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How and Where Do Sailors Hang During Storm Season Ducati at 1:36pm 08.25.12 Ask All Sailors 8/1973 With this being the peak of tropical hurricane season, where and how do sailors deal with their vess
Irwin 28.5 kerryonc27 at 11:25am 08.25.12 Irwin 0/2740 Hi...we are looking at a 1981 Irwin 28.5, Yanmar deisel and wheel steering. Someone wrote me indicat
Prepping for blue water. frankiedogs at 10:33am 08.25.12 The Cherubini Hunters 16/3982 To piggyback off of bigjer40's thread, what would it take for a 33 or 37 Cherubini to be bluewater c
Shower Sumps nlkennedy at 9:53am 08.25.12 Ask A Beneteau Owner 2/1310 I have 2 heads on my Beneteau 46 and when a shower sump kicks on in one head to drain shower/sink, t
Passage 450 masthead block Chuck Cohen at 9:35am 08.25.12 Big Boats 2/909 Our spinnaker halyard emerges from the side of the mast about 1-2' below the top. It goes thru a blo
Punta Gorda seadaddler at 9:23am 08.25.12 Ask All Sailors 17/2468 I am in Arizona watching the weather so any sailors in PG please keep us posted on what is going on
Cruising San Francisco Bay Cool_Change at 6:25am 08.25.12 Big Boats 0/764 Hello... I'm attending the VM World Conference at the Moscone Center in San Fran this coming week (
What's My Line? (1) StanFM at 6:16am 08.25.12 Catalina 22 1/862 Saw this photo and couldn't resist... http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv139/stanfm/Sailing/lines.
Sam's Club Batteries Jim Seamans at 5:29am 08.25.12 Ask All Sailors 7/9527 Just letting you know that Sam's Club is now charging $15/battery for core charge. OUCH. Was $9
Beneteau stock batteries or AGM upgrade? zoya at 5:18am 08.25.12 Ask A Beneteau Owner 19/6627 I am being offered a $800 battery upgrade to AGM batteries on my new Beneteau Oceanis 41 3 batteries
Mutineer -I need to seperate the hull from deck rshwin at 9:18pm 08.24.12 Chrysler 1/51694 Hello All, I had read that someone atempted to seperate the hull from the deck on a Mutineer a few y
How to empty standpipe? Geoff K at 7:30pm 08.24.12 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 6/4605 Sail L. Superior; no discharge. Toilet to holding tank is a solid 1 1/2"PVC run except for the first
sails littlescoop at 7:18pm 08.24.12 Catalina 22 5/1670 Looking for a 100 or 110 jib for sail...I live in Monterey California
B393 Questions (Fresh water and waste tank) BCDurbin at 7:08pm 08.24.12 Ask A Beneteau Owner 14/7499 Well we finally got our '03 393 delivered to our home in SE VA. All manuals and some extras include
Loose Footed Main - Which Side of the Boom? Sam Salter at 6:26pm 08.24.12 Sail Trim with Don Guillette 14/6649 What side of the boom should a loose footed mainsail hang? One theory was that on the leeward side
Need help identifying 14 foot O'day (4) ErinM32 at 5:26pm 08.24.12 Day Sailers 15/7888 Hi, My dad and I are trying to restore an older O'day day sailer. We haven't been able to find a
Reanodizing mast? 25yearslater at 4:50pm 08.24.12 Ask All Sailors 27/10142 Hi gang. Has anyone had their mast reanodized? What type of pricing did you get? The RigRite #8 i
Stupid filters. Chris Patterson at 4:29pm 08.24.12 Ask All Sailors 6/1745 On my Westerbeke, I have a small fuel filter mounted on the engine proper, it came from the factory
Stays and shrouds size of wire Emory M at 2:40pm 08.24.12 Ask A Macgregor Owner 1/1161 Afternoon, I need to know wire size for my fore and back stays,also the shrouds. I have right now a
O'day Mariner or O'day 20? rwilliams125 at 2:20pm 08.24.12 Ask An Oday Owner 2/1653 Hi all, I've been looking at O'day Mariners for a while and have just started considering the O'day

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The keel... is done Project_Mayhem at 11:20pm 01.13.23 Beautiful work and nice shop!
VHF Cabling and Connectors Project_Mayhem at 11:15pm 01.13.23 The seller recommended this assembly. The price is great but it doesn't look terribly durable. Feel
old fixer upper. winter movie Joe at 9:01pm 01.13.23 I liked the vid..... but calling a boat project like that a "fixer upper" maked me chuckle.:D
Copper Antifouling/ablative coatings - how to? Joe at 8:54pm 01.13.23 Sanding for the purpose of removing flaking paint and roughing the surface to give a better mechanic
2008 H41DS w/ mixed Raymarine and Garmin artboas at 8:11pm 01.13.23 That is partially true. The SeaTalkNG network can also be powered by the SeaTalk1 network. If the S
The keel... is done patrickfarley at 8:01pm 01.13.23 Wow. Now I know what to do.
Rain water leaking in V berth jonelli at 7:52pm 01.13.23 I've determined my rain leak is mostly coming in from the V-Berth. Fills up in front of the water t
Copper Antifouling/ablative coatings - how to? Don S/V ILLusion at 7:33pm 01.13.23 Between the paint mfg web site and what is written on the side of the can, you should find all the a
Rain water through the mast jonelli at 7:26pm 01.13.23 Update: So, after caulking the mast wire conduit really well, I left the boat in another heavy rain.
Older sailers Ward H at 6:57pm 01.13.23 It's great to hear how many SBO members are still sailing in their 70s and some into their 80s. I st
Copper Antifouling/ablative coatings - how to? Davidasailor26 at 6:57pm 01.13.23 Depends on exactly what paint you have already on there. The paint companies have compatibility tabl
I fixed my GPS Rollover issue Richard19068 at 6:54pm 01.13.23 One day there will be a computer that types what our minds think... No! I think that would truel
I fixed my GPS Rollover issue Tally Ho at 6:15pm 01.13.23 One day there will be a computer that types what our minds think... Tell then I just hope my finger
The cycle of life (1) Ward H at 6:11pm 01.13.23 Phil, I'm another who greatly appreciates all you have done with this forum. SBO gave me a place to
VHF Cabling and Connectors Leeward Rail at 6:06pm 01.13.23 The dialectic in the cable, the braid, and the core wire also deteriorate due to moisture entering
Dock and Go Override How-to SycloneDriver at 6:00pm 01.13.23 That sounds like a very complicated system. Do you have a volt/ohm meter? Do you know how to use
It's never easy. Autopilot install. (1) SycloneDriver at 5:47pm 01.13.23 Look what arrived today. Now I h installing the wheel drive/motor.
VHF Cabling and Connectors Project_Mayhem at 5:18pm 01.13.23 Perhaps mine was abused by yard apes? it was broken in multiple places on deck
VHF Cabling and Connectors Don S/V ILLusion at 4:23pm 01.13.23 The ironic thing is that loom will break down in UV, at least most of them. I'll most likely use so
I fixed my GPS Rollover issue jssailem at 3:52pm 01.13.23 One day there will be a computer that types what our minds think... Tell then I just hope my finger

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