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O'day 28 1985 forward hatch replacement BKParks at 4:45pm 04.19.23 Ask An Oday Owner 4/973 Hello fellow sailors, I need to replace my forward hatch and have already purchased the replacement
Bottom paints (2) Clay Smith at 2:02pm 04.19.23 Ask All Sailors 33/1566 My boats hull has what looks to me like a decent amount of bottom paint on it already. Its quite pos
Looking for info - how to access stanchion base on 2005 H33 Maurice Doran at 1:08pm 04.19.23 Mid-Size Boats 1/523 I noticed the flat stanchion base in which the stanchion sits is a bit wobbly and there are what loo
Help find correct impeller Ran-Dee9229 at 1:01pm 04.19.23 Ask An Oday Owner 1/500 In my Oday 28 I have a 1984 Universal M-12 with an Oderdorfer raw water pump (I installed this repla
Progress report on the 26 O'day! (10) artleyt115 at 9:25am 04.19.23 Ask All Sailors 17/1188 Hi everyone! Idk if you remember or not but @TheBigDeal and I bought that 1984 O'day 26 "the flying
What is this plug on the transom? (1) anastas at 8:54am 04.19.23 Ask All Sailors 8/739 Does anyone know what this plug next to the shore power AC plug is used for? I can go in and try to
Navpod Doesn't Fit (Close) - Options? (1) dmdiehl64 at 6:51am 04.19.23 Ask All Sailors 9/646 Hello, Recently purchased a Navpod for 12" angle guard. Our angle guard however is 11.75". Because
2004 H41 In-Mast Furling--New Mainsail: Leech battens or no? davespud at 6:10am 04.19.23 Big Boats 11/913
Canadian buying USCG-registered cruiser - in another country acrobatique at 4:50am 04.19.23 Ask All Sailors 12/876 First post in the forum so please be kind haha... looking to purchase my first cruiser, she's USCG r
Seeking a Columbia Bar Crossing Opportunity dkinzer at 6:57pm 04.18.23 Ask All Sailors 27/2341 I'd like to arrange a day sail (or even motoring) or multi-day outing with someone in the Astoria, O
Hunter 326 Compression post finish stuendan at 6:09pm 04.18.23 Mid-Size Boats 12/1070 The mast compression post on my 2003 H326 is a roughly finished stainless pipe - a long way from po
Need help to recognize a part (1) zinahewitt at 4:16pm 04.18.23 Ask All Sailors 10/829 Hi All, I have the attached image bolted on to the bow of my illustrious sailboat. If you have some
I asked an AI bot (ChatGPT) what I should do to upgrade my boat. What do you guys think about these recommendations? brockangelo at 2:31pm 04.18.23 Catalina 22 18/1410 I asked: I got this answer: As an AI language model, I can provide you with some general recommen
Pumpin up those fenders! Project_Mayhem at 2:01pm 04.18.23 Ask All Sailors 19/1119 In a week or two I will need to inflate a bunch of fenders. One of them is very large. Would I bette
Fridge power - 2015 Oceanis 48 Roger F at 12:53pm 04.18.23 Ask A Beneteau Owner 7/820 Hi, my fridge unit, vitrifrigo, is not getting power when checked with meter. Connections at the u
Stanchions on 1996 Catalina 42 MKII redeoarknot at 11:40am 04.18.23 Ask All Sailors 0/265 Want to rebed a couple stanchions' and not sure what the best way is to get to the bottom nuts. They
Start Battery for Kubota Based Engines (5) Maine Sail at 11:18am 04.18.23 Ask All Sailors 4/1696 My brother ' I own a family property in Northern Maine. The property is large, 250+ acres. As such,
C-18 or P-18 which would you reccomend? SmallBoatGuy at 9:31am 04.18.23 Trailer Sailors 11/1044
Should we go with a mast/rigging for original Macgregor 26X or 26M? Serendipity202 at 9:13am 04.18.23 Ask A Macgregor Owner 4/1125 We just bought a 2001 Macgregor 26X swing keel. It was changed over to an M sail and rigging. Somein
Anyone here going to the Catalina 22 Nationals Race this year? (1) LakeShark at 8:27am 04.18.23 Catalina 22 0/451 Just wondering if anyone here was also going to the Catalina National race in Arkansas this year? I

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Hunter 260 Mast Base loose?!? Help! isaksp00 at 5:53am 09.11.24 You could get a pop rivet tool and some aluminum rivets and replace the loose ones. I had the mast o
Reefer/freezer installation Tally Ho at 5:53am 09.11.24
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure smokey73 at 5:48am 09.11.24 First question to clarity. Do you have both a pressure gauge of some sort (reading actual sensed pr
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure adamv at 5:25am 09.11.24 Thanks @Ralph Johnstone ! Yes the m18 technical manual and parts list just shows an oil switch screw
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX kappykaplan at 4:36am 09.11.24 Latest projection (9/11 AM) is 4 to 6' in Lake Pontchartrain, same for MS Coast Good luck! :beer:
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX BigEasy at 4:33am 09.11.24 Are you expecting much in the way of storm surge based on its point of landfall? Latest proje
looking for Lat/Long plotting software Davidasailor26 at 3:31am 09.11.24 Giving David's post about ChatGPT a second look, it might be that he is saying that ChatGPT would b
315 Question: What light wind Sail are you using to handle beam to broad reach? Furling Genneker, Doyle UPS, Code 0, whisker pole on the Genoa? john2 at 11:59pm 09.10.24 I liked the colors of the sail and the sock was included (second hands sail). A furler ads an onothe
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure Ralph Johnstone at 11:19pm 09.10.24 One more suggestion is to clean up the wires on the pressure switch. They look to be in bad shape a
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure (2) Ralph Johnstone at 11:14pm 09.10.24 Awright, jets on cool. Do you have a Universal M18 maintenance manual from this site yet ? I'm t
Tank Sensors artboas at 10:13pm 09.10.24 This was the solution I posted about a year ago. It works perfectly
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure adamv at 10:12pm 09.10.24 Why are you so obsessed with this bloody oil leak ? It isn't worth mentioning. It has nothing to
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure Ralph Johnstone at 9:36pm 09.10.24 i spotted some oil on top of the transmission - it looks like its dripping from above Why are you
looking for Lat/Long plotting software Foswick at 9:08pm 09.10.24 I will say that using GPT is not a good fit for this sort of problem. I work intensively with machi
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX smokey73 at 8:43pm 09.10.24 Hope it doesn't shift your way DAMMIT Jim. Are you expecting much in the way of storm surge based o
Pumpout Carts Suck Foswick at 8:39pm 09.10.24 This is s__t hose, and what you see is the correct product for the use at a practical value. Howeve
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure smokey73 at 8:38pm 09.10.24 I'm a little confused on which problem we are trying to solve? The apparent "low oil pressure," or
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX JamesG161 at 8:31pm 09.10.24 Category 1 on landfall. DAMMIT Jim...
Pumpout Carts Suck thinwater at 7:58pm 09.10.24 Oh, I am under no delusion that marinas will pay for a better hose. My hope is that I acn convince
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure Tally Ho at 7:27pm 09.10.24 Hard to tell what that tubular device is without some detailed photos on any connections. My firs

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