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Replacing Cushions on my Hunter 320 Stephen Dale at 10:00am 07.09.22 Mid-Size Boats 3/506 We have a 2000 Hunter 320 and my beloved wife says that our 22 year old cushions need replacing. Wh
2006 Beneteau 423 - Volvo engine / prop shaft vibration (2) Richard McDonald at 8:18am 07.09.22 Ask A Beneteau Owner 19/2781 A sea trial, earlier this week, on a 2006 Beneteau 423 revealed a Volvo Pentax engine / prop shaft v
View From the Top o' the Mast - H41DS (1) dkinzer at 7:06pm 07.08.22 Big Boats 3/660 I ascended the mast of our H41DS a few days ago to pull out the existing VHF coax (due to high VSWR)
Have you ever played the game something doesn't match the others (1) Crusty Ol Salt at 6:44pm 07.08.22 Ask All Sailors 13/1030 So I am replacing my spinnaker halyard that was damaged like so many other things back in January an
mac 25 keel lifting cable bolt size ? whudatt at 2:28pm 07.08.22 Ask A Macgregor Owner 6/664 Hello folks, can someone please tell me the cable lifting bolt size for the mac 25 ? Not the pIvot
Original Sales Price of Hunter 26, 260 & 270 rs1sensen at 1:45pm 07.08.22 Smaller Boats 4/643 I'm just curious if there are any original owners or @Crazy Dave Condon who can share what the origi
Hatch, Hunter 45 CC (1) Jeff Jellick at 1:13pm 07.08.22 Big Boats 3/614 One of the Hatch handles that secures the port hatch on our Hunter 45 CC has come off. This has happ
45DS mainsail furling seanmadian at 11:17am 07.08.22 Ask A Hunter Owner 25/2291 Hello all -- Searched for related threads but found none (?!). Please cross-post if you have resourc
Autopilot Direct Drive on H34 WasabiRush at 9:52am 07.08.22 Big Boats 13/1187 I have an '86 H34 with the sometimes infamous ST4000+ computer and helm wheel drive. It worked fine
Single Handing vs apparent wind and trim patagoniadave at 9:23am 07.08.22 Ask All Sailors 32/1931 This is a question for the experienced singlehanders. Do you find it more efficient to steer to the
What Changes are happening in Your neighborhood? (1) Maine Sail at 9:12am 07.08.22 Sails Call Lounge 47/2995 As everyone well knows the real estate market is insane. We live in a small seaside neighborhood ab
Garmin GPSMAP 942 MFD Routing to Raymarine Auto Pilot? [SOLVED] (1) CowboyWay at 9:08am 07.08.22 Ask All Sailors 10/2115 I'm curious if anyone knows the trick to get a Raymarine autopilot ACU-100/P70s to receive Garmin ne
Sailing from Potts Harbor to Ports Harbor (approx. 160 nm) on the 1975 30 ' Albin Ballad Samura Sailer at 8:56am 07.08.22 Ask All Sailors 31/1638 I'm helping my friend who just purchased a 30' Albin ballad sailboat sail with him to his house in P
chainplates hunter 460 juan rius at 7:29am 07.08.22 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/281 hi i am desperate cant find 1/2 inch steel plate to replace my chainplates any help please all the w
Window thickness on a Hunter 335 Glenn5ft19 at 7:20am 07.08.22 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/381
Marinized VW Rabbit engine covepiper at 7:10am 07.08.22 Ask All Sailors 2/317 Hi all, We are trying to track down a starter for about a 1983/84 marinized VW Rabbit diesel. The or
can you swap a yanmar 2gmf 13hp for a yanmar 2gm20? limbojimbo87 at 7:02am 07.08.22 Engines and Propulsion 1/433 a buddy and i recently took on a free sailboat restoration project and it looks like the previous ow
GPS antenna location on Hunter 45 DS Boby_Hunter33 at 7:57pm 07.07.22 Big Boats 7/741 Hi All, There is an seatalk gps antenna connected to the cockpit MFD (which is the master), can some
Help! Murgatroid at 7:15pm 07.07.22 Ask All Sailors 18/1526 I've bent my mast and live in the middle of Indiana. What do I do?
C310 Wheel removal to service the engine control box? CowboyWay at 7:00pm 07.07.22 Catalina 310 6/1020 Couple of related things... I can't tell if my buzzer, engine sensors or wiring is at fault, but whe

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Solar Voltage American_Mainsail at 8:52am 08.09.24 I'll have to dig through @mainsail's archives. It might have been in Practical Sailor, maybe 2 year
Solar Voltage mermike at 8:49am 08.09.24 Interesting. Can you post a link to that information? A battery is like a bucket of water. If you
Solar Voltage Davidasailor26 at 8:42am 08.09.24 @mainsail posted about such events some time ago. Each time the failure resulted in significant dam
Solar Voltage American_Mainsail at 8:37am 08.09.24 Unless it's doesn't. Catastrophic failures of solar controllers are not unheard of. @mainsail poste
Solar Voltage duck21 at 8:37am 08.09.24 For a power source like a solar panel do you fuse closer to the panel side or closer to the controll
Backstay Split Rigging? Sail22Capri22 at 8:32am 08.09.24 My lower shrouds (on a Catalina Capri 22, Selden mast) have that end on them and they pass through t
Solar Voltage mermike at 8:30am 08.09.24 The controller can only output as much as its internal components will let it, which is its rating.
What is this thing? duck21 at 8:28am 08.09.24 If it's useful, a quick search on Maine Sail's identification came up with an on-line manual that re
What is this thing? jviss at 8:23am 08.09.24 But you still haven't answered my question: But could you tell us if you have a battery monitor?
Backstay Split Rigging? Justin_NSA at 7:33am 08.09.24 That end is foreign to me too. I use one of my Loos gauges to adjust my split backstay. Basically I
Looking for Solar Panel Battery Charging Kits twodzusfittings at 6:36am 08.09.24 Typo? Yes. My bad. Correction made. Thanks for pointing out the mistake. Then again.....I wish!!!!
Looking for Solar Panel Battery Charging Kits dlochner at 6:17am 08.09.24 power banks consist of two 1000ah batteries Typo?
Looking for Solar Panel Battery Charging Kits (3) twodzusfittings at 6:03am 08.09.24 I created my own "a la carte" system which currently works for me. I have two 100W panels hooked up
Alternator heat - how serious? Ward H at 4:12am 08.09.24 So, the brown wire should be connected only to the keyed side of the ignition switch? That's how m
The Sewing Machine Thread Ward H at 3:55am 08.09.24 So I'm on a roll here. Having requested help from both my daughter and my wife to make some shades
Catalina 28 Cruising speed under motor Hard pull to port William Weeks at 10:56pm 08.08.24 Hi KC, thanks for your thoughts, as I mentioned in earlier posts, the pull to Port when motoring is
Dipstick ggrizzard at 10:51pm 08.08.24 I can reach the dipstick, but I can't see it either. I take it out, read the level, wipe it off and
Backstay Split Rigging? ggrizzard at 10:36pm 08.08.24 The two short, and possibly smaller gauge wires, mount to two holes on the plate with u shaped conne
Looking for replacement turnbuckles Wolffman08 at 10:23pm 08.08.24 I got the t-bar ends yesterday, put them on today, and then finally got to go out for a sail! Every
How do we know what we know? A question for the ages. FastOlson at 9:56pm 08.08.24 In very round numbers.... very.... on each forum that I lurk on there are maybe 10 people whose inpu

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