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Desperate for WIRING diagram Perkins 4108 on 1983 Beneteau First 38.5 Oscar G Duarte at 7:51am 10.01.17 Ask A Beneteau Owner 9/17338 Hello! I am desperately looking for a wiring diagram for my Perkins 4108M marine engine s/n 3711299
boom height (Capri 18) john6206 at 7:26am 10.01.17 Smaller Boats 7/3779 Hi All - When I raise my sail all the way and the luff is taut, the gooseneck fitting falls in the
Irwin 38 Citation Mast Waandderer at 8:02pm 09.30.17 Irwin 1/803 Hello All, I have had some bad luck. I lost my mast and some standing rigging in hurricane Harvey.
Cockpit cushions - cleaning the interior foam Reverie2016 at 7:56pm 09.30.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/735 Hunter 36-2008 - our cockpit cushions are in great shape but look terrible as the interior foam is a
Yanmar 2GM20F, Leaking Antifreeze, Heat Exchanger SirMichael at 7:32pm 09.30.17 Engines and Propulsion 10/6014 A couple weeks ago, I had the temp alarm go off on my 88 Hunter 28.5 with a 2GM20F. Found the anti
Thieves wrecked my front hatch - Mac 26S sKuijt at 6:21pm 09.30.17 Ask All Sailors 8/830 Im no good with fibreglass and my front hatch was broken into and is now trash (91 26S). Where can I
Hunter 25.5 forstay chain plate attachment? Crazy Dave Condon at 6:06pm 09.30.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/352 If anyone ever replaced or took off the forestay chainplate, I need a good description how this is a
Electrical Panel Issues MitchK at 4:49pm 09.30.17 Newport 9/2118 Continuing with the ongoing sage of our new N28-2, another issues has come to light. Fortunately, I
How best to use old style mainsheet traveller? Ginger Baker at 3:37pm 09.30.17 Ask All Sailors 12/3775 I have a 1984 O'Day 26 with the original T-track/pin stop traveller. The car has a spring loaded pi
New Catalina 25 owner, looking for sails Liz Ingalls at 3:26pm 09.30.17 Ask A Catalina Owner 5/793 Hello! I hope all is well. My name is Liz and I am 22. I just got my hands on a 1992 Catalina 25.
Genset operation NYSail at 2:16pm 09.30.17 Ask All Sailors 12/713 so I finally got around this weekend to trying to start my Onan 5.5kw genset.all systems go, cranks
Hunter 33 mast height dougmroberts at 12:58pm 09.30.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 0/541 I would like to shorten my mast on my Hunter 33. The mast has the furling mainsail system. Has anyon
Dripless Shaft Seal leaks jonelli at 11:32am 09.30.17 Catalina 30 57/10364 This came installed from the previous owner before I purchased the boat a few years ago. I underst
Keel Winche ChuckTurner at 10:10am 09.30.17 Ask A Catalina Owner 0/356 Has anyone ever installed a DC electric winch to raise and lower the keel on a C25?
Preferred plumbing for engine / water heater anitfreeze loop Hayden Watson at 9:42am 09.30.17 Ask All Sailors 5/457 How is your water heater connected to the engine? As far as I know there are two main ways to plumb
VHF radio use from shore is now legal but limited Ken Cross at 8:32am 09.30.17 Ask All Sailors 3/451 I keep reading that we can't use our VHF radios from shore, but now we can. It's limited to docks an
Yanmar B-1 Engine Display Panel UPDATE (4) dsaniti at 7:59am 09.30.17 Mid-Size Boats 7/1952 141365 141366 141367 141368 Wanted to post these pictured of the panel that I made to update the Hun
Fresh Water Tank Vent Location? jviss at 6:59am 09.30.17 Tartan 29/10576 The fresh water stopped, even though the gauge read nearly full; so I thought my gauge was not worki
South Florida Sailors - Pompano area agprice22 at 5:00am 09.30.17 Ask All Sailors 0/200
O'Day 23-1 Tacking And Handling sreidvt at 8:56pm 09.29.17 Ask An Oday Owner 7/1418 I am (hopefully) close to done restoring a 1974 23-1 that should splash next summer. I bought it in

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Engine vibration universal m3-20 elcojo2 at 6:44am 06.22.23 Ralph, Thanks for the reply. I don't want to touch change anything that is working correctly, the p
Oday 25 Swing Keel Rigging Project_Mayhem at 6:29am 06.22.23 The one thing you'll learn about D and R is that the prices are good enough that after you've shoppe
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? jviss at 6:19am 06.22.23 .75 liter accumulator That's not much of an accumulator. I have a Groco 2 gallon accumulator, whi
New (to me) 37 Legend owner with simple question? JavaMan at 6:17am 06.22.23 As @kappykaplan highlights, that picture was poached and I don't know what boat it is from. I just
Beneteau Grey Water system dLj at 6:16am 06.22.23 Mea culpa, we sold our sailboat and switched to the dark side but hope sailboatowners.com can come
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? jviss at 6:13am 06.22.23 Deep six it. The PVC tank does not have a bladder and so the water is in contact with the air. Wa
Oceangate Titan jviss at 6:03am 06.22.23 It is scary. It disturbs me, thinking of the passengers. ty, and the system didn't have much of any
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? JBP-PA at 5:47am 06.22.23 It's nice not having the pump cycle for a glass of water, but maybe that is a stupid reason to keep
Help finding the right boat jssailem at 5:39am 06.22.23 I think we had over 20 people in the cockpit of a Catalina 320. Of course there was a few adult bev
1975 C&C 33 - Mk 1: Compromised Deck Needs Help - Suggestions Please? jssailem at 5:35am 06.22.23
Oceangate Titan Rick Webb at 5:33am 06.22.23 My claustrophobia meter pegged when a previous sightseer mentioned that even if they were able to su
Oceangate Titan kappykaplan at 4:40am 06.22.23 jviss, tks for posting this. I've been following the story in the news. Very scary.
Hurricane season storage xavpil at 4:05am 06.22.23 Those of us who live in Florida live with a bi-polar reality. The State passed a law that bars mos
Hurricane season storage dlochner at 3:56am 06.22.23 If your plans are to sail the Caribbean for multiple seasons, bringing the boat back to the US durin
Captiva 240 bbriley at 2:57am 06.22.23 I have a 1986 Captiva 240 that I've owned since new. Glad to help any way I can.
Yanmar YSB 12 Hard to Start garymalmgren at 1:47am 06.22.23 Hi Chris. That was my first post. 5 years ago. I am very pleased that it helped you out. One more l
New (to me) 37 Legend owner with simple question? Marmalade at 11:56pm 06.21.23 As @kappykaplan highlights, that picture was poached and I don't know what boat it is from. I just
Some KIB well spent (6) Ralph Johnstone at 10:25pm 06.21.23 So much easier to keep clean when it's SS. 217130 217131 217132 217133 217134
Dockside water connection artboas at 9:20pm 06.21.23 Well, yea, if my house sinks I'll let you know. :) Wow! Lots of people climbing all over this. He
Engine vibration universal m3-20 Ralph Johnstone at 9:14pm 06.21.23 Will a bad injector be causing this problem of rough idle and work OK? around 1300 to 1500 rpm? N

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