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New Owner of an H34 WasabiRush at 3:39am 04.06.21 Big Boats 22/2108 I joined the community of Hunter owners with the purchase of a 1986 H34 yesterday after a successful
Cutlass bearing strut set screws jonelli at 5:37pm 04.05.21 Catalina 30 4/1284 I'm going to be attempting to change my cutlass bearing out in a few weeks. I've read that some str
OFF ENGINE FUEL FILTER??Benny 41s5 georgetheleo at 3:45pm 04.05.21 Ask A Beneteau Owner 0/442 My 1990 41s5 has a off engine fuel filter mounted on adjacent engine box. It takes a NAPA 3166 filte
1983 H30 Chainplates Lance324 at 3:14pm 04.05.21 The Cherubini Hunters 20/2405 Just had a survey done on a 1983 H30. Major issue was the support "beam" handling the load for the c
1995 Hunter 35.5 Leak in Aft. cabin. (5) Halipe�o at 1:40pm 04.05.21 Ask A Hunter Owner 7/1328 Hi Guys, I have a leak in the aft. cabin on my 1995 Hunter 35.5 Legend. The leak is coming from the
Polar for Hunter 44 ds henri at 1:19pm 04.05.21 Big Boats 3/973 Does omeone have a polar for a Hunter 44 DS with inmast furling ?
Compac 16 owner (2) NotASailor at 12:27pm 04.05.21 Trailer Sailors 10/4366 Just bought this over the weekend. 1984 Compac16. Looks ok overall. Running rigging is usable but ne
Hunter 260 Opening Port For Deck Windows - Gina at 11:46am 04.05.21 Parts Search 3/900 Looking to replace the galley and head opening deck windows on my 2002 Hunter 260. Found these wind
Engine block de-rusting question LukeAvanti at 10:21am 04.05.21 Catalina 30 8/1675 Hi all. Newbie 1987 Catalina 30 MK II owner here, looking for some advice. The Oberdorfer raw water
Small genset advice Sky Cruiser at 10:08am 04.05.21 Ask All Sailors 2/427 Sorry if this has been asked in the past - can't seem to find anything specific. Still researching,
Fan Belt/Impeller (3) Monterey385 at 8:46am 04.05.21 Ask All Sailors 12/1232 I've just crossed 5 years and 500 hours on my Yanmar 3JH5E. I'm pretty sure I'm dealing with the or
Thinking about painting my hull john6206 at 8:15am 04.05.21 Trailer Sailors 30/3566
Tracing Ownership Jimbeaux at 6:46am 04.05.21 Ask All Sailors 8/1451 Is there a single source that could track the ownership of my boat from the factory to present?
Back on the water. I got carried away, part 2 (7) SailingLoto at 6:22pm 04.04.21 Trailer Sailors 2/940 So.... This weekend was too nice to not sail. Kids were gone. So after a couple hours of work Satur
Getting out there! (5) Jay Chase at 5:44pm 04.04.21 Day Sailers 0/434 192385
Rudder Tube Rust (5) P12nash at 5:36pm 04.04.21 Big Boats 2/687 I had the cockpit sole up today to run nmea2k to the helm. While I was prepping to run the wire I no
Frozen seacocks,how to cure? DAVA390 at 5:35pm 04.04.21 Ask All Sailors 11/2885 The boat i just bought has 2 through hulls near the transom, 1 feeds a deck washdown pump, ( not wor
Window films dLj at 5:11pm 04.04.21 Ask All Sailors 22/1786 Has anybody ever put these films on their windows for UV protection? There are many companies making
Replacement Meco Regulator / Fisher Control Valve (1) svserenity at 3:24pm 04.04.21 Ask All Sailors 3/480 I have an old safgas CNG system that still works well, and I have a source of CNG. However, the prim
New deck organizers H34 (1) Mike Oldak at 3:10pm 04.04.21 Big Boats 6/1639 We are moving to Harken equipment and upgrading the dual deck organizers to Harken quads. The origi

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Battery Location 2000 Hunter 290 marcham at 8:35pm 09.11.24 Hey, that's no laughing matter! Got stuck once head down, shoulders in, in a lazarette and couldn't
Sturdy marine tablet jssailem at 7:15pm 09.11.24 :plus: I also use an iPad Pro. It has plus 1000nits brightness to help in full Sun. Additionally yo
Sourcing Oil Filter Perkins - Volvo Penta TMD22A jssailem at 7:12pm 09.11.24 Your engine manual identifies the oil filter as 18A-01 on page 76. https://ab-marineservice.com/wp
Battery Location 2000 Hunter 290 Steve L22188 at 7:09pm 09.11.24 That's it...it explains everthing. Our guy is trapped in the bilge!
What in tarnation is this? Hunter legend 43 duck21 at 6:59pm 09.11.24 True true, agreed that any cabin top hole can drip, and leaving things unsealed can certainly increa
315 Question: What light wind Sail are you using to handle beam to broad reach? Furling Genneker, Doyle UPS, Code 0, whisker pole on the Genoa? chuckwayne at 6:32pm 09.11.24 Why did you go with the sock? I assume you have to go on the foredeck to douse the ups, true? yes
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX jssailem at 6:23pm 09.11.24 Francine has arrived and left the damage in her wake. 3 fishing boats adrift. https://x.com/i/status
Prefer to trailer SteveHughessails at 6:20pm 09.11.24 Great discussion. Our buoy is roughly 20 miles away. We never leave anything on board, not even our
Shrink wrapping details? (1) quadrille38 at 6:20pm 09.11.24 have been reading the conversation and wanted to second that if you can find a canvas cover you will
New owner Hunter 240 WB owners SteveHughessails at 5:58pm 09.11.24 Small amount of progress to report. The weather has cooled down so we got started. I had a good look
Sturdy marine tablet MikeHoncho at 5:22pm 09.11.24 IPad Pro Max.
Merit 22 owners emh56 at 3:58pm 09.11.24 thanks for posting the manual! It answered some questions we had about our merit. it is nice to ha
USCG Changes Local Notice to Mariners Access Davidasailor26 at 3:31pm 09.11.24 Pretty interesting. I was wondering how the LNMs would handle the change away from paper charts, sin
O'day 22 Bilge drgbanks at 3:26pm 09.11.24 Thats insane. If they did inspections after every storm, they'd be out of business It doesn't rain
Back on the water again..... ShawnL at 3:14pm 09.11.24 A perfect day is a day out on the boat. Usually we sail, sometimes the wind doesn't cooperate and w
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure Ralph Johnstone at 2:37pm 09.11.24 Could very well be. All depends on just what's hidden in that Pandora's box. Unless it serves some
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure smokey73 at 2:33pm 09.11.24 Not so much a Yanmar vs Universal engine issue. Just an example of how an adapter or T could replac
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure Ralph Johnstone at 2:18pm 09.11.24 I'll post some pictures of what I did with my Yanmar later. That's been my problem here. The PO
Battery Location 2000 Hunter 290 (1) Ralph Johnstone at 2:14pm 09.11.24 Occam's Razor - and I believe this is definitely the simpler solution : own to man, and it is know
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure smokey73 at 2:10pm 09.11.24 If you are concerned with the block modified by the PO you can probably replace the block with a mor

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