
1988 Hunter 28.5 top radiator hose filler neck (3) inkunzi at 12:14pm 04.21.24 Ask All Sailors 4/371 Hello my hunter 28.5 with 2gm20f engine has radiator hose coming out of heat exchanger at top of eng
Retrofitting a bowthruster to a 423 Riverdaze at 11:45am 04.21.24 Ask A Beneteau Owner 3/768 I'd like to hear from any 423 owners or similar hull Beneteau's about experience adding a bow thrust
Rudder crack (1) mbefus at 11:18am 04.21.24 S2 13/1305
Expected life of a fuel line hose? Project_Mayhem at 8:30am 04.21.24 Engines and Propulsion 17/1520 I replaced a fuel line yesterday and found that the gasoline had some black stuff in it. I suspect i
Outboard gear oil.... Tohatsu 9.8 NYSail at 6:21am 04.21.24 Ask All Sailors 8/904 Going to change gear oil for 1st time myself. Plain 80/90 wt or should I use gear oil made for marin
Airmar DST 810 (1) Drinky Crow at 8:47pm 04.20.24 Ask All Sailors 5/754 You ever install one? Dry fit it stops ~4mm short of flush w/bottom thru hull. Instructions say "tap
Seaward Fox 19 Sparty Ken at 7:52pm 04.20.24 Seaward 2/782 Can anyone direct me to a forum for Seaward Fox 19 owners? I am interested in buying a Fox 19 and wo
Yanmar Diesel cooling blockage at street nipple to exhaust bris59 at 6:31pm 04.20.24 Ask All Sailors 7/762 My yanmar diesel (27 hp, 3 cyl) for my hunter 36 has had two incidents 4 years apart where the seawa
Stern anchoring circa1971la at 3:55pm 04.20.24 Ask All Sailors 12/1248 Sorry if this is a dumb question but does a stern anchor typically have to have the same scope as th
Universal M25 front V-belt pulley. Hayden Watson at 12:24pm 04.20.24 Ask All Sailors 17/1344 If anyone with an M25 or M25XP is near their engine, can you measure the outside diameter of the cra
Catalina 28 mkII - Hot Water Heater Installation (1) Fred at 7:58am 04.20.24 Mid-Size Boats 3/807 I'm looking at the HW installation on this new-to-me Cat28. The two aspects that I am considering ar
70 FT of LIFE LINE (2) twodzusfittings at 7:49am 04.20.24 Digital Dumpster Dive -- FREE Gear 6/151 70 ft of 3/16 steel inner with a 5/16 white cover. Free. You pay postage.
Secondary Fuel Filter Mistake - M25-XPB diesel Monheganlover at 5:39am 04.20.24 Catalina 310 21/2358 Yesterday, during spring commissioning of my Universal M25-XPB engine, I did my first change of the
Anyone installed a Balmar Serpentine belt kit on their Universal M25? Hayden Watson at 3:09am 04.20.24 Ask All Sailors 17/1466 I am installing a Balmar Serpentine belt kit on my Universal M25XP and the drive pulley on the crank
Balmar Serpentine kit fail. Hayden Watson at 9:05pm 04.19.24 Engines and Propulsion 4/577 I bought the Balmar 48-USP-M25 for my M25XP. This should be an easy bolt-on process except that the
Original Yamaha Sailboat logo (1) Arctic Hawk at 8:53pm 04.19.24 Yamaha 3/643 224256 Would any one happen to have an image of the original Yamaha sailboat logo? It was not the t
Boom Vang Part Vision 32 teacherspet at 4:59pm 04.19.24 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/532 In an inspection, I noticed a slight crack on the part that attached the Boom vang to the mast on th
Trump Companion 21 tedsteffan at 12:43pm 04.19.24 Ask All Sailors 7/1120 Greeting all! I am about to embark on a full refit of a Trump Companion 21 and will be looking for a
store mast diagonal on h260? and mast down lessens pull on anchor 80%? Davenport at 12:32pm 04.19.24 Ask A Hunter Owner 7/938 Before hurricane season I was thinking of dropping my h260 mast and storing it either in normal stra

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BATTERY? dlochner at 8:13am 05.05.25 If there is room, I'd lean towards the GCs for the simple reason they are lighter at 65+ lbs than th
11.0 battery wiring jssailem at 8:12am 05.05.25
BATTERY? Don S/V ILLusion at 8:11am 05.05.25 8ds are too heavy to easily manage physically and have no advantage over other options. As to the ot
Luff Extrusion length for hunter 23.5 Dzzz at 8:10am 05.05.25
Tight furler Project_Mayhem at 7:54am 05.05.25 I was exclusively referring to the line that goes around the drum. My last boat had a smaller Hood f
Luff Extrusion length for hunter 23.5 SteveHughessails at 7:53am 05.05.25 Welcome to the forum. I wish I had the answer for you. I have only just experienced the joy of furli
Battery recommendation - anchor windless mermike at 6:47am 05.05.25 People talk about special fusing on the batteries. Bascily if you have any sort of working fuse or
Is this crackling sound normal shemandr at 6:36am 05.05.25 ...he said it's the plastic inside the cabin. I don't know what it's called, it's the plastic mold
Hunter 36 mast strut damaged - anyone had this issue? AndyL at 6:25am 05.05.25 Random question was your 04 at Annapolis Sail School before you got her? We bought it from an own
Down the (New Design) Hatch! ...3TacksontheWater at 6:01am 05.05.25 I feel every single word of that. That's why, after just a few minutes of trying, I decided not to
Down the (New Design) Hatch! Gene Neill at 5:44am 05.05.25 I feel every single word of that. That's why, after just a few minutes of trying, I decided not to r
Access to the underside deck from the salon? shemandr at 5:29am 05.05.25 For my Hunter of that vintage there were buttons that covered fasteners of some sort. I don't remem
Is this crackling sound normal JBP-PA at 5:22am 05.05.25 When it's in the water it might not be so bad, water supports the hull better. I'm sure there is a
Is this crackling sound normal shemandr at 5:18am 05.05.25 That's a lot of creaking. Do you want to buy that?
Tight furler Terry Cox at 4:15am 05.05.25 Is there anything I might want to do to give it a tuneup? Do you have a Hood double line system? I
Non binary boaters Leeward Rail at 2:14am 05.05.25 young men who only cared about girls, fast cars, and drinking cheap beer. As opposed to old men wh
Tight furler garymalmgren at 1:57am 05.05.25
Tight furler jssailem at 9:35pm 05.04.25 If you adjust the back stay you tighten the forestay. It is the way adjustable backstays work. Adjus
Battery recommendation - anchor windless dLj at 8:46pm 05.04.25 I like AGM's for start batteries and AGM's for my bow thruster and windlass. I prefer Lifeline AGM's
Tight furler skunther at 8:40pm 05.04.25 You may have a slack forestay. If the forestay has a lot of play this can cause the extrusion to be

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