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Cleaning mildew from inaccessible areas GeorgeK at 2:52pm 04.05.12 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 3/3638 Hi Peggie. Do you have any suggestions for a safe and effective way to clean, or at least kill, mil
To climb the mast on 340 Mr.X-Ray at 2:41pm 04.05.12 Big Boats 4/1107 Well my wind indicator took a Hawk strike and is bent to about 45 degrees. Want to put new line on m
Which old charger? Dantodd at 2:19pm 04.05.12 Ask All Sailors 8/1358 Which old charger? Heart vs. Sentry I have 2 chargers onboard. One is a Sentry G140 (40 amp Ferro
C27 1980 Cutlass Bearing Set Screw or Brass Plug? Ajay73 at 2:01pm 04.05.12 Mid-Size Boats 4/1405 I have a 1980, C27 and want to replace my cutlass bearing. On most boats I see in the boatyard you
Need help to replace this part. (1) PGIJon at 1:58pm 04.05.12 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/956 Every hatch had one of these over the nut. No, not me, the hatch nut... However, when we acquired th
Oceanis 430 keel bolts CHM at 1:31pm 04.05.12 Ask A Beneteau Owner 0/1125 Just ordered a set from Beneteau - 10 - 20x70 bolts, 1 - 14x50 screw, 10 total washers. $149 delive
Rudder repair ridingdog at 1:23pm 04.05.12 Sabre Sailboats 0/16410 Has anyone taken a rudder out of a Sabre 36? I have a little play when moving my rudder fore and aft
Refinish my Mac 25 rudder davenlynn at 1:23pm 04.05.12 Ask A Macgregor Owner 7/1468 What would be the best paint (without costing an arm and a leg) to refinish the rudder? And what st
Mosquitoes Be Gone!!!!! (5) CaptGregg at 12:45pm 04.05.12 Ask A Catalina Owner 10/1737 A PO had some white Velcro around the front hatch base so I just took off on this project last night
Outboard Question. Help! GeorgiaBII at 12:31pm 04.05.12 Trailer Sailors 22/6626 Outboard Question. Help! Updated with results. I've got a chance to buy an electric start tiller-le
Outboard Question. Tillerless engine GeorgiaBII at 12:24pm 04.05.12 Day Sailers 11/1876 I've got a chance to buy an electric start tiller-less Eveinrude 9.9 for a good price. I'm tempted
Buying a 1987 Hunter 23.5 chris.n at 11:48am 04.05.12 Smaller Boats 14/4101 Hi all, I am new to Hunter sailboats and will be purchasing a 1987 Hunter 23.5 this weekend. I ha
Impeller Difference Ron Roman at 9:49am 04.05.12 Ask A Hunter Owner 6/913 I'm about to change the impeller and I noticed some impellers have a plastic insert and some have a
Hunter 37.5 mast Georgieboy at 8:57am 04.05.12 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/933 I am hoping that I can get some much needed info for a replacement mast and boom for my 1994 Hunter
Trace Inverter Question on AC Passthrough JMM at 8:13am 04.05.12 Ask All Sailors 4/2684 I have a question related to the operational behavior of an older Trace Inverter ( Model M1512 - 150
Hoses for cooling and engine Bigjer40 at 8:03am 04.05.12 Engines and Propulsion 5/2266 First boat you all, I need to replace a lot of hoses on my 1984 Westerbeke 10 Two. A few of these
Keel Walk Video higgs at 7:45am 04.05.12 Ask All Sailors 7/2025 This is cool: http://sailmagazine.com/web-favorites/keel-walk
Adding more batteries (1) Jim Seamans at 7:34am 04.05.12 Musings With Maine Sail 5/3059 Mainsail, To my current installation of 4 GC2 batteries, I plan to install another pair to provide m
Cracked Cockpit Sole ParamourII at 7:20am 04.05.12 Catalina 30 0/1059 Hi All, I had someone look at my boat yesterday to quote putting a teak sole in the cockpit. He
kamweh kamweh at 6:56am 04.05.12 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/812 Help!! Looking for some informaiton on replacing waste lines from head to tank. need diagram not

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Reuse shrink wrap? quadrille38 at 5:20pm 04.01.22 Oh yeah. Humping that cover up the boat ladder and lifting it over the boom was at the limit of my
Its funny Friday! (1) leo310 at 4:54pm 04.01.22 204001
Rescue? I must be missing something Will Gilmore at 4:45pm 04.01.22 How was this an emergency? Shouldn't they have called a tow boat instead? I can appreciate that 35
Looking for an Oday 240 or 272 cb32863 at 4:31pm 04.01.22 I understand difficulties finding boats close by, I drove from MN to FL for my current boat. It's a
Engine stalls when raising or lowering anchor SycloneDriver at 4:14pm 04.01.22 That's not so. Turning the key off will just shut off the field current for the alternator, and it
Bent Wing shemandr at 4:08pm 04.01.22 The best thing about the wing keel on the H356 and other H models is that it gets weight down low on
Honda 2000 vs. Lincoln 140 welder SycloneDriver at 3:48pm 04.01.22 Maybe borrow a 2nd Honda and parallel them or borrow a different generator. Stick welder? FYI Loo
Fender cleanup dmax at 3:33pm 04.01.22 You can use Comet, Barkeeper's Friend (which has Oxalic Acid), Mineral Spirits and/or a Magic Eraser
Its funny Friday! SFS at 3:25pm 04.01.22 Man it was weird reading that potato joke. I have a skiing buddy whose sister dated Tom Brokaw for a
Its funny Friday! (1) Will Gilmore at 3:16pm 04.01.22 In France, they would say that joke was 'og rotten.'
Honda 2000 vs. Lincoln 140 welder thinwater at 2:47pm 04.01.22 No shore power? Make an adapter. It also depends on what you are welding. Tubing and railings at 25
Air conditioning Scott T-Bird at 2:47pm 04.01.22 I see that ... there are not nearly as many on the market as we had 2 years ago. There are a couple
Its funny Friday! rgranger at 2:42pm 04.01.22 A girl Potato and boy Potato had eyes for each other, and finally they got married and had a little
Looking for a 50s/60s/70s sail boat to feature in a fashion photoshoot.. TomY at 2:23pm 04.01.22 would i want a plank on frame vessel today? no way :cool: After many years of familiarity with
Bent Wing Ken13559 at 1:27pm 04.01.22 My h326 shoal draft Wing Keel was bent upwards both sides once when I drove over a submerged breakwa
Looking for an Oday 240 or 272 cheeseNcrackers at 1:16pm 04.01.22
Re-Bedding a replacement through haul transducer AaronD at 1:14pm 04.01.22 My $.02 worth: My understanding is that you're right about using 4200 - butyl isn't the right produ
Bent Wing dLj at 1:09pm 04.01.22 Well-meaning strangers on the internet cannot remotely heal that wounded keel. A "laying on of han
Bent Wing dLj at 1:05pm 04.01.22 Try a magnet for iron metal. Lead is non-magnetic. Jim... Good first step. Won't tell you what th
Bent Wing FastOlson at 1:03pm 04.01.22 Interesting and potentially useful comments in this thread about keel material and repair. The poste

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