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Do you Dress Ship? (2) Brian D at 3:06pm 11.10.14 Ask All Sailors 8/1568 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 13/2770 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 2/1006 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 6/2277 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 18/2486 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 2/2145 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 8/1813 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 0/828 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) 11/8291 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 3/1573 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 11/2152 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 14/2435 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 1/733 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 30/5539 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 5/1229 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 5/3105 I have a 1999 hunter 140. The boat has cracks in the cockpit. Those cracks I been told are cosmetic
Happy 239th Birthday Brian D at 7:47am 11.10.14 Sails Call Lounge 2/1494 Wish to extend and heartfelt birthday wish to all former, present, and soon-to-be Marines out there
83 Oday 28 center board cable broke this weekend Euphoria2011 at 7:17am 11.10.14 Bigger Boats 3/1396 Does anybody know if there is a "rope to cable connection" for these center boards or is it just the
37C Searching in the SE Adschantz at 6:58am 11.10.14 The Cherubini Hunters 1/1122 Great forum with tons of great info. I've read through nearly 150 pages of posts and have learned a
M25 xpb belt wear hvbaker at 6:13am 11.10.14 Catalina 30 5/1310 Has anyone had problems with premature wear of the belt on their M25xpb? Is so what was your solutio

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Advice for a Solo Sailor? Kings Gambit at 8:05am 08.24.23 So, anyway, I'm back in my home port, having completed the cycle. I sailed onto the mooring in We
Do you use bumper boards? JBP-PA at 7:45am 08.24.23 Mine are fairly short, perhaps 4 ft. so they are easy to stow in a cockpit locker. Definitely nice
Bad experience with a yacht broker, appreciate some advice jssailem at 7:08am 08.24.23 Welcome to the SBO Forum. Sounds like a divergence of expectations. You wanted details and the brok
Bad experience with a yacht broker, appreciate some advice tfox2069 at 6:52am 08.24.23 Brokers can be very much hit or miss. The seller should have fired his broker, and you were right t
Do you use bumper boards? jssailem at 6:38am 08.24.23 :plus: Depends on the waters you sail and the piers you tie up to. Having them can be a real plus to
Exhaust for Cat 34 jssailem at 6:29am 08.24.23 Congrats on your first posting. Is this a source? https://www.catalinadirect.com/shop-by-boat/cat
Do you use bumper boards? Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 6:25am 08.24.23 You forgot to include bathrooms. --Peggie
Exhaust for Cat 34 RitSim at 6:14am 08.24.23 try Googling "unversal diesel exhaust flange". match the pics to your situation
Bad experience with a yacht broker, appreciate some advice shemandr at 6:11am 08.24.23 That's a long post which has a lot of detail that may or may not be relevant to the broker's compete
Deception Pass. Terry Cox at 5:09am 08.24.23 Good morning, Mike. Ditto my chart plotter. I tend to use published paper tide table predictions, su
Anchors Gene Neill at 5:06am 08.24.23 Where does your forestay attach in this pic? Also do you think there is clearance for my roller fur
Regarding a 1987 ODay Sailor 1 17ft in Length. chuckwayne at 4:55am 08.24.23 the DS 1 doesn't have a mechanism - the pivot on the lever handle just goes into a square cutout in
Bad experience with a yacht broker, appreciate some advice RoyS at 4:55am 08.24.23 Which broker?
Kent Ranger 26 Topping Lift Help dlochner at 4:29am 08.24.23 The topping lift is the short cable hanging from the backstay and attached to the boom. The primar
Advice for a Solo Sailor? jviss at 4:01am 08.24.23
Advice for a Solo Sailor? jviss at 4:00am 08.24.23
Kent Ranger 26 Topping Lift Help garymalmgren at 11:54pm 08.23.23 Hi Canception. I am not familiar with the Kant Ranger, but...... I will go through a few of your poi
Deception Pass. MikeHoncho at 9:41pm 08.23.23 I went through two weeks ago of which my plotter said there would be a opposing current of 2.4 knots
Do you use bumper boards? Stu Jackson at 9:06pm 08.23.23 a stickler for correct terminology. I used to "pull her chain" by saying things like "I'm going dow
Deception Pass. Terry Cox at 8:44pm 08.23.23 Nice writeup, Hayden. thank you. Been through the pass many times and have found the slack water tid

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