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Whisker Pole Tom Urban at 9:47am 06.23.10 S2 1/1476 Hi, I have recently purchased a 1975 S2 23" sailboat. New to sailing but my wife is experienced bu
Jimmy Buffett Gulf Shores "Free Concert" WTA at 9:25am 06.23.10 Sails Call Lounge 5/3648 I am sure everyone on here has heard about the concert in Gulf Shores that Buffett is going to put o
1962 19ft Oday Clayland at 9:09am 06.23.10 Ask An Oday Owner 0/1051 We have just purchased a 1962 19ft Oday. Does anyone have any pictures or an instruction booklet for
Mac 26d sliding hatch macphil26d at 9:02am 06.23.10 Ask A Macgregor Owner 2/1330 Looking for sliding hatch Mac 26D 89 model, any help, thanks=Phil, Nampa ID.
Replace water heater on 9.2a? richard965 at 7:54am 06.23.10 S2 3/1798 anyone replace the water heater?? looks like mine is the original Raritan 6 gallon that is 14" in d
climbing out of the water Ctskip at 7:32am 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 18/3095 Several years ago I was in a rather small yacht club and there were three docks with maybe 75 sailbo
Novice .. H23.5 a good idea and some advice bobbo99 at 7:05am 06.23.10 Smaller Boats 11/2318 Hello all , very ncie forum... I am a novice and looking to buy a boat that i can grow in to over t
Lancer manuals Rakahrd at 6:39am 06.23.10 Lancer 2/2004 I have a 1978 Lancer 25 and am looking for a copy of the owners manual. I would pay to have it
Drifter set (1) DJN51 at 6:24am 06.23.10 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/1650 any ideas on how i can rig this pictured sail?Have a 23.5 with roller furling jib.Sail is .75 oz.han
genoa sail ???? jeromeddd at 6:22am 06.23.10 Ask All Sailors 5/2185 I am sailing from Michigan to Nova Scotia, and my genoa sail leach keeps flapping. I asked a good fr
Midship Cleat on Catalina 36 mholt at 5:41am 06.23.10 Big Boats 2/2431 Hi, We have a 2005 Cataliina 36 and are having trouble fitting a midship cleat. We have tried all t
installed new s/s sink in our 260 (1) Bob 04 H260 at 5:14am 06.23.10 Smaller Boats 3/1419 I picked up a small s/s sink while on vacation in Florida this winter. It was only $30, new, but was
new owner needs painting swing keel advice for 26S Captneeen at 5:09am 06.23.10 Ask A Macgregor Owner 4/4633 looking for some advice on bottom painting a 26S New owner, just got a 1994 26S that was used on la
h34 shaft lenght moanalanni at 11:07pm 06.22.10 Big Boats 0/896 I am trying to get a quote for a new s/s shaft on my h34 . my service agent needs the lenght for t
Help Me Identify This Smell Paul Mermelstein at 10:01pm 06.22.10 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 6/3070 I've had the boat 2+ years and there is this odor that I smell only when first opening up the boat.
Speaking of Aussie sailors... Joe at 9:59pm 06.22.10 Ask All Sailors 2/1403 ... the exciting world of grand prix sailing on the unbelievable 18 foot skiff is very, very popular
Maximum head sail Tired n Giddy at 8:44pm 06.22.10 Smaller Boats 6/1495 Hi I have just purchased a 2004 - 260 and was wondering what the maximum head sail size is possib
Sailing Close Hauled Question kpgraci at 7:10pm 06.22.10 Ask All Sailors 7/3826 Newbie question - Went out sailing Sunday, after a few hours of no wind things picked up and we had
Backing Down / Testing Reverse Thrust Maine Sail at 6:57pm 06.22.10 Musings With Maine Sail 13/5637 Well I finally got to test out my new toy, a digital strain gauge. For my first little experiment I
Achillles inflatable part Edlk at 6:27pm 06.22.10 Ask All Sailors 3/2036 Does anyone know where you can get the channel that attaches the wood benches to the inflatable side

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Knotmeter jssailem at 1:28pm 06.18.22 strong broad reach and surfing down swells, hit almost double hull speed. Good story anyway... :)
Shipping boat from HI to mainland? jssailem at 1:24pm 06.18.22 Note @Epic1969 The suggestion is coming from an armadillo on his back, in the road, with a bottle o
New Catalina 30 Owner (1) mikeracca at 12:16pm 06.18.22 Just a quick update. My fuel gauge arrived from CD and here it is installed! Ok off to put this in
Knotmeter PlaneTom at 10:56am 06.18.22 We dismounted our paddle wheel speed meter because our handheld GPS (and backup) are so much more a
Removing old Thru-Hull ShawnL at 10:37am 06.18.22 Got started today. I sanded the area under the boat where the thru-hull normally is. It's in a bit
Shipping boat from HI to mainland? Rick Webb at 10:28am 06.18.22 Surreptitiously get a line onto one of those Matson ships and let it drag you back to Long Beach or
Selling a Boat Without a Broker capta at 10:25am 06.18.22 Otherwise, brokers serve little more than as a phone answering machine in my view, some not even go
Looking for tubing bender Tedd at 10:16am 06.18.22 @DArcy 's post reminded me of another method I've had some success with. I bought one of the dies fo
Boat Needs A Little Work (1) WayneH at 10:13am 06.18.22 Wait a second.. We have one that just came into our marina. It needs a bit of paint, too. was fixed
Knotmeter DArcy at 9:59am 06.18.22 If you are not racing speed through the water isn't really all that important, SOG from a GPS is. Ra
Looking for tubing bender DArcy at 9:52am 06.18.22 I had to replace some aluminum tubes for my winter cover frame and made a bender out of wood. I doub
Selling a Boat Without a Broker danm1 at 9:28am 06.18.22 I don't use brokers and a feel sorry for the sellers who do when they pay their commissions, but I
Stays/Shrouds Too Short Fix dlochner at 9:10am 06.18.22 Woke up in the middle of the night last night and realized every sailboat does that when you discon
Selling a Boat Without a Broker Don S/V ILLusion at 8:56am 06.18.22 You can pay a broker a nominal fee for a yacht world listing which depending on the amount, might be
Selden in mast furling line drive problem solved Stu Jackson at 8:52am 06.18.22 Nice that you found and shared a solution. Please know that you do not have to post this kind of ma
Stays/Shrouds Too Short Fix LloydB at 8:45am 06.18.22 Woke up in the middle of the night last night and realized every sailboat does that when you disconn
Selling a Boat Without a Broker dlochner at 8:33am 06.18.22 I've done both, sold with and without a broker. Whether using a broker will work for you depends on
Looking for tubing bender Tedd at 8:18am 06.18.22 All good points, @dLj . The times I've done it I haven't been overly concerned with finish.
Looking for tubing bender dLj at 8:07am 06.18.22 That looks like amazing stuff! It's probably overkill for this application, though. I've done up to
Looking for tubing bender Tedd at 8:04am 06.18.22 You could probably use lignum vitea - if you can get it. That looks like amazing stuff! It's probabl

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