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Fishing Jfelkins at 1:12pm 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 33/5072 I'd love to hear how you fish from your boat. What setup up do you use? What do you fish for? When d
Head Faucet lehigh375 at 1:10pm 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 3/1666 I need to change out the faucet in the head of my 6 year old Hunter. Can I use one from Home Depot
NEED TO REFINISH STAIRS ON A h33 paul1938 at 1:07pm 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 13/3236 I'm going to have to refinish the stair treads on my H33, 2005. I know that the balance of the inter
Yanmar ignition panel puzzle Sailor Sue at 12:26pm 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 4/2945 Recently I've noticed the warning buzzer does not sound when turning the key to the pre start positi
Reinforcing Transcom on Oday 25 glong3 at 12:01pm 08.19.10 Day Sailers 1/1802 I'm a newer owner of an Oday 25. The boat came with a 5hp Nissan 4 stroke outboard. I've noticed som
Bilge Sewage Gbetsch at 7:56am 08.19.10 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 3/2967 I discovered sewage in the bilge compartment under the aft head in my 2003 - 393. While it is not cl
H23.5 Cockpit Cooler VT Fitz at 7:56am 08.19.10 Smaller Boats 2/1542 I have had a notion to install a cockpit cooler on Grasshopper and thought I'd find out if anyone el
PSS bellow sailaway78 at 7:46am 08.19.10 Digital Dumpster Dive -- FREE Gear 0/1009 A couple weeks or so ago I posted up that I had a PSS bellow for a 1" shaft and 1"' 1/2 shaft log.
H23.5 Front Hatch Replacement VT Fitz at 7:36am 08.19.10 Smaller Boats 1/1088 With the greatest regret, I confess we didn't get Grasshopper's keel wet last season due to baseball
Staying Awake wflowe2 at 7:32am 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 24/4192 How do you keep yourself awake on watch in the middle of the night when things are going smoothly?
H31 versus H33 advice sea_casper at 7:11am 08.19.10 Mid-Size Boats 6/2154 Looking at newer H31 2006+ and H33 2004+ models with in-mast furling and shoal keel. Has anyone act
Mounting bulkhead compass Chiriqui at 6:15am 08.19.10 Day Sailers 0/1426 I have this Ritchie compass I purchased and now I'm faced with mounting it in the Bulkhead. I'd lik
Rules of road Quoddy at 5:32am 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 27/5082 I was on starboard tack with our H260 in no particular hurry. A small sailboat off the port bow on
Dinghy Repair Questions adirondackbob at 5:21am 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 9/3064 When I bought my Catalina 30 last fall, it came with a 15-year-old Zodiac dinghy, the kind with the
Broader batten, any difference? Ken13559 at 5:21am 08.19.10 Ask A Hunter Owner 0/949 My mains has two full batten (upper) and 2 short ones (lower). The batten width is 5/8". The batten
radar / chart plotter Chuck Creel at 5:14am 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 2/1755 does anyone have information where i can get an owners manulal for a raymarine SC70 radar /plotter d
Jib pulsing. Quoddy at 4:31am 08.19.10 Ask All Sailors 8/2438 How do I keep the jib from pulsing? The situation. The wind was moderate with minor gusts. We are
Replacement Keel Winch nemosuit at 4:13am 08.19.10 Ask A Macgregor Owner 2/1435 About the only thing my '78 M22 didn't come with is the keel winch. I'm told the original "brake wi
length of a 37.5 kwalker at 10:13pm 08.18.10 Ask A Hunter Owner 8/1623 I'm hoping for some guidance, has anyone ever heard of shortneing the LOA of a 37.5? My harbor rule
Any Tylercraft owners? truckmen at 10:10pm 08.18.10 Other Sailboats 2/5949 Hi dear reader! :-) Just thought I'd make my very first post a "shout-out" to any other Tylercra

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Grounding two isolated battery banks Hayden Watson at 12:23pm 06.12.22 Having a defined procedure for managing your boat system is essential and safe. I was looking at t
Grounding two isolated battery banks Ward H at 12:20pm 06.12.22 The only connection between the neg terminal on the two batteries is the engine block. The only wa
Grounding two isolated battery banks Hayden Watson at 12:17pm 06.12.22 I too am learning about LiFePO batteries, the first thing I've learned is you can't treat them like
Yamaha 30 - prop shaft thrust bearing replacement (1) Ralph Johnstone at 12:16pm 06.12.22 Is this bearing a part of the Yanmar engine or an add on for your particular installation ? matic t
Spinnaker use "cruising style" Hollyberry at 12:14pm 06.12.22 The point I was making is that in a breeze that tack line would put a strong side-load on the pulpit
Spinnaker use "cruising style" dlochner at 12:06pm 06.12.22 Notice that in this image your tack line is outside-loading the bow pulpit... I'd say you need to r
Does your Chart Plotter still work with your preferred Chart supplier? dlochner at 12:02pm 06.12.22 The charting companies are using the same primary data from NOAA. The difference is whether there is
Spinnaker use "cruising style" (1) Hollyberry at 11:51am 06.12.22 206192 Notice that in this image your tack line is outside-loading the bow pulpit... I'd say you nee
Grounding two isolated battery banks jssailem at 11:27am 06.12.22 Having a defined procedure for managing your boat system is essential and safe. I was looking at t
Cristec battery isolator possible failure dlochner at 11:23am 06.12.22 Speaking of ground switch, why did Beneteau install switches on the ground? My other Beneteau had o
Grounding two isolated battery banks Hayden Watson at 11:22am 06.12.22 If I understand, the positive lead from the LFP bank could (through the House and Start switch) be
Cristec battery isolator possible failure SycloneDriver at 11:16am 06.12.22 I'm definitely finding weaknesses that I didn't expect. Like the use of loctite on many of the conn
Spinnaker use "cruising style" jssailem at 11:09am 06.12.22 I couldn't help but notice that neither is rigged with two sheets. Good eyes. The image was taken
Roller furling issue jssailem at 11:01am 06.12.22 You got the mast stabilized. Good. Repairing this while up in the air is a big task. It can be done
Roller furling issue dlochner at 10:58am 06.12.22 On a 25 foot boat, the rigger may not want to climb the mast. You'll need to take the boat to a yard
Spinnaker use "cruising style" thinwater at 10:53am 06.12.22 Use it in light breezes. You get wind above 8 knots and you may find the boat over powered. This co
Cristec battery isolator possible failure jssailem at 10:42am 06.12.22 There are many ways to put the system together. Lots of considerations, voltage drop being one of th
Roller furling issue (2) lsavocchi at 10:39am 06.12.22 Yes, the forestay must have snapped off and got coiled in the roller furling. I just tied off the Ji
Roller furling issue dlochner at 10:31am 06.12.22
Roller furling issue Hollyberry at 10:21am 06.12.22

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