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Fresh water pumps NYSail at 11:44pm 07.24.21 Ask All Sailors 3/731
Lewmar folding wheel capseaquel at 5:45pm 07.24.21 Ask All Sailors 4/765 Lost one of the machine? Screws which connect the folding parts of the spokes to the standing parts.
Hunter 35.5 Legend back stay rigging. (2) FrKim at 3:39pm 07.24.21 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/856 Should the back stay be tight to the point of inducing an aft bend in the mast between the fore stay
Hunter 212 - Trailerable - I need advice for the procedure on Replacing the 6mm Dyneema cord used to raise the retractable centerboard timjneedham at 1:56pm 07.24.21 Trailer Sailors 2/426 Has anyone replaced the rope? The rope is snapped and the keel swings freely down. I'm pretty anti-p
Keel (4) Rodsails at 1:22pm 07.24.21 Big Boats 4/836 Had a great day sailing near Big Bay De Nok Michigan, only to come to a hard stop at 7.5 knots. 3 ha
Time to tighten main furler? (1) Nachismo at 12:37pm 07.24.21 Big Boats 21/2188 With main mostly unfurled I see the remaining couple wraps are aft. See pic. Would tightening the
Portlights RMintle at 11:04am 07.24.21 Ask An Oday Owner 3/740
ANGLE OF HEAL FOR RACING upwinddan at 9:48am 07.24.21 Ask A Hunter Owner 15/2400 I race a Hunter 33.5 that has the elliptical blub with the little wings. I am wondering if anyone ha
New Rudder? DeliriousSailor at 9:01am 07.24.21 Smaller Boats 14/2054 Hello everyone, I need some advice regarding the rudder on my H26. The current rudder needs repa
Fuel guage for 1982 Hunter 33 john1234 at 8:52am 07.24.21 The Cherubini Hunters 12/1373 There is no fuel guage on my 1982 Hunter 33 Cherubini era sailboat. Anyone have suggestions to what
Life Line Stanchion Replacement FrKim at 7:29am 07.24.21 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/508 Can anyone explain how to replace a mid ship Life Line Stanchion. Are there any instructions availa
Weeds in the prop? Jimongee at 6:23am 07.24.21 Ask A Hunter Owner 8/1107 Ok so here we are in our 2002 356 yesterday. We were motoring into the Sturgeon Bay very busy chann
Change the filter on a Beneteau 51.1 AC joelsbuch at 5:37am 07.24.21 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/464 How do you change the filter on my AC units? The boat manual doesn't seem to show a filter but my d
Got the mast up! (1) patbratton at 5:20am 07.24.21 Smaller Boats 5/551 Friday was hot in Georgia. My son and I spend the morning running down the remaining parts to replac
Transport Costs? Apex at 3:01am 07.24.21 Ask All Sailors 16/1860 Anyone have experience in transport recently? Have a quote for 30ft. (only response thus far). Incl
Little Pinholes In Fiberglass Plymouth Sailor at 7:35pm 07.23.21 Irwin 1/1205
Any problems with sailing a 2.92 feet draft winged keel on the Great South Bay on Long Island NY sailbears at 6:25pm 07.23.21 Ask All Sailors 3/488 Preferable to have people who have actually sailed on the GSB but also want to know if such a keel c
Repowering the 2001 Beneteau 361 Guan at 5:39pm 07.23.21 Ask All Sailors 11/1301 Well guys and gals y'all maybe glad that finally I'm fed up with Vancouver's lack of Marine mechanic
Scam mechanic in Vancouver because of shortages Guan at 5:25pm 07.23.21 Engines and Propulsion 4/1367 Just a heads up on this guy and company. Dio boss of Relacoes Marine Services in Vancouver Canada. H
First time boat owner... Battery alarm kodiak1120 at 4:17pm 07.23.21 Ask All Sailors 14/2160 I recently bought a 2009 Beneteau 37. We went out to dinner and when we came back, the panel was so

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Looking for source for used roller furling and jib. ShawnL at 8:04am 06.23.24 There's nothing "wrong" with having a hank-on jib or genoa. People have been using them for a (real
Looking for source for used roller furling and jib. shemandr at 6:46am 06.23.24 Here's a directory. Warning: This is not a secure site. http://www.allaboutsalvage.com/marine/cali
Looking for source for used roller furling and jib. shemandr at 6:39am 06.23.24 There are marine salvage yards. But I don't know of any outside of Florida and the NE. Maybe a loc
Blown exhaust not enough I guess odaydokay at 6:04am 06.23.24 Many thanks to you both for checking in. Very useful thinking from both of you and much appreciate
Looking for source for used roller furling and jib. justsomeguy at 5:40am 06.23.24 relatively inexpensive good new components. Check out CDI roller furlers.
Thermostat (1) UpperPintle at 5:35am 06.23.24 Did you resolve your engine thermostat question? I also have a M5444 and the manual specs running t
Head treatment thinwater at 5:22am 06.23.24
Downsizing to a 260 dlochner at 4:30am 06.23.24 This is where a Stack pack is worth every penny. We struggled with flaking our new heavy stiff mains
Hunter Passage 42 forward head seawater hose clogged BBC16385 at 4:14am 06.23.24 Yes, I found my issue but the toilet still does not work. I covered the air intakes on the solenoid
Hunter 260 Edison Steering Pulley (Cable Jump) Davidasailor26 at 3:51am 06.23.24 How is the sheave attached to the bracket? My Lewmar pedestal has the sheaves riding on a pin, held
Mobile navigation app Captain Larry-DH at 3:43am 06.23.24 My iPad has several apps. Aqua maps is one. Coastal Explorer, which I used on a PC and PC Laptop no
Blown exhaust not enough I guess Hayden Watson at 1:54am 06.23.24 I have found that my M25XP is very sensitive to any loss of coolant. I installed a coolant overflow
Hunter 260 Edison Steering Pulley (Cable Jump) philiefay at 10:20pm 06.22.24 Having done some research.. I have read about others drilling a 6" 3/8 inspection port under the ped
Downsizing to a 260 SoSound at 9:39pm 06.22.24
Head treatment rgranger at 9:03pm 06.22.24 Please explain with links. This could be interesting. I can think of a few possibilites, but I'd li
Head treatment thinwater at 8:35pm 06.22.24
Mobile navigation app jssailem at 7:46pm 06.22.24 My iPad has several apps. Aqua maps is one. Coastal Explorer, which I used on a PC and PC Laptop now
Invest 92L shemandr at 7:01pm 06.22.24 Today in South Florida there were basically random showers including some zitt/boom events but no wi
Strange alarm after installing a new battery?? (1) Davidasailor26 at 6:26pm 06.22.24 After some head scratching and looking at the wiring diagrams the one explanation I can find is that
Mobile navigation app Captain Larry-DH at 4:52pm 06.22.24 Aqua Maps is better overall than Navionics. I still use both, as @Davidasailor26 does, but overall A

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