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When do you call it quits for the season? tsell at 2:27pm 10.04.12 Ask All Sailors 61/6715 Faced with the task of winterizing the boat, I keep putting it off, hoping to squeeze another day or
1982 C&C, Mark 1 Leo Crowley at 1:08pm 10.04.12 Ask All Sailors 2/1147 Our 1982 C'C 30 is fitted with an Atomic 4 and this past summer we experienced motor problems such t
looking for nice marinas VA/NC/SC KD3PC at 12:11pm 10.04.12 Ask All Sailors 7/1341 Planning the next phase of our boat life and hoping to explore these states a lot more in depth.....
Oday 192 rain leak Rpkoday at 10:21am 10.04.12 Ask An Oday Owner 1/1016 I have an '86 192 oday. I'm on a moring in brackish water. This year it's been taking on a good dea
Lowering mast for bridges 8826d at 9:56am 10.04.12 Ask A Macgregor Owner 9/4440 Greetings! I am new to this forum and sailing - just to get that out of the way... I have seen al
H36 Arch Removal for Transport PKFK at 9:05am 10.04.12 Big Boats 6/1595 Hi - The search fiunction seems to be giving strange results - so apoliogies if this has been cove
Can I go with this weekend..? Squidd at 8:58am 10.04.12 Ask All Sailors 38/4079 I am so lucky... Heard that question from my wife as I was planning my week out eariler... She h
Motor mount disintegrating? Pinch at 6:29am 10.04.12 Ask A Beneteau Owner 4/1425 Has anyone seen a single motor mount disintegrating (appears as black rubber dust particles) on Ben
Wind Vane Self Steering on a Hunter 37 Cutter (9) Jim Legere at 5:11am 10.04.12 The Cherubini Hunters 12/6768 A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting a fellow H37 Cutter owner (Rainer of Fred V) for
lowering mast for the first time on hunter 23.5 sailboat738 at 4:31am 10.04.12 Smaller Boats 22/8133 hi guys i bought my boat in water at the marina i keep it at this is the first time working with
In-mast Furling/Main sail head/ H340 HELP Soul Surfer at 4:13am 10.04.12 Mid-Size Boats 4/1451 So the webbing on the top of my main sail broke last week while sailing. Yesturday I picked up my re
Winterizing The Diesel Myself Ducati at 3:51am 10.04.12 Ask All Sailors 11/3859 Our boat has a Volvo MD2030 and last season I watched my mechanic winterizing the motor. I belie
Alternative Prop Shaft stuffing/Packing material syoun10 at 9:06pm 10.03.12 Mid-Size Boats 6/2761 My 2006 Hunter 33 bilge always has some water in it, and I've thought that that is the norm. Howeve
1974 Irwin 25' Help please (windows) (1) mwadkins at 8:14pm 10.03.12 Irwin 7/3355 Ok so we just bought our first boat a 1974 Irwin 25. One thing that drives my husband crazy is the b
Mast halyards lbsailor at 7:46pm 10.03.12 Smaller Boats 7/2053 We just bought a Hunter 18.5 from someone who didn't use it for 13 years and couldn't show us how to
Looking at H37C PamC at 7:07pm 10.03.12 The Cherubini Hunters 12/2234 Hi All, My husband and I are going to look at a Hunter Cherubini 37 on Saturday. I'm looking for
Starting to think about winterizing capejt at 7:00pm 10.03.12 Ask All Sailors 4/1354 Hi all, Winterizing isn't a new concept to me, but the past few winters (including the upcoming seas
1976 Pearson 26 auction drumbeater at 6:16pm 10.03.12 Pearson 11/6152 We got high and only bid on a boat at our sailing club in Augusta Ga. It needs cleaning but looks so
sailing in New York late oct early november robstone40 at 5:35pm 10.03.12 Destinations 3/2638 O bought a 25' fixed keel sailboat ( I own 3 other sail boats so this is nothing new) site unseen on
h37c local ads MATHURIN2 at 4:22pm 10.03.12 The Cherubini Hunters 3/1344 There is a h37c presently for sale in the local ads: http://www.lespac.com/vehicules/marins/st-pa

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Intake Silencer Ralph Johnstone at 2:29pm 05.25.22 Read this through with the usual cautions about forums. https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f54/co
Power cord conversion to 12V dlochner at 1:24pm 05.25.22 So it is safe to connect to house batteries with a series resistor of appropriate size. If the in
Power cord conversion to 12V JoeWhite at 1:19pm 05.25.22 The input of most electronic devices that uses external power supplies has a diode across the DC inp
DANGEROUS & Misguided efforts in the fight against climate change (1) JamesG161 at 1:18pm 05.25.22 I am even more concerned that a hydrogen economy will result in the extinction of most life on this
2004 Hunter 33 - Need a windlass fix or replacement (1) Scott B at 12:37pm 05.25.22 I installed the Lewmar VX2 couple years back.
Power cord conversion to 12V dlochner at 12:33pm 05.25.22 Only problem I know of doing that is the unlikely potential of a voltage spike frying the power boa
Power cord conversion to 12V Don S/V ILLusion at 12:25pm 05.25.22 Only problem I know of doing that is the unlikely potential of a voltage spike frying the power boar
Power cord conversion to 12V Scott B at 12:19pm 05.25.22 I've done that with 2 TV's I bought. Had the brick from 120v to 12v. Cut the wire and wired direct
Life Jacket recommendations brockangelo at 12:06pm 05.25.22 Thinking about falling overboard as a 500 ft cliff vs just "oh, I'll just swim back into the boat" i
DANGEROUS & Misguided efforts in the fight against climate change (1) rgranger at 11:51am 05.25.22 H2 + O3 ? H2O + O2 Yes, that reaction is correct. It is important to understand that 50% of the
DANGEROUS & Misguided efforts in the fight against climate change smokey73 at 11:51am 05.25.22 The Cal Tech article is interesting and confirms the recombination of H2 with O2 in the atmosphere a
MacGregor 25 Classification Giro at 11:43am 05.25.22 I would like to thank RichNils for the thoroughly thought-out feedback. His contribution to this for
Life Jacket recommendations Parsons at 11:41am 05.25.22 Agree with the comments and brand recommendations above, and I wear a Mustang HIT with harness. To s
Life Jacket recommendations Marmalade at 11:37am 05.25.22 (@Marmalade, where do you get one added for $16 bucks??) I added these to my WM Offshore. Honest
DANGEROUS & Misguided efforts in the fight against climate change walt at 11:29am 05.25.22 I think an assumption was made in the original post (If I am interpreting correctly) that any hydrog
can't pump out waste tank Windpilot at 11:18am 05.25.22 Thanks for the comments. I'm really hoping it's a deck pump cap. @JamesG161, since I was able to pu
Life Jacket recommendations brockangelo at 10:58am 05.25.22 Yeah, I looked at Mustangs. They were about 80% of the price of Spinlock's, so that's kind of why we
can't pump out waste tank Hayden Watson at 10:50am 05.25.22 Danger Will Robinson!!! Having a 2003 boat makes your macerator(s) almost 20 years old. You should
can't pump out waste tank (3) sabbatical88 at 10:45am 05.25.22 Thanks for the comments. I'm really hoping it's a deck pump cap. @JamesG161, since I was able to pum
can't pump out waste tank Windpilot at 10:40am 05.25.22 Or 1) air leaking Deck Pump out Cap. 2) Plugged Hold Tank Vent line In fact any air leaking into t

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