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All is NOT lost! or Robert Redford should have seen this Kermit at 9:05am 04.03.14 Ask All Sailors 11/2046 We saw this for the first time last night. Gotta love it! http://www.marketmenot.com/geico-gecko-r
manuals trainmanjess at 7:48am 04.03.14 Morgan 1/1210 hello all I recently bought a very nice 1971 Morgan 35' sailboat... I got a great deal on it... i
Does Anyone Have A Rig Tuning Guide? robertsapp at 7:30am 04.03.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 9/2081 Specifically, I'm looking for a rig tuning guide for a B'R rig Z-spar furling mast. This is for a 19
ST50 instruments - blank faces redunculous at 5:37am 04.03.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 12/968 So a while back my instruments would occasionally not switch on - once the boat seemed to be warmed
Any B361 owners use 6V GC batteries? bshock at 5:26am 04.03.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 8/1686 Hello All, I'm looking for any other B361 owners who might use 6V golf cart batteries in series fo
Dripless or Packing gland? ttac at 3:25am 04.03.14 Big Boats 11/2046 Hello. We are getting ready to haul out for bottom paint and some other maintains. We have a packing
The Garbage Thread Kestle at 9:12pm 04.02.14 Ask A Macgregor Owner 6/1104 Have a few tricks...let's get a few of you to contribute some more! OK, here are a few: 1) We put
Gulf Coast Cruisers RECESS at 8:21pm 04.02.14 Ask All Sailors 3/1259 I know many of us stop off at White City just past St. Joe. Free electric and water is a nice bonus
Help me find missing parts! (4) GeorgiaBII at 3:15pm 04.02.14 Smaller Boats 3/957 As the ongoing saga of this resto of a 81'ish hunter 22 I've found yet another bit I'm missing. P
How does the water get into the bowl? Brian D at 2:38pm 04.02.14 Ask All Sailors 6/1273 OK, for you engineer types (non communications types like me), on the S3213 water separator, how doe
Questions for single-handers..... Bonzai at 1:18pm 04.02.14 Ask All Sailors 35/3543 Hey guys! Planning on a good year sailing hope you all are too! I am going to be sailing solo most o
Replacement window for Newport 30? GWB at 11:55am 04.02.14 Newport 2/1692 Does anyone know of a source for these please? The plastic frame around the perspex window itself is
if you have to go on a cruise ship (1) dlewis812 at 11:21am 04.02.14 Sails Call Lounge 6/4684 http://www.yatzer.com/amazon-aqua-expeditions
Help with replacement windows ranc4 at 10:23am 04.02.14 Ask A Macgregor Owner 5/1610 Another Newbie gets thrown into the lake with a 1972 Macgregor v21 doing the pushing. Live in St Pet
Time Flies Bad Obsession at 9:46am 04.02.14 Ask All Sailors 10/1644 In May of this year I will have been on this site for 10 years. During that time I have been thro
Survey Tomorrow Fathom at 8:44am 04.02.14 The Cherubini Hunters 17/1278 After 20 years of sailing on other people's boats, and 3 summers of teaching sailing in college usin
Just picked up a splicing kit JonnyQuest at 6:49am 04.02.14 Ask All Sailors 17/1917 The type with the set of long fids in a tube. Looking forward to figuring out how to do an eye splic
Quite Amusing (1) Shan at 5:30am 04.02.14 Sails Call Lounge 7/3427 I saw this at the Garden Centre today: http://s15.postimg.org/ptov2rtpn/treats_1.jpg
H30 cabin top mast base question kito at 4:35am 04.02.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 6/930 I took yesterday off work to install a few new portlights on my H30 project boat. I noticed my cabin
Standard Horizon with AIS below deck MLampner at 3:57am 04.02.14 The Cherubini Hunters 14/1869 has anyone tried one of the new Standard Horizon radios that have integrated GPS and AIS mounted bel

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1 gallon paint can pour spouts Richard19068 at 8:20pm 10.20.22 Air is 79% nitrogen... your positive results are more likely from the fact that you are displacing
Boat damaged by IAN CarlN at 8:08pm 10.20.22 Good insight about the "too short" dock lines. Dock lines should be at least 8ft long so they can st
Hull Condition on a 1980 22 ft sailboat CarlN at 8:00pm 10.20.22 That wouldn't scare me away from this boat. It is most likely just poorly removed growth - but if it
Sleeping in the Walmart Parking Lot rgranger at 7:47pm 10.20.22 That is waaaaaay too funny, Mr. Rail. Think I may have wet myself.
Water Does not Come out the Exhaust (1) TimFromLI at 6:57pm 10.20.22 Have you checked the plate that covers the impeller. If it has any grooves in it you can lose the pr
Shore power questions Justin_NSA at 6:51pm 10.20.22 I'd find it hard to believe that you don't have an AC battery charger. Could the PO have removed it
Shore power questions Tally Ho at 6:22pm 10.20.22
Sleeping in the Walmart Parking Lot (1) Ralph Johnstone at 5:55pm 10.20.22 "Walmartians" That is waaaaaay too funny, Mr. Rail. Think I may have wet myself.
Suggestions for restoring Teak paneling and cabinetry on Lancer 27 James Chamberlain at 5:53pm 10.20.22 Yeah. If that were the only option it would do. I looked today and it doesn't seem too bad. Most
H19 (1994) Standing Rigging - Mast Foot Not Level CrispyCringle at 5:36pm 10.20.22 Thats way too much mast rake. So if I understand correctly, you replaced the side stay turnbuckles,
Sleeping in the Walmart Parking Lot Tedd at 5:22pm 10.20.22 While in wouldn't sleep at a Walmart unless I had no other choice, we did use campgrounds. I initial
Sleeping in the Walmart Parking Lot Leeward Rail at 5:21pm 10.20.22 It revolutionized our trip across the country with a boat on a trailer. You should also look into
1 gallon paint can pour spouts thinwater at 5:16pm 10.20.22 Much simpler. I have kept cans for many years. Get a roll of aluminum duct tape (Nashua is good).
Sleeping in the Walmart Parking Lot Leeward Rail at 5:12pm 10.20.22 We slept on the boat each night and ate meals on board That is one benefit that we enjoyed, in spi
Sleeping in the Walmart Parking Lot Tedd at 4:57pm 10.20.22 It's a great set up. You can buy stuff you might need in the store, even food. You can use the washr
Alternator Stu Jackson at 4:32pm 10.20.22 But I've never owned a boat wired that way - they've all been wired from the factory to a switch, a
Suggestions for restoring Teak paneling and cabinetry on Lancer 27 Leeward Rail at 4:30pm 10.20.22 I know it won't look great with the veneer just above. If that happens you can have stain custom t
Suggestions for restoring Teak paneling and cabinetry on Lancer 27 James Chamberlain at 4:11pm 10.20.22 I had a feeling the grain would not match. I think I'm going to try to restore it the best I can an
Sleeping in the Walmart Parking Lot (1) Ralph Johnstone at 3:53pm 10.20.22 I'm familiar with the People of Walmart : the Campers of Walmart. An ingenious idea as long as th
Suggestions for restoring Teak paneling and cabinetry on Lancer 27 Ralph Johnstone at 3:39pm 10.20.22 Sanding this is sure to take off the veneer in that part, but will the wood below look okay and ble

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