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Compounding & Waxing - Sailors Helping Sailors (6) Maine Sail at 9:53am 06.01.09 Musings With Maine Sail 13/5336 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 6/7757 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 15/8815 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 3/1805 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 7/1652 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 5/2780 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 12/5586 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 14/19884 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 2/1413 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 3/1744 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 2/1476 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 1/1225 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 2/1802 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 1/2876 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 11/2173 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 0/985 Our main halyard stuck on 'something' at the top of the mast. We have looked with binocs and can't
Yanmar 4jhe, missing seawater draincock. Plug it? luvitt at 5:13am 06.01.09 Ask All Sailors 1/1342 I cant find the part number anywhere. can i just plug it with a brass freeze plug (is that the righ
Won't "flush" BruceK at 4:52am 06.01.09 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 9/2623 New boat, and inspected and verified the Jabsco( your basic manual model) pumped in water and evacua
beneteau 381 1998 model John Doonan at 2:30am 06.01.09 Ask A Beneteau Owner 0/1024 My port lites are leaking i have changed the gaskets and they are still leaking. any ideas of fixing

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Primer needed? Davidasailor26 at 11:22am 03.28.22
Rudder position sensor and Raymarine Evolution EV-100 Autopilot Question Ward H at 11:11am 03.28.22 I installed my EV-100 system without a rudder reference and I'm very happy with it's performance. I
Need replacement propane hose Dr. D at 11:09am 03.28.22 This might drag on for a while, so here is what happened so far: I ordered the pigtail from Defender
What years were Hulls solid Glass with no core material? jviss at 11:06am 03.28.22 There are MKII versions of the 34 and 36 that are really good improvements from the MKI's Other th
O'day 23 through hull access Tom J at 10:50am 03.28.22 That is a drain for the aft starboard lazarette that is designed to be used as an ice box or cooler
New sails stickinthemud57 at 10:32am 03.28.22 I like dealing with BWY. A family-owned business, and a wealth of expertise.
Vulcan 7 vs 7R? jssailem at 10:30am 03.28.22 I looked at several sites and the B&G site. There was no evident difference in feature that II could
Greatest knot tying in the world jssailem at 10:24am 03.28.22 While sleeping through a particularly windy (50-60mph) night in November 2018, about 0245 I heard a
Boat Bike "tech support" John Nantz at 10:21am 03.28.22 Please excuse the big delay in getting back to this thread. It has been one crisis after another her
What years were Hulls solid Glass with no core material? jeepbluetj at 10:18am 03.28.22 There's lots more than just plywood in the keel stub if you're looking at 34'-38' Catalinas. The old
Vernazza, Italy jssailem at 10:17am 03.28.22 an antique wine corker Man, that would come in handy if I was going to cork a bottle of Dandelion
Anchor Locker Not Draining (C27) mixmarkai at 10:04am 03.28.22 I used a rather large zip tie ..worked as good as coffee .. TY!
Anchor Locker Not Draining (C27) Guystapo at 10:02am 03.28.22 I used a rather large zip tie ..worked as good as coffee ..
O'day 23 through hull access BruceC at 9:45am 03.28.22 That is a drain for the aft starboard lazarette that is designed to be used as an ice box or cooler.
Primer needed? Bubbadog at 9:40am 03.28.22
Rudder position sensor and Raymarine Evolution EV-100 Autopilot Question jviss at 9:27am 03.28.22 The sensor leads (2) plug into the EV100 computer module. The rudder reference has a 4 wire interf
A lost art: Conserving ice. TomY at 9:17am 03.28.22 between the the ice box and the hull on the starboard side, where the glass ribs are on these old a
Freezer loosing ability to freeze - something to clean? senang at 8:56am 03.28.22
Yanmar 3GMF can't get rpms over 22,000 I believe is soon to be resolved ! senang at 8:29am 03.28.22 Yeah.....you were warned, inflation is rising....
A lost art: Conserving ice. All U Get at 8:12am 03.28.22

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