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mission impossible Pat at 12:56pm 10.08.07 Ask An Oday Owner 4/816 I have an O'Day 272 and the 30 gal. water tank is leaking somewhere. Has anyone ever pulled the ol
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refinishing cabin sole Alice A. at 7:21pm 10.06.07 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/1017 What happened to the Guest Expert Archive? I get an error message when I click on it. I'm trying to
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Winterizing Yanmar 2GM Peter Reynolds at 11:27pm 10.06.07 Seidelmann 1/3096 Hi all,Other than changing the oil, what else is typically done to these deisel engines?AlsoI am
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Wheel Conversion Tang07 at 2:17am 10.07.07 Catalina 30 2/1326 I'm ready to go forward on a tiller to wheel conversion on my C30 and am looking for some advice on
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The "Real" Story on Lightening Trev at 3:41am 10.07.07 Ask All Sailors 15/1428 I have heard a number of different stories regarding the dangers of lightening and sailboats. Can a
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Port hatch screens Tony23670 at 3:12am 10.07.07 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1057 My 1984 Hunter 25.2 has four rectangular (with rounded corners) ports, two each side of the cabin. I
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Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? (1) Davidasailor26 at 9:56am 03.30.21 Here's an actual plot of my boat's speed from a couple seasons of 3 blade fixed prop (orange dots) t
Auto Pilot Secret sail at 9:54am 03.30.21
Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? Davidasailor26 at 9:52am 03.30.21 PHRF, at least in the time-on-distance mode, can't possibly account for the different advantages tha
Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? Scott T-Bird at 9:47am 03.30.21 I don't really know how corrected time is calculated so I am having difficulty in following your mat
Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? jon hansen at 9:44am 03.30.21 the improvement reaches maximum when the wind goes soft and the boats are going 2knt. your thinkin
Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? jon hansen at 9:40am 03.30.21 sent you a PM with my phone number. i'm not typing all afternoon
Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? Kings Gambit at 9:31am 03.30.21 No handicap will ever be perfect or even fair ... that said, I tend to think that there are way too
Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? jon hansen at 9:25am 03.30.21 Still muddling over this question from a few weeks back. The question of what a folding prop does t
Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? Scott T-Bird at 9:24am 03.30.21 No handicap will ever be perfect or even fair ... that said, I tend to think that there are way too
Hunter 376 Access in Aft Cabin duck21 at 9:16am 03.30.21 Excellent--thank you for the update! I was assuming that everything could be (fairly easily) disass
Tips on replacing rub rail - O'day 23 dexterbuell at 9:16am 03.30.21 Would love to hear more about curing those leaks. It's a damp boat for sure. Did you re-bed all that
Draft stripes. Anyone use them? DArcy at 9:10am 03.30.21 Draft stripes are very useful for understanding your sail shape. That picture you attached is a grea
Folding vs Fixed Prop STW? kloudie1 at 9:07am 03.30.21 Some hidden issues here.. The biggie is that the handicap is to make things equal and they are using
C-30 motoring speed kloudie1 at 8:54am 03.30.21 GPS speed can be misleading because it does not take currents into account, or show boat speed throu
Mystery Mastic jdrutten at 8:49am 03.30.21
C-30 motoring speed stephen_i_w at 8:27am 03.30.21 I always heard that you can comfortably cruise at 80% of the maximum RPM of a diesel. According to
Draft stripes. Anyone use them? kloudie1 at 8:20am 03.30.21 Very useful to mentally picture and set the halyard tension and outhaul tensions for draft/twist opt
1980 Hunter 30 Prop Shaft Diameter? Justin_NSA at 8:17am 03.30.21 currently pulling the shaft on my H27,, stuck at the coupler,,,,just won't come off,,YET,,,,lots of
1980 Hunter 30 Prop Shaft Diameter? Justin_NSA at 8:15am 03.30.21 I forgot to measure this before I drove home and I need to order a parts kit for PSS shaft seal and
C-30 motoring speed "At Ease" at 8:13am 03.30.21 Hi, GPS speed. The boat was in the water for only 5 1/2 months bottom was painted with Interlux CSC

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