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Solar Rechargers For Battery newboatowner at 4:00am 06.24.10 Ask A Catalina Owner 1/1447 I Am Looking For A Solar Recharging System For The Batteries In A Catalina 30. Any Suggestions?
Old Line jibes138 at 3:02am 06.24.10 Ask All Sailors 22/3767 Has anyone ever met a sailor that would actually just throw away old line, or do you keep it until t
Hazardous Ghosts of PO's Past? rardiH36 at 11:21pm 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 23/5228 What potentially hazardous safety faults have you come across on your boat due to previous owners' (
JABSCO Manuel toilet Alyann at 10:02pm 06.23.10 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 7/4259 Hi! I have a 36.2 1996 Jeanneau Sun Odyssey and am having issues with my JABSCO toilet. i would rea
Float sensor for bilge faithforster26@msn.com at 8:42pm 06.23.10 Catalina 30 5/2359 Hi: Our float sensor seems to have given up the ghost. I bought a new Rule-a-Matic and was told that
oil spill update for gulf coast Chuck Creel at 8:38pm 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 15/3223 As of today, pensacola beach is oiled up with oil. not balls but OIL. Very sad day for us along te
Drifter Rick D at 8:04pm 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 3/1761 I just purchased a windseeker drifter sail for use during those long agonizing overnight races when
"MINOR" problem fixed (2) sailaway78 at 7:57pm 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 7/1534 Got the thin walled shaft log repaired. Then of course I had to fix my own damn boo boo. When I ha
Broken portlight cam bracket calypso42 at 7:05pm 06.23.10 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1287 I am a new owner of a 1991 Hunter Passage 42, and am trying to fix a starboard portlight over the st
large boat relocation denestratton@gmail.com at 6:37pm 06.23.10 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1187 I would like to move my hunter passage 420 from Los Angeles to San Francisco. I don't know whether
Solar Vents Zaphro at 6:13pm 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 2/1586 I have two 20 year old solar vents on my boat that haven't worked since I bought it back in 2005. I
New Part Installation Prep TDudley at 6:12pm 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 2/1610 I just got a new Mixing Elbow in the mail for my Yanmar 1GM. I reveled in how nicely painted it was
O361 Alternator Upgrade - Success ... Maybe bsmith15 at 5:35pm 06.23.10 Ask A Beneteau Owner 4/1831 I think I am close to finding a solution to my upgrade delima! Using a Balmar 70 series 80 amp alter
Boat Insurance????? #1BoatDude at 5:22pm 06.23.10 Ask A Catalina Owner 0/1258 Hey everybody....Have any of you used Mariners General Insurance Group for your boat insurance??? T
Tohatsu 9.8 - alternator -- Good Idea? Samwill557 at 4:40pm 06.23.10 Smaller Boats 7/12521 I have a 1994 Hunter H26 with a 9.8 Tohatsu Engine. The manual lists an alternator/rectifier accesso
Anyone know this Exhaust Elbow? (1) Roger Long at 4:29pm 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 36/13569 All the recent talk about exhaust elbows got me thinking about mine which is due for replacement. I
Securing Turnbuckles (1) Roger Long at 4:13pm 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 6/3658 I've lost track of the thread (not really, I'm just too lazy to look it up) where someone was asking
Stiff Motor Shifter Mick at 1:58pm 06.23.10 Ask A Macgregor Owner 1/1402 We took the 2001 26X out today. It has a 40HP Honda on the back. The engine runs great but the shift
Build year needed, please Dougraildh1 at 11:30am 06.23.10 Day Sailers 2/1363 HI Everyone, I own Daysailer #1813 and it is going in the water this week after having been sitting
Buying a capri 22 rbatten at 11:27am 06.23.10 Catalina 22 2/5958 Hi all, I'm interested in buying used Capri 22. Are there tips/issues of which I should be awar

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Universal M18 unattached hose kappykaplan at 5:24pm 06.19.22 I had to create a port on the air cleaner body to connect the hose. Prior to that, the hose dripped
Universal M18 unattached hose boater7cs at 5:18pm 06.19.22
Universal M18 unattached hose jssailem at 4:48pm 06.19.22
INVERTER SET UP justsomeguy at 3:33pm 06.19.22 Any advice would be appreciated. My Mr. Coffee machine wants 900 watts. Check yours. Laptop chargi
Update Jeremy_r at 3:21pm 06.19.22 I see that it has been 26 days since the last donation to the GoFundMe for Rodd Collins, aka Mainesa
INVERTER SET UP Davidasailor26 at 2:52pm 06.19.22 700 watts is about 60 amps at 12V, so it would probably be the largest load on the distribution pane
Removing old Thru-Hull ShawnL at 1:19pm 06.19.22 Today's progress, c-. Rain storms this morning, and I had the thru-hull disconnected. So the cockp
Universal M18 unattached hose kappykaplan at 1:11pm 06.19.22 Looks like one end is attached to the positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) valve. On my boat, the o
Main prop strut Boatjoc at 12:57pm 06.19.22 Or you could hire one of the hundreds of local hull divers. My guess is you could get one to have a
Rhodes 22 mast needed in New England sail sfbay at 12:55pm 06.19.22 Welcome to the forum!! I understand the Rhodes 22 has a 100-sq. ft. mainsail that rolls up into a 2
Main prop strut fstbttms at 11:56am 06.19.22 Thanks for the suggestion. It might come to that, but then I'd have the cost of a wet suit! This
Bilging Every 3 Minutes LloydB at 11:49am 06.19.22 How many gallons every three minutes? Somewhat important I think because you need to find out whethe
Installing extra cleats on a MacGregor 26M mast stickinthemud57 at 11:35am 06.19.22 Tally's question is a good one and should enter into the decision, but... Obviously, within the ran
Installing extra cleats on a MacGregor 26M mast Tally Ho at 10:41am 06.19.22 How high do you install extra cleats on a MacGregor 26M mast What do you want to tie off on the ex
Looking for a roller I can use when using the trailer winch to raise the mast brockangelo at 10:23am 06.19.22 That does look really great. I might have to try that method again. The very first time I raised the
Oceanis 31 wiring channel dilemma jssailem at 9:40am 06.19.22 Les, Hope it works. I knew about Christchurch in New Zealand. Did not know there was a Christchurc
Oceanis 31 wiring channel dilemma LRsunnyB at 9:23am 06.19.22 Thanks very much for your reply. Funny thing - I just came to the same conclusion as I have one of t
recently purchased a 26D 1987 found about 200lbs of lead shot. stickinthemud57 at 9:21am 06.19.22 The S and the D are practically identical, and specs note 1200 lbs of ballast, which I know in the c
Vision 32 AC/DC panel re-work (1) jssailem at 9:09am 06.19.22 Les knows his stuff. Created a great upgrade to my boat. ect still in the last phase of completion
C320 Refrigerator Calif. Ted at 9:06am 06.19.22 It's a Dometic or Adler Barbour using a Danfoss BD 35 compressor most likely, there's a couple blade

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