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Wobbly wheel. Rattlenebang at 9:50am 07.31.22 Ask A Beneteau Owner 7/1248 Hey all, Ive noticed on my 97 Oceanus 400 that the wheel is quite "wobbly". Removing the wheel I fin
Any Hawaii Big Island sailboat owners here? patagoniadave at 9:47am 07.31.22 Destinations 13/3384 In the ever changing ebb and flow of life, there is a possibility coming up that I can spend a coupl
just sailing jon hansen at 9:24am 07.31.22 Sails Call Lounge 3/984 Qmms913uBVs
Broken transom shower holder (1) arthur.goldberg at 8:27am 07.31.22 Ask A Beneteau Owner 13/2404 Dear Beneteau owners As I've written before, I love the 2002 Beneteau Oceanis 331 I recently bought
Sailing Dingy Questions (O'Day Widgeon) Onoahimahi at 5:02am 07.31.22 Ask All Sailors 15/2562 Hi - I am a long-time powerboater learning to sail my new 1974 O'Day Widgeon. (It's a ~12 foot saili
Reparing fix keel Tsula-H18 at 9:10pm 07.30.22 Smaller Boats 2/716 Hunter 18.5 water come boat from keel
Need a used Catalina 22 swing keel ytao125 at 8:51pm 07.30.22 Parts Search 2/1271 Last Saturday when I sailed back from Atlantic City to Little Egg Harbor my swing keel hit an object
Exhaust blower on an 11a Halvern at 7:46pm 07.30.22 S2 4/1162 Where is it wired for switch. Both wires going into starter panel on cockpit blkhd.
Beneteau 361 companionway hatch is tight at night or in cold weather Harry Mathias at 4:18pm 07.30.22 Ask A Beneteau Owner 10/1028 I have a 2001 Beneteau 361 in excellent condition. The companionway hatch is very tight at night or
Winch replacement Bubbadog at 2:02pm 07.30.22 Ask All Sailors 20/3968 Would like suggestions for replacing my Lewmar 6 winches with self tailing Was wanting to replace t
Patching up a breached water ballast rrt1shaw at 1:08pm 07.30.22 Parts Search 0/654 My dear Hunter 26, 1994 landed on the rocks and needs to be fixed. Swing keel, rudder are gone. Is w
Hunter 26 keel, rudder and Tiller wanted rrt1shaw at 1:05pm 07.30.22 Parts Search 4/776 My dear boat ended up on the rocks and these parts are needed. She is a Hunter 26, 1994. Thank you
Water dripping through bimini at ends of the traveller AndyL at 9:25am 07.30.22 Big Boats 5/1416 We have a 356 and the bimini has a gap each side where the traveller ends. In the rain, water comes
Sail-drive will not engage, stopped suddenly Milt Fuehrer at 7:53am 07.30.22 Ask All Sailors 13/3656 Saildrive has 280 hours on it, model 130S-B cable engages shifter fine. There was no warning, it wa
What Brand and Size Battery Charger should I buy? rajhnsn at 7:15am 07.30.22 Bigger Boats 16/3974 I just replaced my house bank of (4) six volt flooded batteries on my O'day 35. One week later whe
Link 2000 amps function Rodd at 6:00am 07.30.22 Musings With Maine Sail 4/1877 Gents- My ancient Link 2000 has been pretty reliable for 20 something years, but recently I have an
New owner ANGELS at 11:04pm 07.29.22 Ask A Hunter Owner 6/935 Hi everybody. I have just been an owner of a Hunter 340 year of 1997. I'm really new to this with ve
O'Day 22, 23 centerboard cleat JoeConron at 2:40pm 07.29.22 Ask An Oday Owner 4/865
Hunter chain plate huntermartin at 1:47pm 07.29.22 Ask All Sailors 3/891 I am restoring a Hunter 25.5. I do not know how the chainplates are to fasten to the bulkheads. The
Help Boom (1) rogerbalz at 1:29pm 07.29.22 Catalina 22 6/840 Another sailor suggested we change out the line that connects the boom to the traveler and make it l

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Inboard engine questions Steve_Catalina at 5:56pm 06.16.25 Check out your c320 international site, catalina320.com the usually suggestion for the universal eng
P42 paralleling the buses on batteries Terry Cox at 5:13pm 06.16.25 Why won't it work with the inverter powering A? The heat pump system is designed to run off of eit
P42 paralleling the buses on batteries mermike at 4:59pm 06.16.25 Whatever you do, don't connect the inverter AC output to shore power. You'll let the magic smoke out
Anchor roller (7) fred1diver at 4:45pm 06.16.25 Ok, finally had time to get pics, what I am thinking is moving the chocks back installing them on a
Inboard engine questions Don S/V ILLusion at 4:33pm 06.16.25 . What else should we do before we pull out? Seems like they did pretty food maintenance a year ag
2025 O'Day Rendezvous / Canceled Tally Ho at 4:25pm 06.16.25 I would go, but it would take me months to get there :( We need one on the Great Lakes. Greg
Starter motor issues jssailem at 3:46pm 06.16.25 got a high pitched whine next time it would not start and I could hear a gear spinning with the en
Inboard engine questions kappykaplan at 3:43pm 06.16.25 In forward gear, the slowest I can go (in calm winds) is 3 kts. Throttle all the way down. That see
Inboard engine questions shemandr at 3:39pm 06.16.25 At some point you may lower the idle RPM but not necessary for your trip - forward neutral pulsing w
Interior Timber 'options' - 1999 H340 (4) markymac1961 at 3:36pm 06.16.25 Pictures? Yep... Good idea mate. Here we go.
Where does the sink drain?? john6206 at 3:17pm 06.16.25
Yanmar motor mounts shawanaga at 2:49pm 06.16.25 Have any of you heard of this mfg? Novibrasyon Thanks
Yanmar motor mounts PNWE36 at 2:42pm 06.16.25 Hello, can't say for sure on your vintage of Hunter. I just changed the mounts on my 2011 Hunter.
R.O. water filter install question Foswick at 2:40pm 06.16.25 My understanding of RO is that the wastewater ratio has much more to do with water pressure than wat
R.O. water filter install question Don S/V ILLusion at 2:18pm 06.16.25 Are you using this to take water on-board, or to use water from your tank? If from your tank, then
R.O. water filter install question BAD ORCA at 2:11pm 06.16.25 I am not familiar with water quality in LA but if it's water being produced for potable drinking wa
Yanmar motor mounts BigEasy at 2:09pm 06.16.25 There is usually a large access hole on the vertical aspect of the fiberglass stringer, ad
R.O. water filter install question BAD ORCA at 2:07pm 06.16.25
P42 paralleling the buses on batteries HoosierSailor at 2:03pm 06.16.25 What really happened when you threw the switch? Was the system out of phase? Did something short o
R.O. water filter install question BAD ORCA at 2:02pm 06.16.25 One thought is to plumb the waste discharge back to the water tank. This will give you most of 100

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