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Photos Ned Ludd at 10:44am 09.06.17 Forum Help (Site Talk) 1/361 Why do my pictures rotate 90 degrees when I post them ? I save them in the format I want and when I
Communication from helm to bow Tim Musolf at 9:45am 09.06.17 Ask All Sailors 37/3157 Any suggestions for radios? Purchased set of cobra frs radios. Will not provide enough volume throug
Swing centerboard effectiveness? Tsam at 9:32am 09.06.17 Trailer Sailors 10/1331 Have a hard time determining the effect of the three foot long, 100 lbs. swing centerboard on my S-2
Boat VIN & Title Larsand at 9:32am 09.06.17 Ask An Oday Owner 4/794 Hi, Can anyone tell me how to find the date of manufacture of an Oday Javelin based on the VIN numbe
Monitoring batteries without current sensors? Ken Cross at 9:12am 09.06.17 Ask All Sailors 5/440 Is it possible to monitor battery state of charge without a current sensor? I currently just monitor
Centerboard behaviour during a broach on H23.5 (1) Arnold Lamont at 8:58am 09.06.17 Smaller Boats 10/850 Hi All, Does anyone have experience of the centre board of an H23.5 dropping back 'into the boat' d
Last summer weekend is in the books ... (1) Scott T-Bird at 7:18am 09.06.17 Ask All Sailors 16/583 140561 Barnegat Light at end of summer. Clouds bringing weather.
Weekend "Issues" Full Circle 473 at 9:33pm 09.05.17 Ask All Sailors 5/556 Overall, we had a great weekend of sailing. With a few issues. Sailing on a downwind run at 7-8 knot
Mast delimma (3) Johnnyreb at 8:06pm 09.05.17 Kittiewake 5/1105 The place where the mast is connected to has a female screw in receptacle and the mast has a flat pl
Replacement parts - MacGregor26M JP100 at 7:55pm 09.05.17 Ask A Macgregor Owner 2/588 Greetings All, Considering buying a MacGregor 26M. Since MacGregor is no longer in business, are the
Irma... slip or trailer? Kermit at 5:32pm 09.05.17 Trailer Sailors 39/2127 With Irma potentially heading to SC I feel pretty conflicted as to leaving my H260 in its slip or pu
Any Pensacola area sailors on SO? Jumpstart at 5:06pm 09.05.17 Ask All Sailors 14/574 Curious as to what your thoughts are about the approaching hurricane Irma. My grand daughter just s
Hunter 356 Table tracks The Book of Sail at 4:49pm 09.05.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 0/280 The previous owner had removed the tracks that the big table brackets go on. I have the brackets th
gas struts for pop top Submarine at 3:31pm 09.05.17 Smaller Boats 2/544 anybody installed gas struts to raise their pop top? Seems like there would be plenty of room on my
Schenker 30 modular PeterBld at 3:16pm 09.05.17 Ask All Sailors 2/355 we have the above Watermaker. Brilliant. But time to replace the membrane and we are in Vava'u, Tong
1992 Macgregor 26s: sails and motor questions (1) Russ Ward at 2:58pm 09.05.17 Ask A Macgregor Owner 9/1546 All, I recently purchased a Macgregor 26S and have a load of questions, but will stick with a few t
Tampa Boat Show postponed Ron20324 at 2:21pm 09.05.17 Ask All Sailors 9/525 MarineMax Vacations Family, The safety of our customers and team members is our number one priority
Free Sailboat Yahoo Group Christian Sailing at 2:09pm 09.05.17 Ask All Sailors 1/580 There used to be a yahoo group for people to post their free boat in an attempt to give it away but
Winter Storage Cover - 1985 Beneteau 325 Tom McM at 1:33pm 09.05.17 Ask All Sailors 18/964 Hello, I am looking for a winter storage cover for a 1985 Beneteau 325. Can anyone recommend a fabr
1975 Catalina 30 deck thickness damonnomad at 1:27pm 09.05.17 Catalina 30 0/499 I have soft spots on the fore deck between the hatch and anchor locker. I believe it was originally

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Portugal Rick Webb at 2:16pm 06.19.23 Did not seem like that long ago but having to think about it twenty years ago renting a Macgregor 26
New 170 sailor (4) rsmithfh at 2:03pm 06.19.23 TLDR I messed up my boat and I need help. So I took the boat out for the first time, in a little mo
Water Heater - Heat Exchanger Problems Hello Below at 1:57pm 06.19.23 For 10 years we had out Watts mixer value set to not mix (ie be damned, give us water as hot as it g
Batten Lengths H26 rgranger at 1:38pm 06.19.23 That will all depend on who made your sail. Best thing to do is to buy some stock and cut it to siz
Help finding the right boat rgranger at 1:37pm 06.19.23
Water Heater - Heat Exchanger Problems rgranger at 1:26pm 06.19.23 if one is so helpless as to not be able to control the temperature of the hot water outlet, being ou
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? Radio Flyer at 1:19pm 06.19.23 I need guidance on my fresh water system. The PO had a 3" x 15" PVC 'tank' plumbed into the syste
Hardware needed to attach CDI roller furling on a 1989 Catalina 22. (1) justsomeguy at 1:00pm 06.19.23 Can anyone tell me what hardware is needed to attach the roller furling drum to the stem fitting?
Shroud anchor point (1) mbaker267 at 12:56pm 06.19.23 Thanks, I thought that looked wrong. This boat does have the forward and aft shrouds. If you look at
Dockside water connection Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 12:40pm 06.19.23 They are not analogous. I posted this to another conversation about dock water connections: Fai
Help finding the right boat Don S/V ILLusion at 12:35pm 06.19.23
ZF Hurth transmission slipping Hayden Watson at 12:22pm 06.19.23 Thank you Hayden, have you done this before? do you know how intensive it is? I have not done this
Do you trailer with the motor attached? danooxnard at 11:59am 06.19.23 I trailer with my motor attached to my C22. It is a 9.9 Tohatsu and weighs about 94 pounds. I am usi
Shroud anchor point Any Sea at 11:55am 06.19.23 The short answer is it's wrong. The upper shroud should anchor to the middle chain plate shown in y
Help finding the right boat Scott T-Bird at 11:23am 06.19.23 It seems like you are comparing extremes. A Pearson 39 is a very old design that was made intention
Dockside water connection George Braun at 11:13am 06.19.23 If you have a transom shower, just T it into the cold feed. Very simple Art - how would that then
ZF Hurth transmission slipping Garester at 11:10am 06.19.23 You can also rebuild the HBW 50 for about $500. Hurth HWB 10 Transmission Rebuild dissassembly par
Oberdorfer N202M-908 Pump leaking stevenhagberg at 10:56am 06.19.23 I have a Catalina 30, 2001 hull number 6444. When I bought the boat with 560 hours on the Univeral M
Rub Rail Adventure (2) Brinky63 at 10:30am 06.19.23 Hi All, I figured I'd keep the thread going! Attached are two photos from the stern which show the
Do you trailer with the motor attached? Hayden Watson at 10:16am 06.19.23 Trailer Leaf Spring Hangers \| Trailer Suspension Hangers In truth, on the Clipper 26 I preferred t

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