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What Solar Panels Are You Using? JoeD at 1:19pm 01.18.11 Ask All Sailors 11/3265 Looking to add solar panels to the hard Bimini I am building. Looking for some input on what you are
More Compression Post Questions (4) RTB at 1:11pm 01.18.11 The Cherubini Hunters 9/2508 I have searched what is available here (100+threads), but can't find the answers I need. It was disc
Single 12VDC Marine Battery Chargers carboman at 1:05pm 01.18.11 Smaller Boats 6/2155 Just a quick note to see what people are using on DC only systems. I take my battery off the boat a
More rigging horror. (3) Roger Long at 10:57am 01.18.11 Ask All Sailors 36/7410 I decided that I'd better take a look at my lower tangs as well since I'm going to all this trouble
Macgregor 22' 1981 Manual? saileclipse at 10:29am 01.18.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 17/11781 We are looking at buying a 1981 Macgregor 22 swing keel. What do you think of this model? Does an
Adding pumpout and Uniseal port (1) mike75bug at 10:10am 01.18.11 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 10/5231 I am working on getting my boat ready for this summer and need to update my sanitation system. Curr
Best Handheld GPS? r.oril at 9:18am 01.18.11 Ask All Sailors 13/3242 Searching the site, I see the Garmin GPSMAP 76 (CSX) as the choice of many. I would like to buy a u
winter cover rich5665 at 9:00am 01.18.11 Pearson 1/1797 Hi I am a new pearson owner, 7-10, and was wondering if there is anyone who knows about a winter cov
272LE Running Rigging Captn Mapache at 8:34am 01.18.11 Ask An Oday Owner 2/1701 Does anyone know the length of the original furler line on a 1987 O Day 272LE with the original furl
Using Garmin Forerunner for boatspeed mark_swart at 8:21am 01.18.11 Ask All Sailors 3/1835 I live in salt water and my knotmeter transducer fouls due to growth. Cleaning it is a pain and I'm
Winter on the middle Cheasapeake Bay (10) Ian McGain at 7:43am 01.18.11 Ask All Sailors 4/2054 couple of pictures at Tolchester Marina Eastern shore Maryland
Sumners Anchor sail walt at 7:11am 01.18.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 36/5345
Mac 26M CDI furler bottom clevis pin size Billiam at 6:49am 01.18.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 3/1615 I lost the clevis pin that attached my CDI flexible furler to my boat. When I went to my supply box,
Google Earth Fun - Too Cool. Roger Long at 6:37am 01.18.11 Ask All Sailors 5/1999 As we learned in the SPOT thread (after a little thread drift), it's possible to have Google Earth f
Proper way to climb the rigging. Roger Long at 5:50am 01.18.11 Ask All Sailors 13/3191 Note that the hands are gripping the shrouds and not the ratline battens. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.n
water pump inlet fitting to engine block rmouton at 5:39am 01.18.11 Irwin 0/2123 as you all know , when it comes to building an engine , most manufacturers do not know what anti- si
Propane cylinder prroots at 5:26am 01.18.11 Ask A Beneteau Owner 20/6643 I'm purchasing a Beneteau 411 which comes with a single 10# propane cylinder. The compartment has ro
yanmar 3qm30 engine rmouton at 5:13am 01.18.11 Irwin 0/2612 as the new owner of 40' citation, this has been a learning curve when it comes to this engine.it see
Negative battery switch prroots at 2:20am 01.18.11 Ask A Beneteau Owner 11/4770 I'm purchasing a 2001 Beneteau 411. There are 3 battery switches corresponding to start, house, and
New to sailing, need to rig my sails baxonlakewinnie at 2:16am 01.18.11 Ask A Macgregor Owner 10/2331 Hello, New to sailing with a Macgregor 25 covered for the winter in my driveway. I'm finding lots

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Universal M-12 running hot adamv at 9:27pm 08.08.22 The most common reason for overheating is a plugged-up heat exchanger. I have had to remove mine f
Universal M-12 running hot Richard19068 at 9:25pm 08.08.22 ...its safe to say that I didnt get all the crap out the HE. Dont know whether to replace with a Mr
Universal M-12 running hot Hayden Watson at 9:21pm 08.08.22 The most common reason for overheating is a plugged-up heat exchanger. I have had to remove mine fo
Universal M-12 running hot adamv at 9:06pm 08.08.22 Sounds like youre winning! Hopefully I will soon- I was about to start a new thread on a similar is
hunter 280 main sail effort jssailem at 8:53pm 08.08.22 Not sure if this is normal or I need to replace blocks? No it is not normal. You should be able to
universal m18 alternator bracket upgrade adamv at 8:17pm 08.08.22 It sounds like you are saying when you rotate the alternator out on the bracket to tighten the belt
hunter 280 main sail effort rgranger at 8:13pm 08.08.22 HVe you tried cleaning the slot? Or spraying some dry lube in the slot? If you have sail slugs try d
Gelcoat questions. Kaysirin at 8:09pm 08.08.22 Nice, thank you rgranger, sail sfbay & Ralph Johnstone! :beer::cool:
Funny Friday!!! (1) rgranger at 8:06pm 08.08.22 208139
Flush! Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 8:06pm 08.08.22
universal m18 alternator bracket upgrade adamv at 7:59pm 08.08.22 So the kit arrived. With an addtitional CAD$99 import duty and $40 for the gaskets, I'm well over $1
Hot water tank use when at anchor dlochner at 7:44pm 08.08.22 Yep, the water in the tank is replaced with cold water. This is not all bad as the water in the tank
Rebuild Perkins Diesel jssailem at 7:42pm 08.08.22 It made sense to me to practice good maintenance. Cruise the boat and fear not using the engine in k
Flush! Scott T-Bird at 7:32pm 08.08.22 Of course, you have to find your intake line thru-hull and open it. Do you have a thru hull dischar
Put it in a slip, or keep it on the trailer? Zinger88 at 7:30pm 08.08.22 Obviously, this topic is dependent on whatever your personal situation may be and there's really no
Flush! Scott T-Bird at 7:28pm 08.08.22 Just to explain pumping water from a sink ... the premise is to let the sink drain into a line so th
Flush! Scott T-Bird at 7:18pm 08.08.22 It does work to simply pour water into the bowl and pump it out with the waste, but it's not a good
Flush! Tally Ho at 7:18pm 08.08.22 Here is a bit of video that gives an overall layout of a typical system with a holding tank. ftNRht
Flush! Scott T-Bird at 7:09pm 08.08.22 Take a picture and post it ... It's very simple ... if you have a marine head, you use the hand pump
Flush! Plymouth Sailor at 7:00pm 08.08.22 What's the make/model/approx age of the toilet? --Peggie No idea, looks like 90s or even 80s, how

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