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prop shaft alignment Pat T at 12:38pm 05.29.14 Ask All Sailors 11/3325 Over the winter I pulled the transmission and installed a new damper plate. While at it I replaced t
Couple of Spring projects... Help? (3) jpeac2 at 12:34pm 05.29.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 3/1615 Couple of Spring projects... Updated All - Sorry for the blast of posts but we have a long list
On lighting - indirect and remote controlled? jpeac2 at 12:07pm 05.29.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 0/613 All - Looking to make some light upgrades to the Oceanis 351 we have. A couple things I am c
Bug Screen for Companionway mauisean at 11:21am 05.29.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 2/1147 Ahoy, First time posting! Purchased a 42s7 last year. Wondering what works to keep the bugs from
Stay extension for use with a furler Michael Lynn at 10:43am 05.29.14 Smaller Boats 7/1737 Hello all, I have noticed in the CDI Furlers information sheet "Which CDI Furler Do I need" (found
looking for boq rail edsmith at 10:39am 05.29.14 Bigger Boats 4/944 I need a bow rail for my oday sailboat
macerator magic dehler25 at 10:25am 05.29.14 Big Boats 8/1514 The macerators obviously need to be switched on to supply power, but what else switches them on to r
Need A Place For The Winch Handles DaveJ at 9:29am 05.29.14 Catalina 310 13/3569 Entered my first official race yesterday and part way through realized that I do not have a convenie
driveshaft strut brent r at 8:19am 05.29.14 The Cherubini Hunters 3/762 I have a 79 raider 33 by Cherubini and have managed to break the strut and possibly bent it in the p
new 222 oday owner redmackc at 7:48am 05.29.14 Ask An Oday Owner 8/1122 Does the 1984 222 boat have equal stability on heeling with the center board down or up?
A neat thing I saw Winkfish at 7:44am 05.29.14 Ask All Sailors 24/9335 Two weekends ago, I crewed for a friend of mine, just the two of us, on a Rhodes 19 in a regatta at
Watermaker experience rlamb at 6:59am 05.29.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 15/1796 Am planning on installing a watermaker on my 466 before I take it to Mexico next year. I have analy
Hunter 140 cracks repairs wildrp at 6:40am 05.29.14 Day Sailers 1/2042 We purchased a 2000 Hunter 140. It is in great condition overall, but the deck and the cockpit has c
galley benchtop AndyR at 2:54am 05.29.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 3/1126 Hi everyone long time since I posted guess that means we havnt had many problems (dismasting asid
Stanchion legs...again weedstomper at 11:34pm 05.28.14 Smaller Boats 3/861 I bought last year a '98 H 260. Soon I noticed the screws of one of the stanchions' legs were loose
Raymarine ST50 tridata depth and speed indicator Remivan at 9:59pm 05.28.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/827 Own a Beneteau Oceanis 281 (1995) equipped with the subject equipment. The previous owner put a pas
Poll on dock lines NiceBeny at 9:04pm 05.28.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/832 I look around my dock at how other people tie there boats, I have fore and aft lines with spring lin
Rigging question for 23-2 keatser at 7:45pm 05.28.14 Ask An Oday Owner 1/630 Just raised the mast on my O'Day 23-2 and have a question about bow. At the chailnplate on bow there
We got a leaner! Cat22alexandria at 6:01pm 05.28.14 Catalina 22 4/943 Hello everyone. Perhaps someone can answer a question for me: On a scale of 1-10, 10 being very w
Larsen's in Waukegan... braol at 6:00pm 05.28.14 The Cherubini Hunters 6/1261 Anyone work with this company before? The reason I ask is I was wondering if they allow owners to w

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I have an 21' American Fiberglass (1) Will Gilmore at 9:59pm 07.22.23 Sail track stops
Prop size for my 28.5 jssailem at 9:02pm 07.22.23 Do not guess or use someones numbers. You need to evaluate your boat. They want to know the diameter
Sailing adventures of SV MUSETTA rgranger at 8:50pm 07.22.23 I've got to up my game on taking photos and such. Thing is, like when coming into port here, there
Life vest inflated while stored on boat. Common? (1) rgranger at 8:46pm 07.22.23 Went to the boat today. My inflatable had popped. How weird. Never had one go off on its own i
Early production Kittiwake (1) jssailem at 8:45pm 07.22.23 218090
Have you tested your PFD? jssailem at 8:37pm 07.22.23
Sailing adventures of SV MUSETTA (2) JamesG161 at 8:37pm 07.22.23 I have the Parrot on order. ok .
Hunter 25.5 Bow Damage Advice AustinSailor at 8:32pm 07.22.23 Thanks so much everybody, this is just the type of advice I was hoping to receive. Fantastic forum!
Have you tested your PFD? Mark Maulden at 8:17pm 07.22.23 We have a couple of West Marine Coastal inflatables. They are about 7-8 yrs old and the color indic
Have you tested your PFD? (4) jssailem at 8:06pm 07.22.23 sailing magazines, I noticed a big difference between the UK and USA published ones. I don't thin
Strange beep from cockpit engine panel gfroch at 7:59pm 07.22.23 OK. You know how when you're sailing and you hear a faint noise and you can't tell where it's coming
Catalina 27 teak before and after jon hansen at 7:44pm 07.22.23 nice work
Catalina 27 teak before and after jaysweet at 7:38pm 07.22.23 Wow, great job! Hardly looks like the same boat!
Sailing adventures of SV MUSETTA jaysweet at 7:35pm 07.22.23 I did start at Gibson Island, but that was only where I did the boat preparations. I was keeping my
CHI-MAC today DayDreamer41 at 7:34pm 07.22.23 best of the great lakes. wind, waves, fresh water, sun burn, biting black flys, blue berry pancake
CHI-MAC today PaulK at 7:33pm 07.22.23 We had a light-air night one time. Other watch wrapped the spinnaker around the forestay about 15x.
Sailing adventures of SV MUSETTA dLj at 7:27pm 07.22.23 Nah: I'm in Rock Creek (White Rocks Marina), and it was my understanding that you started at Gibson
Catalina 27 teak before and after (8) BTC1984 at 7:27pm 07.22.23 More photos. The Coaming covers were breaking and had gaps. I used Gflex to fill in the gaps and I
New Hunter arch panel (4) jaysweet at 7:20pm 07.22.23 Here are the Hella Courtesy Lamps (back side), which look to be mostly waterproof (IP67) and a prett
I have an 21' American Fiberglass (3) Perry Welch at 7:14pm 07.22.23 Lets go back to the :Short Sail", problem. As you can see from the pictures I got the cunningham hoo

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