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Bored Winter Sailors...Graphic Challenge (2) BlowMeAway at 4:31pm 02.21.16 Ask All Sailors 33/2115 Hello Fellow Bored, Winterized, Sailors, with graphic art experience... I'd like to offer a challeng
Good Old Boat Windtherapy at 4:22pm 02.21.16 Ask An Oday Owner 7/1154 Got my Good Old Boat March/April yesterday. Read through it and found two things that came into que
Westerbeke 10-2 won't start cbourne200 at 3:48pm 02.21.16 Engines and Propulsion 33/7643 Make that Westerbeke 10-2 - can't find a way to change Subject... 72 yesterday. Plans to spend aft*
vinyl windshield repair sailsail at 2:59pm 02.21.16 Ask All Sailors 2/559 we need to repair two slits in our vinyl windshield.....and also add a piece of vinyl to the existin
Aluminum Anodes Alec at 2:34pm 02.21.16 Engines and Propulsion 12/3715 I recently moved my boat to a new marina where the water is brackish and it seemed logical to switch
Solar panel (5) Deleted member 117556 at 2:13pm 02.21.16 Catalina 310 22/6346 Several months ago I posted a question about solar vs a generator and got plenty of opinions which i
Engine Instrument Pod Replaceme Jtacqua at 1:19pm 02.21.16 Catalina 310 6/3587 Hello all, Hope 2016 brings you a happy and safe boating season. This past weekend I noticed that
forestay length and ballast tank mod on 26M fortunare at 12:41pm 02.21.16 Ask A Macgregor Owner 1/905 I'm looking for a used genoa for my 26M. It has a new furling jib but thought a genoa might be nice
Supporting O'Day 23 for painting ClintonLakeSailor at 12:13pm 02.21.16 Day Sailers 3/1817 Hi all, I have a 23 O'Day and I want to paint the bottom. I plan on parking it in the driveway and w
Seaward Chainplate Leak Repair Jolly Seaward at 11:49am 02.21.16 Trailer Sailors 25/4058 Hello . . .new to the forum. Looking for anyone who has repaired their Seaward 25 chain plates . .l
H306 Aft Cabin Leakage Bedouin at 8:30am 02.21.16 Mid-Size Boats 4/952 Good morning! So, while checking on Bedouin while she's on the hard I noticed some leakage in the a
Seaward Slipper 17 pre-purchase ?? Donovan at 7:45am 02.21.16 Day Sailers 2/2981 Looking at a first boat. It is a 1984 Slipper 17 with shallow fin keel. Boat seems to show well. Min
Need to find this fuse...lost it so don't know type... (1) Boatman1710 at 5:38am 02.21.16 Ask A Hunter Owner 12/2073 I have a 1989 Hunter 34'. There is a 120 VAC Load Center control panel just above the chart table on
Replace fixed salon portlights with ones that open. daviddiscenza at 4:56am 02.21.16 Newport 2/1735 Hello. I purchased a 1985 33' Newport late last year. She's in great shape but I'd like to make some
Celestial Navigation, part2: Sextant Apex at 4:44am 02.21.16 Ask All Sailors 9/1513 Based on the previous thread, I wonder about the various sextants out there. Besides the Plastic Da
Let's plan a 2016 Spring Rendezvous on Lake Murray Lew Love at 4:18am 02.21.16 Lake Murray Catalina Owners 4/16726 calling all Catalina boat owners on Lake Murray, send me an email letting me know you wish to partic
Lancer 25 and the Newbie TimorTom at 12:37am 02.21.16 Lancer 1/4063 Newbie Looking at the L25 and having trouble finding non-confusing information. Some sources lump al
Any other hull cleaners? Justin_NSA at 7:51pm 02.20.16 Ask All Sailors 14/2445 I've tried Star brite Instant Hull Cleaner on the brown stains between the bottom paint and boot str
NuTeak knotoldyet at 4:41pm 02.20.16 Ask All Sailors 3/921 Does anyone have recent experience with purchasing NuTeak interior flooring? I did the best research
Keel Cable Swage/ Ferule keeps breaking suvh8er at 1:45pm 02.20.16 Ask A Macgregor Owner 9/2102 Hello everyone its been a minute since I've posted but I have been having all kinds of fun repairing

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Replaced all my sanitation hoses artboas at 8:39pm 02.04.24 I have a catalina 320 with one head. Does anybody have an idea about how many hours changing all th
Replaced all my sanitation hoses Ted10028 at 7:44pm 02.04.24 I have a catalina 320 with one head. Does anybody have an idea about how many hours changing all the
Refilling/Replacing Sea-Fire Automatic Fire Suppression Cannisters chuckwayne at 6:04pm 02.04.24 My guess would be a Coast Guard inspection team would treat the "extra" extinguisher (e.g. your eng
Hunter 240 Broken Mast Struts twalker H260 at 5:44pm 02.04.24 I had an issue with our 260 when new - the tang weld to the bolt/rod portion at the top had broken.
Adding a solent sail or staysail to a B&R rig (3) Windpilot at 4:45pm 02.04.24 I did it on my 410. But there was an option on my series for it. Mast had a forestay attachment poin
EVA Foam (2) Windpilot at 3:43pm 02.04.24 I've been playing with the cheap eva foam over 3 years. The 1 photo shows a 3 year old worn piece, w
Pebble Beach Boats shemandr at 3:16pm 02.04.24 Those guys would know. I think I found Santana 22 on a google search and maybe the boat depicted wa
Mac 65 Pilothouse owners manual? kappykaplan at 2:32pm 02.04.24 You may be able to contact another owner via the Macgregor resources on this site: https://macgregor
Mac 65 Pilothouse owners manual? kappykaplan at 2:25pm 02.04.24 Found a brochure here: mac65brochure.pdf (macgregorsailors.com)
Coupling removal dkinzer at 1:43pm 02.04.24 You may find that loosening the stuffing box nut slightly may make it easier to slide the prop shaft
Pebble Beach Boats PaulK at 1:00pm 02.04.24 I don't think they are Santana 22's because the boats seen on TV during the golf tournament are mas
Salon table 37c Cocoa Beach Sailor at 9:19am 02.04.24 Yes except we removed the fiddles on the long edges I forgot to ask how high the table sits off
320 dink (2) Scott T-Bird at 8:54am 02.04.24 Thank you. Do you remember which of the 4 heights you chose with the lift? It came with the boat
Need to pull swing keel in H22 Crazy Dave Condon at 8:13am 02.04.24 @Michael K Review of the swing keel/centerboard for both the Hunter 216 and 22 are the same built
Refilling/Replacing Sea-Fire Automatic Fire Suppression Cannisters Stiknrudder at 7:50am 02.04.24 Wow that was expensive When I purchased my Hunter 46 he surveyor noted "the engine space automatic
Coupling removal dlochner at 7:30am 02.04.24 Does anyone know if the 380 shaft has a nut inside the flange, and if so, what size is it? Jan Do
Catalina 30 - Replacing Heat Exchanger Zinc (issues with too much water after closing thru-hull). FastOlson at 7:15am 02.04.24 That's an RC Marine valve, from the 80's. ForeSpar bought them and redesigned the product in the 90'
Catalina 30 - Replacing Heat Exchanger Zinc (issues with too much water after closing thru-hull). sailme88 at 4:09am 02.04.24 IF the valve can be closed completely, consider removing the hose from the top and add on a "T". On
Pebble Beach Boats shemandr at 6:50pm 02.03.24 I don't think they are Santana 22's because the boats seen on TV during the golf tournament are mast
Coupling removal Jan_H at 6:14pm 02.03.24 It's great that you got the flanges apart! just a caution... some Hunter shafts, like our 356, have

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