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HAPS Blake Island, Wa., Rendezvous Mikem at 2:50pm 04.20.15 HAPS (Hunter Assoc. of Puget Sound) 0/3180 What a great rendezvous to start the season. Twelve boats showed. First off, a very special thanks
Catalina 27 mast MichelP at 2:14pm 04.20.15 Parts Search 1/1024 Hi All, We would like to restore an old catalina 27 from 1975, with a broken mast. It looks lik
New Catalina Owner (3) shaubby at 1:53pm 04.20.15 Catalina 22 14/1478 87234.vB 1168 miles later, I am the new owner of a 1986 Catalina 22, Sail #13577. After about 6 mon
opening ports anchorron at 12:43pm 04.20.15 Catalina 30 2/1000 I have a 1988 Catalina 30 and I am trying to replace the o rings on the opening ports but cannot fin
Lewmar port latches - not (2) mystery117 at 11:57am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 0/698 I have 7 Lewmar snap latch ports on my Beneteau. The latches on one starting releasing yesterday. Af
NY to Maine in October? eugenesdream24 at 11:27am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 11/2665 It is looking like after this summer I am going to be relocating to Portland, Maine. My life is pret
Laugh Rick D at 11:19am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 30/5097 I had to smile today when skimming my new Sail mag. Ads for $500K to $3.5MM boats.... and an article
Mast Step sinking - O'Day 26 (1985) Golden Road at 11:11am 04.20.15 Ask An Oday Owner 10/4698 I am looking at an O'Day 26, 1985, and one of the problems is subsidence of cabin top under the mast
Foresail furler (4) paulj at 10:37am 04.20.15 Catalina 310 1/901 Found an extra part............ paulj :troll:
engine issues Jeff Kirkpatrick at 10:35am 04.20.15 Big Boats 4/2048 Have a Catalina 380 and when motoring there is white steam coming from the exhaust. Is this normal?
New-to-me Mac 26 Leatherneck at 10:16am 04.20.15 Ask A Macgregor Owner 5/1599 Greetings fellow sailors. I have many questions and look forward to joining in
Hunter 50 heads Allamerican at 9:57am 04.20.15 Ask A Hunter Owner 0/487 Hello I would like to know what make of pump the forward head has on a Hunter 50. I am currently
Newport - Volvo Ocean Race Scott T-Bird at 9:35am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 1/759 I'm thinking about going to Newport for the weekend of May 15th thru 17th. I was looking at things
Crack. Correct fix? (1) Richandhelen at 9:15am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 5/1099 Found this hairline crack in my davit today. It's on the high-load end of things. The white bit is t
Are Brand Name Builders using Epoxy now? CloudDiver at 9:10am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 23/10950 I know this might be a silly question, but I couldn't find a straight answer anywhere else. Have th
Question about sealant (1) micheldemontreal at 8:46am 04.20.15 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/768 Hello everyone I have to redo the seal of the PVC molding between the transom and hull. I have t
A Public Service Announcement, Eye Protection! CloudDiver at 7:57am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 7/1523 I'll try not be too long winded about this because as you will understand in a moment I am in a foul
Java Update for April Jim Seamans at 7:02am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 5/910 Well just when you think things couldn't get any better..... Sailing has just been fabulous over th
LED bulbs too hot? DAVA390 at 7:01am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 4/711 If I install a combo light mastop., (2 bulbs) is it safe to run both front and rear bulbs all night
Buying a boat from The Moorings Yacht Brokerage Styx at 6:51am 04.20.15 Ask All Sailors 2/1450 We are going to up-size and have started to look at boats. Any thoughts on buying a pre-owned charte

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Odd Yanmar issue Davidasailor26 at 1:42pm 11.06.23
FAREWELL Skippers dlochner at 1:38pm 11.06.23 :beer:
Odd Yanmar issue dlochner at 1:37pm 11.06.23 Did someone turn the fuel line valve to off?
Odd Yanmar issue Don S/V ILLusion at 1:11pm 11.06.23 Guess #1: Fuel level in tank change?
macerator doesn't have enough oumph Ralph Johnstone at 12:37pm 11.06.23 the pump is now just pumping holding tank farts Are you insinuating that there is a difference in
FAREWELL Skippers kappykaplan at 12:30pm 11.06.23 Good luck in your future endeavors, 2 OLD PIRATES! :beer:
Its funny Friday! stickinthemud57 at 12:19pm 11.06.23 Well, the corollary to that would be that even when it is spelled incorectly it is still spelled inc
Beneteau 321 on the hard AlexisSTEPHB321 at 12:18pm 11.06.23 Thanks for your response " big easy" so I guess 6 months of storage is considered " Long term storag
Beneteau 321 on the hard BigEasy at 12:04pm 11.06.23 Thank you every one, my keel happens to be like a skeg of fin with a small torpedo bulb shap at th
dodger price Terry Cox at 11:56am 11.06.23 Terry, who did the work? Hi Mark. Leta's Top Shop in Arlington. They did the replacement dodger, b
H49/50 battery replacement Hayden Watson at 11:28am 11.06.23 This is a good article on charging LFP. Charging Marine Lithium Battery Banks \| Nordkyn Design The
dodger price capta at 11:26am 11.06.23 For us$3500 I could have replaced the dodger and bimini (Sunbrella) on Skipping Stone, with leather
macerator doesn't have enough oumph Terry Cox at 11:24am 11.06.23
H34 Windlass Installation - Looking for how others have done it SabreToothedEngineer at 11:09am 11.06.23 Thanks for everyone's advice. In the end I've gone with a similar approach to many others: Split th
Mid LiFePO4 Cruisers? dlochner at 11:09am 11.06.23 While you're correct about energy, storage and generating power to refill the storage medium, you a
replacement for Kenyon Marine alcohol stove in h260? (1) h2o_snow at 10:57am 11.06.23 We did have a nasty incident with the old Kenyon KISS butane stove. Our first overnight ever in t
Raymarine E80 Classic network cable Lee Hadjiosif at 10:56am 11.06.23 If it truly is a special, impossible to get, RJ connector, I would cut the cable a few feet back an
H49/50 battery replacement Johann at 10:55am 11.06.23 This is a good article on charging LFP. Charging Marine Lithium Battery Banks \| Nordkyn Design The s
Mid LiFePO4 Cruisers? Stu Jackson at 10:55am 11.06.23 If you don't have a good way of generating the electricity then I don't know how much of a benefit
Rig Dimensions jssailem at 10:53am 11.06.23 Rick Here is a link to some CAL 24 data http://richardanderson.net/calsailboats/cal-24 As @Richard1

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