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dingy motor CootIam at 9:43am 10.24.13 Ask All Sailors 21/16286 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 6/1426 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 9/3018 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 12/127391 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
Engineering advice needed Sefuller at 5:40pm 10.23.13 Ask All Sailors 5/44762 I recently posted a question about a cradle I would like to have constructed, but may have been too
Pearson 39-2 survey mpbeagle at 5:20pm 10.23.13 Pearson 42/24081 So I just had this 1987 original owner Pearson 39-2 CB surveyed yesterday. Boat is beautifully mai
Horn blasts for navigation Bdkjak2011 at 5:01pm 10.23.13 Ask All Sailors 19/15045 Please advise: I've read the uscg colregs and unless I'm reading them wrong they require a lot of ho
Battery charging issues Kordie at 3:33pm 10.23.13 Ask All Sailors 11/3343 Anyone here use solar to charge their batteries? Anyone using the emarine e20 solar and wind reg
Got Spinnaker? Tobydaisy at 2:58pm 10.23.13 Catalina 22 3/858 I am trying to decide if I should get rid of the internal spinnaker halyard and topping lift before
Lightning Strike wmcminn at 2:38pm 10.23.13 Ask All Sailors 34/4385 My Catalina 400 was hit by lightning while at the dock, no one aboard. All instruments malfunctionin
Mounting hardware on oday 26 cabin top jfschena at 2:01pm 10.23.13 Ask An Oday Owner 3/1636 I have a 1984 oday 26. Id like to mount a third winch on the cabin top for raising the main. Id also

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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
Fresh water "Pressure Capacity Tank" - Keep or Toss ? JBP-PA at 5:47am 06.22.23 It's nice not having the pump cycle for a glass of water, but maybe that is a stupid reason to keep
Help finding the right boat jssailem at 5:39am 06.22.23 I think we had over 20 people in the cockpit of a Catalina 320. Of course there was a few adult bev
1975 C&C 33 - Mk 1: Compromised Deck Needs Help - Suggestions Please? jssailem at 5:35am 06.22.23
Oceangate Titan Rick Webb at 5:33am 06.22.23 My claustrophobia meter pegged when a previous sightseer mentioned that even if they were able to su
Oceangate Titan kappykaplan at 4:40am 06.22.23 jviss, tks for posting this. I've been following the story in the news. Very scary.
Hurricane season storage xavpil at 4:05am 06.22.23 Those of us who live in Florida live with a bi-polar reality. The State passed a law that bars mos
Hurricane season storage dlochner at 3:56am 06.22.23 If your plans are to sail the Caribbean for multiple seasons, bringing the boat back to the US durin

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