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Antifouling Paint Removal smoothsailing at 9:10am 10.24.12 Morgan 3/4044 Hi all you Morganites, I have a 1969 Morgan 30 and I am planning to strip my hull of antifouling
Comment on Purchasing supplies for my keel repair job bffatcat at 8:55am 10.24.12 Ask All Sailors 14/2216 West marine has a store in my town. I went down there hoping they would have the supplies in stock
Raw Water Cooling Schematic (1) philwsailz at 8:41am 10.24.12 Musings With Maine Sail 5/5388 Okay, so as not to completely hijack Rodd's thread re: drilling/opening clogged external strainers,
Keel Repairs completed bffatcat at 8:36am 10.24.12 Ask All Sailors 1/908 Using advice on the board I first scraped and chiseled off all of the old fiberglass crap on my Ir
Unsteppjng Mast on 37c BayMan at 8:08am 10.24.12 The Cherubini Hunters 16/2376 I am going to take down the mast this winter on a 1981 Hunter 37. First time it will be down in who
Hurricane Sandy? Gunni at 7:44am 10.24.12 Ask All Sailors 31/4264 FYSA; A little too early to tell for sure, but a potential Hurricane situation is setting up for th
Boats on lifts higgs at 6:55am 10.24.12 Ask All Sailors 13/2508 I have always operated on the premise that a keel boat is stored with the weight on the keel to avoi
Capsize Factor Discussion Joe Mullee at 9:21pm 10.23.12 Ask All Sailors 3/1833 Is a boat with a higher capsize factor than another boat of similiar size more likely to roll over i
Florida sailing lessons ? Sparrow496 at 9:21pm 10.23.12 Ask All Sailors 9/2206 My wife and I will be in Florida mid December (actual dates to be confirmed) and would like to take
New guy with some questions... Nrmlspeed at 8:55pm 10.23.12 Catalina 22 16/2640 Well, I am pretty much a self taught sailor in my 22 and I am still figuring out quite a bit. The
Water collecting under floor in galley and cabin Euphoria1984 at 8:50pm 10.23.12 Big Boats 3/2358 I have a Hunter 34ft 1984 which has some leaks from window seals and vented loop (which I am repairi
Catalina 22 external outhaul question 101 Nrmlspeed at 8:34pm 10.23.12 Ask All Sailors 11/6573 Well, I am pretty much a self taught sailor in my 22 and I am still figuring out quite a bit. The r
fuel fill Blitz at 8:13pm 10.23.12 Ask All Sailors 12/4409 Got a new perko (chrome plated bronze I think) fuel fill to replaced exactly the current fuel fill d
Totally not boat related, but... (1) Mdboatbum at 7:46pm 10.23.12 Sails Call Lounge 3/29362 A plea for facebook likes. for my brother's BBQ sauce. He's been making homemade BBQ sauce since I
Trailering an H25 Randalf at 7:14pm 10.23.12 The Cherubini Hunters 4/1108 I need to move my '82 H25 from Canyon Lake TX to my home 90 miles away ASAP. I have the trailer tha
Westerbeke Manufacturer? Chris Patterson at 6:46pm 10.23.12 Ask All Sailors 4/1734 So, anybody out there know who makes a Westerbeke? Specifically the 30B Three? If I decide not to ro
Renovation rear bedroom O'DAY 37 CC (4) R�gis at 6:09pm 10.23.12 Bigger Boats 17/2847
Interior Stain and Varnish rpwillia at 5:15pm 10.23.12 Catalina 310 3/1681 Anyone know what the color is and what type of varnish to get. When I saw Warren Pandy at Catalina l
Cabin side sagging... (1) qfrasier at 5:03pm 10.23.12 Ask A Catalina Owner 15/2784 It appears that the starboard side of my cabin is sagging, causing the side to bow out, and the wind
O'Day 22 Bilge Water PATBUZZARD at 4:46pm 10.23.12 Ask An Oday Owner 18/6811 I am completely new to this so please forgive me if this is a dumb question: I just pumped 10 gallo

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Transmission to shaft coupling bolts sheared '07 H38 flightlead404 at 9:20am 06.20.22 Thanks. I meant, order of operations in the sense that bolt broke and the other backed off, or on
Keel didn't line up in the cradle (2) danooxnard at 9:19am 06.20.22 I got these on Amazon they make it super easy to get on the trailer. Made the whole experience much
Battery Gene Neill at 9:18am 06.20.22 NO! At least not without overcoming some fitment issues. That is a group 27 battery, you want a grou
Keel didn't line up in the cradle brockangelo at 9:17am 06.20.22 Haha that last one from the day you brought it home made me chuckle. I might actually try to do the
How do you keep the birds at bay? (1) Kermit at 9:15am 06.20.22
Transmission to shaft coupling bolts sheared '07 H38 (1) JamesG161 at 9:14am 06.20.22 Yeah, don't know the order of operation here.
Keel didn't line up in the cradle (5) pclarksurf at 9:09am 06.20.22 Stock Sail Rite trailer with the ridiculously too small foot print to capture the keel-- lot's of go
Battery danooxnard at 8:59am 06.20.22 I have two of these on my Cat-22. They are great batteries. Used them in an RV too. In the RV they
New Hunter 19-2 update richiemx5 at 8:58am 06.20.22 Hey thank for the reply. He has knots in some areas that are preventing me from lowering it. Its li
New Hunter 19-2 update (1) Henry Scurlock at 8:56am 06.20.22 These are about the best images I could find of the uphaul setup. Hope it gives you a better idea of
New Hunter 19-2 update Panotaker at 8:54am 06.20.22
2GM20F V-Belt for Alternator Suri at 8:50am 06.20.22 Have you used the alternator bracket to take up or supply slack to the belt you are using ? a Yanm
Battery Ward H at 8:41am 06.20.22 I had one of those in my O'day 25. Started the season fully charged and charged again once in th
How do you keep the birds at bay? kappykaplan at 8:35am 06.20.22 @kermie @Kermit
Anchor violently "jumps" onto bow roller jssailem at 8:34am 06.20.22 you can go to deep water and deploy all chain and let the chain remove a lotof twist. Just don't h
How do you keep the birds at bay? jssailem at 8:30am 06.20.22 That sounds much better. We had a sailor named @Kermit here at SBO. He and an Osprey became unfrien
Removing old Thru-Hull brockangelo at 8:24am 06.20.22 You'll be happy to have the through-hull drains. That was one of the last things I did before I move
Transmission to shaft coupling bolts sheared '07 H38 flightlead404 at 8:24am 06.20.22 Sure sounds logical Ralph. If one bolt looks like it backed out, It is possible (my non-empirical
helm canopy (1) jssailem at 8:23am 06.20.22 Bimini or Umbrella...
Transmission to shaft coupling bolts sheared '07 H38 flightlead404 at 8:22am 06.20.22 If one's bad, two's worse. Over torquing is not required to ensure the nuts stay put. To make sur

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