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Waste Deck Plate cover (2) swisssally at 2:13pm 02.28.22 Ask A Beneteau Owner 28/3162
Hunter 38 Selden Boom reference number (1) Pat Hooyman at 10:37am 02.28.22 Big Boats 2/567 Does Anyone know the Selden Boom reference # for the boom on a 2007 Hunter 38 with a roller furling
Water heater/heat exchange (1) Captain Mateo at 9:50am 02.28.22 Big Boats 3/615 I am replacing my old Force 10 11 gallon water heater on my H460. All the hookups looked straightfor
Bormar Hatch Hinge KeokiV at 9:34am 02.28.22 Parts Search 2/808 Hi - Hinges on my 13.5 x 13.5 hatch have snapped - anyone know where I can get replacements?
Hunter 41 Forward Hatch Hinges KeokiV at 9:31am 02.28.22 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/833 Hi there, New to the forum and just purchased a 2005 Legend 41. As with any purchase of a used boat
Hatch covers ----can you recommend someone who can make a hatch cover, preferably in NJ tmeade1041 at 8:46am 02.28.22 Ask All Sailors 2/347 I have a 1981 23 foot O day that has a broken hatch cover. It has a trapezoid shape and I am having
Need Curtains for H240 (1) patbratton at 7:32am 02.28.22 Smaller Boats 1/597 I am restarting my quest for curtains for my Hunter 240. I have taken all the measurement in the cab
Power winch bcrossb at 6:26am 02.28.22 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/769 Anyone with experience having an power winch installed for the furling main on a hunter 356, 2002, p
Waste/oil placard CYQK at 5:53am 02.28.22 Ask All Sailors 5/2549 Saw a couple of posts over the last while where folks have said the coasties warned about no placard
Anchor winch considerations stuendan at 9:04pm 02.27.22 Mid-Size Boats 6/1617 I am looking at installing an anchor winch on my H326 and note that the anchor locker is set up to t
Leaking rudder post Cygnus1 at 7:40pm 02.27.22 Ask All Sailors 2/542 I have a 1975 Pearson 10 Meter. My rudder post packing is seeping very slow. I am ready to haul out
Catalina 27 sanitation system rebuild Jacomo Sailor at 7:32pm 02.27.22 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 3/1404 I have a new to me 86 Catalina 27 that needs to have the sanitation system reworked. All of the hos
Mast with weld repair - stay away or worry not? Bob Kessler at 5:41pm 02.27.22 Ask All Sailors 17/3123 hi everyone I spoke with a seller of an O'Day Mariner 19 before seeing the boat in-person. He told
Boat Speed Voyager1 at 4:17pm 02.27.22 Ask An Oday Owner 11/1622 Any Oday 302 owners have a Yanmar 2gm20F and if so on a calm flat water type day how many knot does
V-Belt Replacement (1) lehighsail at 3:46pm 02.27.22 Ask All Sailors 20/2669 At the end of last season I noticed that the belt that powers my seawater pump on my Yanmar 3YM30 wa
Morse or no morse Jacktar at 1:51pm 02.27.22 Ask All Sailors 35/2554 Love the new strobe light to replace flares, only problem is most of western world knows the signifi
How do you decide on your control lines for your sails? jssailem at 12:01pm 02.27.22 Ask All Sailors 1/737 Running Rigging, specifically control lines for your sails - sheets. How do you go about deciding ab
The LiFePo4 Revolution! jviss at 10:55am 02.27.22 Ask All Sailors 50/4688 I have been a bit of a battery nerd for a long time, even though I don't know as much as many here o
Builder's Plaque jviss at 10:22am 02.27.22 Tartan 16/2813 @Sean K this one's for you! One great disappointment to me is that the builder's plaque for my boat
Is your boat a finely assembled, original manufactured piece of art work? jssailem at 7:21am 02.27.22 Ask All Sailors 33/2574 How do you look at your boat and what do you consider when something goes amiss? Is your boat a pr

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Aqua Lift muffler C310 Stu Jackson at 10:08am 04.02.25 jassailem - great idea. Thanks a bunch. Clyde Thorington Clyde, this is a BAD idea. Why? Becau
Lithium cold storage question marcham at 9:49am 04.02.25 Unfortunately not. Thanks for the idea. In that case, irrespective of what any manufacturer says,
Hunter 23 cloth color Ralph Johnstone at 9:27am 04.02.25 Here's a link that will put three small samples of your variously selected materials in your hands a
Depth needed to safely launch/retrieve Catalina 18 Wing Keel (1) majorkong1 at 9:19am 04.02.25 Thank you, this is super helpful. So my measurements were relative to the bow of the boat, not 1 fo
SPRING BREAK - Weather Ralph Johnstone at 9:17am 04.02.25 In the Northwest, it is good to remember that Spring is the time of rain showers that bring April f
Depth needed to safely launch/retrieve Catalina 18 Wing Keel (1) Tedd at 8:45am 04.02.25 There's a recent thread by someone with a similar boat trying to work out the same thing. You might
Aqua Lift muffler C310 Clydo at 8:36am 04.02.25 One idea is to close the raw water through hull while trying to start a stubborn engine. This stops
Aqua Lift muffler C310 Clydo at 8:34am 04.02.25 Doesn't sound like enough to need to even thinking about draining. What engine? Stu - M25 XPB -
Rope clutch replacement stickinthemud57 at 8:20am 04.02.25 A few years back I outfitted my boat with Lewmar DC1 clutches and cannot imagine an easier-to-use op
SPRING BREAK - Weather kappykaplan at 7:58am 04.02.25 Not that I'm in your neck of the woods, but my bottom paint is going on today and confirmed the boat
Aqua Lift muffler C310 jssailem at 7:41am 04.02.25 One idea is to close the raw water through hull while trying to start a stubborn engine. This stops
Aqua Lift muffler C310 Stu Jackson at 7:32am 04.02.25 Doesn't sound like enough to need to even thinking about draining. What engine?
Depth needed to safely launch/retrieve Catalina 18 Wing Keel (2) majorkong1 at 7:09am 04.02.25 Thank you. Below are some photos of the trailer and extension. This is the only place where I could
Depth needed to safely launch/retrieve Catalina 18 Wing Keel Timm R Oday25 at 7:00am 04.02.25 Off the top of my head I'm going to say pretty close to the 46" . As you already found out the angle
Lewmar old standard hatches interior frame JamesG161 at 6:41am 04.02.25 I spray painted my old ones to match. Jim...
Lewmar old standard hatches interior frame (1) sailcapt340 at 6:18am 04.02.25 Are you asking about this type of interior frames?
Alternator Terminals - Please help before I fry things! BigEasy at 6:09am 04.02.25 Those look like isolated grounds, so my guess would be that the rectifier has two ground terminals
Lewmar old standard hatches interior frame Project_Mayhem at 6:05am 04.02.25 Pics? What's the issue with your current frames?
Keel Bolts DianaOfBurlington at 6:03am 04.02.25 A common misconception about keel bolt torque is to torque to the bolt's specifcation. Torquing to
Alternator Terminals - Please help before I fry things! Project_Mayhem at 6:02am 04.02.25 Here's an article that explains the Battery Sense wire and why it is important and how to wire it c

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