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Propeller Replacement - Should I? salt water sailor at 5:21pm 11.10.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 11/1189 My question has two parts. My 78 Hunter 30 is grossly under powered with a Yanmar YSB 12 hp which dr
handheld marine gps pupluv at 5:08pm 11.10.14 Ask All Sailors 22/4054 Garmin GPS 72H Bundle Handheld GPS Receiver Wal-Mart is selling this for $127, which seems very r
hunter 290 windlass fkudrna at 4:17pm 11.10.14 Mid-Size Boats 3/1278 I have a 2001 290, that came without a winlass. I am trying to install a lewmar v700, and would like
Introduction: Bought a 1974 O'Day 23 Convertible (1) sreidvt at 3:45pm 11.10.14 Day Sailers 8/5254 Hello All, Have been working my way through many pages of old forum posts and am looking forward
Do you Dress Ship? (2) Brian D at 3:06pm 11.10.14 Ask All Sailors 8/1516 If you do, post you photos of your ship all decked out.
fresh water tank Cat 30 Bill Hauskins at 2:10pm 11.10.14 Catalina 30 13/2502 Need to install fresh water tank on 79 cat 30 hull 999. There was no tank when I purchased boat. Any
Best sealant option for underwater lights Rick at 1:59pm 11.10.14 Ask All Sailors 2/954 Hi gang. Gonna haul the boat and h get her bottom painted. Also, I am going to install some seabla
Looking for C18 owners capnron209 at 1:49pm 11.10.14 Smaller Boats 6/2210 Looking for Capri/Catalina 18 owners to start our own forum. If interested, let me know. Good sail
Electrical problem Scosta at 1:38pm 11.10.14 Big Boats 18/2368 I have a reverse polarity light that comes on when I switch the battery switch to battery #2. Insta
Leaking Lewmar port windows Glenn Withrow at 1:15pm 11.10.14 Mid-Size Boats 2/2111 I have applied vaseline and tightened all the screws. Still leaks. Can I replace the rubber gaskets
Fenders chicagodave at 1:01pm 11.10.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 8/1700 Just purchased a 423 Couple of Questions: 1. Where is the best place to store the fenders? Starboard
Plastic cover at the top of mast support/keel cable tube bobherk at 1:01pm 11.10.14 Ask A Macgregor Owner 0/792 Hi, I have a '97 26X and would like to remove the black plastic covers at the top of the mast suppor
IPad Air 2 IOS 8.1 Login Jerry Clark H356 SV Persi at 12:10pm 11.10.14 Forum Help (Site Talk) 11/8202 I got a new IPad Air 2 with IOS8.1 and it brought in my previous app. It apparently garbled the log
MacGregor 21 keel cable replacement LadyLu9911 at 11:58am 11.10.14 Ask A Macgregor Owner 3/1484 I need to replace the keel cable and would like to know if there is a replacement part available and
Broken keel eye Myhunter216 at 10:34am 11.10.14 Smaller Boats 11/1968 Please help, I had my cable replaced on my hunter 216 03. When the keel was pulled up the eye of k
Fuel supply problem with 473 in big seas. Tag team at 10:10am 11.10.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 14/2285 We have a problem with engine cut out when the fuel tank is under half full and beam seas are presen
H31 Interior Teak Treatment Dave Pawloski at 9:06am 11.10.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/679 My 1985 Hunter 31 recently took on water while having the engine serviced at a local yard which shal
Hull Paint Scheme, Mild or Wild? (4) CloudDiver at 9:03am 11.10.14 Ask All Sailors 30/5162 I really want to nail down my final paint plans and I've been on the fence about what I want to do.
Shower drain pump location gabochum at 8:15am 11.10.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/1175 Before I start tearing things apart I need information about the location of the original shower dra
Water in hull due to cracks in cock pit (2) wildrp at 7:59am 11.10.14 Day Sailers 5/2898 I have a 1999 hunter 140. The boat has cracks in the cockpit. Those cracks I been told are cosmetic

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Mainsail up! Timm R Oday25 at 6:58am 05.28.23 I'm thinking this picture would be even better with some water under the boat !
Marine Toilet Question kappykaplan at 6:57am 05.28.23 while remembering that it's called MEMORIAL Day because all who served gave some, it's the day in w
Rudder for Blue Crab 11 dinghy dLj at 6:29am 05.28.23 How good are you at wood working? Wouldn't be too hard to build them. If you like that sort of work.
What speed makes you fire up your motor? john6206 at 6:16am 05.28.23 When I had my Hunter 170 I used to avoid packing the motor if possible. on the Great Lakes, or vent
What speed makes you fire up your motor? john6206 at 6:04am 05.28.23 If the boat is making less than 3 kt SOG toward destination if heading to one, then using the auxil
Marine Toilet Question Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 6:02am 05.28.23 Another way to test the TP is put some in a jar of water and shake it. TP that breaks up quickly is
What speed makes you fire up your motor? john6206 at 6:02am 05.28.23 I'll add to my post that if sailing in LI Sound upwind against the current you might not be going a
Question re Shore Power Circuit Breaker Summerof69 at 5:44am 05.28.23 Thanks all. I appreciate the input. I ordered a 30 amp breaker and my friend/boat yard manager is
Weeping keel dmax at 5:16am 05.28.23 No idea, I had the foam removed. Never saw it before either. Maybe they wanted to reduce the ballast
Marine Toilet Question (1) jviss at 5:07am 05.28.23 Or, you could always buy RV and Marine toilet paper!
Weeping keel shemandr at 5:03am 05.28.23 Why in the world would a builder put those foam pockets in a keel? :yikes: To save money on lead or
Early Music Instruments jviss at 4:54am 05.28.23 My kind of vintage! $$$ yikes https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--qlDkFRxi--/a_0/f_auto,t_la
What speed makes you fire up your motor? shemandr at 4:49am 05.28.23 I'll add to my post that if sailing in LI Sound upwind against the current you might not be going an
Marine Toilet Question dlochner at 4:49am 05.28.23 We do not have macerator and have no issues. Use single ply TP not the fancy thick puffy stuff. Anot
Electrical upgrades Gene Neill at 4:38am 05.28.23 Wow, impressive work! Your panels are 50W each, right? You're making me itch for an upgrade. :biggri
Question re Shore Power Circuit Breaker CYQK at 4:37am 05.28.23 2x on the elci breaker code now says you should have one good time to upgrade
Nicopress CYQK at 4:32am 05.28.23 research the order in which you make a crimp with a nicopress tool Cant do that....take it to an air
What speed makes you fire up your motor? Kings Gambit at 4:10am 05.28.23 If the boat is making less than 3 kt SOG toward destination if heading to one, then using the auxili
Santana 21 design info needed Kings Gambit at 3:47am 05.28.23 You can find a lot of measurements information on sailboat models easily by visiting sailboatdata.co
Marine Toilet Question dLj at 3:42am 05.28.23 When I ran those toilets, I was careful to use toilet paper that was "septic" friendly. There are br

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