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What type of battery to buy? bigsick at 10:03am 07.31.13 Mid-Size Boats 2/1010 Okay everything checks out with electrical system. I have one good battery (deep cycle 550CCA, 690M
cockpit floor slope peter22 at 9:23am 07.31.13 Ask An Oday Owner 4/1535 on my 22, cockpit floor slopes down towards bow, necessitating squeegee to direct water toward drain
RPMs below 1,000 JK_Boston_Catalina310 at 8:35am 07.31.13 Catalina 310 20/2837 Just curious how many reduce their RPMs below 1,000. I never do because of the high vibration at e
Roller furler Tom J at 7:33am 07.31.13 Catalina 310 3/1531 I want to check the tension on my forestay, but I'll need to move the roller furler up to get at the
Hunter P42 Windlass lyleh at 7:10am 07.31.13 Big Boats 5/2014 I have the original Maxwell VW800 windlass installed on my 1994 P42 with 210' of chain and 200' rode
Cutlass bearing replacement question DougM at 5:09am 07.31.13 Ask A Beneteau Owner 3/2059 I am just curious if there is anybody who has changed a cutlass bearing on a 323 or similar Beneteau
Need a winch handle cristobl at 5:08am 07.31.13 Bristol 1/9472 I have replaced my Bristol 27's original winches with a pair of large Merriman winches (about 4-1/2"
Diesel Fuel Tank Contamination Piratenorm at 4:39am 07.31.13 Catalina 30 15/2604 Morning. My 1983 Mark 1 turned 30 this year. I just returned from a one month tour around Georgian B
In the water (1) russlmiller at 2:00am 07.31.13 Ask An Oday Owner 14/1559 After rehabing a trailer and many small fixes my 1973 Oday 22 has a new home on the water. Still a l
Marlow Hunter Rendezvous Summary Mikem at 10:52pm 07.30.13 HAPS (Hunter Assoc. of Puget Sound) 0/2830 Our voyage from Bremerton to Port Ludlow was uneventful until we came abeam Foulweather Bluff. The
Led Replacment bulbs 376 Mark Juetten at 10:08pm 07.30.13 Big Boats 4/3112 I wish to replace halogen bulb in built in ceiling linr lights in our 1996 376 hunter. I am having d
Main Sail Boom bag wellskp at 9:42pm 07.30.13 Big Boats 0/1313 We have fully batten, full roach main that is stored in a bag on the boom. Second try. The zipper ge
Tiller extension bakeroo at 8:31pm 07.30.13 Smaller Boats 1/1602 I want to add a tiller extension to my C=18. Anyone done this? How far from the end of the tiller wo
H23 boom rigging photos PLEASE!!! caseylpz at 7:45pm 07.30.13 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1040 I have an 85' H23 I can't figure out the boom rigging on it. Does anyone have photos they can post o
Missing tack bracket (1) Craerz at 7:36pm 07.30.13 Ask All Sailors 4/2552 Hello sailing folks, I have recently bought an old Idylle 11.5 by Beneteau, and there seems to be s
WiFi range extender. Am I wasting my time? Chris Patterson at 7:02pm 07.30.13 Ask All Sailors 44/8490 I was in a big box electronics store today, had to have a new router, plus I'm like a kid in the can
anyone make their own companionway screens? iSailor at 6:21pm 07.30.13 Ask All Sailors 37/22114 looking for low-buck solution to making a companionway screen. Any insight / pictures or your so
Muscongus Bay to Bar Harbor Roger Long at 6:12pm 07.30.13 Roger Long - Cruising on Strider 2/2289
Universal 5411 water in the oil Bruce Adams at 6:06pm 07.30.13 Catalina 30 2/1200 I had coolant water in the oil in my Universal 5411. I just pulled the timing cover and found my rep
companion way hatch rudewarrior at 6:02pm 07.30.13 The Cherubini Hunters 3/1196 Hwllo everyone, i have a 36 cherubini that had no companion way hatch when i bought it. Does abyone

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New Cat 22 Owner mbaker267 at 1:44pm 06.03.23 Very good job on the swing keel. I am a project manager for a software company so I am used to break
Does anyone own a Widgeon??? Joe at 1:39pm 06.03.23 I'm sure someone does.:)
Mercury 9.9 4 stroke on Cat 25 Joe at 1:36pm 06.03.23 I agree with Kloudie, it's more likely a breather hose. That's not a place you'd see oil being trans
New Alternator Regulator? dlochner at 1:21pm 06.03.23 The regulator and programming for the 618 is basically the same as the 614, except the the 618 can b
Recommendations for a new head Tally Ho at 1:13pm 06.03.23 No experience with electric either, but +1 for Raritan. My presumably 30-year Raritan PH manual he
Mercury 9.9 4 stroke on Cat 25 lsavocchi at 1:07pm 06.03.23 Thanks for the response. Could that being disconnected cause an oil leak?
SBO PacificNW Racing Crew Report (1) Hayden Watson at 1:01pm 06.03.23 Yep, it was pretty aggressive. ?
Mercury 9.9 4 stroke on Cat 25 kloudie1 at 12:48pm 06.03.23 That looks like a crankcase breather. It takes the crankcase vapors back to the intake where the vap
Macgregor 26 pungojim at 12:37pm 06.03.23
Mercury 9.9 4 stroke on Cat 25 justsomeguy at 12:18pm 06.03.23 Was wondering if I should also clamp down the hose from the side furthest from the boat. Not sure h
Flimsy deck on bow and tabernacle. Backplate Mike25 at 11:41am 06.03.23 How does one go about repairing a rotted core. It has taken me time to figure my deck has a core in
New Alternator Regulator? jviss at 11:32am 06.03.23 or the older simpler 614 series How about the 612?
New Alternator Regulator? jviss at 11:28am 06.03.23 Your Link 2000 R was the regulator controller, and we have no way to know why you had that separate
SBO PacificNW Racing Crew Report jssailem at 10:46am 06.03.23 Crew shifts are a bitch... I limited my nap to 2 hours. Felt I might be in the way of your aggressiv
New Alternator Regulator? Stu Jackson at 10:42am 06.03.23 ..................... I may just have to abandon the Freedom system. No you don't. Your Link 20
Yanmar 4Jh4-HTE Manual fuel priming lift pump (1) jssailem at 10:40am 06.03.23 I have a Perkins not a Yanmar diesel. I have observed the same issue, you describe, happen on my ma
Advice before I buy C30 Hayden Watson at 10:38am 06.03.23 Thank you all for your guidance. Im on the fence about this purchase now. Am I ready to take on thi
SBO PacificNW Racing Crew Report Hayden Watson at 10:35am 06.03.23
Jabsco volume per stroke Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 10:25am 06.03.23 Does anyone know the volume per stroke on a Jabsco manual head? Trying to figure out how many to cle
Recommendations for a new head Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 10:07am 06.03.23 Afraal, Raritan toilets, manual and electric, are top rated because they're they best quality and th

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