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What sailors do.... (1) tcbro at 5:29am 03.02.12 Ask All Sailors 9/2052 What sailors do...
basic tacking question abruzzi at 9:49pm 03.01.12 Ask A Macgregor Owner 18/3005 Two weekends ago I finally got my Mac 25 into the water for a test sail. The forecast on windfinder
Okay... justsomeguy at 9:00pm 03.01.12 Forum Help (Site Talk) 18/4315 I want to give props to a good response, via the "reputation" button, and the PTB tell me I've done
Sailing Magazine, April 1971 sheri carey at 6:46pm 03.01.12 Ask All Sailors 11/3065 Hi - I'm new to sailboats and to this forum so please forgive me if I'm asking the wrong question in
Sail cleaning jorgefife at 6:37pm 03.01.12 The Cherubini Hunters 6/1430 I know there was a posting here, but cannot find it I sold a sail for a Pearson 35 to someone in Flo
Attention 272 Owners! floridabob at 6:05pm 03.01.12 Ask An Oday Owner 2/1190 New owner here, but not new to sailing. Would love to hear your impressions on the 272's sailing cha
Sea Cocks (1) Michael Paull at 5:24pm 03.01.12 Ask A Beneteau Owner 0/1442 I own a Beneteau Oceanis 473 which was bought new in 2004 and am wondering if anyone has had a probl
Advice for a newbie on sailboat type jaybrown at 4:46pm 03.01.12 Trailer Sailors 22/5267 I'm new to the site, and fairly new to sailing. Although I have been boating since I was a little k
Calling all Fort Myers sailors!!! tahoetim at 2:27pm 03.01.12 Destinations 4/5804 Hello all! I'm Tim, a Lake Tahoe sailor who will be in Ft. Myers the week after next. I am running
Musing and Breaking Down Roger Long at 2:22pm 03.01.12 Roger Long - Cruising on Strider 6/2616 Droning along the long miles of the ICW alone provides lots of time for thinking. Without the input
rolling awlgrip paint salut! at 2:09pm 03.01.12 Ask All Sailors 10/11061 My 38' Catalina is in need of a paint job. Due to the high cost of a professional painter, I am plan
got my Defender order today :-) JK_Boston_Catalina310 at 2:06pm 03.01.12 Catalina 310 15/2414 And I just order it yesterday at 11:00 am and it had to shipped ground due to some of the items. Th
Straight Out Discharge Rick Webb at 1:09pm 03.01.12 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 10/3243 I am on the board of a nonprofit youth sailing program. We are looking at taking a donation of a boa
Daly's Oil vs Ship'n Shore Frank P at 1:04pm 03.01.12 Ask A Hunter Owner 18/11781
Life line fittings Art Butler at 12:30pm 03.01.12 Ask All Sailors 17/4619 Time to replace the life lines. I have decided on covered wire but am torn between machine swaged f
OC 381 Transom shower housing replacement stevemylescarinosa at 11:33am 03.01.12 Ask A Beneteau Owner 3/1955 Can anyone help me locate a replacement housing for the transom shower? It has sheared off and now
Problems Maintaining Straight Course oceanview2 at 10:50am 03.01.12 Ask A Macgregor Owner 17/1726 We Bought Our 2012 Macgregor 26m At The Factory Last Oct. Done As Much Sailing As Time Permits. On
V25 Transom Ladder ? Tsatzsue at 10:40am 03.01.12 Ask A Macgregor Owner 5/1388 Does anyone have a good suggestion on what kind of ladder I should get for a premanantly mounted, fo
mast rodgerkham at 9:24am 03.01.12 Smaller Boats 5/1304 I have been looking into the hunter 19-2 but I'm not straight on the length of the mast. any other
Hunter Keel assembly (1) robert dros at 9:01am 03.01.12 Big Boats 9/2247 I am in the process of buying a 2nd hand 376 and on survey we noticed a hairline crack on the right

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Catalina 30 Table/hardware pipedream at 8:43pm 03.22.22 My boat is a 1973, and many bits and pieces have been out of production for a long time. Lucky you l
1985 Pearson 303 Tally Ho at 7:59pm 03.22.22
1985 Pearson 303 The_Sailing_Pelican at 7:51pm 03.22.22
Rudder repairs Project_Mayhem at 7:50pm 03.22.22 You found foam inside the rudder? If so, I'm surprised. It seems so solid As for the filler/thicken
Black rubber stuff in bilge? Tally Ho at 7:49pm 03.22.22 Hmmm, if it seems to pull out without damaging the fiberglass, I would get a scraper and start clean
1985 Pearson 303 Tally Ho at 7:47pm 03.22.22
ICW actual state "of affairs" conditions The_Sailing_Pelican at 7:32pm 03.22.22 The Pearson 303 has a shallow draft and air draft of well under 65 feet, there should be few if any
Hatch handle Halvern at 7:15pm 03.22.22 My main hatch is a slider on top about half inch thick plexiglass (?) with the usual wood boards fac
Freezer repair, 2015 Oceanis 48 Roger F at 6:59pm 03.22.22 Thanks Harold that would be great!
Freezer loosing ability to freeze - something to clean? kbgunn at 6:29pm 03.22.22 Yes, you have to remove the freezer. There should be a trim ring around it with screws. Once remove
Semco Teak Sealer - progress photos (3) Hayden Watson at 6:28pm 03.22.22 I use the honeytone. Before any work on sprit 203699 after Semco 203700 The thing I like best abo
Lightning strike BigEasy at 5:53pm 03.22.22 do I need to go back with stainless rivetts or will normal pop rivetts do the job? Is there also a
Leave the refrigerator on or off? BigEasy at 5:45pm 03.22.22 One problem with turning it off & on is that it takes approximately 12 hours, during summer months,
Semco Teak Sealer - progress photos berner73 at 5:43pm 03.22.22 Got recommended the Semco Teak Sealer on this forum, so thought I'd post progress photos. I used Se
Leave the refrigerator on or off? Tally Ho at 5:10pm 03.22.22
ICW actual state "of affairs" conditions dlochner at 4:50pm 03.22.22 Why run the ditch the whole way? Why not pop into the ICW at specific locations and then pop back o
ICW actual state "of affairs" conditions dLj at 4:41pm 03.22.22 Why run the ditch the whole way? Why not pop into the ICW at specific locations and then pop back ou
Lightning strike (2) HandHFarms at 4:12pm 03.22.22 So my question here is this. For the mast head it appears that it was just rivetted on. Is this corr
Freezer repair, 2015 Oceanis 48 HaroldW at 4:10pm 03.22.22 I had the same issue on a 2013 Beneteau Oceanis 50. I replaced the evaporator coil. I am an hvac tec
Semco Teak Sealer - progress photos brockangelo at 4:09pm 03.22.22 I should have done their cleaner first. I sanded the boards down, but I feel like they would have be

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