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Wooden Plug Thingy twodzusfittings at 7:13am 09.10.12 Smaller Boats 2/964 As an FYI. One of the items on the safety equipment list I believe mandatory is a set of wooden plug
Digital Thermostat Refrigerator Spill Over Box (2) Bryce Custer at 6:28am 09.10.12 Big Boats 16/11488 Many with spill over refrigerators have been fighting temperature control for years. Finally have wo
New or used parts art696 at 6:26am 09.10.12 Grampian 1/12440 I am new owner of Grampian 26. There are some parts that need to be replace. Where can I buy them? A
De-funk-ifying your cabin cushions 23 foot Escape at 11:20pm 09.09.12 Ask All Sailors 20/14885 This is a call to all who have dealt with buying an all too neglected sailboat. My own being a Hunte
Introducing Myself DavyBones at 10:42pm 09.09.12 Ask All Sailors 6/1831 Greetings Everyone, In some of the other forums I am a part of there are places to introduce yourse
Advice on travel San Diego to Mexico Kordie at 9:57pm 09.09.12 Ask All Sailors 3/1305 Hey guys, Getting ready to leave Australia for a bit. I fly into SD later this month en route to m
Boat pixs Brad Woodward at 9:48pm 09.09.12 Catalina 30 1/1449 The Admiral and I went for the day out to the Coronado Islands off of San Diego yesterday. We saw a
Unique Sail One-Upmanship ... Me First "Blue-Dot-Pox" (1) rardiH36 at 9:24pm 09.09.12 Ask All Sailors 9/2437 Anybody put creative juices into doing a special look for the most visible part of your boat when ou
Newport 30 Advise steveas0321 at 7:34pm 09.09.12 Newport 3/5382 I am currently entertaining the thought of buying a Newport 30 that has been severely neglected by t
Catalina 25---27 littlescoop at 7:09pm 09.09.12 Smaller Boats 6/2531 Just sold my cat 22 with swing keal... Does anyone know what is the next step up....I'm ready to pu
C-30 Opening Ports - Do they exist? DHooper at 7:06pm 09.09.12 Catalina 30 23/6629 I have a 1981 Catalina 30 and interested in replacing the standard fixed ports with opening ports. U
sold littlescoop at 7:05pm 09.09.12 Catalina 22 6/1371 Sold my cat 22 today and now looking for a bigger swing keal...any help on whats good I would apprec
NOT A CRUISER ANY MORE, sob, sob..... capta at 6:52pm 09.09.12 Ask All Sailors 12/3611 As resistant to new ideas as us old sea dogs are, sometimes we must bend with the wind. So after acc
tangled halyard mortyd at 5:30pm 09.09.12 Catalina 30 24/4987 once in a while we return to the boat to find the main halyard tangled around the mast and tangled t
Autohelm ST60 manual Grant0449 at 5:28pm 09.09.12 Mid-Size Boats 1/1340 Does anyone know where I can get an ST60 operating manual? I am having trouble setting the depth me
topping lift question mortyd at 5:25pm 09.09.12 Catalina 30 8/4558 our boat is a late mkii and we need to replace the topping lift. doing what the p.o. did is no answe
Things that go splash. UPSGUY at 4:32pm 09.09.12 Catalina 22 27/3416 Perhaps I'm a little clumsy . But when rigging the main don't you think we could rig something bette
Right of way? dparilla at 4:28pm 09.09.12 Ask All Sailors 44/7914 So I am coming home after a great afternoon sail, we have just dropped the main and furled the jib t
Sacrificial Cloth on Head Sail (1) DinoKanuck at 4:03pm 09.09.12 Ask All Sailors 8/6713 Ahoy from Balmy New Brunswick: Got a first look at a potential boat yesterday and saw that a headsa
Boat possessed by devil. Chris Patterson at 3:58pm 09.09.12 Catalina 22 33/4120 Here's a strange one. Of course, coming from me, what else could it be. Leaving the boat this after

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Cleats?????? C_Level at 9:11pm 03.10.23 Timely question! I have an '84, in a slip year round, no moon tide but occasionally a significant
Dyneema for Boom Topping Lift, Thoughts? rgranger at 9:09pm 03.10.23 I had a rope topping on my H26
Can anyone tell me what this hole is? rgranger at 9:00pm 03.10.23 I had an H 26 for years and did not have that access hole. I was going to suggest the same thing a
To lead lines aft or not? Dalliance at 8:56pm 03.10.23 I have all lines led back to the cockpit. Most of the pros and cons described above are valid. I s
My Malware protection is blocking SBO Leeward Rail at 8:54pm 03.10.23 There was no breach, no Russians, and no Chinese balloons involved. As you were, gentlemen. Appare
My Malware protection is blocking SBO Leeward Rail at 8:39pm 03.10.23 Sounds like you have AVG antivirus on your computer or somewhere on your network. Some antiviruses
Galley fiddle touch up (3) hvac&r tech at 8:38pm 03.10.23 I finally got back up to my boat to do this. Went to the Bellingham Sherwin Williams store and they
Dyneema for Boom Topping Lift, Thoughts? garymalmgren at 8:34pm 03.10.23 Why are you thinking of Dyneema over normal, cheap, easy-to-handle 8mm double braid? A topping lift
My Malware protection is blocking SBO Justin_NSA at 8:12pm 03.10.23 Okay. I can stand down. All is well. :biggrin:
My Malware protection is blocking SBO Phil Herring at 7:51pm 03.10.23 The certificate expired at 4pm Pacific and has been replaced. It looks to me like there was some con
My Malware protection is blocking SBO Tally Ho at 7:44pm 03.10.23 What you're seeing isn't the SBO cert at all. Sounds like you have AVG antivirus on your computer
My Malware protection is blocking SBO Davidasailor26 at 7:39pm 03.10.23 Any decent web browser today would block access due to the Certificate having expired or being issu
My Malware protection is blocking SBO (1) Davidasailor26 at 7:37pm 03.10.23 All back to normal.
Dyneema for Boom Topping Lift, Thoughts? Davidasailor26 at 7:32pm 03.10.23
Dyneema for Boom Topping Lift, Thoughts? Tally Ho at 7:28pm 03.10.23
Hunter 320 holding tank Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 7:27pm 03.10.23 Hi Will...welcome to sbo.com! 'Twould be helpful to know the year of the boat. If it's pre-1990s,
Check valve in head plumbing? Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 7:16pm 03.10.23 No...there should not be a check valve before or after the joker valve in any toilet. And after loo
Proper prop size tartan 33 jssailem at 7:05pm 03.10.23 I do not know the pitch. I can check the diameter. It is stored in my garage. I was thing of using i
Rutgerson clutch maintenance Tally Ho at 7:05pm 03.10.23
Funny Friday!!! (1) Tally Ho at 7:00pm 03.10.23 213640

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