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new season woes newboatowner at 6:15pm 06.22.14 Ask A Catalina Owner 5/1073 After a long hard winter my Catalina 30 just went into the water and, lo and behold, I had to confro
Best GPS Big Fish at 5:26pm 06.22.14 Mid-Size Boats 1/700 I own an 1978 Hunter 27 and need to replace the old Garmin 135. Sailing around Penobscot Bay nothing
Mounting Origo stove a65sailor at 4:35pm 06.22.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 4/1841 I have an Origo 3000 stove with gimbals I need to mount. If any one has pictures of how these mount
Retractable keel replacment jeyoungblood at 4:24pm 06.22.14 Smaller Boats 5/713 I have a 19 foot quest built in 1984. On a recent outing the retractable keel was completely lost.
Two problems captfrank at 3:00pm 06.22.14 Catalina 22 8/1497 I am refurbishing a Cat 22 I just bought cheap($1). Two problems (among lots of others others I am s
Keel issues on O'Day 322? Tally Ho at 2:52pm 06.22.14 Ask An Oday Owner 25/19868 A few years ago, I missed out on the opportunity to purchase a 1987 O'Day 322. I had done a lot of
Really?! One of the Many Bizarre Things PO did that PO'd me! (2) Snowbird One at 2:41pm 06.22.14 Ask A Macgregor Owner 7/1204 The "What Not to Do to Your Boat", thread. So I'm getting water running up under the benches on e
O'Day 40 prop shaft nramsey at 2:31pm 06.22.14 Ask An Oday Owner 0/694 Does anyone know the prop shaft length of an O'day 40? I need to pull the hub to replace the PSS se
Master Stateroom makeover 2005 Oceanis 473 B473 at 1:53pm 06.22.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 0/896 I have a former charter 473 that had a cabin forward with two bunkbeds. The bulkheads were modular
220V to 110V B473 at 1:48pm 06.22.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 6/2364 I have not hit on the right search string to produce any past discussions on this. I bought a French
Anchoring Bridle for Storm KZW at 1:23pm 06.22.14 Catalina 310 3/1902 I'm purchasing a 310 - my first keelboat, and laying in tackle for anchoring out in storms - it bein
Old diesel fuel pelicanj45 at 11:34am 06.22.14 Ask All Sailors 51/17808
VHF 12v cable issue dis-patch at 11:02am 06.22.14 Big Boats 2/732 1997 Hunter 376 owner. I'm finally getting around to cleaning up the wire mess left behind by the P
Hard to find water leak cymeyer at 10:20am 06.22.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 5/1274 Have a small water leak on the port side where the water drips into the electrical panel. I can se
Fuel hose and ethanol (1) BobM at 10:18am 06.22.14 Ask All Sailors 6/1173 It's in case you haven't checked your fuel lines. This is a little incentive. This is off my mower
Looking for a used engine druid at 9:41am 06.22.14 Engines and Propulsion 6/2033 I pretty much trashed my transmission by running it without oil, and I figure if I have to pull the
Repair hole in Hunter 170 deck Frank Fennell at 7:28am 06.22.14 Day Sailers 1/1755 I'm new to this forum and asking advice. A recent storm caused a tree limb to fall on my H170 and it
2002 Beneteau 331 tommoran5555 at 6:59am 06.22.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 2/1347 This boat has a trashed Westerbeke 30Bthree Diesel engine. Westerbeke doesn't seem to offer this mo
Stainless Fabricator Recommendations for Bent Anchor Roller? (1) 4arch at 6:43am 06.22.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 6/1285
Need help with bimini top 79 H30 kito at 6:02am 06.22.14 The Cherubini Hunters 14/1436 I wonder if someone can help me out. I want to order a bimini top for my 79 H30 project boat. Proble

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Anchors morbidfollower at 8:28am 08.23.23 I'll swear by our relatively lightweight 13lb Mantus M1. The instant that thing hits the bottom, it
Hunter Legend 40.5, 1983 Irek at 8:24am 08.23.23 Thx Smokey for the very valuable advice on how to deal with frozen bolts. Thx God I did not have to
Fuel tank issues jssailem at 8:08am 08.23.23 Might be that your fuel pickup is short. Found mine I think was cut down and sits about an inch and
Fuel tank issues JoeWhite at 7:38am 08.23.23 An earlier poster located a pinhole on pickup tube a few inches below the upper end. As long as the
Our Cherubini Chainplates Are 40+ Years Old -- Any Failures? chichiflys at 7:24am 08.23.23 Waaay scary. Get rid of them. All of them. Do it now. I guess. But yeah I'm in the process of rep
Our Cherubini Chainplates Are 40+ Years Old -- Any Failures? chichiflys at 7:23am 08.23.23 I don't know your specific model boat, but if you can see the chain plate, both from the inside and
Hunter Legend 40.5, 1983 smokey73 at 7:20am 08.23.23 You are right about dreading removing the radial and keeping it reusable. It took a long time and p
Fuel tank issues chp at 5:50am 08.23.23 Might be that your fuel pickup is short. Found mine I think was cut down and sits about an inch and
What is this? clw2000 at 5:25am 08.23.23 Thanks Ralph! You win a brand new Chrysler Lebaron!
new companionway doors john2 at 5:20am 08.23.23 Thank you for sharing your projects. Both are very nice. I'm impressed that the doors can hang be
Measurements of the Cutlass Bearing? RSHunter27 at 11:10pm 08.22.23 Well, there's another idea... I thought of a few heavy ratchet straps, attach them to the fingers. I
Measurements of the Cutlass Bearing? (4) Ralph Johnstone at 10:59pm 08.22.23 I see you're between two fingers : cking in stern first, loading a bunch of junk on the bow and see
Measurements of the Cutlass Bearing? RSHunter27 at 10:36pm 08.22.23 ass and that's the cause of the binding. I know one thing for sure it's going to be tough to get o
What is this? (1) Ralph Johnstone at 10:15pm 08.22.23 Any help with what this is? A sand spike for holding dinghies to shore :
Saving Another Catalina, An abandoned Catalina 36. mikeracca at 10:06pm 08.22.23
Measurements of the Cutlass Bearing? (1) Ralph Johnstone at 9:57pm 08.22.23 I may end up with some egg on my face.
Measurements of the Cutlass Bearing? RSHunter27 at 9:19pm 08.22.23 I know you don't know me basically at all, but those that do know me or have known me for well all m
Hunter Legend 40.5, 1983 Irek at 9:11pm 08.22.23 Hi guys Many thx for the advice. I have the boat on the hard and dry and miraculously when the boa
Measurements of the Cutlass Bearing? Ralph Johnstone at 8:56pm 08.22.23 A while back, @Tally Ho produced a video which I "believe" was a demonstration of removing the cutla
Potential Tropical Cyclone 9 kloudie1 at 8:55pm 08.22.23 Appreciate the feedback guys. We are heading over in the morning to do a basic prep.

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