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Bilge Keels - Horizon 23 Robertashie at 4:14am 05.29.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 7/1495 Hello, Can you help please? I have just purchased a road trailer originally built by RM Trailers for
Beneteau 45f5 propane locker slavanaway at 7:17pm 05.28.17 Ask A Beneteau Owner 6/1413 Me and the admiral are very serious about a 45f5 we found. The PO (previous owner) took out the buil
Forget About It For Boats RHUMB RUNNER at 4:13pm 05.28.17 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 0/1033 Found an ad for Forget about it for boats. Has anyone tried this product and is it better than KO, s
O'Day 222 forestay length? jpniewski at 4:06pm 05.28.17 Ask An Oday Owner 5/823 I just bought a new jib and CDI FF2 furler. I need to cut the plastic luff foil 12.25 inches shorter
AC Races jibes138 at 3:49pm 05.28.17 Ask All Sailors 13/824 anyone watching the AC races? Pretty amazing boats and action. Lots of lead changes. Any slight erro
Safe to fill the ballast tanks on the tailer? PropellerHead at 3:12pm 05.28.17 Smaller Boats 28/3946 I'm trying to find the water leak in my 23.5. it doesn't seem to be any of the through holes. I was
Vetus nlp 40 muffler assembly alfred bog at 2:42pm 05.28.17 Ask All Sailors 4/303 I split the 2 halves of my vetus waterlock muffler last fall to do some engine work (draincock repla
Rigid boom vang placement curious1 at 2:06pm 05.28.17 Mid-Size Boats 4/780 While out sailing my Hunter Vision32 the cotter pin holding the rigid boom vang at the Mast came out
H26 and 260 where can you sleep? jbreland at 10:49am 05.28.17 Smaller Boats 13/1397 Realistically, where can you sleep an adult on the H26 or 260. I know you can put 2 in the aft birth
Pearson 303 added new teak cockpit floor! (3) StargazerP303 at 10:40am 05.28.17 Pearson 0/1871 137053 137054 137055 Yesterday I added a new project to my vessel before my launch set for June 6th.
Hunter 260 in long beach harbor, long beach mississippi jbreland at 10:13am 05.28.17 Smaller Boats 2/353 any one on here own, or know who owns the Hunter 260 on pier 3 of long beach harbor, Long Beach Miss
Fresh water system leak Jwhy at 10:04am 05.28.17 Catalina 30 19/3029 Problem- fresh water in the starboard locker under the tank, fresh water pump cycles frequently (sev
Jib pulley -seized TheTY at 8:14am 05.28.17 Ask All Sailors 6/1164 I have a 2000 Hunter 380 and the pulley in the mast that the topping lift for the jib goes through t
what is this tri hull? (1) RussC at 8:06am 05.28.17 Ask All Sailors 3/563 We made a last minute day trip to the lake yesterday in Tweety and saw this tri zipping around in li
mysterious leak mortyd at 7:53am 05.28.17 Catalina 30 17/2491 a mysterious leak. during the winter, while my boat is on the hard, the bilge fills up, eventuall
Memorial Day Chief RA at 7:05am 05.28.17 Ask All Sailors 5/330 Take a few minutes to stop and remember the dead and missing servicemen and women on this special oc
Memorial Day weekend (1) seadaddler at 5:20am 05.28.17 Ask All Sailors 8/369 We are at Pelican Bay ' Boca Grand and lot's of Boats for sure.
423 in mast main furling (1) NYSail at 5:17am 05.28.17 Ask A Beneteau Owner 24/4096 So yesterday was first time sailing new boat which also meant first time using an in mast furling. R
23.5 Jib Sheet Cleats Tony_Furst at 4:07am 05.28.17 Smaller Boats 15/1355 Has anyone replaced the original jib sheet jam cleats with rope clutches or something else? If so wh
Finding my grandfathers boat samueljamess at 3:20am 05.28.17 Ask All Sailors 5/618 Hello everyone, my Grandfarther built the boat in the early 1970's. It has recently come to my atten

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Funny Friday!!! Will Gilmore at 1:38pm 03.27.24 e. -Will
How do you get your Batteries into the boat. shemandr at 1:12pm 03.27.24 Years ago I used the boom with a 3 part block and tackle with a cam cleat to lift a 4D out of the la
1978 Com-Pac 16: soft between the bunks? jssailem at 12:35pm 03.27.24
Welding Flaw? LakeShark at 12:22pm 03.27.24 @dLj & @thinwater thanks again for your help and the picture. Contacting the distributor I am goin
How do you get your Batteries into the boat. Kings Gambit at 12:04pm 03.27.24 Yesterday and the day before I swapped out my four 6V flooded cell deep-cycles for new ones. I hung
How do you get your Batteries into the boat. Terry Cox at 11:32am 03.27.24 Replaced our two twelve year old 8D AGM deep cycle batteries (160 pounds each) with new sealed for l
Stem Fitting Tom J at 11:29am 03.27.24 Good find. It appears that the angle of the fitting doesn't match the angle of the forestay, so tha
Welding Flaw? (1) thinwater at 10:36am 03.27.24 Not that unusual. That white is at the edge of the heat affected zone. It was probably many colors b
TELL ME ABOUT SURVEYORS jssailem at 10:08am 03.27.24 It is an oldie but I thought goodie.
TELL ME ABOUT SURVEYORS kappykaplan at 9:39am 03.27.24 Nice read, John. Tks for sharing. :beer:
Funny Friday!!! (1) leo310 at 9:09am 03.27.24 223804
Tiller pilot ? Raymarine Alan Gomes at 8:25am 03.27.24 Aw man, that's rough. I guess I'm lucky, my ST2000+ is over 10 years old and still rocking. The ST
Backstay Connection to Mast Joe at 8:16am 03.27.24 Wow those pics are confusing. One pick looks like it has twin backstays.. perhaps the problem is wi
Tiller pilot ? Raymarine Joe at 7:57am 03.27.24 I have had the Simrad TP22 as a replacement for my old Autohelm 1000, which was the Raymarine's "dad
Boom (4) rgranger at 7:39am 03.27.24 A longer boom can be cut back with a hacksaw and the end cap reattached with a rivet gun. Salvage
Assortment of cheap fixes on Cat 22 rgranger at 7:27am 03.27.24 Just make sure you get one that has a break. If (when) your hand leaves the handle while under load
Fridge: 12V or DC FastOlson at 7:24am 03.27.24 When set just right, the beer has an ice sludge on it. :beer: Just kidding you a little bit.... bu
Boom shemandr at 6:41am 03.27.24 Yup! When a Capri 22 went up on the causeway rocks I was talking with the Sea Tow guys who were try
Boom JamesG161 at 6:22am 03.27.24 Call SeaTow. They run a salvage business too. Jim...
RECOMMISSIONING THE FRESH WATER SYSTEM JamesG161 at 6:18am 03.27.24 vinegar combine to make chlorine gas. Chlorine Gas will disinfect your nose. :laugh: Jim...

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