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26S fwd hatch dimensions (1) Justin_NSA at 10:22am 06.01.09 Ask A Macgregor Owner 7/1796 I have a strut on my forward hatch and I'd like to get a bug screen for it. Does anyone have the hat
Best cleaning product I found- Marine Spray Nine breweraz at 10:14am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 9/10232 We recently purchased a boat that had been sitting for some time. I had small black spots all over t
Squeaky Wheel Mark3755 at 10:13am 06.01.09 Big Boats 3/1646 The wheel steering on my Edson pedestal has a squeal that I can't seem to tame. The only thing I had
Compounding & Waxing - Sailors Helping Sailors (6) Maine Sail at 9:53am 06.01.09 Musings With Maine Sail 13/5072 This past weekend Tim R. organized a work party for a friend of ours who's lifelong sailing companio
Boom Vang during Jibe oldiesrocker2001 at 9:02am 06.01.09 Sail Trim with Don Guillette 6/7529 While looking at a post regarding using the Vang as a jibe preventer a question for me came to mind
25 ft oday, center board stuck dennyg4 at 8:41am 06.01.09 Ask An Oday Owner 15/8507 Purchased this boat this spring, have it in water, but center board is stuck, how do I free it up, c
Signal Flags Nodak7 at 8:25am 06.01.09 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1723 I recently purchased a couple of signal flags from West Marine. When I went to attach them to my fla
Foam in forward bilge garylinger at 8:23am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 7/1568 A PO apparently sprayed or had sprayed a dense foam in the blilge beneath the access panel located u
Ground wire connection - seacock garylinger at 8:12am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 5/2638 I believe the ground wire from my sanitation system seacock is not connected. If the end is what I
windlass for Hunter Legend 40 ehelms7477 at 8:00am 06.01.09 Big Boats 12/5374 I have a 1987 Hunter 40 Legend and would like to install am electric windlass. Has anyone done this
Spiders cymeyer at 7:53am 06.01.09 Ask A Beneteau Owner 0/36 Any tricks to keeping spiders off the top of our mast? I know how to clean off the webs, but they
Flag halyard regor-123 at 7:50am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 14/18489 Has anyone made their own flag halyards? Need ideas on how to. Thanks.
Companionway Steps Advice Needed Steve Liggett at 7:22am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 2/1379 Just completed refinishing the sole of my 1988 O'Day 302. Used Ultimate Sole finish -- it looks abs
Opinions wanted on Boom Tents Mike Oatsvall at 6:52am 06.01.09 Mid-Size Boats 3/1615 With summer coming I've been looking at ways to keep the boat cooler. Somebody suggested a boom tent
26.5 Backstay rigging jerseywaters at 6:34am 06.01.09 Smaller Boats 2/1453 The backstay on our 26.5 is not rigged correctly. We would appreciate advice/photos of how the backs
Sirius Marine Weather seadaddler at 6:07am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 1/1199 Any one using Sirius weather in SW Florida. I have Sirius weather on my C-80 Raymarine chartplotter
Spreader Bar repair Mac84 at 6:05am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 2/1734 While stepping my mast this week-end a shroud got hung up and tore away from the spreader bar, break
yamaha 30 tall rig drakeley at 5:58am 06.01.09 Yamaha 1/2759 I am looking to purchase a yamaha 30 with tall rig. The current owner says that it is cutter rigged
The Great Winch maintenance of 2009 KandD at 5:43am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 11/2118 So after 3 months of ownership I got up the nerve to take apart my winches and re-lube them, which h
26.5 Stuck Main Halyard jerseywaters at 5:35am 06.01.09 Smaller Boats 0/966 Our main halyard stuck on 'something' at the top of the mast. We have looked with binocs and can't

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12v system rewire including Balmar SG200, ACR, Solar, 1/2/B Switch and On/Off Switch dlochner at 2:40pm 12.11.21 Mike, Basically you have a system that is similar to the system on Second Star. A few quick thought
Just Say'n Pagan Baby at 2:18pm 12.11.21
Bilge blower hose replacement Don S/V ILLusion at 2:15pm 12.11.21
Bilge blower hose replacement Closing Time at 1:55pm 12.11.21
Just Say'n BobH57 at 1:42pm 12.11.21 Army scores again! Go Army Beat Navy!
Catalina 400 Aqua Lift Muffler location CptCasper at 1:36pm 12.11.21 Ok. I will try it with the seacock closed. I recently replaced some raw water hoses from the seacock
Just Say'n BobH57 at 1:26pm 12.11.21 So far so good!
Bilge blower hose replacement Don S/V ILLusion at 1:11pm 12.11.21
Two dipsticks on my diesel? Tally Ho at 1:05pm 12.11.21
Funny Friday!!! Will Gilmore at 12:49pm 12.11.21 What was the daughter's name? -Will
Two dipsticks on my diesel? acudavid at 11:53am 12.11.21 Thanks everybody! Upon further examination, I think there are three dipsticks on my boat: One for
1999 Oceanis 352 - two projects I want to tackle between now and May 1st. Tally Ho at 11:52am 12.11.21 The first is to replace the 18 x 12 fixed three blade propeller. The boat currently cannot achieve
1999 Oceanis 352 - two projects I want to tackle between now and May 1st. GFS at 11:49am 12.11.21 Thanks to all for the information; gives me much to consider, I will also reach out to the 351/352 g
Funny Friday!!! (1) Richard19068 at 11:33am 12.11.21 A cautious father.
1999 Oceanis 352 - two projects I want to tackle between now and May 1st. Mechone at 11:11am 12.11.21 The first is to replace the 18 x 12 fixed three blade propeller. The boat currently cannot achieve
Funny Friday!!! (1) Will Gilmore at 10:52am 12.11.21 I'm at a craft fair in Milford today. The guy selling custom t-shirts across from me has this for s
1999 Oceanis 352 - two projects I want to tackle between now and May 1st. SycloneDriver at 10:46am 12.11.21 You might want use an optical tach to check factory tach. I wouldn't replace a prop based only on t
H26 crutch mount bolts (1) rgranger at 10:45am 12.11.21 I love these sort of design questions. That should not be very difficult. I made a new gin pole f
H26 crutch mount bolts CaptainRan at 10:04am 12.11.21 After I saw the picture of the part and then reinspected the stern, here's the situation. This is an
Realistic expectations when re-coring deck? thinwater at 9:57am 12.11.21 Thin I can understand your favoring of rollers. I do not understand the aversion to brushes. The co

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