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Awesome weekend regatta (1) Jackdaw at 7:12pm 09.24.17 Racing 11/1063 Team BlueJ take a 1st and a 2nd in today's two WYC Fall Regatta races, and we manage to finish 3rd o
Inspecting standing rigging john6206 at 5:23pm 09.24.17 Smaller Boats 3/737 It's easy to see what is wrong - knowing what needs to be replaced requires experience that I don't
Tongue weight on trailer? jackhartjr at 5:15pm 09.24.17 Ask All Sailors 19/4336 Hi folks, I have an Oday 22, I have a chance to buy a trailer. My question is this; what is the maxi
Autopilot for Hunter 380 Tucsonsailor at 10:06am 09.24.17 Big Boats 6/1320 I just purchased a Hunter 380 and wish to put an autopilot in it. Have gotten ridiculous prices from
Yanmar 3GM30 in 1981 Hunter 30 duncanew at 3:36pm 09.23.17 The Cherubini Hunters 3/990 Does anyone know if a Yanmar 3GM30 will fit in a 1981 Hunter 30 as a replacement for the 2GM? Any p
Found close color match gelcoat sreidvt at 2:49pm 09.23.17 Ask An Oday Owner 11/2228 This may be old news to many on this forum but... In the process of rebuilding the poptop on my 1974
Is this really accurate? (1) Kermit at 2:31pm 09.23.17 Sails Call Lounge 27/1790 Seriously. Answer honestly. Is this accurate?
Vacuum Guage (1) thaeni at 10:07am 09.23.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/568 I have a 3GM30F. The photo shows the vacuum at idle. The filter (R12) is new. Does the vacuum seem h
Vacuum Guage (1) thaeni at 9:35am 09.23.17 Ask All Sailors 4/687 I have a 3gm30f. The attached photo shows the vacuum at idle. The filter is new. Does vacuum reading
Hunter 260 - Big Problems - Water Ballast? Tyler Rippel at 7:11am 09.23.17 Smaller Boats 110/23707 Water ballast - big problems! My family was staying on our 260 last night and all was fine. I woke
Keel winch drum size a real issue? Megaro76 at 6:41am 09.23.17 Catalina 22 13/1779 So from other previous posting, you may know that I am replacing the keel cable, brass pivot ball, a
Oday 23 TRAILER MEASUREMENTS gjaffess at 4:20am 09.23.17 Ask An Oday Owner 0/10 DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ODAY 23 ON A TRAILER? I NEED MEASUREMENTS TO MODIFY A MOTOR BOAT TRAILER FOR MY
'72 Oday 22 (original interior) carpet, also bilge access Love and Luck at 9:00pm 09.22.17 Ask An Oday Owner 2/557 My 1972 original interior (dinette table ' seats on port side) is carpeted, hard blue carpet really
Raw Water Pump Seal - Yanmar GM series Charles Erwin at 4:50pm 09.22.17 Engines and Propulsion 8/898 Vendors in my area do not have the water seal in the right size for these pumps. The measurements a
Mast head rigging for symmetrical kite/spinnakeron a 26S Juan Maritime at 3:09pm 09.22.17 Ask A Macgregor Owner 1/759 The fractional rig spinnaker on the 26S is too small (in my opinion) to make the whole exercise suff
Big and Long or Small and Simple? 4arch at 12:20pm 09.22.17 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/627
Newport 28 stay cable tension AKsailboater at 11:10am 09.22.17 Newport 17/1918 I recently have become the caretaker of a Newport 28. I am looking for a good starting point for th
Ideal windlass (5) All U Get at 10:43am 09.22.17 Ask All Sailors 3/1411 141126 141127 141128 141129 141130 Hi all, I finally got the windlass back aboard. We had Schaef
Steak Saver Propane Adapter jviss at 9:19am 09.22.17 Ask All Sailors 23/1442 My new vessel has a dual, 11 lb. tank propane locker, but only came with one tank, and is plumbed fo
Den Haan Trawler Lamp (1) jviss at 7:22am 09.22.17 Ask All Sailors 35/4043 Anyone else have this lamp? It's really beautiful, and bright. It really lights up the whole cabin

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New to me boat with rotting bulkhead Timm R Oday25 at 1:38pm 01.05.24 I'm not quite sure what you mean "unfastened " . As I am also a huge fan of polyurethane ,apply seve
1975 C&C 30' sailboat Anchor Light (1) rgranger at 12:26pm 01.05.24
iPad/tablet mounting kappykaplan at 12:14pm 01.05.24
so much mainsail twist on the VOR65s danstanford at 12:11pm 01.05.24 Not the best photo but close to the condition I was describing. This looks like the flat top is 75 d
so much mainsail twist on the VOR65s (1) danstanford at 12:09pm 01.05.24 222338
1975 C&C 30' sailboat Anchor Light Richard19068 at 12:02pm 01.05.24
1975 C&C 30' sailboat Anchor Light Caboteur at 11:30am 01.05.24
1975 C&C 30' sailboat Anchor Light dlochner at 9:58am 01.05.24 Yes. If it was designed as a racing boat, it would unlikely to be out cruising and anchoring. Withou
New to me boat with rotting bulkhead (1) G Newboat at 9:29am 01.05.24 I decided to follow your guys' advice and get a sheet of 1/2" marine plywood. I traced the old one,
Catalina 16.5 spinnaker PaulK at 8:46am 01.05.24 You could certainly hoist a 420 spinnaker on a Catalina 16.5, but it might be too small to function
Display engine instruments on Raymarine C120 chart plotter. BarryL at 8:41am 01.05.24 Hey, That looks great. Very clean installation. Nice job. Barry
60 best Boats 30' and under PaulK at 8:16am 01.05.24 "Comfort ratio" is a calculation that does not actually reflect how a boat really behaves in bouncy
Display engine instruments on Raymarine C120 chart plotter. (2) RoyS at 6:45am 01.05.24 Yes, the Noland rs11 worked for me. The rs11 will convert analog sensor outputs to NMEA sentences. T
Winter checkup sailme88 at 6:33am 01.05.24 I went to the lake yesterday and found the power off to the Wet Dog. It turned out to be a bad powe
Winter checkup American_Mainsail at 5:57am 01.05.24 Those Marinco fans are such a great concept but a huge pain in practice. They use a NiCad battery, s
I aim to give 100%. Will Gilmore at 2:04am 01.05.24 Does that give your son more or less leeway to perform? I'm guessing he feels a lot less pressure w
Towing options Blitz at 9:14pm 01.04.24 For what it's worth: The Boat US saltwater unlimited gold membership does pay for dock to dock tow f
Display engine instruments on Raymarine C120 chart plotter. joelm100 at 9:02pm 01.04.24 How did this go? I'm redoing my panel and thinking to go digital on the instrumentations on my 2001
Help, My Boat is Tipping Over! joelm100 at 7:57pm 01.04.24 Following up... Pulled the boat last spring for routine love. Moved the "tool closet" to the SB si
Towing options Kings Gambit at 7:50pm 01.04.24 I doubt that any towing insurance would cover (pay for) taking a boat from a safe slip, the home sli

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