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Light Fixtures need new switches PrincessoftheLake at 5:01am 06.19.10 Big Boats 4/1395 My 1995 Hunter 40.5 has two bad switches in light fixtures. One is the overhead light in the aft ca
23.5 Bimini Bill Jones at 4:41am 06.19.10 Smaller Boats 8/2678 Yesterday, my wife and I installed our new Ameriseam bimini on our H23.5. It took a call to the com
force 10 hot water heater newboatowner at 4:29am 06.19.10 Ask A Catalina Owner 2/1877 After two seasons of no hot water, I found an easy method to bleed the heating lines off the engine
Selden Mast rake Broke Sailor at 4:20am 06.19.10 Ask A Hunter Owner 10/4545 I had my Selden in mast furling rig tuned. The man in charge told me that the mast rake was excessi
how to clean fresh water tank cabos at 9:54pm 06.18.10 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 5/3171 Hi, I got little white rocks in my fresh water tank. Hunter passage 42. these rocks keep on blocking
Spinnaker Furlers nick at 7:56pm 06.18.10 Ask All Sailors 0/1388 I'm headed up the coast to do Hamilton Island Race Week in August and am thinking of investing in on
HOT no wind piedpiperIII at 7:36pm 06.18.10 Catalina 22 15/2301 We have been in the 90's even 103deg. the other day but it's only windy when I am at work RRRRRGGGG
Keel sail510 at 7:24pm 06.18.10 Ask A Macgregor Owner 7/2281 My husband and I both have always wanted a sail boat so we bought a MacGregor 26". Can you tell me w
Deck Drain is clogged rpearlberg at 6:10pm 06.18.10 Pearson 6/3573 Pearson 303. The port side deck drain is not draining! Is there a valve somewhere that controls th
Hunter 25 1979 quintash at 3:58pm 06.18.10 Smaller Boats 0/1126 Hi ive had my boat for a season after 10 years of no love at all .. it seems my information regardin
42 Passage Inverter Matt at 2:19pm 06.18.10 Big Boats 5/1437 I have been refitting a 1990 passage and am working on the electrical panel now. I have a freedom i
42 Passage windless Matt at 2:13pm 06.18.10 Big Boats 3/1450 I am thinking abouting adding a wired handheld remote to my windless that will be both power up and
CNG to propane on Hunter 42 Matt at 2:11pm 06.18.10 Big Boats 2/1552 Has anybody switched out the CNG system to propane on a Hunter 42?
Missing Information? Clark at 1:33pm 06.18.10 Sail Trim with Don Guillette 2/3096 At one time I thought there was some information linked to by the "Downwind sailing" link shown abov
shroud lines bad_com_pany at 1:24pm 06.18.10 Smaller Boats 3/1483 hey folks just splashed my 1993 23.5 and have a question second year with this and after raising the
Advice requested: launch H23 with bare iron keel? isaksp00 at 12:48pm 06.18.10 Smaller Boats 5/2478 I bought mine ('91 H23) about 2 months ago. Boat had not been used for two years, on trailer. So I
Swing Keel leak where the saftey bolt goes through jglibbery at 12:42pm 06.18.10 Ask A Macgregor Owner 4/2748 I have a 1980ish Mac Venture 22 and have a leak where the small bolt that goes through the keel (wh
Vibrations from cockpit and mast? dsmigelski at 11:31am 06.18.10 Catalina 22 9/1866 Hi, Im new to sailing so i'll start there. :) I have a 1984 Cat 22 that I started hearing vibrati
Wrinkles in my main sail.... hman at 10:32am 06.18.10 Ask All Sailors 9/3458 I just got a used set of Niel Pryde sails made for an Oday 23, I've used them several times now and
For you newbies cleaning up an old boat. Tom Hoffman at 9:32am 06.18.10 Trailer Sailors 3/5139 Just had to run in because of the rain and electricty problem. I have been buffing out the uppe

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Preventer for a Hunter 420 RoyS at 4:45am 05.25.22 My boom only has the two bails, one for the preventer and one for the mainsheet. In prior seasons to
Magma grill kappykaplan at 4:41am 05.25.22 Could you get/make a rubber insert to put inside the clamp?
can't pump out waste tank All U Get at 4:03am 05.25.22 We met some cruisers with a similar problem. The tank was plugged so bad that neither the macerator
Anyone know what this is? Apex at 3:16am 05.25.22 freeze cap?
can't pump out waste tank sabbatical88 at 3:06am 05.25.22 Hi, Thought I'd finally follow up on this and ask another question. I went to the pump out station a
Captain to Hire for Columbia Bar Crossing Training FastOlson at 11:11pm 05.24.22 Chatting with the CG petty officer, he said he could read the boats name as they made their run ove
Captain to Hire for Columbia Bar Crossing Training jssailem at 10:47pm 05.24.22 Crossing the Columbia bar is on my bucket list. Been up to the CG Bar observation tower. There is a
New Catalina 30 Owner mikeracca at 10:23pm 05.24.22 Well I didn't think that fingerprints on the bottom side of the glass would matter, but the print ha
Bed-It Tape is back! ggrizzard at 9:59pm 05.24.22 Hooray!
Anyone know what this is? ggrizzard at 9:55pm 05.24.22 I can't see any normal holes in it, But... It might be a very old shaft coupler that somehow got le
New Catalina 30 Owner Hayden Watson at 9:46pm 05.24.22 ... Well that's about all the important stuff for tonight... oh I got the right hand part printing
Intake Silencer Richard19068 at 9:30pm 05.24.22 You have to keep i filled with DSF (diesel silencing fluid). Yes but isn't that very hard to get n
New Catalina 30 Owner mikeracca at 8:53pm 05.24.22 I got 1/2 of the new version 4 panel printed. This time it is black and the print turned out perfec
Alternators mikeracca at 8:44pm 05.24.22 Over the past 7 years exploring the Salish Sea and Puget Sound, if you focus on getting from marina
Captain to Hire for Columbia Bar Crossing Training Stu Jackson at 8:39pm 05.24.22 but we would like to develop the skills to cross the Columbia Bar Start reading. Seriously. Use Go
MacGregor 25 Classification stickinthemud57 at 8:37pm 05.24.22 There seem to be two types of sailors - serious racing sailors and everybody else. Racing boats tha
Alternators mikeracca at 8:36pm 05.24.22 I don't understand why you would pay that much money for a disposable Chinese alt (you don't even w
Engine overheats at idle, cools at 15k RPM's. Stu Jackson at 8:28pm 05.24.22 1. Make sure about your plumbing to the water heater. If it is shut off, it could also shut off t
Mistake made when installing lines aft (fortunately it was an easy fix) Sgt B Powell at 7:57pm 05.24.22 Good timing, I am about to do the same thing. Thanks for the insight.
New Articles Blitz at 7:50pm 05.24.22 If you are concerned about water loss and insist on keeping your charger always on at the slip I wou

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