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1985 O'Day 26' rudder specifications mountainchef at 2:26pm 10.24.13 Ask An Oday Owner 3/3380 Hi all, my rudder for my 1985 O'Day 26' snapped in half in the beginning of the season, just 1 week
Anything Wrong With Lightly Used 30 Year Old Sail Cloth? rardiH36 at 1:59pm 10.24.13 Ask All Sailors 19/3781 Does sail cloth loose it's oomph with extreme age even if not used much? I am considering reducing
Tom tomreiff at 1:44pm 10.24.13 Catalina 22 6/1203 I am the owner of Catalina 22, 5460, built in 1975. I am in need of new cabin curtains, also the cur
Cored hull sealing syeldell at 12:54pm 10.24.13 Ask A Hunter Owner 4/1010 How is the top of the cored hull of a 450 Passage sealed at the toe rail?
New batteries... looking for some advice. Jon Bastien at 11:21am 10.24.13 Ask All Sailors 2/2410 Hello all, I realize this topic has been covered in the forums at great length, but I'm kind of s
On the road planning..... Delezynski at 9:50am 10.24.13 Trailer Sailors 1/2239 Hi all, I don't post a lot here, but thought this was worth it! I ran across a web site that migh
Need some help with a 1985 H22 mainsailman at 9:48am 10.24.13 Smaller Boats 2/860 I just purchased this boat a few days ago. I noticed that the floor of the boat has two rectangul
dingy motor CootIam at 9:43am 10.24.13 Ask All Sailors 21/16289 does anyone use an electric trolling motor on their dingy rather than a gas outboard motor ?? you
New Purchase 1985 Hunter 22 mainsailman at 7:10am 10.24.13 Ask A Hunter Owner 10/1729 New Purchase 1985 Hunter 22 Need help I just purchased a 22'r I noticed that the floor of the bo
Radio Issues Nodak7 at 6:43am 10.24.13 Big Boats 17/1862 We have an ICOM IC-402 with a Command Mic in the cockpit. Whenever the boat is plugged in or the mot
Yellow stains on hull. MORNING LIGHT at 5:40am 10.24.13 Ask A Catalina Owner 6/1427 Every summer around the month of July, a lot yellow dirty stains begin to show on my Capri 26 1991.
Overboard at Night fwild3 at 5:19am 10.24.13 Ask A Macgregor Owner 12/2330 I sail Lake Pontchartrain at night occasionally, and I worry about finding anyone who goes overboard
Talk about luck bletso at 3:53am 10.24.13 Ask All Sailors 2/46877 I had to remove two port holes. I feared they were set in with 5200 or equivalent. There was damag
Security on boats Cauliesail at 3:37am 10.24.13 Ask A Catalina Owner 1/1116 Tried looking around but I haven't seen anything that can secure the entrance teak slots of the sail
Catalina 28 Mkii 2004 JOLISAILOR at 2:22am 10.24.13 Mid-Size Boats 9/3754 Hi, I am the new proud owner of a 2004 Catalina 28MKII in Belgium ( Europe ) It is a very nice Ame
Catalina 380 - winterize jen-and-fred at 9:36pm 10.23.13 Ask A Catalina Owner 9/3021 We just bought this 2002 Catalina 380 and are looking for advise on how to winterize it. For the
restoring a 1986 22 and need help with lights jagsail48 at 8:54pm 10.23.13 Catalina 22 6/1394 I just acquired a 1986 22 and have already begun to restore it. the problem i have now is there are
Relocating CNG tank in Hunter 40.5 smokey73 at 7:13pm 10.23.13 Big Boats 4/1071 Hunter 40.5 I want to relocate my CNG tank from the Port Lazarette so I can put my new Nextgen 5KW
Crack Discovered on Cast Aluminum Masthead - What to do? (3) Doug in Lakeview at 6:59pm 10.23.13 Ask All Sailors 12/127392 Hi all, Last weekend we unstepped the mast from our 1984 Beneteau First 38. Upon inspection of the
466 diesel burn rate rlamb at 6:09pm 10.23.13 Big Boats 13/2072 We are buying a 2004 466 with the 75 HP Yanmar. I have to run it up the CA coast and wondered what i

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Where to put AIS antenna? arcadiahunter28 at 2:14pm 06.22.23 Yes. Raymarine E90W. :oops: That's an amazing MFD. So the integrated GPS on that unit won't suffi
Where to put AIS antenna? kappykaplan at 2:09pm 06.22.23 Ok that's where I was thinking of putting it. Does yours tie into a multifunction display? Yes. R
Where to put AIS antenna? (1) arcadiahunter28 at 2:07pm 06.22.23 Would this work? I think that mounting it on my starboard stern rail would work so long as I can run
Where to put AIS antenna? arcadiahunter28 at 2:05pm 06.22.23 My AIS has a splitter with the VHF and a separate GPS antenna on the stern railing. Ok that's wher
Trailer Capacity Estimates? SantaCruzin at 1:45pm 06.22.23
Oceangate Titan rgranger at 1:34pm 06.22.23 Watching coverage, it appears that the next Titanic-related disaster movie or documentary is slowly
Trailer Capacity Estimates? rgranger at 1:33pm 06.22.23
Furler q's Thaniel at 1:33pm 06.22.23 Could be a Hyde Sreamstay or a Stearns,both popular in the 70s,both replaced the stay. Learned som
Where to put AIS antenna? rgranger at 1:29pm 06.22.23 OK, I'm looking at the Raymarine AIS700 Transceiver that will both receive and transmit AIS data.
Trailer Capacity Estimates? Thaniel at 1:21pm 06.22.23 As such, I'm curious if there's a way to estimate a rough capacity for a trailer based on the sum
Where to put AIS antenna? kappykaplan at 1:12pm 06.22.23 My AIS has a splitter with the VHF and a separate GPS antenna on the stern railing.
Where to put AIS antenna? Davidasailor26 at 1:06pm 06.22.23 Is this AIS system integrated with the VHF radio? I installed one of these on my H26 the AIS migh
Where to put AIS antenna? Davidasailor26 at 1:01pm 06.22.23 Does there exist a single unit that receives VHF and GPS and both receives and transmits AIS? The
HUGE gust following cruise ship. what caused it? lakesurfsailor at 12:59pm 06.22.23 like figure 20: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/08ed/f6781681ffc605aa6ffc462b290830f32c5f.pdf OK I
fuel gauge (1) JamesG161 at 12:55pm 06.22.23 Can you post a picture of this colour coded gauge ? n another Tank graph, I keep aboard, I mark t
New (to me) 37 Legend owner with simple question? kappykaplan at 12:53pm 06.22.23 It can be your worst enema. (I know, I know! I overuse that joke):poop: Yes, you do, but I grin ev
HUGE gust following cruise ship. what caused it? lakesurfsailor at 12:53pm 06.22.23 I think the image that accompanied the Wikipedia article was remarkable, seeing just how large and
Oceangate Titan kappykaplan at 12:52pm 06.22.23 Report all crew believed perished from catastrophic implosion/failure of pressure compartment on th
Topping Lift Philly2DC2LBI at 12:51pm 06.22.23 Ah - got it. Thanks. I take it Rudy sells it? (Who else, right?). Do you have loosen it at the boom
Where to put AIS antenna? jviss at 12:47pm 06.22.23 You can get an AIS splitter, which allows an AIS transponder and VHF to share the antenna at the top

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