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Black or White Gauges ? RAD88 at 11:39pm 03.23.17 Ask All Sailors 5/527 Well I am finally getting around to installing a dash in my sailboat cockpit for my little Yanmar en
Experienced Tampa Bay/Clearwater sailor needed. Diybrad at 10:47pm 03.23.17 Ask All Sailors 11/834 Long story short, my wife and I took sailing lessons in October of 2015, bought a Catalina 30 a mont
Easiest teak treatment??? lost soul at 8:43pm 03.23.17 Ask All Sailors 25/1969 I have a 34 foot sailboat with teak toe rails, coamings, and grab rails, and a few other trim items.
Help choosing an adhesive Sailm8 at 7:36pm 03.23.17 Ask All Sailors 3/821 About 6 feet of my rub rail was damaged and needs to be glued back on to the plastic U-channel over
Cat 25 anchor locker leak ? C22BC at 7:05pm 03.23.17 Ask A Catalina Owner 5/1760 I Have a leak in my anchor locker seems to be coming mainly from where both sides of the boat meet i
Main sheet control on H27 finefurn at 6:34pm 03.23.17 Ask A Hunter Owner 13/2501 I recently bought a 1984 H27. The PO had installed a swivel jam cleat that was severely undersized t
This is how you back a boat into the water! Brian D at 3:28pm 03.23.17 Sails Call Lounge 11/800 I'm just saying. I9gG-YPwtO0
Location of hull ID on Hunter 335 john986 at 1:08pm 03.23.17 Mid-Size Boats 4/1401 I just purchased in 1993 Hunter 335 and my insurance company wants me to take a picture of the hull
Trailer the boat and the trailer? daytripper at 12:47pm 03.23.17 Catalina 22 16/1514 Hello - I purchased a beautiful 1985 Standard Rig Fin Keel and need to get her from Rhode Island to
A Question of Balance (1) LakeShark at 10:20am 03.23.17 Catalina 22 39/3993 Ok fellas here is my dilemma and forgive me as I am not so great at the math. I have a C22 wing kee
What's different- Raystar 125 to Raystar150? DougM at 7:02am 03.23.17 Ask All Sailors 4/1669 Does anyone have any idea what the significant differences are between the Raystar 125 and the newer
Hose cuffs: question for H31 ownwers. IH82BL8 at 2:23am 03.23.17 Mid-Size Boats 15/1849 The cockpit drains, galley sink drain, head sink drain and anchor locker drain all use hose cuffs wi
Where does your head drain? TooCoys at 1:55am 03.23.17 The Cherubini Hunters 46/5866 Not the head itself, but the drain in the floor? The drain that would allow shower water to drain ou
Retrieving a Ring you dropped down the Sink jaybarr at 10:00pm 03.22.17 Sails Call Lounge 5/1056 Hey, guys, this is pretty off-topic but a useful one. Some of you guys may have come across this sit
Topside Voids Along Galley Cover (1) drobisch at 9:37pm 03.22.17 Catalina 30 2/545 134526 All I am looking at a 1988 Catalina 30 Mark II. I noticed there are some voids in the gel co
27 trailer sjburk1 at 7:30pm 03.22.17 Mid-Size Boats 9/4796 Looking for a trailer for a 1983 27 TR, fin keel. Anyone have any idea where to find a used one in
new control device gettinthere at 4:48pm 03.22.17 Musings With Maine Sail 4/1588 RC You know anything about this... http://arduinoalternatorregulator.blogspot.com
Raytheon GPS Antenna (rail mount) rfrye1 at 3:19pm 03.22.17 Ask All Sailors 3/667 The mushroom shaped rail mount antenna for my (1998?) ST-50 Raytheon system finally succumbed to the
Electrodyne self exciting alternator (1) capta at 2:15pm 03.22.17 Ask All Sailors 13/2944 We have just pulled this baby out of storage and installed it. Seems to work OK, but when the engine
SLA Charge and Equalize LeslieTroyer at 2:05pm 03.22.17 Musings With Maine Sail 8/1396 I wouldn't choose a Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) battery by choice - but that is what came with the boat -

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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
Simpson Lawrence Windlass Help joelm100 at 7:49pm 01.04.24 think. Occasionally my breaker will trip (not the one on the panel but the big one under my na
I aim to give 100%. MikeHoncho at 7:20pm 01.04.24 I prefer the word "best" its more subjective....in a sentence I routinely deliver to my 22y/o son...
Its funny Friday! leo310 at 5:54pm 01.04.24 Joe tripped on the cat
Winter checkup Ralph Johnstone at 2:48pm 01.04.24 and found the power off to the Wet Dog. I take it you keep your dog on board with a wire attache
Furling Line Rigging kappykaplan at 2:41pm 01.04.24 How should I tie-off the line, with a simple cleat? Yes.
Furling Line Rigging tailboom at 2:39pm 01.04.24 The turning block the line is going through is to turn the halyards from the mast step back to the
Best Chart Plotter Solution Screen Saver at 1:05pm 01.04.24 There are a couple of options. You need to know what the output is of any device you wish to connect
Re-rigging without mast removal. Screen Saver at 12:48pm 01.04.24 Yea agreed there is mental stress. However there is a lot less work. Plus the rigger/company doesnt

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