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Changed Windlass to Maxwell VW500 Shagdance at 10:19am 11.27.15 Catalina 310 17/3128 Anybody upgraded your VC500 windlass to the VW500? Would like to go all chain, trying to find a way.
Weight hornet911 at 9:22am 11.27.15 Sirius 21/22 13/4830 I'm looking for a Sirius 21 but worried about total trailer weight as my limit is 3500 for towing. A
Rigid vang shawanaga at 9:17am 11.27.15 Ask A Hunter Owner 4/900 I have a 1990 35.5 and am thinking if installing a rigid vang Has anyone done this and what did you
Standard Horizon GX2200 w/AIS ? deltaten at 7:06am 11.27.15 Ask All Sailors 8/1834 I've been researching new. VHFs and find the details in the blurbs/descriptions a bit confusing. On
What's up with the pic albums? jlillie at 5:25am 11.27.15 Forum Help (Site Talk) 6/848 They really messed up my pic albums. All my comments are gone and some of my pics are no longer orie
Forward hatch weather strip tubing. jlillie at 5:12am 11.27.15 S2 18/4312 I ripped the old, hardened weather strip tubing from my forward hatch thinking I could run up to my
Salon table extension Cat 387. Where do I stow it? Darren Wohl at 4:20am 11.27.15 Ask A Catalina Owner 4/981 Bought my boat last year. The larger table came with an extension that extends the table to the benc
Any advise on keeping cockpit drains from freezing on the hard (1) H3newdog at 6:37pm 11.26.15 Ask All Sailors 21/5139 This will be my first winter with my "new" H34. It's on the hard so I have power available for a hea
Happy Holidays (1) Mike4116 at 8:19am 11.26.15 Sails Call Lounge 1/513 To all who post here and go down to the sea in ships (boats) I wish you the grandest holiday time.
Happy Thanksgiving, SBO Family! Scott T-Bird at 6:36am 11.26.15 Ask All Sailors 5/699 Thanks for advise and information! Let's see some T-Day sailing!
What type of wood trim trijohn at 6:19am 11.26.15 Catalina 22 10/8295 I have an '86 Catalina 22 full keel New style. I bought it in October, 2015. The outside woodwork is
Worse than a Spanish galleon? PotomacDaysailer at 4:42am 11.26.15 Ask All Sailors 25/3090 I wonder how bad my performance to windward was on my last sail - as I told my brother, I think I'd
Digital Owners Manual Skulldaddy at 10:19pm 11.25.15 Catalina 309 Group Forum 2/1987 When I first bought my boat I printed all the documentation I could find. I though I got the digital
Where's the oil? toliver at 9:24pm 11.25.15 Ask All Sailors 25/1963 Changing the oil: I can only "suck-out" about 3qts of used oil thru the dipstick tube from my Yanmar
Raymarine AIS 350 Bob 04 H260 at 8:00pm 11.25.15 Ask All Sailors 26/3769 We are thinking about adding AIS to our boat this year. We have a RM C120W MFD on board so thinking
Gettin' nekked (4) SailShannon at 7:56pm 11.25.15 Catalina 22 10/1787 It has begun. Yesterday Shannon got a thorough bath inside with Mr Clean. I know I'll need to do it
Danphilgreen - "Drydock" picture in your album Macboy at 7:44pm 11.25.15 Ask A Macgregor Owner 4/1780 Okay - so the "drydock" picture in Dan's album really got me thinking about our Mac that's sitting u
Yanmar Transmission Oil Level ggrizzard at 6:40pm 11.25.15 Ask All Sailors 18/23916 Does anyone know how much oil should be in the transmission of a Yanmar 2GM20F. The dipstick on mine
Garmin DV44 remodel (9) Ritdog at 6:06pm 11.25.15 Ask An Oday Owner 3/808 I will finally be getting my Oday 25 into the water this coming April- bought a Garmin DV44 Chartplo
I Pad Nav app? Tata duende at 3:24pm 11.25.15 Ask A Hunter Owner 20/3097 I inherited a hand-me-down I Pad from my g'dau (kinda shows where I am with technology) and want to

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Black Butyl tape? mermike at 3:20pm 02.18.24 VHB tape and Dow 795 is a common method of installing windows. Search this site, there are lots of t
Hunter 240 Broken Mast Struts Crazy Dave Condon at 3:19pm 02.18.24 Pat keep me posted. @patbratton Dave
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

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