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How do you size your wiring? doehunter at 8:05am 08.03.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 7/2026 My existing wiring is a mix of various sizes that was just guessed at. I'm in the middle of mounting
Rivets: simple question John at 7:41am 08.03.11 Ask All Sailors 48/11309 A simple question: I want to replace some rivets that hold a radar to the mast with screws. I've nev
New Main Sail bffatcat at 7:10am 08.03.11 Ask All Sailors 11/5716 I need a new main. and I have gotten two quotes both seem like they are in line. One is from FX sai
Engine Compartment Blower lehigh375 at 6:11am 08.03.11 Ask All Sailors 4/2491 I have been following the previous thread about whether to use a blower or not. One post mention
Ultrasonic Antifoul Ken13559 at 6:06am 08.03.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/1290 Has anyone tried the Ultrasonic Antifoul? There were tons of discussion on this topic over at ybw.co
Pics of Our New Cushions WOW Awesome! (4) Lorry65 at 5:48am 08.03.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 23/6108 Well here are the pics of our brand new cushions for the whole boat and WOW they are beautiful! Tha
Swing Board Pendant Replacement joatmon67 at 5:37am 08.03.11 Ask An Oday Owner 2/1487 My 22's pendant is looking pretty ratty. Already have the replacement from DR Marine. Looking for
Buy a Trailer or Salvage the boat? (4) Phaedrus at 10:18pm 08.02.11 Catalina 22 4/2322 I have the opportunity to buy a damaged C22 for cheap. It has a lot of things I need. I either need
CO2 Alarms on Huntet Pat Hooyman at 10:08pm 08.02.11 Big Boats 10/2386 Leave my 2007 Hunter 38 in the slip with shore power. When I return all three of the CO2 detectors a
A few noted problem areas in the 22 design. PPPPPP42 at 9:34pm 08.02.11 Day Sailers 7/3658 I just thought I'd mention some simple things to check after taking apart 2 oday 22's. I've noticed
Tach reading is pegged dspurgeon at 9:01pm 08.02.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1319 I have a 2009 Hunter 38 with a 40hp Yanmar engine. Today 1/2 hour after the start of a 5 hour motor
Question On Sailing Cape May To Block Island Joe Mullee at 7:51pm 08.02.11 Ask All Sailors 17/9686 I'm going to be sailing north from Cape May leaving around September 4. The plan is to get to the Lo
User group or club teacher63 at 7:49pm 08.02.11 Smaller Boats 2/1488 Does anyone know if there is a club for Hunter Boats or specific 23 in the Chesapeake Bay area. Pre
Sail stop? jjsbiggs at 6:54pm 08.02.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 28/10946 I plan to anchor my 25 for the first time for a couple of nights this week. I have a main sail cover
Hot Water Heater bugsboat at 6:45pm 08.02.11 Big Boats 5/1957 The hot water heater on our 1995 Hunter 37.5 keeps kicking the reset button on the front of the unit
H376 Aft Cabin "safety" padding for noggin' rfrye1 at 4:32pm 08.02.11 Big Boats 2/1533 Has anyone padded the cockpit footwell on the front side of the aft cabin to prevent "cracking" one'
yanmar fuel use? gewattsjr at 4:24pm 08.02.11 Ask A Beneteau Owner 4/3515 New to us, what is your experience with fuel consumption, engine hours re: fuel use? We have a Yanma
Wanted Beneteau 321 Florida sail at 4:18pm 08.02.11 Ask A Beneteau Owner 2/1277 I'm looking to purchase a 321 with IMF in good condition. I've recently missed out on two good poss
Can anybody point me to a used jib for a Cal 33 (1988)? sailbears at 3:50pm 08.02.11 Cal 0/2669 Thanks for any help.
possibly a stuffing box question dlewis812 at 3:15pm 08.02.11 Catalina 30 4/1727 apologies for the newbie type question/details.. due to little wind and over 100nm to cover had t

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Wire mesh size for A/C and engine seawater intake strainers 4Winds at 6:14pm 09.07.22 That sounds about right. I asked 6-8 vendors on ebay selling the shurflo screens and strainers if th
Legend 40.5 - what length hose for forward head replacement? Don S/V ILLusion at 6:14pm 09.07.22 I recall replacing both - i bought a replacement for the long fwd head only after removing the old o
Just a little surface rust Captain Larry-DH at 6:13pm 09.07.22 Also, if you buy the Scandvik nut driver it makes installation and adjustment much easier. I get o
Interesting Smell - 1993 Hunter Legend 40.5 Don S/V ILLusion at 6:11pm 09.07.22 All good suggestions, however, it appear this is another phantom thread in which someone asks a ques
Wire mesh size for A/C and engine seawater intake strainers (1) DeniseO30 at 6:05pm 09.07.22 The strainer baskets are actually expensive, it's less expensive to actually buy the whole strainer
Interesting Smell - 1993 Hunter Legend 40.5 baycloud at 5:40pm 09.07.22 I've been having some odors and it's very challenging to determine because there can be multiple sou
Electric panel Benny17441 at 5:36pm 09.07.22 Those breakers in the panel are resettable fuses. There should be a main breaker and if you are goi
Holding tank odour (Peggy ?????) baycloud at 5:29pm 09.07.22 I don't have a lot of experience here, but I am working through the same type of problem right now.
Another Auto-Pilot Accident TimFromLI at 4:54pm 09.07.22 4AM? You snooze, you lose.
1987 Cat 22 Transom Scupper Drain (1) Gene Neill at 4:46pm 09.07.22 All the later C22 have the much better aft scupper design. Installing brass tubes is easy if you h
Thinking of downsizing from my H26 Crazy Dave Condon at 4:28pm 09.07.22 @rgranger Being a dealer for Compac at SML, wind was not as good as the coast. When Warren Luhr
East coast Florida causing spots heritage at 4:21pm 09.07.22 Active Captain is my go to source for anchorages. Garmin bought the rights to Active Captain but ha
Internet entrance test Rick486 at 3:38pm 09.07.22 The other two current uses I abhor are: 1. "awesome" 2. The absolute worst "..he reach out to me..."
Internet entrance test Rick486 at 3:37pm 09.07.22 My favorite Yogi was always "...when you come to a fork in the road...take it.."
Advice/question re: Hunter 36 standing rigging Cptstarz at 3:33pm 09.07.22 Does anyone know where to find the tensions for the various shrouds? 2012 Hunter e36.
H37C Need to Replace Turning Blocks knappytime at 3:03pm 09.07.22 Thanks Michael, I'll look forward to the images. Dave, your byline says "Catalina 22 Seattle" but y
Internet entrance test rgranger at 2:38pm 09.07.22 Always has been. An impactful wrench :facepalm: . Okay... winner of the dad-joke of the day goes
Electric panel rgranger at 2:34pm 09.07.22 Pictures help but without that my guess at good advice would be to see if you have power at the lead
Thinking of downsizing from my H26 rgranger at 2:32pm 09.07.22 The biggest cockpit I have ever seen in a 22' boat is on a Rhodes 22. http://rhodes22.org From th
East coast Florida causing spots rgranger at 2:29pm 09.07.22 This could turn into a really great thread. Maybe we create a map and drop pins once it is run its

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