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Inlaid teak deck problem 439Tom at 5:10am 05.27.15 Ask A Beneteau Owner 4/2900 Portion of this inlaid deck is loose, and allows water to get under. Looking for repair methods t
'81 H36C coolant volume tmjb at 4:45am 05.27.15 The Cherubini Hunters 1/491 Does anyone know the approximate total volume of coolant for my '81 H36C with 2QM20 and water heater
Dual compartment fridge NiceBeny at 10:23pm 05.26.15 Ask A Beneteau Owner 6/993 I have a top loading dual compartment fridge, one side has the fridge ( freezer?) and it will keep f
Masthead ST60 Transducer installation MarkW at 10:12pm 05.26.15 Mid-Size Boats 7/1644 I have a 1986 Hunter 31 and and have been given a ST60 Wind transducer. When I talked with my elec
Replacing halyards cdrjhelwood at 9:52pm 05.26.15 Columbia 3/1591 I have recently purchased a 46 year old Columbia 35.7 and have decided to replace both the main and
DT-4 outboard water pump Daveinet at 9:26pm 05.26.15 Engines and Propulsion 9/1600 Purchased a new to me boat last year. Being new to outboards, I never knew there was supposed to be
Can you ever have too much draft? Daveinet at 9:01pm 05.26.15 Sail Trim with Don Guillette 99/22073 As long as the main is not being back winded by the jib, or back winded by normal air flow, and the
Mac 25 Table tj15830 at 8:00pm 05.26.15 Ask A Macgregor Owner 7/1871 Just bought 1986 mac 25. Table broken. Anybody have pics or diagram of working table? Thanks For
Foot Marks On Head Sail (1) stevewitt1 at 7:26pm 05.26.15 Ask All Sailors 11/2724 Hello all fellow Sailors!!! I must tap the collective knowledge of all you experienced sailboat ski
Katadyn 160 warer maker motor (3) Akapeterc at 7:21pm 05.26.15 Big Boats 2/1012 I have a Katadyn 160 water maker on board my yacht when I purchased it, that's been pretty much negl
Rudder Post Broken shayes914 at 7:15pm 05.26.15 Big Boats 4/1705 Anyone know if it is possible to replace a broken rudder post on a 2003 Hunter 356 with the boat in
Battery Charger Bill23009 at 7:10pm 05.26.15 Mid-Size Boats 1/598 My 1990 Vision-32 needs a new battery charger. the charger is in a hard to get to plane in the starb
Launched - observation mlindberg1 at 6:54pm 05.26.15 Ask An Oday Owner 16/1537 Launched today. Mast not stepped yet. Motored to mooring only to find out it was not there Secured
Lake Hopping Kper at 6:52pm 05.26.15 Destinations 19/4066 I have dreams of visiting various lakes with our SK C25 but the admiral seems to think that the trav
Stern perch seats? Dlazenby at 6:13pm 05.26.15 Precision 4/4453 Just bought our 21. We were thinking of getting stern perch seats. Does anyone have them and if so w
A very sad time (1) Tim R. at 4:51pm 05.26.15 Ask All Sailors 42/5103 On Sunday we had to put down our faithful dog, Shamus. He was our constant companion especially the
Tank monitoring sailcruiser at 4:50pm 05.26.15 S2 7/2603 E hope to install tank monitors. In trying to get to the waste tank it lookalike a huge ordeal. It
Radio check Doc_holiday at 4:13pm 05.26.15 Ask A Macgregor Owner 22/3610 brand new VHF with DSC. Installed antenna that has 4 connections. One at the radio, one at the ante
Two Hunters on TV (1) Bill19233 at 3:41pm 05.26.15 Big Boats 1/796 Last Saturday, while sailing on Galveston Bay, I posted a photo to the "Storm Pin" app local TV uses
1988 AC power issue Baytripper at 2:44pm 05.26.15 Catalina 30 3/1016 Hi all, I do not post very much, but I have got lots of great info here. Thanks ! I recently fo

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310 questions from a potential buyer matts997 at 10:27pm 09.16.23 Interesting--thanks everyone for the input.
Seaward W/H Leaks at PRV When Water Cold Ralph Johnstone at 10:00pm 09.16.23 I want to thank you again for being willing to listen and trying to help. Let me tell you, it was
310 questions from a potential buyer leo310 at 9:48pm 09.16.23 Mine is a 2000 hull #44 with a 3GM30. I think that Catalina put in engines that they had on hand at
Hunter 40.5 topping lift stuck - considering a rod kicker. smokey73 at 9:26pm 09.16.23 .in the meantime, I put a little pigtail of paracord on the backstay with a Klemheist knot. I put
Hunter 40.5 topping lift stuck - considering a rod kicker. smokey73 at 9:11pm 09.16.23 @Terry Cox thanks for the insight. My main halyard works fine. I was able to easily fully drop the
Hunter 40.5 topping lift stuck - considering a rod kicker. Terry Cox at 9:03pm 09.16.23 It is stuck and will not go up or down Different model boat, but that happened to me a few years a
Seaward W/H Leaks at PRV When Water Cold DennisL at 8:53pm 09.16.23 First off I want to thank you again for being willing to listen and trying to help. I'm not the mos
Roll your own! (1) DArcy at 8:02pm 09.16.23 I like the pool noodle rollers, great idea. I made a sail tube out of PVC pipe to transport my daug
Add heat-sink cooling fins to alternator? (3) Hayden Watson at 7:14pm 09.16.23 It would likely be easier to keep my cool if I had not done such a good job with my insulation but n
Add heat-sink cooling fins to alternator? (1) Hayden Watson at 7:06pm 09.16.23 Mis-spent some of my career designing cooling systems for industrial electronics. I think @Ralph Jo
Add heat-sink cooling fins to alternator? Hayden Watson at 6:51pm 09.16.23 It seems to me that I read somewhere that the bulk of the heat generated in the alternator was from
Add heat-sink cooling fins to alternator? Hayden Watson at 6:48pm 09.16.23 The biggest problem is the temperature inside your engine compartment. Technically speaking, I'd sa
Add heat-sink cooling fins to alternator? Hayden Watson at 6:29pm 09.16.23 What effect will lowering the operating temperature have on the engine performance and combustion?
Add heat-sink cooling fins to alternator? Hayden Watson at 6:26pm 09.16.23 There are liquid cooled alternators on eBay. Here's a 150A one for $265: Alternator Bo 12v 150 Am
Hunter 40.5 topping lift stuck - considering a rod kicker. garymalmgren at 5:56pm 09.16.23 Hi Smokey If it is a broken sheeve, is it possible to replace the sheeve with the mast up? The shor
Macerator "stalling out" smokey73 at 5:49pm 09.16.23 My seacock is bronze. No flow, with the seacock open (ie tank is empty and pumping "air") would be
Add heat-sink cooling fins to alternator? Tedd at 5:45pm 09.16.23 Mis-spent some of my career designing cooling systems for industrial electronics. I think @Ralph Joh
Macerator "stalling out" JamesG161 at 5:45pm 09.16.23 Do you think it would damage the motor if I ran the macerator for a few seconds with the thruhull s
Where are these blocks used (1) Dalliance at 5:23pm 09.16.23 Snatch blocks. Use them when I reef my 150 genoa, which is often. No adjustable genoa sheet track.
Legend Mast Tuning - pumping, new rigging baycloud at 5:12pm 09.16.23 I take it you're talking about the diagonals. For my 280 the manual doesn't give any numbers for th

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