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season begins, the lakes are open jon hansen at 7:28pm 04.11.23 Sails Call Lounge 2/799 2ULHLywEZSg
Frozen Thru Hull Valve SailMaster at 1:43pm 04.11.23 Ask All Sailors 3/444 While troubleshooting a leaking toilet, I have found that the waste thru hull is in frozen in the op
Beneteau 423 Refrigeration unit location and access Riverdaze at 1:39pm 04.11.23 Ask A Beneteau Owner 5/842 I was doing a thorough cabin inspection, checking and exercising through-holes, cleaning bilges, eng
Keel Winch Failure 1984 Catalina 22 (2) dano2022 at 1:22pm 04.11.23 Catalina 22 14/1443 I was out for a short sail on a lake. I returned to the dock and attempted to raise the keel when th
Lewmar Hatch Gasket Installation BigEasy at 12:03pm 04.11.23 Ask All Sailors 11/991 First attempt to install a new rubber hatch gasket on a Lewmar low profile deck hatch did not go wel
Please critique my masthead antenna! (2) Gene Neill at 11:39am 04.11.23 Ask All Sailors 20/1487 This is my old antenna, which I am replacing. As you can see, the bottom 12'' do not clear above the
Wiring charge controller for solar q's fred1diver at 9:55am 04.11.23 Ask All Sailors 5/500 hello everyone, ready to wire my charge controller to the batteries, looking in the manual but I can
Help installing A/C on a Hunter 33.5 sjbaltes at 7:15am 04.11.23 Mid-Size Boats 4/828 I would like to install A/C on my just purchased Hunter 33.5 but I'm having trouble figuring out a g
Dried cetol tristanemerson at 6:40am 04.11.23 Ask All Sailors 6/713 How/what is the best way possible to clean up dried cetol from a boat deck without harming the gel c
New Hunter 25 (2006)? chriscampbell at 5:46am 04.11.23 Smaller Boats 4/1202 What do you all know about the Hunter 25-2? I've done lots of searching, but there is little informa
Fuel tank gasket NYSail at 5:10am 04.11.23 Ask All Sailors 3/408 Hello all, I have a plastic fuel tank in my beneteau. I had removed the sender and when I replaced c
Damaged Hull and repair to ballast tank pdistefano58 at 12:42pm 04.10.23 Smaller Boats 11/1569 Hi All, new to me 1997 Hunter 26 I purchased the boat with damage to the hull with the intention
Weather forecast... jssailem at 11:26am 04.10.23 Pacific North West Cruisers 17/1388 Spring is Delayed... That is the message from weather man Rufus. Looking out for the next 3 plus we
Hull/deck Leaks thwilson at 10:47am 04.10.23 Ask All Sailors 14/1386 My 1986 Catalina 30 has some leaks where the hull connects to the deck. I've tightened the bolts in
Best technique to lube control cables? fred1diver at 8:17am 04.10.23 Ask All Sailors 7/478 Hello everyone, what is your go to method to lube up control cables?
Need seawater pump for Hunter 42 Kohler 9.5 KW generator BBC16385 at 7:53am 04.10.23 Big Boats 31/2237 I have a 1997 Passage 42. It has a Kohler 9.5KW generator. Kohler Generator model # 3TNE78AC-KM .
Macgregor 25 forestay length ? whudatt at 6:45am 04.10.23 Ask A Macgregor Owner 1/600 Good morning sailing friends, would anyone out there happen to know the correct length of the forest
F'ing mice chriscampbell at 6:29am 04.10.23 Smaller Boats 10/1117 Went for our first sail of the season over the weekend and found 6 holes chewed in our mainsail. Grr
Spreader blocks location fred1diver at 4:16am 04.10.23 Ask All Sailors 6/671 Hello everyone. Getting ready to install lazy jacks and flag halyards on my spreaders, for the lazy
Replacement Seals for Instrument Thru-Deck Fittings? dmdiehl64 at 5:01pm 04.09.23 Ask A Beneteau Owner 2/603 At the front of the mast on our Beneteau 321 we have 5 thru-deck fittings for various cables. Closes

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Hunter 50 AC deck light American_Mainsail at 5:35am 09.10.24 Yes, replace the bulb with the LED from the store. It worked for us. Same here. The install is pr
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX kappykaplan at 2:20am 09.10.24 Y'all stay safe! :beer:
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX BigEasy at 9:11pm 09.09.24 Right up the ol' miss. A big enema. I can't remember another with that track. The only one tha
Navigation Instruments Power Outage Tucson Sailor at 6:44pm 09.09.24 Thanks Jssailem, I'm working with Geico right now. They seem supportive. We'll see. Tim
What in tarnation is this? Hunter legend 43 duck21 at 5:58pm 09.09.24 For a while Hunter was including a small built-in solar panel that trickled charged the start batter
Random Yanmar instrument warning light and buzzer Johnb at 5:47pm 09.09.24 That looks pretty much identical to my Yanmar qm series panel, also most likely on a Cherubini if it
Random Yanmar instrument warning light and buzzer Ralph Johnstone at 5:22pm 09.09.24 Can't even start until we know what model the Yanmar is. Yanmar 2GM20 has different overheating cau
1/2/Both/Off Switch >>> Alternator Diodes dlochner at 5:17pm 09.09.24 The jump pack will start to discharge into the good battery and the rate of discharge will depend on
1/2/Both/Off Switch >>> Alternator Diodes twodzusfittings at 4:54pm 09.09.24 If I start the engine with the switch in the "OFF" position How are you starting your engine with
Sailing an AeroRig dLj at 4:51pm 09.09.24 That is very low head room for a boat that size... Nice looking though... Even I'd have to bend over
1/2/Both/Off Switch >>> Alternator Diodes rardiH36 at 4:44pm 09.09.24 As the original poster of this thread, I thought to finish it up. I do realize the I am overthink
Shrink wrapping details? dLj at 4:40pm 09.09.24 Greg, Great you didn't need a frame, that sure helps keep the initial cost down. Do you have a zip
1980s Oday Sunbird22358 at 4:37pm 09.09.24 You won't find any information on the selling price for a used 1980s O'DAY Sprite. The Sprite was on
Propeller fell off - need size and vendor recommendations Mikem at 4:25pm 09.09.24
Pumpout Carts Suck Foswick at 4:16pm 09.09.24 Marinas are going to be hard pressed to pay $50 a foot for something that costs less than half of t
Random Yanmar instrument warning light and buzzer Moondawg at 4:14pm 09.09.24 That "Water" alarm probably means "high temperature" in the engine cooling system. I can't imagine
Sailing an AeroRig (2) Neck9000 at 3:44pm 09.09.24 There was around 2 inches or less of clearance above the aluminum bimini. I found 2 inches of foamul
Random Yanmar instrument warning light and buzzer smokey73 at 3:34pm 09.09.24 That "Water" alarm probably means "high temperature" in the engine cooling system. I can't imagine
Water in the bilge Arrgh at 3:23pm 09.09.24 Yep, I do that sometimes too
Water in the bilge eherlihy at 2:59pm 09.09.24 I have never put ICE in the ice boxes. I put a frozen gallon water bottle in the ice box. No mess, a

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