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Mystic Anchorage Roger Long at 5:12am 05.23.13 Roger Long - Cruising on Strider 3/1645 For anyone visiting Mystic: Survey taken with dinghy and sounding line showing approximate 6 ft MLW
Bolt/ keel lock down Sailor 3269 at 10:40pm 05.22.13 Ask A Macgregor Owner 7/1144 I know this is a little late but I could not get back to this topic until now, and someone might say
Head Holding Tank 1986 - 272 Happy Dolphin at 8:11pm 05.22.13 Bigger Boats 4/1639 Started ANOTHER PROJECT! :eek: 1986 Oday 272 Head has a Bag style Holding Tank? Apparently standar
26S cabin lights? Roadking Larry at 8:04pm 05.22.13 Ask A Macgregor Owner 4/1059 Does anyone know what the OE bulb is for the rinky dink light over the sink? It had a automotive 115
Splash Day! (2) Roadking Larry at 7:45pm 05.22.13 Ask A Macgregor Owner 24/2644 She's in the water! Launched this afternoon. No drama, no major oppses. Biggest issue is I forgot
Open CPN charts Captainron1 at 7:01pm 05.22.13 Ask An Oday Owner 5/4623 Hello everyone. I wonder if anyone can steer me in the right direction to find maps for the OpenCPN
Best Way to Remove Hull ID Stickers foursail22701 at 6:59pm 05.22.13 Ask All Sailors 9/1891 Hi. We need to remove the old identification stickers from both sides of the bow and put on new one
A few additions (2) agprice22 at 6:55pm 05.22.13 Catalina 22 2/1057 Here are a few additions I did today: outhaul led aft, downhaul led aft, halyard led aft, cunningham
Mainsail battens w/main furling in mast Captpete12 at 5:10pm 05.22.13 Ask A Beneteau Owner 4/1459 I just purchased a Beneteau 40 (2008) and on its maiden "voyage" we had a problem with the main bind
Removing ancient OB head seacock IH82BL8 at 4:47pm 05.22.13 Ask All Sailors 5/1185 I mentioned previously that I've reconfigured the head to omit the dump-overboard option. Now that
best and easiest tape residue removal gutsgolf at 4:22pm 05.22.13 Ask All Sailors 13/2052 P O left masking tape when he tried to tune up stripes on cabin. have beige tape residue all over t
Mainsheet Articles Needed bobjames at 3:05pm 05.22.13 Catalina 310 0/710 Hi Captains and Admirals: You probably just received the summer 2013 issue of Mainsheet Magazine
changing rigging below triangle of Oday 23 Herco Dunlop at 2:17pm 05.22.13 Ask An Oday Owner 5/1255 Is it a design defect: I was sailing last week when I heard a loud boom and the majority of the thre
H456 Aft Cabin LEAK?? (2) undrwtrfun at 2:08pm 05.22.13 Big Boats 1/1181 Looking for anyone who may have experienced similar leaks in aft cabin of H456 and/or recommendation
anchor swivels redhead78 at 1:55pm 05.22.13 Ask All Sailors 14/4941 Hi all, I ended up getting a lewmar delta 35lb galv anchor, after all your input I think this will w
Remove 5200 Geoff K at 1:37pm 05.22.13 Musings With Maine Sail 9/8631 Several years ago there was a lot of advertising about a new solvent to remove 5200 adhesive without
rudder repair bill beyler at 1:22pm 05.22.13 Smaller Boats 5/1588 My rudder tipped over in storage and a piece on the back edge broke off. Its in an area that had a c
Irwin 27 (1970 model) drop keel marc9889 at 1:18pm 05.22.13 Irwin 2/8306 All, This is my first sailboat, which means that if you are reading this, you know more about it tha
USCG Nav Light Alert Mikem at 12:56pm 05.22.13 HAPS (Hunter Assoc. of Puget Sound) 13/8514 I forward this alert from the USCG United States Coast Guard Inspections and Compliance Directorat
Here's one for Maine Sail Through VS In Hull Transducers caguy at 12:44pm 05.22.13 Musings With Maine Sail 4/2704 I have Googled and searched the internet for some empirical information on how much is lost with an

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Installing Lewmar Portlights with Bed-it? jigray3 at 6:10pm 04.26.23 Dow 795 should work well for this application. It would work well, but reports are it can be mess
Installing Lewmar Portlights with Bed-it? jigray3 at 6:09pm 04.26.23 Thanks everybody for your contributions so far. All food for thought.
Overloaded our electric system. (1) kbgunn at 6:06pm 04.26.23 There are breakers in the aft section of the port cockpit locker. The large locker not the small one
Advice for a Solo Sailor? jaysweet at 5:44pm 04.26.23 Just one comment. I singlehand many times on longer trips, albeit just in the Chesapeake. I have a n
Installing Lewmar Portlights with Bed-it? Tally Ho at 5:19pm 04.26.23 As long as the fasteners provide some decent clamping force, it should be OK. But I tried butyl tap
Can't get sanitation hose off diptube (1) Ralph Johnstone at 5:09pm 04.26.23 When you are finally ready to assemble this knuckle buster with the old hose or brand brand new hose
Tachometer needle broken - help Ralph Johnstone at 4:41pm 04.26.23 At the risk of repeating myself ...................
LiFePO4 Update - Any Experiences to Report? jviss at 4:05pm 04.26.23
LiFePO4 Update - Any Experiences to Report? Johann at 4:00pm 04.26.23 That's fair. I would hope a BMS dump would be rare, or never! I was designing a system last year
Corroding galvanized shackle dLj at 3:53pm 04.26.23
Slippery floorboards thinwater at 3:50pm 04.26.23 Carpet (I like rubber backed runners). IMO varnished floors on a boat are simply stupid, and I have
Tachometer needle broken - help smokey73 at 3:29pm 04.26.23 @Ralph Johnstone GOOD NEWS. One of my connections was loose and when I put the engine panel back i
Can't get sanitation hose off diptube TimFromLI at 3:01pm 04.26.23 Try a radiator hose pick to break the seal with the barbs. Harbor freight sells them.
Gulf Islands (Miss-Fla). Tips? deminimis at 2:35pm 04.26.23 Man, we have stuck it in the mud so often... Wife demands I buy a MFD for this season. Thing is, y
Gulf Islands (Miss-Fla). Tips? jssailem at 2:29pm 04.26.23 No sure how much running you have done on the Columbia. Beware of the down river side of Memaloose I
Yanmar 3HM35F Starter issue jviss at 2:23pm 04.26.23 The Wiring though is definitely a very weak link and the cheapest to fix Perhaps, but it's not goi
Gulf Islands (Miss-Fla). Tips? deminimis at 2:22pm 04.26.23 Draft is 6'10" to 17" I love me some daggerboard.
Problems with early 310s 2 OLD PIRATES at 2:20pm 04.26.23 Clyde ...... I have a 310 2003 also. The pad your using, what is it made of.
Yanmar 3HM35F Starter issue Techstyle at 2:18pm 04.26.23 Well, in his case he changed out the starter and that solved the problem, so apparently not a wirin
Gulf Islands (Miss-Fla). Tips? JamesG161 at 2:14pm 04.26.23 This is the safest Sailing area from BSL to Apalachicola. Doubtful you need to run the ICW. Just go

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