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Attn: 49 & 50 owners artboas at 8:55pm 08.28.14 Big Boats 6/1090 For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of doing so, changing the engine water pump impeller o
Mariner Main Sheet Rigging Photos hfngotsail at 7:46pm 08.28.14 Ask An Oday Owner 8/6020 Does anybody have any photos of the main sheet for a Mariner, particularly the end of boom block, mi
Charter Sailing School agprice22 at 7:12pm 08.28.14 Ask All Sailors 13/2192 Anyone have experience with sailing schools for earning the charter license? My wife and I are looki
main sheet track kennya at 6:35pm 08.28.14 Mid-Size Boats 0/659 I have a 1986 28.5 and need some improvements to the track and gear and need source on make and wher
Help routing an HDMI cable (1) jonelli at 4:56pm 08.28.14 Catalina 30 3/936 I need to get an HDMI cable through the port cabinet to the area behind the forward port seat cushio
Seized Farymann Bloggster at 4:54pm 08.28.14 Cal 2/1630 We were rebuilding the top end on my old Farymann A30. took the head and cylinder off and had to lea
Wheel Brake origin? B473 at 4:41pm 08.28.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 2/845 The Wheel Brake on my boat is a compression disc fitted to the starboard helm. It is a very simple d
Heat Exchanger Westerbeke 10-2 in O'Day 272 (3) cbourne200 at 4:24pm 08.28.14 Ask An Oday Owner 5/1313 When I bought this boat in Dec 2011, I was told the 10-2 had recently been overhauled. Although the
Interior Teak Finish HMT2 at 4:11pm 08.28.14 Ask All Sailors 6/1497 I am refinishing my Nav table. It is a teak veneer. It had some kind of a hard finish. Either a varn
genoa replacement anthony at 2:45pm 08.28.14 Ask A Macgregor Owner 8/1377 Hi All When that hurricane blew up the east coast of Canada, even though I thought I had the genny
Boat In Question joker460 at 2:26pm 08.28.14 Ask All Sailors 6/1605 I have very little to go on because the sailboat was leaving through our channel in Lake Ontario.
81 hunter30 water pump jeffreymckenna at 1:23pm 08.28.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 4/814 Help!! I just finished refurbishing a 81 hunter 30. Every works well except i have no water pressu
Hunter 23' Rudder Coming Apart carboman at 1:10pm 08.28.14 Smaller Boats 12/2231 Looks like the gel coat/first layer of fiber glass is starting to separate from the core. I took it
Advise on autopilot? Stan Linado at 12:29pm 08.28.14 Ask A Catalina Owner 3/1129 Am finally at a point that I can get an autopilot so that solo sailing will not be quite so frantic.
Catalina 25 structural question (2) scurvydogtoo at 11:54am 08.28.14 Smaller Boats 4/2780 I just purchased a 1980 Catalina 25. There are two areas under the port side settee (forward seat)
New owner of Pearson 34-2 Outeast at 9:43am 08.28.14 Pearson 13/8995 My wife and I are new owners of a 1990 Pearson 34-2. We've spent the first 45 days cleaning the inte
Moving on up! mrudman850 at 9:37am 08.28.14 Catalina 22 1/649 After our first year on a mooring with our Buccaneer 180, we've discovered we don't like being the s
Locating and Securing the new water tanks... (6) Sumner at 8:23am 08.28.14 Ask All Sailors 1/907 In an earlier post ..... http://forums.macgregor.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=165463 .... I
Captain Tolley's Panta Rei at 7:43am 08.28.14 Bigger Boats 2/1327 Andrew/ Agprice22 recommendation for acrylic sealers reminded me of another great product for ageing
29.5 flatten main sail carothersjw at 7:04am 08.28.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/788 substantial draft in main. would like to be able to flatten main. outhaul alright tight. bo

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Our Cherubini Chainplates Are 40+ Years Old -- Any Failures? rardiH36 at 4:25pm 09.03.23 Hello chichiflys: Today pulled the two aft chainplates. Brought them home to clean and then remove
Intertec 2000e thinner Dave at 4:20pm 09.03.23 No. Interlux 2000 barrier coat is an epoxy. The two parts chemically bond and cure. They are not lik
'93 P42 Sanitation hose replacement Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 4:06pm 09.03.23 The previous owner of my boat replaced just the last 4 feet of his sanitation hose and I am going t
'93 P42 Sanitation hose replacement Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 3:48pm 09.03.23 The intake vented loop is in the wrong place. As you'll see in the installation instructions for eve
Tornado hit solves my headsail dilemma PlaneTom at 3:45pm 09.03.23 Ullman in Santa Cruz? Hodges and the gang. Great sailmakers. The did a stack pack for us a few year
Tornado hit solves my headsail dilemma marchem at 3:40pm 09.03.23 We bought new sails for our 310 a year or so back. The old main had a couple repairs where the grom
Raritan PHII long term review Terry Cox at 2:10pm 09.03.23 No wet blanket intended on this saga, but our two 1991 Jabsco electric macerator sea water toilets s
Replace section of G4 anchor chain Terry Cox at 1:38pm 09.03.23 how do you get through the gypsy Hi Ralph. Our horizontal windlass has a drum and gypsy together o
Fuel Tank, fixing the wood box that holds in place sailme88 at 1:09pm 09.03.23 Do you mean like this? handle direction primarily for strength reasons. But thanks for noticing thi
'93 P42 Sanitation hose replacement SailorShaggy at 12:59pm 09.03.23 It flows into a "catch" in the bilge with its own bilge pump. The only lines into the holding tank a
'93 P42 Sanitation hose replacement (1) Ralph Johnstone at 12:42pm 09.03.23 PS. Does your shower flow to the holding tank or to a bilge ?
Car Accident danooxnard at 12:42pm 09.03.23 Glad you are ok. There is hope if they cannot fix yours. https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/d
'93 P42 Sanitation hose replacement (2) Ralph Johnstone at 12:24pm 09.03.23 Looking at the waste water drawing : vented loop would be for the sea water inlet to any head as i
New sails for 29.5 Ralph Johnstone at 11:45am 09.03.23 I always thought that a B&R rigged Hunter with a flat-topped, full roach traditional main would be
radar Sailgunner at 11:41am 09.03.23 Maybe you should contact Raymarine. They have a pretty good forum.
New sails for 29.5 Tally Ho at 11:36am 09.03.23 I always thought that a B&R rigged Hunter with a flat-topped, full roach traditional main would be
'93 P42 Sanitation hose replacement (2) SailorShaggy at 11:17am 09.03.23 We will need to see a copy of the diagrams in your owner's manual to tell you anything. It's all a
Replace section of G4 anchor chain (1) Ralph Johnstone at 11:04am 09.03.23 I've tried all kinds of rope to chain splices and have returned to a thimble and shackle. A man a
'93 P42 Sanitation hose replacement Ralph Johnstone at 10:04am 09.03.23 Looking at the diagrams in my owner's manual I do not see a vented loop We will need to see a cop
DC panel led indicator stopped working Phil Mac at 8:55am 09.03.23 Thanks. I'm on the boat in an hour so I will have a good look. We are expecting temperatures above 3

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