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Help with wiring upgrades. C400 (5) dhays at 9:29pm 09.05.15 Musings With Maine Sail 17/9931 I am a general idiot and not qualified to own a boat with an engine or anything electric. Despite t
H216 or 22 daysailer Mainsheet Traveller Joetul at 2:44pm 09.05.15 Smaller Boats 1/659 Can anyone help me as to how a cross-cockpit mainsheet traveler should be rigged? I'm missing this
Oday 28 cushion replacement RSDean at 1:34pm 09.05.15 Ask An Oday Owner 1/761 I have an '86 O'Day that I want to replace the cushion cloth material with something that closely ma
H-42 1995 Air Conditioning relay for pump joelvannorsdel at 10:39am 09.05.15 Ask A Hunter Owner 10/1922 The AC in Alter'Tudes both fore and aft has stopped working, the pump is not running. There is volt
Motion sickness device Picflight at 10:38am 09.05.15 Ask All Sailors 19/2434 There seems to be a device in the works for folks you get severe motion sickness. Perhaps not the on
Jerry jugs Mark Maulden at 9:12am 09.05.15 Ask All Sailors 16/2577 Thinking of going to Glacier Bay next year and will have to carry some fuel/water on deck. So, what
Holding Tank Air Vent Location blueboat at 8:24am 09.05.15 Ask A Hunter Owner 9/2509 I cannot figure out where the location of the holding tank air vent is on the outside of my 1993 42'
Drop keel mechanism layout Windtherapy at 8:06am 09.05.15 Ask An Oday Owner 3/712 OK so I bought a 26' about 3 months ago. I also bought a 36 foot slip on Lake Huron but decided to
Has anyone done an energy budget for a Beneteau 343? Davefromoregon at 7:36am 09.05.15 Ask A Beneteau Owner 13/2932 I have a reasonable how to do this, but if some else has already done it I'd appreciate making use
Advice for buying first sail boat icemanx193 at 7:00am 09.05.15 Day Sailers 9/3399 I am looking to buy my first sail boat and looking for some advice. I want something small that I ca
1990 hunter 35.5 Electrical 30amp to 15amp problem shawanaga at 6:21am 09.05.15 Big Boats 8/1423 I just joined a new club and the power at the slip is only 15 amp I went out and bought a 15amp pigt
Bimini? (1) scottmellloyditude at 5:28am 09.05.15 Mid-Size Boats 4/1307 I this is how I have the Bimini installed. Does anyone know if the frame is backwards. Pretty sure t
Coolant System shermanb at 4:16am 09.05.15 Engines and Propulsion 1/851 I have a Catalina 27 with a Universal M-18, 14 horsepower diesel engine with antifreeze coolant comi
Racor filter gauge (1) eianm at 12:50am 09.05.15 Big Boats 4/1320 I have a question- i simply want to confirm that the Racor vacuum gauge connects to the output side
H240 new owner sailmaster39 at 9:58pm 09.04.15 Smaller Boats 1/668 Just bought a 2002 H 240 located in Apex,NC. Downsizing from a Hunter 356 which we loved.Looking for
O'Day sood locations Windtherapy at 7:02pm 09.04.15 Ask An Oday Owner 4/870 Can somebody tell me exactly where wood is on an O'Day? How far does the balsa go on the deck top an
Engine Flush Ken13559 at 6:38pm 09.04.15 Engines and Propulsion 15/2796 I came across the STP Engine Flush and was wondering if this would positively impact my 13yr old 140
Want to put winches on top of a pop top sunsailor12000 at 3:57pm 09.04.15 Catalina 22 11/1947 Does anyone have an idea of how to secure a pop top Catalina 22 so that winches can be mounted on to
Connecting Chartplotter to seatalk Mark48 at 3:56pm 09.04.15 Big Boats 1/845 I recently purchased a Raymarine A67 chartplotter. Now I am trying to figure out how to connect to
Homemade outboard motor mount (1) Seahorse24 at 3:05pm 09.04.15 Trailer Sailors 10/8666 I built a wooden mount for the 6 HP outboard based on the dimensions of the fold down mount that was

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Re-installing the shaft coupling Michael Davis at 5:53pm 12.11.23 So nice to have some Ai to blame! I love it.
Swim platform question PaulK at 5:24pm 12.11.23 I'm not even understanding how that thing is mounted or the orientation. It seems that the ladder
Re-installing the shaft coupling shemandr at 5:01pm 12.11.23 Might have to blame that one on spell check. I try to review posts and still some get by. I should
Any clever ideas on how to monitor the level in waste holding tank? Richard19068 at 4:37pm 12.11.23 @4arch: Thanks for posting that.
Re-installing the shaft coupling Don S/V ILLusion at 4:25pm 12.11.23
315 Backstay Adjuster Stu Jackson at 4:21pm 12.11.23 Greg, Gerry Douglas has called it his "15/16 rig." :clap: Really.
315 Backstay Adjuster Tally Ho at 4:05pm 12.11.23 The forestay of the Catalina 315 is so close to the head that it might be considered a fractional
Swim platform question shemandr at 4:00pm 12.11.23 I'm not even understanding how that thing is mounted or the orientation. It seems that the ladder
Solar arch installation pictures on 315 Tom J at 3:55pm 12.11.23 Tom have you notice any differences in the boats handling with the davits and solar panel compared
Swim platform question Scott T-Bird at 3:19pm 12.11.23 I'm not even understanding how that thing is mounted or the orientation. It seems that the ladder i
Volvo V Vetus Muffler dlochner at 3:16pm 12.11.23 Well, it just seems odd to have all those links to pages in CF, especially since they are not specif
Swim platform question dlochner at 3:04pm 12.11.23 The transom of the sailboat was not designed to support the weight of a swim platform and an out sus
Any clever ideas on how to monitor the level in waste holding tank? 4arch at 2:10pm 12.11.23 Yellow wire goes to negative side of external LED, positive side of LED goes to power source, brown
Swim platform question (2) rgranger at 2:08pm 12.11.23 You would need a way to lift your OB. Otherwise, I'd worry that your OB would get swamped on a regu
Swim platform question ian260 at 1:42pm 12.11.23 I see why it makes sense for a powerboat. But I don't see how it would affect a sailboat? Sailboats
Swim platform question (1) thinwater at 1:29pm 12.11.23 Not for a sailboat. When powerboats mount motors back there, they are running on plane and the aft m
Compass deviation leo310 at 1:09pm 12.11.23 used to do compass swings on aircrafts and that took a few hours to make a deviation card. The probl
Volvo V Vetus Muffler Mike Topaze at 1:03pm 12.11.23 Because my Bavaria 34 is a sailboat with and engine
Help, My Boat is Tipping Over! American_Mainsail at 12:44pm 12.11.23 Do you have a water tank on either side of the hull? Did you maybe drain one side thinking that you
Solar arch installation pictures on 315 Shagdance at 12:43pm 12.11.23 Not sure if this will help you, but you could fabricate something like the davits I installed on my

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