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Stuffer box maintenance question Jimongee at 1:03pm 06.29.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/367 I have a 2002 356. It has never seen salt weather. We sail every summer on the Great Lakes. I have
Quarter berth mattress pattern H31 1986 SeanP at 10:50am 06.29.17 Mid-Size Boats 17/1904 Hi there, I have found good pricing on mattresses from Portland Mattresses in Maine. The challenge
Keep calm, it's your anniversary :-O Justin_NSA at 8:21am 06.29.17 Ask All Sailors 18/654 It's our 38th wedding anniversary tomorrow! Being the romantic that I am, I'd like to get a set of 4
Unsafe At Any Speed - No, Not the Corvair (13) Maine Sail at 6:54am 06.29.17 Ask All Sailors 68/6575 I am now on day four of my cool down after last Saturday nights adventure. I say cool down because i
Adding Batteries smokey73 at 6:27am 06.29.17 Ask All Sailors 2/398 Background (1994 Hunter 40.5): I am considering adding capacity to my house bank. Right now I have
Schaffer 750 furler hewebb at 5:25am 06.29.17 Ask All Sailors 1/419 Learned that Schaffer does not have parts for furlers that are no longer manufactured. A friend nee
re-powering a 280 Jason F at 9:22pm 06.28.17 Mid-Size Boats 6/831 Greetings and salutations, I think I remember reading someplace that the 280 can fit a Yanmar 2GM in
Dave's not here (1) Meriachee at 8:43pm 06.28.17 Sails Call Lounge 14/1755 Saw this on the interweb. Whoever this Dave guy is, I'm thinking that he's trying to pigeonhole us a
installed new Raymarine es127 - it shuts down when under sail Captpete12 at 7:54pm 06.28.17 Ask A Beneteau Owner 7/1025 My new es127 MFD shuts down when under sail for two hours or so. i checked with Raymarine and they
Wanting to get a roller furling for my Catalina 25... which one do ya'll recommend? BTWill83 at 7:42pm 06.28.17 Mid-Size Boats 6/4472 I've already got the sail FOR the roller furling that was on the boat and not working. Looking to ge
slippery deck mortyd at 5:55pm 06.28.17 Catalina 30 6/926 the textured cockpit deck on my catalina 30 mkii has gotten a bit slippery with no obvious cause. wh
Stepped my mast in 15 minutes piedpiperIII at 5:14pm 06.28.17 Catalina 22 16/1025 My boat is in my drive so I can do some work. I needed my mast up so I timed myself. From secured fr
Freshwater Tank flush Seute Deern at 2:11pm 06.28.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 13/1089 Hello, after I bought my 2005 Hunter 38, I was told the fresh water tank was barely used at all. So
Rudder Donal Rice at 12:23pm 06.28.17 Big Boats 4/641 Hi All, I recently purchased a 340, year 2000. The rudder is very stiff, I have isolated the steerin
Genoa Block (2) Capri at 12:16pm 06.28.17 Ask An Oday Owner 7/1014 138050 138051 Hi, just purchased my '81 22 foot boat last year and wonder what the difference betwee
Heat exchanger paulj at 10:55am 06.28.17 Catalina 310 12/1599 I am thinking to relocate the heat exchanger............:hook2:
Just for FUN timebandit at 10:12am 06.28.17 Ask A Macgregor Owner 0/463 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/volvooceanrace/interactives/sailing/index.html Don't speed to much
Fix for Hunter Starter Wiring Harness issue (3) SirMichael at 9:42am 06.28.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/3625 I found a number of posts on the forums for a wiring issue that Hunter had with the starter wiring,
Mysterious Storage Compartment (2) Capri at 9:28am 06.28.17 Ask An Oday Owner 16/1273 138031 138032 Hi. I have had a '81 22 foot for a year. Under the v berth cushions there is a wooden
VHF cable gettinthere at 9:27am 06.28.17 Ask All Sailors 11/801 I need to replace some VHF antenna cable. I have a new piece of coax that I think is good for the ap

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Experience with Campbell Sailor propeller on a Hunter 36 (2) PNWE36 at 3:14pm 02.18.24 Hello John, Thank you for your reply. I am confident the coupler etc has been assembled properly. No
Hunter 23.5 wisker pole Crazy Dave Condon at 3:10pm 02.18.24 How long will the track be? Have you thought of attaching a base plate with welded ring as an alter
Black Butyl tape? Project_Mayhem at 2:56pm 02.18.24 I just remembered that there have been a number of people using just VHB to secure windows. There's
Portlight hatches for 1981 ODay 34 Project_Mayhem at 2:46pm 02.18.24 What's the issue with the hatches? Parts are available for most hatches and there are companies out
Your experience with propane outboards? john6206 at 2:45pm 02.18.24 @SkookumZac what kind of tan do you have? the ignuk gas growler says not to use it horizontally.
Western L.I. Sound marina PaulK at 2:27pm 02.18.24 Transporting overland may be quite pricey. Is the mast down already? Is there a reason you don't wa
stripping cetol from teak MitchM at 1:54pm 02.18.24 I have some Japanese cabinet scrapers, 3 straight blade and 2 curved blade, that were
Cradle: transport 4000nm? Sell, buy/build new? Sail 365/yr and stay off the hard? MitchM at 1:41pm 02.18.24 our yacht club allows sailboats on cradles to store mast-up . if a boat is on jack
No holding tank options? smokey73 at 1:26pm 02.18.24 I am not at all bemused and think the precautions are appropriate. Of course as they say for lockin
Popeye the Sailor's Story kappykaplan at 1:17pm 02.18.24 And The Real 'Popeye the Sailor' Was Actually a Hard-Drinking Bar Brawler with a Heart of Gold \| Mil
Popeye the Sailor's Story kappykaplan at 1:15pm 02.18.24 Popeye the Sailor was based on this real person \| We Are The Mighty
Popeye the Sailor's Story (1) Will Gilmore at 1:10pm 02.18.24 :plus: https://gifdb.com/images/high/popeye-498-x-393-gif-36dtssb5w1f129vx.gif -Will
No holding tank options? (1) captain69 at 1:04pm 02.18.24
No holding tank options? captain69 at 12:54pm 02.18.24
Experience with Campbell Sailor propeller on a Hunter 36 jssailem at 12:47pm 02.18.24 Dirk. I just read again your posts about the vibration. From the descriptions, it sounds like you
Tach replacement options for Volvo MD11D (1) smokey73 at 12:09pm 02.18.24 Here are the installation instructions. If I recall correctly someone else does the manufacturing a
Tach replacement options for Volvo MD11D smokey73 at 11:38am 02.18.24 By an induction tach do you mean one that senses the passing of the "teeth" on the flywheel? If so,
No holding tank options? smokey73 at 11:23am 02.18.24 OK. So no one here, who is brave enough to write about it, will admit to ever having peed in the oc
No holding tank options? dlochner at 11:21am 02.18.24 OK. So no one here, who is brave enough to write about it, will admit to ever having peed in the oc
No holding tank options? smokey73 at 11:20am 02.18.24 A qualification about what has been put into the tank is that if you put oil or some other prohibite

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