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O'day 25 spinnaker size Joe5893 at 6:28am 06.08.11 Ask An Oday Owner 1/1491 Hi all, I have an O'day 25, but I have never flown a spinnaker. There is one for sale near me loca
Great deal on Garmin GPS76cx Captnkev25 at 6:24am 06.08.11 Ask All Sailors 1/1766 Let me start by saying I'm in no way affiliated with West Marine or Garmin but I had to pass along t
What is it? dfast7181 at 6:19am 06.08.11 Mid-Size Boats 3/1375 The other day I was filling the boat with fuel and while doing so a thick, honey/yellow colored, cle
Portable cruise air versus central air. Christian Sailing at 5:46am 06.08.11 Ask All Sailors 10/3422 We have a 28 ft irwin and the wife has agreed to do some extended cruising but cool air is a condit
home built forward hatch hellerjo at 5:38am 06.08.11 Smaller Boats 0/1073 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 28/9549 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 5/1738 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 15/8444 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 3/1601 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 2/2415 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 5/2284 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 3/1508 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 1/4668 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 0/1570 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 4/4145 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 1/1250 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 3/10566 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 3/1227 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 29/16114 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 3/2395 Looking to add mast mounted fixed ring whisker pole mount to my boat. To date, I have not been able

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Sailing a 22ft Cape Dory from Boston to Southern Florida palcuz at 2:27am 09.14.22 do you have a dink to get ashore. A must if anchored out. Provisioning will be tough as many anchor
SF Bay Area tiller pilot repair garymalmgren at 12:51am 09.14.22 Hi PSR. In your first post you mentioned a distressing noise. Would this be it? Emi1ro-w8bg My ori
Yanmar Engine Mount Worries NYSail at 12:19am 09.14.22
Yanmar Engine Mount Worries NYSail at 12:10am 09.14.22 would love to see pictures of the engine hobby horsing. Did it make any unusual noise? As was said,
Funny Friday!!! (1) leo310 at 9:15pm 09.13.22 209285
2006 Hunter 25 - Swim Platform Stress Cracks robm at 8:54pm 09.13.22 Quick update: Minor mods to the new aft cross aluminum backing plate were successful. Both plates n
Hello, I am new here. I am looking at buying a 1988 Catalina 30 MKll Rmalko at 8:46pm 09.13.22 Thank you for all the input. If i decided the boat may be worth looking into further i will definite
Hello, I am new here. I am looking at buying a 1988 Catalina 30 MKll Rmalko at 8:39pm 09.13.22 Welcome to the forum!! Don S/V ILLusion's right............and while the boat is surveyed in a boa
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

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