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Build Your Own Boom Vang? CrawJac at 1:46pm 10.17.11 Ask All Sailors 15/16883 After a good day on the water Saturday (be jealous Northerners! :D) I'm thinking about building my o
Back on the Bay Sanders at 12:07pm 10.17.11 The Cherubini Hunters 2/1260 We had Good News out for a great sail Saturday on San Franscisco Bay, winds around 20 knots or more.
Anchorlift brand windlass???? Florida sail at 11:54am 10.17.11 Ask All Sailors 3/1410 Hi, Is anyone familiar with a windlass brand by the name of Anchorlift? I am looking for a windlass
Blue Angels at Pensacola NAS TFrere at 11:43am 10.17.11 Ask All Sailors 5/2046 Have any of you ever watched the Blue Angels from your boat at their Pensacola NAS show? If so, wh
Can You Tweek Another Tenth of a Knot Here? (1) RobertLangdirect at 11:14am 10.17.11 Sail Trim with Don Guillette 7/4797 Sir; I sailed sunfish, AMF dolphin, (or maybe it was a bath tub), and lasers before getting a Hunt
Cover Tie Down Nodak7 at 11:05am 10.17.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 0/821 Help! Looking for some advice regarding tie down of a boat cover. I had a Fairclough Cover for my
Cut a big hole in my boat (5) rgranger at 11:02am 10.17.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 6/1766 You all might remember a guy on this forum named Bill who had his keel fall off of his Mac V222 earl
Need help Identifying a boat please (4) jdcliffy at 10:28am 10.17.11 AMF 6/14432 I need help identifying a sailboat made by AMF Alcort. From end to end, the boat measures about 14'
water leak under refrigerator and sink onto the teak floor eganbj at 10:21am 10.17.11 Big Boats 3/1795 I recently purchased a 1996 376 Hunter and have a water leak under the refrigerator and sink area th
O'Day 26 Nose ring issue impulse II at 9:56am 10.17.11 Ask An Oday Owner 3/1295 Hello All, Well, I say nose ring but what I mean is the ubolt there on the bow for attaching a moor
Bored? timebandit at 9:24am 10.17.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 4/1173 Are you bored? Wanna be a better sailor? Winter got your boat land locked? Just wanna have som
Crusing in an O'day 23? hman at 8:57am 10.17.11 Day Sailers 11/2362 http://content.yudu.com/A1u0mu/48NOct11/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl= An article from 48 north
blistering again wojciech at 8:52am 10.17.11 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/1248 In a recent haul out, to replace my keel bolts, I discovered that my hull has the "pox"again. A litt
Question on genoa lead adjuster CCHer at 7:47am 10.17.11 Catalina 310 5/5474 As the 2nd seasoon with my 310 comes to a close I have determined that a genoa car adjuster would be
Thru-hulls winterizing Brian L.20665 at 7:21am 10.17.11 Ask All Sailors 8/6815 For first time, I'm leaving my boat in the water over winter. Is there anything different I need to
Anybody Know The 1990's Battery Buddy? rardiH36 at 7:04am 10.17.11 Ask All Sailors 4/1945 At a water-front flea market, I came across a still new in the box "Battery Buddy - Marine Version",
Hunter 28.5 Rudder Issue twogoats at 6:50am 10.17.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/1617 I was lucky enough to hit a sand bar a few weeks ago and now have a rudder problem. The rudder move
Like I needed another hole in my head. (4) rgranger at 6:44am 10.17.11 Trailer Sailors 14/6250 I went and did it. I purchased another trailer sailboat this morning. So last night I got board
gaskets leaking - 1987 O'Day 40 jtallen2489 at 6:12am 10.17.11 Ask An Oday Owner 1/1037 All of the gaskets in my ports need to be replaced. Problem is I can't figure out who made them so I
Spar supplier? patrscoe at 6:10am 10.17.11 S2 17/3006 After looking through a old sailing log, I found out that in 1989, the first owner of our recently p

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engine hours Paul356 at 12:11pm 07.25.22 My H356 did not have one, so I added it. A little odometer type thing. It turned out to be easy.
How soon is to soon? jon hansen at 12:09pm 07.25.22 buy your boat on the great lakes. fresh water boat. then sail her to the sea. do not buy a used sa
Murdered 170 Centerboard Crazy Dave Condon at 12:09pm 07.25.22 Cannot recall but let me ask. dsve
How soon is to soon? Allowishish at 12:00pm 07.25.22 So to clarify a couple items. The plan is retirement live aboard cruising starting in 2-1/2 years.
How soon is to soon? stickinthemud57 at 11:38am 07.25.22 A tad confused. Could you clarify the following? Since your current boat is a 27-footer, I'm assumi
stormy chi=mac Tally Ho at 11:37am 07.25.22
How soon is to soon? Dil at 11:33am 07.25.22 starting the process is the key, me and my wife have been discussing this same thing. leaving NJ mov
How soon is to soon? dlochner at 11:09am 07.25.22 In my experience, it doesn't take long to find a suitable boat unless you are extremely picky. So t
How soon is to soon? Calif. Ted at 10:57am 07.25.22 Is it correct to assume you want the larger retirement boat in a place other than Colorado ? Paying
Catalina 380 lift/Davit for Dinghy dlochner at 10:56am 07.25.22 550 lbs is pretty heavy, it will require a really beefy davit system and probably a power assisted h
Spinnaker Halyard. dlochner at 10:51am 07.25.22 I was out the other day - let out the Genoa but the didn't come out all the way looked liked a coup
Catalina 380 lift/Davit for Dinghy shea0613 at 10:46am 07.25.22
Stopping engine jviss at 10:45am 07.25.22 Definitely shut engine down before turning the key. Have you killed the diodes in your alternator
How soon is to soon? Don S/V ILLusion at 10:32am 07.25.22
Sailing from Potts Harbor to Ports Harbor (approx. 160 nm) on the 1975 30 ' Albin Ballad DArcy at 10:31am 07.25.22 Years ago we made this trip in the heat of summer. We found good relief by blocking the cockpit sc
2022 PacificNW Weather Update jssailem at 10:20am 07.25.22
Lake Montauk NYSail at 10:13am 07.25.22 Anchored there many times when I lived in NY. You have to follow a channel when you first enter, th
Raspberry Pi Boat Monitoring mgrouch at 10:01am 07.25.22 You can give a try to BBN Marine OS. There are more options for monitoring dashboards. Via NodeRed,
Spinnaker Halyard. Scott T-Bird at 9:57am 07.25.22 That is halyard wrap and the only way to prevent it is to keep the halyard away from the halyard swi
How soon is to soon? Hollyberry at 9:47am 07.25.22 If your interim 'storage' location is remote from where you live, on-the-hard makes more sense once

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