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Installing a solar vent Sunday Sailor at 10:54am 06.16.14 Ask All Sailors 25/4172 Considering installing my new 3 inch solar vent in the middle of my hatch cover as I don't have anyw
Size of packing material for stuffing box mrreg at 10:38am 06.16.14 Catalina 30 2/1041 Just purchased this 1978 Catalina 30....and the learning curve starts. I have an Atomic 4 Gas engin
Hunter 45DS Furling Main difficult to unfurl. rkuhn1174 at 10:14am 06.16.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 4/930 We have a 2012 Hunter 45DS and on many ocassions the mainsail is difficult to unfurl. Any suggestio
Backing into a slip while singlehanding a C30T longterm at 10:08am 06.16.14 Catalina 30 6/2351 I just recently moved from a mooring to a slip in our yacht club; the improvement is tremendous--no
Drilling holes for new level sensor in full fuel tank. (2) holdech at 8:06am 06.16.14 Engines and Propulsion 6/7249 When I went to install a new fuel level sensor, I found a surprise when I removed the old unit. Bes
Battery Charger Question rgranger at 7:49am 06.16.14 Ask All Sailors 10/1195 Hey All I have a question about battery chargers. I was poking around the boat yesterday with my
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Water Ballast Washer! rbarnard at 7:35am 06.16.14 Ask A Macgregor Owner 3/848 Can someone please help me locate a replacement 3'' rubber washer at the bottom of the ballast syste
Anchor Chain Size for Oday 28? (4) Euphoria2011 at 6:51am 06.16.14 Bigger Boats 2/917 Hello, i was brushing up on anchoring gear and took a closer look at my setup and have determined th
Father's Day Disaster vincent wesner at 6:31am 06.16.14 Day Sailers 2/1114 :cry: Father's Day Weekend. Saturday, June 15th. Grandpa ("new" Sprite owner), son and grandson. A s
1980 H27 product suggestons for deck paint txmilke at 6:28am 06.16.14 The Cherubini Hunters 5/1195 Hi All, Has anyone tried to match the color on the original gray (I think) deck paint on the non-ski
cushion cleaning flasailor at 6:27am 06.16.14 Big Boats 8/1172 I recently purchased an 86 h34 which has the blue cushions I have seen on most h34's. They are not
Losing Coolant: advice requested. edguy3 at 6:12am 06.16.14 Big Boats 15/1825 Here's the situation on my 4JH2E in my Hunter 40.5: Last season: Broke V belt, twice, overhe
Masthead lightbulb type - 192 Vrotate at 5:32am 06.16.14 Ask An Oday Owner 1/689 I have a 1986 192. The masthead light is the original. Anyone have a guess as to what type of bulb
Raw Water Intake Ball Valve won't close! bigbrownpilot at 4:45am 06.16.14 Big Boats 12/5298 Last time we were motoring out in our 2002 Hunter 380, we were running the Yanmar at around 3200 RPM
Sail cover sailnoproblem at 4:35am 06.16.14 Ask All Sailors 7/1236 Time to replace my main sail cover. I live on the Jersey shore and want to know of any local sail/ca
Capri 18 Transducer NewbieOwner18 at 2:14am 06.16.14 Smaller Boats 2/2223 I'm a new owner of a 1991 Capri 18 and would like to install a depth sounder. I don't want to add a
L25-V - Lead bulging into cockpit Mik at 9:51pm 06.15.14 Lancer 5/2191 Hello I have agreed to purchase a very nice Lancer 25-V sailboat. After cleaning out all the "st
crack in the bilge under the transmission (1) windcat at 8:53pm 06.15.14 Ask A Catalina Owner 2/1177 :eek:This is what we found after pulling the Atomic 4 and scrubbing the bilge. Is this crack somethi
cutter rig for Hunter 40.5 Dad21fjggh at 8:48pm 06.15.14 Big Boats 9/2016 I am in the process of purchasing a '94 hunter legend 40.5, and was wondering if anyone has tried to

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Pearson Ensign a good first boat (given context in the post)? (9) rgranger at 10:53am 08.02.23 Good info... So you mentioned swimming off of your boat... and solo sailing...so here are two more
Battery Confusion.. jssailem at 10:48am 08.02.23 Led lights are A great modification to the traditional lights used in boats from 80's. @JoeWhite
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather jssailem at 10:29am 08.02.23 It is weather forecasting...:cool: We can bat 500 :yikes: and be better than most. :biggrin:
Alder Barbour Refrigeration Hayden Watson at 10:20am 08.02.23 According to the AB manual that John linked to, there is over-voltage protection, but it is at 17v.
Applying Cetol question JamesG161 at 10:14am 08.02.23 @Ralph Johnstone has the best things to use on Teak and its final finishing. He has pictures too.
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather JamesG161 at 10:08am 08.02.23 Just in from Dave... "Running under sail at 6 to 7 knots! Love it!" Jim and John
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather dLj at 10:07am 08.02.23 Damn straight!
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather JamesG161 at 10:03am 08.02.23 @jssailem and I spent several hours today on skirting the weather issues. @dLj is now on the correc
Alder Barbour Refrigeration Hayden Watson at 10:02am 08.02.23 Hello all... ... I also suspect something to do with the high Float Voltage (have seen on Danfoss s
Battery Confusion.. Timm R Oday25 at 9:56am 08.02.23 While I agree with everything that's been already posted , I humbly offer a few thoughts . Our 12 vo
DIY tiller tamer fails ('68 Javelin) Hayden Watson at 9:55am 08.02.23 Interesting, Hayden - I had tried straight across, but the boat still either moved away from the wi
Ruddercraft Lower Pintle Failure AndreInPortland at 9:50am 08.02.23 It's definitely frustrating that they have a clear manufacturing defect. I just called Ruddercraft a
Pearson Ensign a good first boat (given context in the post)? Anchored87 at 9:49am 08.02.23 Revisiting this idea... and following up on what @jssailem said... I think we could be more helpfu
VHF Handheld Timm R Oday25 at 9:45am 08.02.23 Batteries plus has custom built several battery packs for me .Very reasonable prices .
VHF Handheld smokey73 at 9:21am 08.02.23 I had an old Ray100 handheld. I sent the battery pack to a "battery rebuild service" and they made m
VHF Handheld rgranger at 9:16am 08.02.23 If you know an electronics gearhead, you could get them to replace the batteries in your beloved Un
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather kappykaplan at 9:16am 08.02.23 Here we go, let's hope for good luck and mother nature's blessing! Absolutely! :beer:
Applying Cetol question rgranger at 9:15am 08.02.23 I ran across this article a while back. I'm not endorsing... just passing this along https://www.p
Pearson Ensign a good first boat (given context in the post)? rgranger at 9:11am 08.02.23 Currently researching some possible options for my first boat, ... Revisiting this idea... and foll
MUSETTA Cruising the Atlantic and the Weather dLj at 9:08am 08.02.23 Skating between weather systems.... Here we go, let's hope for goo dluck and mother nature's blessin

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