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O'Day 23 Spinnaker Pole Black Squall at 9:54am 03.30.18 Ask An Oday Owner 3/618 I'm rigging the O'Day 23 I purchased last summer to fly a spinnaker. Can anyone provide details on t
Couple's Dream Trip --- and keels falling off rgranger at 9:40am 03.30.18 Ask All Sailors 19/2519 We all probably remember the recent story of the couple who ran aground on their first landfall of t
Quick Rider R3 Windlass Experience (2) geoffschultz at 9:35am 03.30.18 Ask All Sailors 0/602 I'm anchored at Lighthouse Reef in Belize, which is about 30 miles offshore ' my Muir VR1000R012E wi
Annual Costs for Club Racer (1) Jumpstart at 9:11am 03.30.18 Ask All Sailors 47/3772 I just did my taxes and my wife showed me the annual costs for our 30 foot J/92. Yikes! I consider o
New Boat! Snarkhunter at 8:50am 03.30.18 Catalina 275 20/3272 I ordered one at the Annapolis Boat Show last fall and have a tentative April 16 delivery date--gett
Removing Old Polyglow.....here is a good solution! Pat at 8:24am 03.30.18 Ask All Sailors 7/2242 We bought the 272 LE in Dec. of 1986.....In the spring of 1987 someone suggested we use polyglow on
Replacing Chainplates (2) Jim 5757 at 8:11am 03.30.18 Ask All Sailors 7/1973 I've finally decided it's time to replace the 45 year old chainplates on our Morgan 28OI. These are
Where to connect the negative solar cable? (1) onlinelee at 5:24am 03.30.18 Ask All Sailors 2/524 Hi Friends, Im just about to do my first solar install and hoped you guys could confirm what I thin
1984 Beneteau First 32 Ron Toivonen at 4:58am 03.30.18 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/976 Does anyone have a manual for a Beneteau First 32 they are willing to share or know where I can find
V berth insert for Hunter 30T Cpt.Rog at 4:41pm 03.29.18 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/851 Hi guys, I bought a Hunter 30T and found out that the V berth insert was missing. I know this is a
Egg mysteries Macboy at 4:34pm 03.29.18 Ask All Sailors 45/3315 We have an eight year old and a five year old who took it upon themselves to dye about five dozen ea
Agony... Prepare to wince rgranger at 1:24pm 03.29.18 Ask All Sailors 16/1137 This is a compilation of sailing crashes... 0F31fFLf5aw
Floatation of wet foam fritz3000g at 12:28pm 03.29.18 Ask A Macgregor Owner 70/9631 Hi all, I didn't get a response on another forum and wondered if you smart folks know. Is there an
Spring sailing break (3) RussC at 10:27am 03.29.18 Ask All Sailors 6/424 We're at least getting a couple days of spring. near 70 temps left no reason not to take our little*
Refrigeration issues VisionPNW at 10:20am 03.29.18 Ask All Sailors 5/512 On my 1990 Vision 32, I have a Danfoss BD2.5 compressor running R12 with some cooling issues. The c
Poking the Bear - a.k.a. Lets talk anchors rgranger at 8:33am 03.29.18 Ask All Sailors 31/2055 Hey all I ran across this interesting article on anchors and thought I would share... http://www.y
Only in Minnesota (1) Jackdaw at 7:37am 03.29.18 Ask All Sailors 12/753 Yesterday. Sailing and ice fishing at the same time.
H340 Battery upgrade and relocation (2) bamabaxter at 6:01am 03.29.18 Big Boats 12/2515 After getting some good ideas based on other people modifications here, I decided to upgrade electri
H23.5 and towing capacity Chris Flanagan at 5:58am 03.29.18 Smaller Boats 31/2040 I bought a 1993 H235 a couple years ago and have been towing with a 2012 Ford Escape with a tow pack
bimini top Sandy Seas at 5:32am 03.29.18 Ask A Macgregor Owner 5/1276 Hello, I recently bought a 1993 Macgregor 26s. I want to buy and install a bimini top for it. Any su

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Fuel locker and propane Timm R Oday25 at 7:18am 02.20.24 Good morning . It appears that your current setup will work quite well.I've also faced the thought o
Western L.I. Sound marina shemandr at 6:54am 02.20.24
Portlight hatches for 1981 ODay 34 dlochner at 6:20am 02.20.24 If the current ports are not opening ports, consider replacing them with opening ports. More ventila
Western L.I. Sound marina JCH4 at 5:21am 02.20.24 In my experience I would avoid City Island. Why?
WINDLASS dlochner at 4:50am 02.20.24 Im contemplating a 33lb Nordstar galvanized Bruce with chain and rope, waters will be the Bahamas.
Hunter 23.5 wisker pole Crazy Dave Condon at 4:44am 02.20.24
Bang! Bang! What would you have done? (1) Will Gilmore at 4:39am 02.20.24 That guy must have been wronged by that bouy. Maybe it slept with his wife, or she slept with David
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH A DOMETIC Dual Zone Portable Refrigerator and Freezer, Powered by AC/DC or Solar east coaster at 2:53am 02.20.24 Thank you for the info.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH A DOMETIC Dual Zone Portable Refrigerator and Freezer, Powered by AC/DC or Solar Leeward Rail at 11:56pm 02.19.24 The more common design type I mentioned. FWIW, The Engel units use a Japanese Sawafuji swing motor,
YANMAR replacement The_Sailing_Pelican at 10:16pm 02.19.24 If money is tight you could throw an outboard or trolling motor on the back as a temporary solutio
WINDLASS The_Sailing_Pelican at 9:53pm 02.19.24 So you have a 30ft 10K Displacement hull mast head sloop... What waters do you want to sail/anchor
YANMAR replacement dlochner at 7:04pm 02.19.24 BTW, There are probably plenty of owners of raw water cooled Yanmar En gines that haven't had a pr
2004 Catalina 320 Davidasailor26 at 6:49pm 02.19.24
YANMAR replacement Blitz at 6:41pm 02.19.24 BTW, There are probably plenty of owners of raw water cooled Yanmar En gines that haven't had a pro
2004 Catalina 320 (1) Calif. Ted at 6:38pm 02.19.24 If the white breaker on left of panel labeled charger/inverter is on, and it's plugged into shorepow
Western L.I. Sound marina shemandr at 6:17pm 02.19.24 My 8th grade science teacher considered the World's Fair Marina the ideal place to live (Aboard).
Bang! Bang! What would you have done? JRacer at 6:07pm 02.19.24 Black Hawk Down: Pilla : Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us! Sgt Dann
2004 Catalina 320 Don S/V ILLusion at 6:07pm 02.19.24 Does anybody know if this boat automatically charges while on shore power? probably. One simply w
2004 Catalina 320 shemandr at 6:05pm 02.19.24 Hoo Boy!
Bang! Bang! What would you have done? Project_Mayhem at 4:50pm 02.19.24 Someone might find their drain plug missing in the near future...

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