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Questions about hull defects. (4) Ward H at 9:56pm 12.28.12 Ask An Oday Owner 6/1561 Closely inspected the exterior hull and bottom of my O'day today. The bottom paint was very thick an
Water Water Everywhere IN MY BOAT! Ward H at 9:20pm 12.28.12 Ask An Oday Owner 10/2018 I know I have/had a slight rain-water leak and have had about an 1" of water in the bilge on and off
Bent Boom TR6 at 5:08pm 12.28.12 Mid-Size Boats 2/1633 Anyone have experience of trying to straighten a slightly bent boom ? It is bent at the mainsheet mo
Freezing Ballast in 23.5 Browndog68 at 4:37pm 12.28.12 Smaller Boats 20/4875 The temps have been cold here in Kansas this past week. Parts of the lake have frozen, including ar
Catalina 375 Owners??? Hummingbird1 at 2:55pm 12.28.12 Big Boats 1/2183 Am I the only one?
Mainsail slug size Don Crowther at 2:35pm 12.28.12 Big Boats 3/1904 Hello fellow H 34 owners: I'm needing to find out the slug/slide size for my mainsail. I thought I
Nav System Ideas FredV at 2:24pm 12.28.12 The Cherubini Hunters 4/1662 The "Laptop Navigation" thread prompts me to ask about other navigation options. I've been playing w
Autopilot/seatalk/gps rdees at 12:39pm 12.28.12 Ask A Beneteau Owner 7/6397 I have a '93 OC400. Recently purchased an Autohelm 7000+ autopilot contol head to replace the 7000
Need Mast 22' - 1981 fdc at 12:07pm 12.28.12 Smaller Boats 2/1028 I had the rare accident of losing my mast while sailing my 1981 Hunter 22 this past summer and I'm l
Southern California Coast sailing with a Mac walt at 10:51am 12.28.12 Ask A Macgregor Owner 12/2578 I lived in LA (Huntington Beach and then Long Beach) for a few years a LONG time ago and spent a lot
Battens oday630 at 9:45am 12.28.12 Sail Trim with Don Guillette 11/10085 My mainsail has 4 battens, the top batten is full length. I believe these battens are original to th
Zebra mussels... whats the risks? Jackdaw at 8:23am 12.28.12 Ask All Sailors 17/5309 After being 'introduced' in Lake Minnetonka 2 years ago, these things have exploded, pretty much cov
Battery Out-gassing question Stan Breaux at 7:58am 12.28.12 Ask All Sailors 5/3992 I have a 1996 Catalina 36 MKII with two 4D batteries and a separate starting/reserve battery. I'm
Luck Roger Long at 7:38am 12.28.12 Roger Long - Cruising on Strider 9/6468 I seldom run the fuel as low as I have and learned this morning that the gauge on the second tank
Salon Table BWagner at 6:19am 12.28.12 Big Boats 5/1743 Hi All, On our 426DS the salon table is supposed to lower so that you can use the supplied filler c
Dodger for Catalina 310 deke at 5:47am 12.28.12 Ask A Catalina Owner 4/1877 I'm trying to find a 310 in the St. Petersburg, Fl. Area so JSI can measure to enable their building
Two forestays on ODay 19? weh5748 at 4:15am 12.28.12 Day Sailers 5/1941 When I bought my Oday 19 this past spring it had the normal forestay and jib but also had an extra j
Need a mast for 1983 Catalina 22 Hobart08 at 8:52pm 12.27.12 Catalina 22 5/5174 Hello - I toppled my mast for my 1983 Catalina 22 and desperately need a replacement mast. Catalina
Need a mast for 1983 Catalina 22 Hobart08 at 8:49pm 12.27.12 Parts Search 4/17992 I toppled my mast on my 1983 Catalina 22 and can use a mast from the mid 1970's until 1985. I need
No power to Anchor Windlass jamesajones2855 at 4:27pm 12.27.12 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/1722 What is the typical problem where electric power does not reach the anchor windlass?

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F'ing mice JBP-PA at 7:02am 04.10.23 I can imagine your disappointment. I stored sails in my barn once and learned that lesson. On the b
Removing Dyneema Core Project_Mayhem at 7:02am 04.10.23 Yup, I read it wrong. You will have to match the core size, which is slightly larger than 1/8-inch.
Alternator temperatures MikeHoncho at 6:51am 04.10.23 Surface temps of the surface they are reflecting off of only. A further example is they do not regis
Spreader blocks location fred1diver at 6:49am 04.10.23 Thank you
F'ing mice Crazy Dave Condon at 6:43am 04.10.23 I bet it could be mice or squirrels. Before covering the mainsail again, add a few mothballs. It
F'ing mice chriscampbell at 6:42am 04.10.23 Where did you store the sail? We left it on the boom. When we put her away for the season I looked
F'ing mice Don S/V ILLusion at 6:38am 04.10.23 Where did you store the sail?
Centerboard/Swing Keel Removal - Hunter 240 Crazy Dave Condon at 6:37am 04.10.23 @TreeRog there is now under documentation on the hunter 240 boat information a detailed explanatio
Posting Guidelines Ward H at 5:57am 04.10.23 I've been trying out Video Editor apps for pre-editing on the phone right on the boat. Amazing tool
Spreader blocks location garymalmgren at 5:52am 04.10.23 Any set rule on how far from the mast to install them? Starboard spreader. halfway between mast an
Bottom paint. What have I gotten myself into? glanrock at 5:27am 04.10.23 I'm curious what you did about the cracks you found. Did you paint over them with epoxy primer? Did
Posting Guidelines TomY at 5:19am 04.10.23 Timely thread. I'm immersed in a self-imposed Youtube -'Shoot video on DSLR and Iphone'- crash cours
Removing Dyneema Core thinwater at 4:38am 04.10.23 The Warpspeed line has a Dyneema core so I figured that would be a Dyneema to Dyneema splice unless
Furlex 100s Bearing Tube Problem (3) KursadT at 4:29am 04.10.23
Alternator temperatures danooxnard at 4:25am 04.10.23 The FLIR and infrared heat guns only see the surface temperature. They do not seen inside things or
Install wash down pump? Slipin Away at 1:35am 04.10.23 See my solution to simple wash down Located under hunter 45cc modifications
Alternator temperatures Hayden Watson at 10:58pm 04.09.23 TICs (thermal imaging cameras) are notorious for being way off on the temps represented by the cros
Alternator temperatures MikeHoncho at 9:00pm 04.09.23 TICs (thermal imaging cameras) are notorious for being way off on the temps represented by the cross
Escape Rumba - Mast Replacement (4) rgranger at 8:33pm 04.09.23 Here pics of the one I had tos 214493 214494 214495 If they were about 50% bigger I might still hav
Escape Rumba - Mast Replacement rgranger at 8:28pm 04.09.23

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