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Froward Head Passage 42 hunter43sail at 3:44pm 01.17.15 Big Boats 7/1434 I am in the process of changing out the forward head from a salt water to fresh water. We have not u
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Add swim platform DaveandNan at 3:09pm 01.16.15 Big Boats 15/7053 Has anyone added a swim platform to their sailboat with a reverse transom? We have a 1984 Hunter 34
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Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jon hansen at 3:48pm 06.21.23 wisdom :)
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jviss at 3:43pm 06.21.23 what is very clear, you don't know me at all. i have way over 1,000,000 miles at sea. been sailing
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jon hansen at 3:38pm 06.21.23 what is very clear, you don't know me at all. i have way over 1,000,000 miles at sea. been sailing s
Beneteau Grey Water system Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 3:29pm 06.21.23 Gray water tanks are a lot harder to maintain than black water tanks because the only thing that goe
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jviss at 3:20pm 06.21.23 Jviss is right that running it for a bit will "probably" not do too much harm. Mr. Hansen is right
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? JBP-PA at 3:12pm 06.21.23 Jviss is right that running it for a bit will "probably" not do too much harm. Mr. Hansen is right t
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? mhessick at 3:06pm 06.21.23 I didn't mean to start an argument. I just want to see if the engine runs before we launch. It app
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jviss at 3:02pm 06.21.23 unless you hook up water to cool it. you will destroy the water impeller in 3 seconds Ha, ha, read
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jviss at 2:55pm 06.21.23 if the impeller shreds and goes into cooling water ways, might plug them up. It's clear you don't
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jviss at 2:52pm 06.21.23 Then again, impellers are not that expensive nor hard to replace, if you want to run them dry, have
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jviss at 2:47pm 06.21.23 OK, I'M ASKING. how do you know that all outboard engines will not possibly destroy the impeller w
Topping Lift JBP-PA at 2:45pm 06.21.23 I have a related question about how to handle the well-known issue of the boom coming down into the
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jon hansen at 2:42pm 06.21.23 if the impeller shreds and goes into cooling water ways, might plug them up. then over heating dama
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? JBP-PA at 2:32pm 06.21.23 A brief out of water experience is not going to ruin an impeller, it's still wet. A brand new impell
Trailer Capacity Estimates? Project_Mayhem at 2:13pm 06.21.23 Which one is the dinghy for your dinghy? One indicator is the axle capacity. You can usually figure
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jon hansen at 2:06pm 06.21.23 the "rule" is: never run an impeller dry. end of story.
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? Project_Mayhem at 2:04pm 06.21.23 If you've ever had an outboard in heavy waves you know three seconds out of the water isn't uncommon
Shroud anchor point Project_Mayhem at 2:01pm 06.21.23 Yeah. I didn't mean to imply it was a good idea. I just can't understand why they did it. I've s
Safe to start outboard while out of the water? jon hansen at 1:59pm 06.21.23 That's baloney. Ask me how I know. OK, I'M ASKING. how do you know that all outboard engines wil
Shroud anchor point mbaker267 at 1:57pm 06.21.23 You are most likely correct. I temporarily plugged the holes with butyl tape. When I go to epoxy, I

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