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Small fin ahead of rudder? Baby skeg? (1) HeelBoy at 5:43am 10.13.22 Ask All Sailors 23/2828
Winter Cover Jstonge at 2:48am 10.13.22 Ask A Hunter Owner 19/2530 I keep my Hunter 280 in Portland Maine. This year my marina is requiring a custom cover or shrink w
Gel Coat Spider. Bill Groves at 7:48pm 10.12.22 Grampian 11/4313 Is there a relatively easy way to fill in gel coat spider cracks that still makes deck look OK?
Plexus Tater at 3:31pm 10.12.22 Day Sailers 8/3239 So, if I search "Plexus" on the Web, I get a multitude of products. Even a refined search including
Painting old boat. Bill Groves at 9:50am 10.12.22 Grampian 3/1266 I have a 1974 - 26' Grampian. The hull is in good condition. Can anyone suggest a paint which can
dry dock Gabriel74 at 9:33am 10.12.22 Ask All Sailors 4/984 i need to get my 28 ft sloop out of the water to redo the underside paint. my 2 years is up. my boat
26' Grampian Name Plates. Bill Groves at 9:30am 10.12.22 Grampian 4/1176 Does any company redo name plates on side of cabin and at cabin entryway? Does any company sell the
Raymarine electronics hookup help (3) Frill at 5:02am 10.12.22 Ask All Sailors 14/1532 I am trying to get farmiliar with the boat eletronics such as chart plotter, Ais, and auto helm. I a
Hunter 27-3 furling mast woes SteveandMaryAnn at 6:04pm 10.11.22 Mid-Size Boats 7/1556 On our new-to-us 2005 Hunter 27-3 has a US Spars furling mast with Doyle Sails. We broke the halyar
Anodes, test cell, fresh water & hull potential. SycloneDriver at 5:58pm 10.11.22 Ask All Sailors 36/4810 I have recently taken an interest in anodes and underwater corrosion. In all the time I've had boat
US Spars mast parts SteveandMaryAnn at 5:25pm 10.11.22 Parts Search 1/922 I am looking for a halyard swivel on a US Spars z300 mast from 2005.
Transom seat in sugar scoop 1997 340 (paint?) TRS80sailor at 1:53pm 10.11.22 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/1804 What would you use to paint the underside of the seat (that you flip when you access the sugar scoop
Advice on instruments (1) Cederholm at 1:13pm 10.11.22 Ask All Sailors 33/3621 Hi all, I'm refurbishing a 1980 Catalina 30 for coastal cruising in and around Long Island sound.
I bought it, now for the cribs... (1) HeelBoy at 12:21pm 10.11.22 Ask A Macgregor Owner 9/1665
IN Boom Main Sail Furling Albern at 10:19am 10.11.22 Mid-Size Boats 10/2361 Anyone have experience installing in boom furling on their catalina 315 Mine has in mast furling n
Invest 93L --> Tropical Storm Karl (1) JamesG161 at 7:37am 10.11.22 Weather and Forecasting 1/1514 Popped up this morning in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Looking like a Rain event since a lot of V
Beneteau 311 swing, center board version comments beny235 at 6:45am 10.11.22 Ask A Beneteau Owner 0/743 We are very interested to hear your comments on the sailing performance of this boat, on all points
Where can I find taller stanchions ? xavpil at 5:05am 10.11.22 Ask All Sailors 6/1343
Cleaning bilge smell from carpet? adamv at 8:36pm 10.10.22 Ask All Sailors 7/1107 Through an unfortunate combination of maintanence failures (leaky stuffing box + corroded off altern
Dual engine controllers confusion xavpil at 7:43pm 10.10.22 Ask All Sailors 25/2572 i just bought a used Catalina 27 and the dual engine controllers confuses me. I get that the longest

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Black some on start of my Hunter 28 (2GM20G Yanmar engine) garymalmgren at 9:55pm 07.26.25 Just to add. With a deck fill, black plastic semi-rigid hose is used as a marker stick. On the initi
Its funny Friday! (3) JamesG161 at 9:30pm 07.26.25 233253 and 233254 finally 233255 Jim... aka Chemical Engineer
Fuel gauge location jssailem at 9:11pm 07.26.25 If you have a plastic tank and can see the fuel in the tank. You can shine a flashlight in to the f
Black some on start of my Hunter 28 (2GM20G Yanmar engine) garymalmgren at 7:49pm 07.26.25
Fuel gauge location smokey73 at 7:39pm 07.26.25 You might try looking for a mechanical gauge on the top of the tank.
Black some on start of my Hunter 28 (2GM20G Yanmar engine) Seb6226$ at 7:09pm 07.26.25 All works well for some reason since I changed the oil and the filter. Fingers crossed. Thanks to al
Power at ignition On & Off oscar326 at 6:30pm 07.26.25 Hi there, I have a hunter 326 2002, can anyone help? Ignition is in and off with power. When its of
Power at ignition On & Off dlochner at 6:22pm 07.26.25 Is this a Yanmar?
Low-Stretch Halyards actually worth it for cruising? dLj at 6:14pm 07.26.25 Say the halyard is tensioned to 1000 pounds. You increase mainsheet tension 200 pounds. The tension
Electrical charging problem DaveJ at 5:33pm 07.26.25 :facepalm:
Its funny Friday! Captain Larry-DH at 4:01pm 07.26.25
Merit 22 owners (2) grumpygiant at 3:54pm 07.26.25 So it begins 1985 merit 23 currently called sqamp thing by my son
Low-Stretch Halyards actually worth it for cruising? thinwater at 3:37pm 07.26.25 @thinwater I'm not following exactly. graph on the left hand side of the graph prior to the yield
Catalina 22 Step bolt sadsailor at 3:28pm 07.26.25 Thank You just to be safe I took it to a professional welder he is filling in the hole and then re d
Marina Maneuvers capta at 1:46pm 07.26.25 I think I probably have pulled in stern first. Take your boat to an open slip or dock somewhere and
Rough running M25XPB at low idle Tally Ho at 1:43pm 07.26.25 Can you make a little movie to post of the engine idling (show the engine so we can see how much it
Current Predictions Several Weeks Out capta at 1:26pm 07.26.25 Looking at that bit of chart reminded me how much fun, and how interesting that area would be to sai
Garmin GPSMap 276C - Worth Keeping? capta at 1:17pm 07.26.25 It is a $400 to $500 unit and a Garmin to boot. How could you go wrong to get it operating properly
Electrical charging problem Davidasailor26 at 12:54pm 07.26.25 And just to be clear I mean a portable multimeter that you can use to probe different spots in DC an
Low-Stretch Halyards actually worth it for cruising? (1) dLj at 12:38pm 07.26.25 If, like many cruisers, you set the luff tight and forget it, there will be NO STRETCH unless the w

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