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Hunter 170 cracked hull. jeffwingo at 7:25pm 06.28.11 Day Sailers 11/5594 It looks like the Virginia winters are a little too hard for the good old Hunter 170. I have cracks
Purpose of deck hardware (2) alcyone at 7:05pm 06.28.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 5/1567 Purpose of deck hardware on Mac 25... Pic 1- plate with threaded hole, one on each side of mast just
cockpit starting panel tomdempsey at 7:04pm 06.28.11 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/1119 does anybody know what that 4 pronged receptacle is on the display unit and can i adapt it to a dc i
Downrigger Installation lr172 at 6:54pm 06.28.11 Big Boats 2/4805 I am trying to keep my kids interested in going out on the boat and they have a good interest in fis
So, there we were dscribner at 6:29pm 06.28.11 Trailer Sailors 22/9444 7:30 The weather was supposed to be marginal, probably rainy, definitely overcast. The boat was saf
Msst Light Bulb (1) amcmahon at 5:49pm 06.28.11 The Cherubini Hunters 4/1779 Does anyone know the bulb type/model # used by hunter for the masthead anchor light of the 1984 h27?
Boom makes annoying grinding sounds Greg McKenzie at 5:32pm 06.28.11 Ask A Beneteau Owner 7/3993 Without sails up and taking waves directly to beam, lots of metal on metal noise is created. Have t
Yanmar 3YM20 Undersized water pump belt and loss of power msfeldt at 4:23pm 06.28.11 Engines and Propulsion 13/8043 My 3YM20 overheated yesterday and today but only happens when at higher RPM's for several minutes. W
Leaking CAP Pilot64 at 4:04pm 06.28.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 20/5484 Well I finally hauled the boat up to the lake last night and managed to remember how most of it went
Oday Widgeon swamping sailordude66 at 4:00pm 06.28.11 Day Sailers 3/2550 While sailing on a lake last summer, I capsized my Widgeon and swamped it in the process. As the wat
Catalina 27 pump out system metalsmith at 3:55pm 06.28.11 Ask All Sailors 3/3412 I have a Catalina 27 (1985) I can not find deck acess for pump out for head. The chimatic I have sho
Beneteau rigging set up mate bill at 3:43pm 06.28.11 Ask A Beneteau Owner 3/4305 I am looking for advice on the rigging tensions for the Beneteau 331. I am not a racer but would li
Radar! Roger Long at 3:06pm 06.28.11 Roger Long - Cruising on Strider 1/2457 Yes! :dance::dance: http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=130998
Grasshopper learns from the Master Roger Long at 3:05pm 06.28.11 Musings With Maine Sail 4/5798 Or: Why it pays to get someone who really knows what they are doing. Readers of my forum section kn
Catalina 27 pump out system metalsmith at 3:01pm 06.28.11 Mid-Size Boats 2/2472 I have a Catilina 27 - (1985) I cant find the pump out "valve" - not on deck as show in scimatic t
Air Conditioning (A/C) Distribution Problem sstarley at 2:57pm 06.28.11 Big Boats 5/1541 We have a 2003 H356 with A/C which works great - except that very little air flow gets to forward ca
Hour meter installation mellis18 at 2:19pm 06.28.11 Mid-Size Boats 7/3344 I want to install an hour meter on my Hunter for the Yanmar 2GM motor. It currently does not have on
Hull cleaning / dive service - North Fork, LI Rob19574 at 1:55pm 06.28.11 Ask All Sailors 0/18 I'm looking to have my hull cleaned in-water and need a diver in the North Fork, LI - New York area.
Lido sailor Lido sailor at 1:26pm 06.28.11 Catalina 22 1/1266 I've been looking for a used Catalina 22 and have found several without trailers. Does any one in t
H36 refrigerator thermostat Ken Honeycutt at 1:15pm 06.28.11 Big Boats 10/2278 Has anyone had problems with the thermostat on the refrigerators that came with the H36? Mine has go

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Clevis Pin Forestay higgs at 8:36pm 09.13.22 A pair of properly adjusted vise grips will easily compress the toggle in order to remove what is le
SF Bay Area tiller pilot repair Meriachee at 8:10pm 09.13.22 Lots of water under the keel since this thread ended. I finally opened the old st2000, and this is
Funny Friday!!! Meriachee at 8:08pm 09.13.22
Yanmar Engine Mount Worries mermike at 7:48pm 09.13.22 I understood that the engine mounts on the Yanmars are supposed to be replaced periodically: 4 years
Yanmar Engine Mount Worries JoeWhite at 7:22pm 09.13.22 Do you have broken alternator bracket?
Going back to sailing 60 years later Ted Dorman at 7:09pm 09.13.22 Ted Congrats on getting the boat and yourself back out on the water. Better late than never. On t
Yanmar Engine Mount Worries jaysweet at 6:50pm 09.13.22
Fischer panda generator Question Terry Cox at 6:46pm 09.13.22 If it worky fine, no fixy needed. The lift pump on our Genset (three cylinder Kubota) brings fuel fr
CNG Filling Station MikeO53 at 6:28pm 09.13.22 Buy one of the refill adaptors on ebay and refill yourself. The adaptor is about $200, but the cost
Clevis Pin Forestay Li_sound_cat at 6:18pm 09.13.22
Yanmar Engine Mount Worries Caboteur at 6:17pm 09.13.22 From what you describe I would think a large piece of some sort of vegetation or you picked up a len
Hello, I am new here. I am looking at buying a 1988 Catalina 30 MKll shemandr at 6:14pm 09.13.22 If the crack is on the port rail near the transom it may be the result of a Port/Starboard disagreem
Hello, I am new here. I am looking at buying a 1988 Catalina 30 MKll Tally Ho at 6:09pm 09.13.22
Sailing a 22ft Cape Dory from Boston to Southern Florida shemandr at 6:04pm 09.13.22 forgot about provisioning further north Newport Northport port washington Add Mattituck, which als
Output Shaft Coupling Hunter 28.5 Tally Ho at 6:03pm 09.13.22 Are you looking for the shaft coupling? Or the transmission output flange. I replaced the shaft co
DC Circuit Breaker Failures quadrille38 at 6:00pm 09.13.22 Quadrille38, according to information from Eddie Breeden when he was still actif the panel on the H
Sailing a 22ft Cape Dory from Boston to Southern Florida dlochner at 5:25pm 09.13.22 One positive outcome of the pandemic for cruisers was the explosion of delivery services. We used In
Clevis Pin Forestay dLj at 5:25pm 09.13.22 Looks to me like the U connector has sprung out. In doing so, it is shearing off the cotter pin. The
Clevis Pin Forestay dlochner at 5:21pm 09.13.22 Welcome to SBO! Yep, you'll want a pin an ?" longer. To remove the pin you'll need to take the lo
Clevis Pin Forestay Justin_NSA at 5:20pm 09.13.22 You could add SS washers to center it if you like. The important thing is to be sure that cotter is

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