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Mariner Roller-Stay Parts? WindDaddy at 5:52pm 08.10.23 Ask All Sailors 5/808 I am the 3rd owner of an Ericson 27 with a Mariner (who went out of business) Roller-Stay Furling Sy
What should I be worried about? Smooshed keel while tied up... Walsh0575 at 1:30pm 08.10.23 Ask All Sailors 10/1349 Hi all - I dug around a bit looking for other conversations about keel damage from rocks and couldn'
Thoughts on chart tables? CliffA at 1:28pm 08.10.23 Ask All Sailors 37/4391 With the prevalence of electronic navigation devices these days, are there many sailors out there th
Anyone sailing a Flying Scot for Coastal Exploration? (1) SmallCraftLifeNews at 10:19am 08.10.23 Trailer Sailors 0/10 Anyone sailing a modified for cruising - Flying Scot sailboat? (19') Best Regards, Jude SCL 887 Ch
MID Season Hurricane 2023 Forecast Update. jssailem at 10:17am 08.10.23 Weather and Forecasting 13/2328 Good Morning. While James is working on the write up of the 10 August 2023 NOAA Hurricane Forecast
C&C 30mkii true love at 7:07am 08.10.23 C&C 2/808 I just bought a C'C30 mkii and I need to purchase jack stands in preparation for winter storage. Wh
ForeDeck Windows step on capacity, No Step On? (1) Qomomoko at 7:04am 08.10.23 Ask A Hunter Owner 18/1913 Hello I went to look at a HL37 1987 yesterday. As usual, the add looks better than the boat in pe
need to know ohm of water level for 1997 hunter 310 CharlieAnn at 6:58pm 08.09.23 Ask A Hunter Owner 25/2132 sensor
Lake of the Woods Spadman007 at 3:31pm 08.09.23 Ask A Macgregor Owner 4/1298 First time going to Lake of the Woods. Renting a slip at Northern Harbour. Any advice on sailing i
1973 C&C30 mk1 rudder post cap rjmbc71 at 2:42pm 08.09.23 C&C 0/527 I am looking for a picture of the top of the rudder post (where the tiller is connected) in the cock
Halkey-Roberts V85000 Automatic Cap (2) jviss at 1:46pm 08.09.23 Parts Search 1/1538 I know this is a long shot. A long time ago I opted for manual-only inflation on one of my SOSpende
Need an old Navionics CF card danm1 at 1:01pm 08.09.23 Parts Search 7/1943 I am trying to update the operating system on an e80 chartplotter so that it will read new charts. N
Rowing a 22 Rltgold at 11:12am 08.09.23 Catalina 22 6/1420 Rowing a Catalina 22 Does anyone have experience with adding a set of oars to a 22 ? What lenth ? Wh
Rear seal size/specs for kanzaki k3mp CamaroMan at 8:27am 08.09.23 Engines and Propulsion 3/736 Hi there.. Can anyone supply the size/specs rear seal for the kanzaki transmission? Thanks
Top Down Furler Meriachee at 7:55am 08.09.23 Show Us Your Boat--Videos 23/5187 Top down kite on our 270. The top down furler and bowsprit were all crafted in house, and the kite
Water in Engine Oil of Raw Water Cooled Universal Atomic Diesel 5411 (1) Media again at 7:19am 08.09.23 Engines and Propulsion 10/2508 Purchased Northern 29 (built 1981) equiped with Universal Atomic Diesel Model 5411, cools with raw f
Rub Rail Help dennisv at 5:58am 08.09.23 Bigger Boats 8/1538 Took my very nice ODay 28 to a marine for some work that had all steel docks. Single handed the tri
Watches (2) jviss at 1:11pm 08.08.23 Sails Call Lounge 37/5501 Anyone else into watches? I always wanted a high end watch, a Rolex or an Omega. So, about 13 year
'76 Cat 22 Keel Winch operation (3) mbaker267 at 12:52pm 08.08.23 Catalina 22 8/722 I have a 1976 Cat-22 that appears to have the original keel winch. The winch handle rotates clockwis
What is the meaning of this? sailboatracer at 11:45am 08.08.23 Ask All Sailors 2/482 In the following text, what does DWSA/DISP mean? I assume that SA/DISP is sail area to displacement.

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keeping a 26D in a slip? ART005 at 11:18am 07.27.25 I've kept 26S in a fresh water slip summers for years. Ballast in/out often nearly impossible with m
New 216 owner with missing parts kappykaplan at 11:15am 07.27.25 Welcome to the forum! :beer: You may find some of the information you seek in the Hunter 216 Downloa
Edson steering brake question shemandr at 11:03am 07.27.25 On an older Atomic the water passages in the engine block may be partially occluded and water could
Edson steering brake question Calif. Ted at 10:35am 07.27.25 You can rebuild the brake, but it won't ease the steering,. In general, I've never found a brake wor
Running Backstays on my 1983 Beneteau First 35 removed if not sailing in high winds? (1) bartpkelly at 10:29am 07.27.25 From the pix, it almost looks like your rig may have parrallel shrouds (i.e. with single lowers).
Sailing at night Foswick at 10:18am 07.27.25 I don't know your area, but around here there is no place you can go to completely avoid crab/shrimp
Power at ignition On & Off dlochner at 10:15am 07.27.25 Thank you, for the info. Do you happen to know where is the solenoid? Or do you have the electric
Low-Stretch Halyards actually worth it for cruising? Foswick at 10:02am 07.27.25 Once the halyard is tensioned, the only way tension increases is if the head of the sail moves farth
Catalina 22 refurbishing (1) Jacktar at 9:11am 07.27.25 yep make your own curtains it is easy.
Sailing at night Don S/V ILLusion at 8:09am 07.27.25
Sailing at night dmax at 7:47am 07.27.25 I avoid them like the plague, wouldn't sail at night where they are. Caught one once, not fun.
Power at ignition On & Off oscar326 at 7:35am 07.27.25 A know issue with Yanmar wiring harnesses is an intermittent failure in the wire powering the solen
Running Backstays on my 1983 Beneteau First 35 removed if not sailing in high winds? FastOlson at 7:22am 07.27.25 From the pix, it almost looks like your rig may have parrallel shrouds (i.e. with single lowers). C
Hunter 410 Windlass Replacement jssailem at 7:02am 07.27.25 The guy at the boatyard must have been trying to sell me a new windlass Or he was clueless about y
Power at ignition On & Off dlochner at 6:21am 07.27.25 A know issue with Yanmar wiring harnesses is an intermittent failure in the wire powering the soleno
Black some on start of my Hunter 28 (2GM20G Yanmar engine) (2) Tally Ho at 6:03am 07.27.25 I have a 2GM20F and I burn about 1/2 gallon per hour of motoring @ 3,000 RPMs. But check the top of
Running Backstays on my 1983 Beneteau First 35 removed if not sailing in high winds? jssailem at 5:38am 07.27.25 Your mast image does not show the attachment at / near the mast head. This makes it difficult to ide
Fuel gauge location smokey73 at 5:28am 07.27.25 Also, if you want to get real accurate on marking the tank level if you have a plastic fuel tank. S
Fuel gauge location smokey73 at 5:22am 07.27.25 Keep in mind that your fuel consumption will be highly dependent of variables, some of which you con
Help! Idiot Cracked My Gelcoat colemj at 5:14am 07.27.25

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