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Does your Chart Plotter still work with your preferred Chart supplier? jssailem at 11:21am 06.12.22 Ask All Sailors 8/2422 As the various Chart Plotter manufactures buy up the providers of custom chart systems (i.e Navionic
Yamaha 30 - prop shaft thrust bearing replacement (2) Blue Horizon at 10:04am 06.12.22 Yamaha 8/2914 I seem to have some bearing noise coming from the prop shaft thrust bearing. I'd like to put a new
Forestay transportation (1) Ihtiandr at 7:52am 06.12.22 Sirius 21/22 6/2028 Hello, Everyone! Who has a good idea how to properly secure forestay with furling roller drum? The f
Grounding two isolated battery banks (1) Hayden Watson at 7:51am 06.12.22 Musings With Maine Sail 28/11370 This is a question about proper grounding of the start and house batteries. Is this the proper conn
Paper Charts Tayana at 5:27am 06.12.22 Ask All Sailors 5/1232
Legend 40.5 Chainplates baycloud at 10:02pm 06.11.22 Big Boats 6/1529 Hey all, how are the chain plates constructed, and how can we (or can we) inspect them? It seems lik
Grand Traverse Bay tips! Epic1969 at 8:20pm 06.11.22 Destinations 8/3310 Looking for any local tips End-July launching from Traverse City area with daughters 13,15 hoping t
Spinnaker use "cruising style" (4) ricksoth at 7:07pm 06.11.22 Ask All Sailors 17/2470 I hoisted the spinnaker that came with my Cal 27 today in near zero wind with the tack tied to the a
New jib sail ? Ingram at 5:52pm 06.11.22 Smaller Boats 9/1438 What is the best size for the roller furling jib/genoa sail on a H26 100%, 110%,120% ?
Roller furling issue (3) lsavocchi at 5:51pm 06.11.22 Ask All Sailors 18/1845
Stray Current Corrosion Problem BigEasy at 2:30pm 06.11.22 Ask All Sailors 31/4186 Apparently, I am having a new corrosion problem. Diver told me this week that my shaft zinc was co
315 Winds & Sails & Heel Angles asalotto at 10:54am 06.11.22 Catalina 310 9/1610 Hello fellow 315 owners! I was sailing yesterday in 10 kts, with slightly reefed main and slightly
Waterline Width CHris F at 8:49am 06.11.22 Ask An Oday Owner 3/888 I am getting a new trailer for my O'Day 20 - does anyone know the waterline width of an O'Day 20. I
Epoxy questions (2) jaysweet at 7:46am 06.11.22 Ask All Sailors 13/1778 I have 3 different projects which will require epoxy, and I'd like to save money by just buying one
The Death of a Boat MikeHoncho at 7:07am 06.11.22 Ask All Sailors 3/1080 Qe5-bPiz2wA Happened a couple days ago in Spain. The supply ship had a malfunction and was stuck in
Trying to find source of leak in 23.5 (1) waterman30 at 6:12am 06.11.22 Smaller Boats 4/575 Hi - I found delaminated fiberglass on bulkhead in bow (just aft of sealed flotation foam). I cut so
Balsa in a 1994 Hunter H26 Mergatroid at 6:08am 06.11.22 Trailer Sailors 2/631 I have a 1994 Hunter H26. There is a soft spot to the port side of the mast tabernacle. Is there b
Prop Efficiency Halvern at 8:59pm 06.10.22 S2 7/1718 I have a 1979 11A, and recently when I had her on the hard (actually as we lifted her) observed ther
Interior arch below a deck stepped mast Bluenose at 5:36pm 06.10.22 Other Sailboats 2/1025 Has anyone ever fixed an arch beneath a deck stepped mast? I have a Bristol 24 that I am replacing t
Replace Toilet Hose on 92 H30 ChrisHunter at 1:03pm 06.10.22 Mid-Size Boats 13/1650 I need to replace the hose from the toilet to the holding tank on my 1992 Hunter 30. Would like to

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Electrical charging problem DaveJ at 5:33pm 07.26.25 :facepalm:
Its funny Friday! Captain Larry-DH at 4:01pm 07.26.25
Merit 22 owners (2) grumpygiant at 3:54pm 07.26.25 So it begins 1985 merit 23 currently called sqamp thing by my son
Low-Stretch Halyards actually worth it for cruising? thinwater at 3:37pm 07.26.25 @thinwater I'm not following exactly. graph on the left hand side of the graph prior to the yield
Catalina 22 Step bolt sadsailor at 3:28pm 07.26.25 Thank You just to be safe I took it to a professional welder he is filling in the hole and then re d
Marina Maneuvers capta at 1:46pm 07.26.25 I think I probably have pulled in stern first. Take your boat to an open slip or dock somewhere and
Rough running M25XPB at low idle Tally Ho at 1:43pm 07.26.25 Can you make a little movie to post of the engine idling (show the engine so we can see how much it
Current Predictions Several Weeks Out capta at 1:26pm 07.26.25 Looking at that bit of chart reminded me how much fun, and how interesting that area would be to sai
Garmin GPSMap 276C - Worth Keeping? capta at 1:17pm 07.26.25 It is a $400 to $500 unit and a Garmin to boot. How could you go wrong to get it operating properly
Electrical charging problem Davidasailor26 at 12:54pm 07.26.25 And just to be clear I mean a portable multimeter that you can use to probe different spots in DC an
Low-Stretch Halyards actually worth it for cruising? (1) dLj at 12:38pm 07.26.25 If, like many cruisers, you set the luff tight and forget it, there will be NO STRETCH unless the w
Electrical charging problem dlochner at 12:08pm 07.26.25 Everything is working perfectly there's not much to see on it. Except everything isn't working pe
Electrical charging problem Ted10028 at 11:56am 07.26.25
Electrical charging problem Davidasailor26 at 11:29am 07.26.25
Electrical charging problem dlochner at 11:20am 07.26.25 Problem is solved at least temporarily. I flipped the master breaker back-and-forth a couple of tim
Catalina 30 Steering radial well question (1) Mikes 87 at 11:15am 07.26.25 My 87 has five through hulls, two for the propane locker, one for the bilge (both manual and eclecti
Electrical charging problem Ted10028 at 11:06am 07.26.25 Problem is solved at least temporarily. I flipped the master breaker back-and-forth a couple of time
From a Catalina 22 to a 310 Stu Jackson at 10:52am 07.26.25
Urgent : Probl�mes graves sur notre Sun Odyssey 440 (2019) Dave at 10:49am 07.26.25 While we at SBO are sympathetic to your plight, we hesitant to allow the forum to be used in a campa
Sailboat Salvage Shopping Spree Richard19068 at 10:30am 07.26.25 After many years of putting it off, we finally went out to look around Lynden Sailboat Wrecking Yar

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