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Forum Thread Display Has Changed??? ggrizzard at 12:23pm 06.28.21 Forum Help (Site Talk) 8/828 Yesterday, June 27, 2021, I logged on to look at a couple of threads. For some unknown reason the fo
First 285 sail slides 74 xray at 11:23am 06.28.21 Ask A Beneteau Owner 5/769 Trying to replace slides on main and they are metric 15 mm by 30 mm and i can get slightly larger st
Smaller Genoa Steve Berndt at 10:44am 06.28.21 Smaller Boats 4/1540 Has anyone replaced the standard 150% Genoa with a smaller, more manageable sail?
How to tell if oil is in gas? Project_Mayhem at 9:47am 06.28.21 Ask All Sailors 19/1203 We have a few gallons of gas that we can't remember if we added two stroke oil to. Is there an easy
Can I connect an Airmar DST810 multi sensory to a Raymarine i70 display? Jwhy at 9:28am 06.28.21 Ask All Sailors 6/2937 Is there a conversion plug that connects the two different cable ends?
Hunter 26.5 Main and Genoa NewJersey_waters at 9:23am 06.28.21 Smaller Boats 1/3 Available. Made by Doyle, Bronx, NYC. https://www.ebay.com/itm/154510362598
Which boson chair do you use? CYQK at 8:49am 06.28.21 Ask All Sailors 15/1678 Time to look for one Suggestions?
Mast boot leak geek_guy at 7:54am 06.28.21 Mid-Size Boats 2/562 Morning all, I have a new to me Hunter 42 Passage. Picked it up last week and sailed toward home.
Transducer Failure? rpell1@msn.com at 7:38am 06.28.21 Ask All Sailors 5/576 Hi all and hope all is well with you and yours. I have a Garmin GPS 41s with an Airmar in hull tran
1987 Catalina 22 Battery John Marrone at 5:00am 06.28.21 Catalina 22 4/1297 Looks like I now need a battery and not sure how a battery for this boat may be similar in spec. as
Galvanic Isolators, Don't be like these guys! MikeHoncho at 8:43pm 06.27.21 Ask All Sailors 6/940 1czIdtmH0W8
Adding Mast Base Blocks (1) duck21 at 8:30pm 06.27.21 Ask All Sailors 19/2812 Hello, My current mast-base turning block configuration has blocks for the main and jib halyards as
Docking Against the Wind (1) Team118 at 5:09pm 06.27.21 Ask A Catalina Owner 21/3332 So changing from a 40+ year old Catalina 30 to a 'younger' Catalina 380 has been a challenge. Differ
Trouble Shooting Yanmar Tachometer for "B" Panel dlochner at 4:59pm 06.27.21 Ask All Sailors 6/3982 The tach for my Yanmar 3jh2e is not working. This tach uses a flywheel sensor to count rpms. After
Putting Fairing/Filler Between Fiberglass Layers? Filling Dimples (1) withintheruins14 at 4:46pm 06.27.21 Ask All Sailors 12/4577 I'm repairing the hole in the transom seen here. There are dimples near the top and bottom of the ba
230 bolt connector to breaker panel (3) Velero49 at 3:46pm 06.27.21 Ask All Sailors 1/350 195696
Looking for an H260 in the PNW Tedd at 1:01pm 06.27.21 Smaller Boats 18/1487 I am ready to buy an H260. Right now, all the 260s I'm finding advertised are in the mid west, Flori
1987 Cat 22 Running Rigging John Marrone at 12:23pm 06.27.21 Catalina 22 14/1516 Installing new standing rigging while mast is down. Owners manual requires 65' total up and down. As
Catalina 28 MkII steering quadrant panel (1) eberns at 11:57am 06.27.21 Mid-Size Boats 1/716 The cockpit panel to the steering quadrant is spongy and probably needs replacement. Where can one f
Low East Of Corpus Christi? kloudie1 at 10:43am 06.27.21 Weather and Forecasting 7/803 I don't hear any discussion about the low in the gulf east and south of CC Tx.? may be just upper, b

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New Catalina 25 Sailer - Need some help with basic marine plumbing Stu Jackson at 7:01pm 09.30.24 You should get to know these skippers, too: https://catalina-capri-25s.org/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID
New Catalina 25 Sailer - Need some help with basic marine plumbing Richard19068 at 6:52pm 09.30.24 What keeps water from backing up thru an open thru hull into the lines? Nothing. The water level i
Advice on replacing standing rigging dlochner at 6:42pm 09.30.24 I've used Rigging Only in Fairhaven, MA for my rigging and have been very pleased. I send the riggin
New Catalina 25 Sailer - Need some help with basic marine plumbing dlochner at 6:38pm 09.30.24 You're right, water doesn't run up hill. I'm assuming that Catalina understood this and some prior o
400 MK II: Seeking documentation about the lower tube bearing carrier and the keel bolts sesmith at 6:12pm 09.30.24 It would probably be worth and email to Warren Pandy at Catalina Yachts. He can probably get you th
New Catalina 25 Sailer - Need some help with basic marine plumbing Ralph Johnstone at 6:12pm 09.30.24 The easiest way to look at this is that "water runs downhill." It doesn't matter what happens during
Prefer to trailer (1) sesmith at 6:01pm 09.30.24 We don't have a trailerable boat anymore, but when we did, we kept it on the water (in a slip). Why
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent dlochner at 6:01pm 09.30.24 Do you have photos of the wrinkles?
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent Project_Mayhem at 5:59pm 09.30.24 My main goal is to prevent potential blisters, get rid of the wrinkles and missing paint and verify
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent dlochner at 5:55pm 09.30.24 I used VC 17 for about 30 years on 3 boats, I never wiped the bottom with a solvent before adding an
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent (1) sesmith at 5:32pm 09.30.24 I can't imagine going to the trouble of trying to remove VC17 unless I had to in order to switch to
Sea-Fire system SEMPERAVANTI41 at 2:18pm 09.30.24 Dan, I have no idea why the Sea Fire system failed.
New Forum shemandr at 2:03pm 09.30.24 Should be a good forum! I think there's a need.
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent FastOlson at 1:30pm 09.30.24 Unless there is some adhesion problem with the bottom layer, it's hard to imagine removing all of th
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent (1) Tally Ho at 1:10pm 09.30.24
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent dLj at 12:02pm 09.30.24 Does anyone else find it ironic that we use copper pipes in our houses? Why ironic? dj
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent Project_Mayhem at 11:47am 09.30.24 I have sanded the rough and flaking spots, smoothed things out and then repainted with VC17. As l
Stackpack / lazy jacks rigging on a Beneteau 311 Tally Ho at 10:54am 09.30.24 In @Shorinsean s photos you can see that his sail is not sewn into his pack. In @jssailem s photo
Removing VC17: Sanding vs Solvent dlochner at 10:42am 09.30.24 This is what I suspected. Thanks for confirming Dave! The mesh sandpaper really made that big of a
Random Yanmar instrument warning light and buzzer Boomer2it at 10:35am 09.30.24 Thats why I had to find a fabricator that knows much more about metals than I, plus the extreme temp

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