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which foam should I get? Newbie Sailor at 1:52pm 05.12.09 Ask A Catalina Owner 1/1244 Hey there everybody. New sailors on a 1980-something 27' Catalina. The previous owner just put on
Alternator Charging Wire To Battery Barry7363 at 1:10pm 05.12.09 Ask All Sailors 15/3775 Gentlemen, I'm in the process of re-wiring my house and start batteries with new DC switches and pan
Dow corning 700 Mark Juetten at 11:46am 05.12.09 Big Boats 5/1321 I am going to need to replace side acrylic window in cabin top due to cracking . I believe you need
Free Boat update sailormanbigd at 11:32am 05.12.09 Ask All Sailors 14/1776 Well, I just finished filling out the Coast Guard paperwork for changing owners on the "free boat. I
Bosun's Chair Tips Mike H. at 11:31am 05.12.09 Ask All Sailors 21/6299 I have to go up the mast soon to install radar and I will check out the mast head and clean and lube
Portland Pudgy: Any experience? maggiegee at 9:11am 05.12.09 Ask All Sailors 1/1411 Does anyone have any experience with the Portland Pudgy lifeboat/dinghy? I'm thinking of getting one
venture 21 swing keel cracks hansen4401 at 9:03am 05.12.09 Ask A Macgregor Owner 2/2260 hi all, I have 3 'fractures' in the swing keel running perpendicular to the length of it and am won
Signal Flags Pinot Blanc at 8:45am 05.12.09 Catalina 22 0/1047 Dear Friends, I am wishing to mount a set up to display signal flags on a halyard from the spar on
Chainplates Needed Jimmy J. at 8:24am 05.12.09 Day Sailers 14/4058 My O'Day 20 is in need of new chainplates...I have checked with DRMarine but the cost for them seems
Cracks in Transom - on a New 2008?! moentrol at 7:19am 05.12.09 Ask All Sailors 8/1776 Ok, first, I'm very new to this (have never posted), but thought this would be the place to go to ge
Greetings from Afghanistan (2) Brian D at 6:21am 05.12.09 Sails Call Lounge 8/3667 Hello my favorite sailors. Hope the sailing season is doing you well. Thought I'd say hello and send
Black Tar Epoxy Layer NakedTime at 4:24am 05.12.09 Seidelmann 0/1869 Just curious if anyone else has a black tar epoxy layer between the glass and gelcoat on their hull.
Tabernacle pulled from cabin roof islandjim at 4:22am 05.12.09 Ask All Sailors 9/1904 On my Oday 22' during a test mast raising, one of the helpers fell off the boat bringing the mast wi
slick on starting engine John at 4:18am 05.12.09 Ask All Sailors 3/1273 Another question I have: On starting the engine the other day, I noticed a little bit of a black sli
Floating finger docks RogerHM at 4:16am 05.12.09 Ask All Sailors 8/1663 Maybe the question is out of place, but... We have had to delay Boats-in twice because of high-water
weather helm?? sand sailor at 11:41pm 05.11.09 Ask All Sailors 14/2311 my boat experiences considerable weather helm and wants to turn windward with a genoa in heavy wind
Princess Alcohol Stove, for Catalina 27 fryerd at 10:02pm 05.11.09 Ask All Sailors 1/5731 I am trying to rebuild the stove from a 1975 Catalina 27'. I don't think it has been used in over 1
Phil,, How Do I Import Images BroadReach at 8:20pm 05.11.09 Forum Help (Site Talk) 2/3654 Phil, I need some help. Tried to import two jpg images into a reply to a forum thread from Picassa
A couple more dinghy questions Manny at 7:56pm 05.11.09 Ask All Sailors 24/5458 I ended up ordering an 8.5 ft inflatable dinghy which I should have before this weekend and I am rea
Replacing the plexi in the ports on a 1978 Hunter 25 Rick Silverman at 7:51pm 05.11.09 The Cherubini Hunters 4/1360 Has anyone replaced the plexiglass in the ports on a Hunter25. I would appreciate an idea of how to

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Galveston Sailing? frimi_captain at 8:53pm 07.04.21 Looking for anyones experiences on sailing the Houston area. Places of interest or anywhere to stee
origo 2000 knobs jeepbluetj at 8:43pm 07.04.21 They're pretty standard 1/4" (IIRC) "D" shaped shafts. A billion knobs will fit on them, alas withou
Looking for Marina for Haul Out to Trailer - 26' Tanzer frimi_captain at 8:25pm 07.04.21 Try tarpon springs. That's where I had my boat pulled out.
Occaisional Head Smell Alan Gomes at 8:11pm 07.04.21 I have no idea who wrote that article, but what they know about marine sanitation system management
Lessons from a Racing Boat Destruction. jssailem at 8:07pm 07.04.21
Lessons from a Racing Boat Destruction. Daveinet at 7:51pm 07.04.21 ... I'll never forget the time a buddy of mine and I set out for a four hour sail. We sailed strai
Occaisional Head Smell Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 7:36pm 07.04.21 Assume you have treated the holding tank with an odor- blocker: 10 Best Marine Holding Tank Treatmen
Waste System Diagram sail sfbay at 7:31pm 07.04.21 Peggie, That is the toilet waste plumbing that came with the boat I recently purchased. So I spent
Missing plate on mast JamesG161 at 7:17pm 07.04.21 Looks like a fold down foot step to me. I have them on mine to step up off the weather deck to tie
origo 2000 knobs JoeWhite at 6:44pm 07.04.21 Here is a solution. If you have the broken parts, you can crazy glue them toghether and to hold them
Shower drain clogged Mike M. at 6:35pm 07.04.21
Waste System Diagram Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 6:29pm 07.04.21 2 toilets, Raritan Electroscan system and multiple discharge line-up options from each toilet: 1) ov
Keel questions Lakeskiier at 6:29pm 07.04.21
240 center board Bubbadog at 6:09pm 07.04.21 Went into the water today with extended boat hook and determined the center board was indeed down.
Missing plate on mast Crazy Dave Condon at 5:51pm 07.04.21 See if there are any mfg stickers on the mast or boom. You probably have a z Spar mast but it would
Hatch and port light covers or coating dLj at 5:43pm 07.04.21 Thank you for the replies and information. The newer film and ceramic coating works very well on my
Lessons from a Racing Boat Destruction. dLj at 5:36pm 07.04.21 I have always done my own work except for things like shaft & strut replacement, rig survey and rep
H34 galley Mike Oldak at 5:25pm 07.04.21 I've taken just about all the other panels, etc. apart but not this one. But the carpentry on the H
Lessons from a Racing Boat Destruction. Rick D at 4:53pm 07.04.21 I have always done my own work except for things like shaft & strut replacement, rig survey and repa
Hatch and port light covers or coating (1) kloudie1 at 4:44pm 07.04.21 I put on Outland covers this year to help the AC and protect the new lenses I installed.good folks t

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