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Dreams of Youth Roger Long at 11:36am 04.18.14 Roger Long - Cruising on Strider 2/2919
Blue water in a Seafarer 37 chetfisher at 11:22am 04.18.14 Seafarer 13/18192 I'm considering buying a Seafarer 37 and wonder if anyone has bluewater experience with this boat.
Hunter Bashing - First Aid Kit James10016 at 11:11am 04.18.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 25/5989 All, Forgive me, this is a bit long winded, but I hope it is of sufficient interest to you, to ins
Bow Damage (2) 23ODay at 11:09am 04.18.14 Ask An Oday Owner 22/3153 I just got my first sailboat and it is a little of a fixer upper. There are a few things that need s
Shear pin for skiff outboard gregorybross at 9:58am 04.18.14 Catalina 30 0/661 I have a Mariner 3.3 2 cycle outboard. It keeps breaking shear pins sometimes at the most unfortuna
choosing a genoa Gene Neill at 9:37am 04.18.14 Catalina 22 7/1264 I wonder if you guys could give me some input. At present, I own three mains (it's a long story) but
Anchor windless drum Newport Bob at 8:05am 04.18.14 Ask A Beneteau Owner 9/1447 The windless on our Beneteau 373 has a gypsy and drum. I understand that I can use the drum with the
Radar Pole and Dinghy Davits deaconblues at 7:50am 04.18.14 Big Boats 4/1754 I have a 2006 Hunter 41 AC with a bimin and stern rail seats. I'm currently looking at Kato davit
Newb needs help rigging Main (3) suvh8er at 6:23am 04.18.14 Ask A Macgregor Owner 8/2705 Hello Everyone, I just bought a Mac 25 "lawn ornament" that I am refurbishing. Having primarily on
H23' - Move Main Sheet Block to Cockpit Deck (1) carboman at 5:59am 04.18.14 Smaller Boats 8/1367 was thinking of adding the option to move the main sheet block assy to the cockpit deck, just to hav
Backstay weedstomper at 11:35pm 04.17.14 Smaller Boats 11/1789 Has anybody ever taken a H260 or 270 to Hawaii? Can a backstay be adapted and would it be helpful f
Wax on wax off ChangsinLattitudes at 8:17pm 04.17.14 Ask All Sailors 26/3874 So just bought a '81 Catalina 30. Hull seems like its in good condition, no oxidation, shiny. I was
Profurl Basic Black71gp at 7:52pm 04.17.14 Catalina 30 4/1382 So been looking and thinking of a new Furler, the Profurl B29L looks to be my choice as of now, I
Fuel Vent not venting (2) Ken Honeycutt at 7:25pm 04.17.14 Big Boats 7/972 A few months ago I posted about a problem I had with fuel filling...had a lot of good suggestions on
Cabin Cooler seabair at 7:12pm 04.17.14 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/1772 As anyone tried the Swedish made Cabin Cooler for boat A/C?
Making the Trip this weekend Bad Obsession at 7:02pm 04.17.14 Ask All Sailors 7/1133 Well, this Sunday and into Monday I will be transporting my boat, Spirit of Liberty, from Colonial B
Vented loop Cambo at 5:16pm 04.17.14 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 8/2814 Hi guys, I bought my boat last season and I am slowly fixing it up. The boat had a newer head in
Help with Spirit 6.5 Restoration Jaime01 at 4:58pm 04.17.14 Other Sailboats 0/6776 Looking for any information on the Factory Pop Top mechanism for the Spirit 6.5. Any info will be ve
Adding a circuit to 2007 Hunter electrical panel bernmeister at 3:30pm 04.17.14 Big Boats 5/1366 I am adding an audio amplifier that requires 60 amps of protection. I have never opened the panel o
Autoprop meirgerner at 3:15pm 04.17.14 Mid-Size Boats 6/3934 I have a Hunter 33 Legend with 1" shaft. About three years ago I upgraded the standard two fixed bla

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Beneteau Grey Water system Captedward at 8:06am 06.22.23 I agree with Peggy. In the short term, I would see about why the system isn't pumping. First, I'd
Beneteau Grey Water system Captedward at 8:04am 06.22.23 Gray water tanks are a lot harder to maintain than black water tanks because the only thing that go
1975 C&C 33 - Mk 1: Compromised Deck Needs Help - Suggestions Please? Hollyberry at 8:02am 06.22.23 Pretty sure a '75 C&C 33 will be a solid glass hull, in that size range I believe the 34 was the fir
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? jviss at 8:01am 06.22.23 Think about it this way ... The offline tube is going to be installed into the system filled with t
Port Townsend, WA Anchorages MikeHoncho at 7:48am 06.22.23
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? Scott T-Bird at 7:34am 06.22.23 Wow, I can't even figure out what that means! Why would there be air in that tank? What does it m
Beneteau Grey Water system BarryL at 7:28am 06.22.23 Hello, There is a good Jeanneau forum site here https://jeanneau.proboards.com Both power and sail
Oceangate Titan Kings Gambit at 7:26am 06.22.23 My claustrophobia meter pegged when a previous sightseer mentioned that even if they were able to s
Oceangate Titan Kings Gambit at 7:15am 06.22.23
Engine vibration universal m3-20 kloudie1 at 7:09am 06.22.23 That high idle may cause gearbox problems because of the shock of going into gear (initial shift ) T
Oceangate Titan kloudie1 at 6:59am 06.22.23 Pressure vessel Injun-Ear types will know how touchy/tricky external pressure design is.. some art,
Engine vibration universal m3-20 dlochner at 6:51am 06.22.23 The idle seems high but the vibration does not seem all that bad. It sounds like a 3 cylinder diesel
Oceangate Titan Kings Gambit at 6:46am 06.22.23
Engine vibration universal m3-20 elcojo2 at 6:44am 06.22.23 Ralph, Thanks for the reply. I don't want to touch change anything that is working correctly, the p
Oday 25 Swing Keel Rigging Project_Mayhem at 6:29am 06.22.23 The one thing you'll learn about D and R is that the prices are good enough that after you've shoppe
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? jviss at 6:19am 06.22.23 .75 liter accumulator That's not much of an accumulator. I have a Groco 2 gallon accumulator, whi
New (to me) 37 Legend owner with simple question? JavaMan at 6:17am 06.22.23 As @kappykaplan highlights, that picture was poached and I don't know what boat it is from. I just
Beneteau Grey Water system dLj at 6:16am 06.22.23 Mea culpa, we sold our sailboat and switched to the dark side but hope sailboatowners.com can come
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? jviss at 6:13am 06.22.23 Deep six it. The PVC tank does not have a bladder and so the water is in contact with the air. Wa
Oceangate Titan jviss at 6:03am 06.22.23 It is scary. It disturbs me, thinking of the passengers. ty, and the system didn't have much of any

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