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home built forward hatch hellerjo at 5:38am 06.08.11 Smaller Boats 0/1036 Has any one out there built a hatch. What material should be used? Fiberglass, lexan, wood,etc. T
Chainplates (1) furdui at 10:39pm 06.07.11 Yamaha 28/9188 Hi,yamahanians,I am new at this forum,but I own a Yamaha 25 MkII for about 10 years (and for that re
Gas Spring lifts Mark Juetten at 9:46pm 06.07.11 Big Boats 5/1639 Would like help locating source for Gas spring lifts for icebox on 96 376 Thanks
Portable AC Bad Obsession at 9:03pm 06.07.11 Ask All Sailors 15/7915 I am thinking about getting a portable AC to cool my Catalina 30. I have seen some posts about this
Quiet Mast? Happy Dolphin at 8:08pm 06.07.11 Day Sailers 3/1500 Applied copper pipe insulation tubes into my mast to silence the Bell Clapping from the newly instal
Pearson 33 Spinnaker Bail JTL1017 at 7:16pm 06.07.11 Pearson 2/2305 I need to hook up a spinnaker bail at the top of my mast. I have a Pearson 33 1987. Has anybody done
Electric Winch stephen Penny at 7:13pm 06.07.11 Big Boats 5/2193 Can the forum offer any advise installing an electric winch conversion kit onto a Lewmar 40 and 44 o
Painting the deck. MalibuC at 7:03pm 06.07.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1476 Getting ready to take ownership of a 1984 Hunter 31 that I would like to put a fresh coat of deck pa
New Radio sullyj020 at 6:59pm 06.07.11 SSB and Ham Operators 1/4569 Have you seen the new KX3 portable? This will be great for the boat. Built in Batt, Mic and Ant. Fu
Hunter 18.5 Mast TrailerSailingSam at 5:25pm 06.07.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 0/1541 Does anyone know the brand name of the mast for the Hunter 18.5 sailboats? I'm trying to find th
Battery cables simplicity at 4:19pm 06.07.11 Musings With Maine Sail 4/3987 Would you agree that #4 wire battery cables is sufficient for a Universal M25 Diesel with a total le
Zincs and where are they located? simplicity at 4:16pm 06.07.11 Ask An Oday Owner 1/1183 I have an O'Day 34 which I recently purchased and would like to know if anyone knows if there are sa
Universal M25 Diesel Starter simplicity at 3:14pm 06.07.11 Ask All Sailors 3/10280 Does anyone know about how many amps a Universal M25 diesel starter uses? I want to replace my battt
Cabin table DanCurilla at 3:10pm 06.07.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1198 Building a new cabin table for 2006 hunter 31. I am looking where to purchase the female post end th
Sail Trim Question Don Guillette at 3:09pm 06.07.11 Sail Trim with Don Guillette 29/15630 There is a great sailing picture on the home page of this site shown under the heading "trim to cour
whisker pole, fixed mounted ring Ken1492 at 3:07pm 06.07.11 Big Boats 3/2339 Looking to add mast mounted fixed ring whisker pole mount to my boat. To date, I have not been able
Desperate For Toe Rail Cap joelmcc at 2:48pm 06.07.11 Parts Search 1/2439 I tried this before and got links to TACO metals site. They got nothing. Anybody out there know wher
accumulator tank richk at 1:04pm 06.07.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/1151 My H35 has original qest (quest?) fittings in the pressurized potable water system. I'd like to ins
The very rich mans "trailer boat" (1) soling42 at 1:03pm 06.07.11 Trailer Sailors 5/4206 Just back from a cruise(ship) to Barcelona where we docked near a ship that my envious mind wanted t
Stern pulpit (1) AADIVER at 12:29pm 06.07.11 Catalina 30 17/5590 My wife had trouble climbing over the crossbar connecting the port and starboard stern pulpit sectio

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Vented Hatch Covers sesmith at 8:25am 06.16.22 My wife made that with some scraps of sunbrella she had.
Replacing engine instrument panel Calif. Ted at 8:21am 06.16.22 On the last model made (MKII) they made the cockpit wider and added a larger console similiar to Hun
Vented Hatch Covers patagoniadave at 8:17am 06.16.22 This works for us, unless the rain is blowing. Awesome, thanks for the photo! I was just talking t
Cannot log into TrailorSailor ? Epic1969 at 8:16am 06.16.22
Vented Hatch Covers (1) sesmith at 8:13am 06.16.22 This works for us, unless the rain is blowing.
Sirius 21 pulpit snippard at 7:47am 06.16.22 Hey! Recently we have picked up a pair of Sirius sailboats with the goal of getting one boat put tog
Cannot log into TrailorSailor ? Brian D at 7:44am 06.16.22 @Phil Herring While waiting for Admin help, go ahead and completely log out of SBO and then make su
Vented Hatch Covers patagoniadave at 7:37am 06.16.22 If rain is not a big issue, then another alternative is a Wind Scoop. A quick search will yield man
Vented Hatch Covers dlochner at 7:34am 06.16.22 If rain is not a big issue, then another alternative is a Wind Scoop. A quick search will yield many
Bimini mount solar panel install advice seadaddler at 7:23am 06.16.22 I had good luck sending solar wires down my arch where the wires for speakers come out and first I u
Laminate sole in cabin - Whitish haze water mark seadaddler at 7:15am 06.16.22
Vented Hatch Covers (1) rgranger at 7:04am 06.16.22 Okay so the schamatic diagram was bugging me so I edited it. Here is how it should actually be set
Vented Hatch Covers patagoniadave at 7:04am 06.16.22 There three conditions to be concerned about, sailing, moored in light to medium rain, and storms.
Vented Hatch Covers patagoniadave at 7:00am 06.16.22 I think a dorade box is essentially the boat equivalent to what you had on your RV If a wave does
Bimini mount solar panel install advice flightlead404 at 6:58am 06.16.22 I purchased solar panels to install on my Bimini of my Marlow Hunter 37. My plan is to run the wiri
Replacing engine instrument panel (1) Scott T-Bird at 6:58am 06.16.22 Connects to pedestal with 1 bolt which also serves to hold the anchor piece for the trans and accel
Vented Hatch Covers (4) rgranger at 6:51am 06.16.22 I think a dorade box is essentially the boat equivalent to what you had on your RV If a wave does c
Transmission to shaft coupling bolts sheared '07 H38 flightlead404 at 6:48am 06.16.22 Angular shaft misalignment would be a first guess. This is not a high stress area. What is your an
Transmission to shaft coupling bolts sheared '07 H38 flightlead404 at 6:46am 06.16.22 Here is a tutorial on types of high strength bolts: https://www.tfgusa.com/high-strength-bolts-f
Anchor violently "jumps" onto bow roller JamesG161 at 6:46am 06.16.22 Wait till you have mud on your anchor.:facepalm: It looks normal to me, except we have have two rol

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