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New to me O'day25, need help getting her right for sailing. DRAo'day25 at 5:40pm 12.26.17 Ask An Oday Owner 45/3861 First off I have bought a beautiful O'day25CB and I love her. I am new (as in never have) to sailing
SailCare service Jacomo Sailor at 5:23pm 12.26.17 Catalina 22 11/1387 I know many of you here also belong to the Catalina22 facebook group, but I'm sure there's plenty he
Screw on Boom Vang Hound (1) kclancy at 3:12pm 12.26.17 Catalina 22 19/2198 Hi All, I am trying to remove the hound from my mast. I am changing out the mast step. I can't se
Companionway Springs - Breaking Often Kirsten at 12:16pm 12.26.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 4/801 Hi - I have a Hunter 45' CC and am having to replace the companionway hatch springs every 1.5 years
322 Stove Mod to fit Microwave The Tanqueray at 11:40am 12.26.17 Bigger Boats 5/1007 In decades of boat ownership, I never used an oven. On a 322 I couldn't find a good spot for a micro
Boston 1958: John Alden Design office. (9) TomY at 10:53am 12.26.17 Alden General Chat 2/2035
Testing deep cycle battery capacity MitchK at 9:55am 12.26.17 Newport 10/2367 Hi all, Got another question in regards to batteries for this learned group. As I have posted b
Introduction and Happy Holidays! sailingla at 9:44am 12.26.17 Ask All Sailors 15/1168 Best holiday wishes to all you sailors. I'd like to start off saying that if it wasn't for this foru
Westerbeke Engine Mount Bracket rlettie4 at 9:14am 12.26.17 Ask A Beneteau Owner 9/1075 I am looking for the left front engine mount bracket (part #44130) for a Weserbeke 30B. So far I ca
Free Sailbags Warren Milberg at 8:39am 12.26.17 Digital Dumpster Dive -- FREE Gear 2/1886 I'd like to give away 2 sailbags for the price of postage, probably $15 or so. One is new, bright b
DYWER OR Z SPAR? HighCs123 at 7:57am 12.26.17 Ask An Oday Owner 5/956 How can i identify which mast i have on my O'day 222? I just picked this boat up and i'd like to r
Leaking Lexan Main Hatch Stroke2017 at 7:51am 12.26.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/813 I just purchased Capt Lucky's 26.5 and am currently doing the "fix the stuff" prior to the spring to
Our third decade capta at 7:24am 12.26.17 Ask All Sailors 3/508 How interesting to put faces to the names. Thank you and may 2018 be the best year of your lives, so
What could cause this? (3) pateco at 7:11am 12.26.17 Engines and Propulsion 30/5087 So, two weekends ago while we were motoring south down the ICW on our way to the Fort Lauderdale Win
Buy Tiller Pilot fritz3000g at 6:14am 12.26.17 Ask A Macgregor Owner 26/4257 I'm thinking of buying an old Autohelm tiller pilot for a really good price. My question is - if it
Keel Winch ChileanJK at 5:21am 12.26.17 Catalina 22 5/1277 Last weekend I put the boat for the first time in the water and took a ride on the lake just motorin
Seamanship - Line handling Will Gilmore at 4:22am 12.26.17 Ask All Sailors 28/2827 I wanted to share this video and technique from the Annapolis Performance Sailing Web site ://www.ap
Why is my Genoa so hard to hoist? (1) onlinelee at 11:35pm 12.25.17 Ask All Sailors 23/5469 Hi friends, Happy Christmas one and all:-) The tension required to hoist my Genoa is truly too much
Mystery item on the Mast (1) hookway at 9:02pm 12.25.17 Ask A Beneteau Owner 3/1805
Bow cleats, 29.5 Odyssey lll at 3:50pm 12.25.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/449 Has anyone installed bow cleats on the deck. The factory installed cleats are in the anchor locker '

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Reading the SI's shemandr at 2:19pm 08.09.24 Competitors should definitely read the SI's! But I'm not killing these gals for several reasons:
Backstay Split Rigging? lrogers57 at 2:00pm 08.09.24 The mast does not have a hole for that weird end, the mast has a clevis pin I think i understand
Backstay Split Rigging? (2) lrogers57 at 1:48pm 08.09.24 In that case looking at your pic 8854, the longer of the 3 cables, the one with the tulip shape end
Solar Voltage dlochner at 1:43pm 08.09.24 Regarding the above link, we are talking about if fuse on the input side of the controller can prot
Solar Voltage JoeWhite at 1:39pm 08.09.24 Regarding the above link, we are talking about if fuse on the input side of the controller can prote
Backstay Split Rigging? (1) Claude L.-Auger at 1:19pm 08.09.24 The backstay is a split design, there are 2 chainplates to tie too at the stern. The problem i have
Reading the SI's JRacer at 1:02pm 08.09.24 Yeah, GJ wasn't paying attention either. And, not the first time that boats have "followed the leade
Backstay Split Rigging? lrogers57 at 12:42pm 08.09.24 Not familiar with your boat but it does look like the cable on your picture 8840 is your backstay.
New to me 216 - Cabin Seal - Deck Rot / Repair dmax at 12:37pm 08.09.24 You can use a vacuum pump, you need to leave it running for a while (hours). Works best when the dec
Backstay Split Rigging? lrogers57 at 12:34pm 08.09.24 My lower shrouds (on a Catalina Capri 22, Selden mast) have that end on them and they pass through
Backstay Split Rigging? lrogers57 at 12:33pm 08.09.24 The two short, and possibly smaller gauge wires, mount to two holes on the plate with u shaped conn
New to me 216 - Cabin Seal - Deck Rot / Repair Adam.Butler636 at 12:29pm 08.09.24 Appreciate the intel. I did hold my wet dry vac on it for a while and have been extreamly careful t
Reading the SI's Davidasailor26 at 12:25pm 08.09.24
What is this thing? Stu Jackson at 12:20pm 08.09.24 No, except that the Link 2000R has battery monitoring features, like Amp-hour counting, etc. I sho
Solar Voltage American_Mainsail at 12:10pm 08.09.24
New to me 216 - Cabin Seal - Deck Rot / Repair dmax at 12:08pm 08.09.24 You're going to want to get all of the water out of there before you start doing any kind of repair.
Concerned about keel bolt of Siren 17 Timm R Oday25 at 11:45am 08.09.24 Removing the pivot bolt , will require pulling the boat .. On every boat I've ever worked on , once
Small brass screw jssailem at 11:09am 08.09.24 I'll take a real close look at everything when I de-rig for winter. I might be worthwhile to take
Stepping a mast on a Hunter 33 Claude L.-Auger at 11:05am 08.09.24 Taking a mast down or up is relatively simple. Double spreaders and B & R rigging make it a little b
Small brass screw Johnb at 11:04am 08.09.24 If that brass screw is actually bronze then it could have come from the sail head reinforcing plate.

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