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Bilge and Cabin Seat Access Boards BrianW at 9:15am 11.16.14 Ask All Sailors 13/3156 My H26's wood laminate bilge and cabin seat storage access boards have started delaminating one by o
Lifting a sailboat from a trailer question davidmhull at 7:53am 11.16.14 Ask All Sailors 75/16399 I have an oday 22 that I need to get off my trailer temporarily. I have a friend who is going to hot
Window replacement question on my 1986 Oday 28 fourwhitesocks at 6:03am 11.16.14 Bigger Boats 17/4052 Ok I have a question. I am going to replace the large port light on the port side of my 28 Oday. (
Active Captain and iPads Chris Patterson at 6:02am 11.16.14 Ask All Sailors 46/12193 Hesitate to even ask this here, but here goes. In short, wife buys me this iPad Air, to keep me quie
First 375 aft cabin headliner s2fast4u at 7:09pm 11.15.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 3/1422 Hi, I did remove the old and stained headliner of the aft cabin and now, I'm trying to find the
Windlass installation First375 s2fast4u at 7:05pm 11.15.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 4/2978
Fav Haunts Terry Cox at 5:57pm 11.15.14 Pacific North West Cruisers 0/1162 Weekend cruises off season offers several remote spots near Shelter Bay to spend a quiet time on the
How to use globalstar Qualcomm phone to get data? discovery at 5:21pm 11.15.14 Ask All Sailors 4/1662 I have a older globalstar Qualcomm phone with a car kit so I have a external antenna and a docking s
Need Stern Rails Joe23343 at 4:40pm 11.15.14 Smaller Boats 2/1240 I have seen many pictures of 23.5 with stern rails and/or lifelines at the stern , I need to add the
Oil in antifreeze hafa adai at 3:55pm 11.15.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/785 This season I noticed a small amount of oil in the antifreeze in the heat exchanger on my Yanmar JH
Badly Scratched Mast - Repaint or Touchup? Skippie10 at 3:30pm 11.15.14 S2 2/1103 Hi, I have a 1985 S2 9.2 with an "off white" paint on it which - through the years - has become pret
Beneteau 37 triumph250 at 2:34pm 11.15.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 6/1998 1) any experience w/ companionway, installing doors rather than the stock sliding door that ride
Replace the CNG stove with Propane christod at 10:01am 11.15.14 S2 10/2452 I'm about to purchase a 1980 S29.2C. Would like to replace the stove with propane as the closest CN
Leaving battery's on board in the winter smoothsailing at 9:59am 11.15.14 Musings With Maine Sail 13/4855 I have 2 Deep Cycle battery's on board hooked up to a 120 W solar panel with a Pulse Width Modulated
Just finished my $20 pvc hand rails (2) kito at 9:24am 11.15.14 Ask All Sailors 54/8719 I got 2 113" long hand rails out of a 1" thick pvc board I bought at Lowes. It cuts and routes very
What is the largest trailerable sailboat? Mike H. at 8:14am 11.15.14 Trailer Sailors 107/63815 We currently have a nice 36 foot Hunter Vision. Beautiful, comfortable boat. We have had her in a ma
No boats for sale in So Cal Skipper at 6:42am 11.15.14 Ask All Sailors 30/4833 --Update 11/25-- We're looking at moving back to Orange County, CA. On Yachtworld, there are bu
Catalina 25 mast wiring concheyes2 at 6:14am 11.15.14 Ask A Catalina Owner 3/3236 I am needing to replace my mast vhf antenna and wire. I will also replace the lighting wires while
Hood SeaFurl 810 LD bearings (1) George Da Porge at 4:31am 11.15.14 Ask A Catalina Owner 24/15824 So I am undertaking maintenance on my Hood SeaFurl 810LD, specifically bearing replacement. I've wo
Fishries Supply Seattle, WA hewebb at 4:18am 11.15.14 Ask All Sailors 8/1466 Have any of you done business with Fisheries Supply in Seattle, WA? I ordered a mast eye from

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Catalina Capri (Catalina 18) in high winds? shemandr at 1:40pm 10.07.23 I see from sailboat data.com that the Capri 22 is a fractional rig. Usually a fractional rig will f
Usefulness of a boom slider(s) on a Selden boom/mast on a 386 Tally Ho at 1:37pm 10.07.23
I have an 21' American Fiberglass Crazy Dave Condon at 12:59pm 10.07.23 @Perry Welch I am having a difficult time what you have. Can you remove that rudder and take a fu
unknown sailboat PAC3142 at 12:51pm 10.07.23 Maybe this? https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/ford-20
What to Protector to use after a thorough dinghy cleaning Rich Stidger at 12:37pm 10.07.23
Broken Rudder Crazy Dave Condon at 12:34pm 10.07.23 Repairing at that critical point is next to impossible at the rudderhead. @chuckwayne and @rgrang
Catalina Capri (Catalina 18) in high winds? Monsterfish at 12:30pm 10.07.23
What to Protector to use after a thorough dinghy cleaning sailcapt340 at 12:23pm 10.07.23
Catalina Capri (Catalina 18) in high winds? Monsterfish at 12:20pm 10.07.23 Thank you! The practical season is coming to an end here, due to the weather and the marina closing
What to Protector to use after a thorough dinghy cleaning sailcapt340 at 12:08pm 10.07.23
Blown exhaust not enough I guess odaydokay at 12:06pm 10.07.23 This turned into 6 hours of shop labor as two of the 4 pump bolts sheared and also the Adjuster bolt
Pedestal cup holders BL_Sailor at 11:57am 10.07.23 There are 2 on each side of the compass which is blocking the other 2. There are also 1 each in the
Islander 28 - Antenna Cable location (3) jssailem at 11:48am 10.07.23 Hello Yak,. I do not have an Islander. If you can help with a picture we may be able to help. Look
Anchor/Rode (2) capta at 11:37am 10.07.23 By fluke, do you mean a Danforth knockoff? As a very general rule-of-thumb, you want 1 pound of an
NOMAD AIS set up with new name and configuration jssailem at 11:35am 10.07.23
Catalina Capri (Catalina 18) in high winds? dlochner at 11:34am 10.07.23 1) How easy is it to capsize Catalina 18 (Capri) with a winged keel? (Full keel, not a centerboard)
Catalina Capri (Catalina 18) in high winds? Davidasailor26 at 11:26am 10.07.23 As wind speed builds the boat becomes overpowered and all of the extra wind is just drag pulling the
Halyard Swivel stuck at the top DArcy at 10:43am 10.07.23 I'm in Canada so I get tarps from Princess Auto which is the Canadian equivalent to Harbor Freight.
Halyard Swivel stuck at the top capta at 10:39am 10.07.23 If I felt uncomfortable of going aloft on the main halyard in a proper bosun's chair, then I'd just
Halyard Swivel stuck at the top Four Score at 10:20am 10.07.23 Where can you buy a heavy duty tarp? Yes, we'll be storing it on the boat. We did something wrong la

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