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Making patterns for cushions brevell at 7:02am 06.15.17 Ask All Sailors 6/935 Sailrite has some excellent videos to help you make your own cushions. On one of their videos I got
oily film on the hull at intake Daddio417 at 6:48am 06.15.17 Engines and Propulsion 8/653 All excited(!) to add the new bottom paint, being a good sailor, prewashing the hull to avoid pointi
Cushion foam sources brevell at 6:20am 06.15.17 Ask All Sailors 4/961 I have been making boat and RV cushions for the past couple of years and part of the process is find
Trailer supports distance O'Day 272 HillbillyWanderer at 6:11pm 06.14.17 Ask An Oday Owner 16/2490 Proud new owner of a new to me O'Day 272 LE! I currently have a Cat22 and have been wanting a bigger
Jib and lifelines interference teqmod at 1:35pm 06.14.17 Ask All Sailors 21/5810 Hi All, as you may have seen from prior few posts I am extremely new to sailing but I am getting out
O'day 30 1979 Galley Drawer Hardware cookcwayne at 12:08pm 06.14.17 Ask An Oday Owner 3/540 Trying to replace the plastic slide(s) that hold up the drawers any suggestions ?
Jib Furler (1) MikePoplin at 11:35am 06.14.17 Ask An Oday Owner 0/356 I disassembled the furling components last Fall when I had the jib restitched; now I don't recall ho
Center board issues Flaco at 10:34am 06.14.17 Smaller Boats 8/1420 Ever since I bought my H260 I have found it very hard to pull up the swing keel. It takes all the po
Advice on loading a boat on the trailer (1) Cowpokee at 7:42am 06.14.17 Ask All Sailors 27/4301 Would anyone have an opinion on where the balance point on this boat would be? I have it on a lake t
Deja Vu All Over! NZ vs. USA Gunni at 7:21am 06.14.17 Racing 1/564 In light winds (and after a race stop for no wind) New Zealand easily defeated Sweden to win the Lou
Chart Plotter Recommendation for Hunter 310 JScho at 7:21am 06.14.17 Mid-Size Boats 9/1184 I just purchased a 2000 Hunter 310 and would like to add a chart plotter. Maybe 7" or 9". Wonderin
Questions about solar chargers AXEL at 6:31am 06.14.17 Ask All Sailors 21/1159 I'm thinking of adding a solar battery charging system to my C30. I know pretty much nothing about t
Center board pennant exit hole in cockpit CarmenK at 6:28am 06.14.17 Ask An Oday Owner 4/744 I am a new owner of an old boat--1976 O'Day 25. The good news is that the centerboard was replaced s
Yanmar 1gm rpm neutral vs under load johnm5858 at 1:10am 06.14.17 Engines and Propulsion 1/707 I heard a mechanic once say what the normal difference should be on Max Rpms between /in neutral ve
Bimini for H22 (1) newsailor130 at 8:11pm 06.13.17 Smaller Boats 1/448 Any idea where to get a Bimini for my H22 (and being able to sail with Bimini up)? Steve Gully poste
Crap Meriachee at 8:08pm 06.13.17 Ask All Sailors 23/970 There are a couple of spots in the non skid with black crap deep in the crevices. This was present w
Inverter questions redunculous at 8:01pm 06.13.17 Ask All Sailors 25/2240 I am about to take off for some extended cruising and was aiming at installing an inverter, I would
Fresh water pump causing surging Russ Gallagher at 7:27pm 06.13.17 Ask A Beneteau Owner 5/1777 Hello all. I'm brand-new to this boat and when I turn on the water pumping system I get pressure at
Spinnaker halyard roller Tally Ho at 7:23pm 06.13.17 Bigger Boats 13/3061 My O'Day 322 has a roller at the front top of the mast for the spinnaker halyard. The roller seems
Lowrance Link-8 microphone Tally Ho at 7:19pm 06.13.17 Ask All Sailors 4/1229 The mic on my Link-8 seems to flaking out and won't transmit when I key the mic. Does anyone know i

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Solar power systems rgranger at 3:37pm 12.04.23 There may be days when you will be lucky to get any power at all from your panels because of rain a
Thru Hull Replacement? Scott T-Bird at 3:26pm 12.04.23 All my thru hulls are Marelon and have been on the boat since 1999. A few are very stiff to turn, b
Recommendations for MFD and Instruments Upgrade in Hunter 30T dlochner at 3:24pm 12.04.23 Watch for sales in the beginning of the year as retailers and manufacturers look to move product for
Knot meter sensitivity to sail trim dlochner at 3:20pm 12.04.23 which style of knot meter would provide optimal feedback when adjusting sail trim? I'm not certai
Recommendations for MFD and Instruments Upgrade in Hunter 30T kappykaplan at 3:19pm 12.04.23 If you go with a Raymarine plotter, it should interface easily with your other Raymarine systems. I
Is the mast on a 1978 Cape Dory 25 slotted or through bolted to the deck plate? (2) garymalmgren at 3:16pm 12.04.23 Hi ekmar RE: pending the mast isn't shot, would be to address the minor tear by drilling a small hol
Slow Leak Bruce Conron at 2:52pm 12.04.23 Hello all. I recently purchased a 2005 Hunter 27. It seems to have developed a slow leak from a s
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 2:46pm 12.04.23 The valve is there to keep water out if something should fail- usually a hose or hose clamp. How ol
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 2:46pm 12.04.23 As a former Hunter dealer in North Carolina, I can understand it is expensive to haul out and I co
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 2:42pm 12.04.23 The valve is there to keep water out if something should fail- usually a hose or hose clamp. How ol
Hunter Sailboat Salvage Yards? Astrochip at 2:42pm 12.04.23 I too would like to know where to find salvage parts for my 1997 Hunter 376. Currently I need the p
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 2:40pm 12.04.23
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 2:36pm 12.04.23 He talks about the valve, identified as "MARELON" that is "stuck". If that is the case, I would thi
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 2:36pm 12.04.23 Can you provide a picture of the thru hull for the engine ? Given my druthers, I'd rather not leav
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 2:33pm 12.04.23
Thru Hull Replacement? Randall Schmidt at 2:30pm 12.04.23 Mild confusion in your post. You say the valve is frozen open, but you're talking about trying to
Is the mast on a 1978 Cape Dory 25 slotted or through bolted to the deck plate? (3) ekmar1991 at 2:03pm 12.04.23 Hope these pictures illustrate my question a bit better. I cannot find any images online that show t
Solar power systems dlochner at 1:25pm 12.04.23 As a general rule of thumb, count on an average of 3 times the nominal size for solar panel output.
MacGregor 27 trailer douglaskjensen@gmail.com at 1:02pm 12.04.23 Never heard of a MacGreger 27.
Hunter 36 Shower drain sump pump...keeps tripping its breaker tfox2069 at 12:21pm 12.04.23 On my 2009 H36 I'd turn on the pump as I turned on the shower, and ran it continuously until I was d

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