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Spinnaker sheet around prop hewebb at 5:53am 03.11.15 Engines and Propulsion 6/2037 I finally did it-got the spinnaker sheet in the prop while dousing the sail. I have a diver coming
Anti-Fouling Lil Smokie at 5:30am 03.11.15 Tattoo Owners 3/3214 My boat is a new Tattoo 26 and I will be storing it in a marina year round. How often do you have t
feathering prop shawanaga at 4:41am 03.11.15 Big Boats 8/1465 Hi I am looking to replace the prop on a 1990 Hunter 35.5 that I just purchased and I saw an add i
Weather Routing JeffThompson at 4:39am 03.11.15 Ask All Sailors 11/2328 Planning on an east coast trip to Bermuda and back late spring and was wondering if anyone had exper
Electrical & Plumbing Diagrams Hunter 34 SabreToothedEngineer at 9:59pm 03.10.15 Big Boats 4/4756 Does anyone have good copies of the wiring and plumbing diagrams for a Hunter 34? I recently bought
Interior fabric coming apart NiceBeny at 9:37pm 03.10.15 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/934 Hello I have a few areas around the boat where the walls and under deck fabric is coming off, reglue
Lip Seals FlimFlamII at 6:07pm 03.10.15 Engines and Propulsion 5/2170 Any suggestions for finding replacement seals for the prop shaft. I'm looking for a replacements fo
Merriman steering System Bearings HMT2 at 5:16pm 03.10.15 Ask All Sailors 7/1304 Does any one know if the bearings in the shaft of the Meriiman steering system circa 1983 are nylon
Attention Alameda sailors sfgary at 2:57pm 03.10.15 Ask All Sailors 23/3426 I just left my boat where I found the dock lines on my bow broken. Someone (I found out later was th
Acrylic Cabin Window Replacement (1) Coyote at 2:42pm 03.10.15 Bigger Boats 19/4405 On my 85 Oday 28 --- I was horrified to find a top to bottom crack in my cabin window a few days ago
Replacement taps / pullout shower redunculous at 12:11pm 03.10.15 Big Boats 4/1070 I'm looking to replace the taps in my bathroom as well as add a salt water faucet to the galley. No
Another Dinghy Floor Question RIVERCRUISER at 11:43am 03.10.15 Ask All Sailors 1/1123 Have a Mercury dinghy w/inflated floor. Looking to protect floor from dog claws. Has anyone inst
1970/80's Round DataMarine Corinthian Displays (2) rardiH36 at 10:36am 03.10.15 Parts Search 4/2337 I'm looking for the 1980's incarnation of the DataMarine Corinthian speed and depth displays. There
GPS swingarm mount (1) Hydro Therapy at 10:33am 03.10.15 Day Sailers 11/2088 I bought a small GPS/finder unit for my 240. I was feeling cheap so I made this wooden swingarm. It
Galley plans? (1) PSR at 9:48am 03.10.15 Mid-Size Boats 6/3321 My 27 has the traditional layout, and the POs removed the galley and replace it with a custom cabine
Leaking hatch on Beneteau 36.7 lulabelle at 9:01am 03.10.15 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/1292 I have a Beneteau 36.7 that when the hatch is closed the seal it sits on needs replacing. if the boa
Proud New Owner!! (1) T_Cat at 8:53am 03.10.15 Catalina 22 7/1091 Ok so I missed a good looking boat last weekend. Owner sold it before I could go look at it, so I pu
DX sullyj020 at 7:52am 03.10.15 SSB and Ham Operators 0/2147 Anyone get on the WWDX contest this past weekend ? It was wide open every where, I got tried of tal
NOAA online charts with wind forecast, geolocation and more Jelf at 7:43am 03.10.15 Ask All Sailors 7/1407 Hello Everyone, The following link will display the NOAA raster charts that cover the USA. The char
Prepping for bottom paint - what sander down_shift at 7:31am 03.10.15 Ask All Sailors 11/8815 About to paint my bottom for the first time (C36) later this month. There are years of Interlux CSC

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Convert partial battens to full battens Tally Ho at 3:42pm 11.18.23 True Greg. The image of your full battened wing clarifies the information. Your boat is charging a
Raising boom height Hunter 28.5 Tally Ho at 3:34pm 11.18.23
Remove Prop Tally Ho at 2:54pm 11.18.23 What would make tightening the nuts easier isn't a finer thread on the all-thread. It's a longer wr
Rudder slack (2) jdrutten at 2:48pm 11.18.23
Rudder slack Ralph Johnstone at 2:45pm 11.18.23 Not sure about his boat, but my '79 H30C has a skeg. :) Obviously I'm not invited to travel in th
Funny Friday!!! (1) jssailem at 1:26pm 11.18.23 221475
Removing old paint jssailem at 1:20pm 11.18.23
Battery: Firefly Carbon Foam jssailem at 1:14pm 11.18.23
Bronze rudder part (1) jssailem at 12:59pm 11.18.23
Rudder slack jssailem at 12:48pm 11.18.23
Water /humidity? jssailem at 12:32pm 11.18.23
Rudder slack ggrizzard at 12:21pm 11.18.23 Not sure about his boat, but my '79 H30C has a skeg. :)
Water /humidity? Don S/V ILLusion at 11:40am 11.18.23 Assuming your boat is in Tampa, the amount of moisture in the air during hot weather will far exceed
Rudder slack (3) Ralph Johnstone at 11:31am 11.18.23 There was an approximately 1?2" gap between the top of the rudder blade and the bottom of the skeg.
Water /humidity? Ralph Johnstone at 11:11am 11.18.23 Watch out for outdoor temperatures. Dehumidifiers can produce extremely high temperatures in your h
Water /humidity? (1) Ralph Johnstone at 11:07am 11.18.23 regarding a machine that makes water out Should that be "takes" water out ? If that's the case,
Bronze rudder part dlochner at 10:45am 11.18.23 That looks like fairing compound more than a barrier coat. The horizontal crack just below the bare
Water /humidity? Richard19068 at 10:40am 11.18.23 Makes water out of what? The atmosphere like a dehumidifier?
Hunter 306 vertical play on Rudder Stock.......how to fix? JamesG161 at 9:43am 11.18.23 where did you get the instructions and photos of the installation you included in your post? Look
Bronze rudder part GarEi at 9:29am 11.18.23 Its the skeg not the rudder.

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