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Sea Pearl 21 Sails vsgriffey at 9:30am 05.06.21 Trailer Sailors 2/3396 Hi folks, I recently purchased my Sea Pearl 21 with brand new sails. Unfortunately, the sails are o
Walker Bay Dingy WB10 parts question.... ppro at 9:17am 05.06.21 Parts Search 1/585 Question to the Walker Bay dingy owners...I am assembling a Walker Bay dingy (WB10) from parts....bu
Anchor locker windlass on a First 40.7? schumaam at 9:07am 05.06.21 Ask A Beneteau Owner 4/2283 I would like to install an electric windlass in the anchor locker on a 2002 First 40.7. It looks li
Hunter 34 - Fuel Tank Baffles & Modifications swshogren at 8:57am 05.06.21 Big Boats 6/1225 Has anyone installed an inspection port into an original Hunter fuel tank for an early 1980s model 3
Hunter 34 - Fuel Tank Baffles Modifications swshogren at 8:47am 05.06.21 Parts Search 0/491 Sorry - posted this to the wrong forum. Reposting to the Big Boat Forum under the same title.
16 Daysailer--selling---price thoughts? Windtherapy at 8:39am 05.06.21 Day Sailers 5/1120 Just curious if anybody knows what I could get for my sailboat. I purchased a waterfront home on a r
Catalina 315 Refrigeration compartment air flow? sailingdeac at 8:37am 05.06.21 Mid-Size Boats 3/947 Are there any air flow openings in the compartment where the refrigerator is? I am told the refrig
need a swing keel for a hunter 22 the year is 1981 jeffjk at 8:01am 05.06.21 Ask All Sailors 3/348 Hi does anyone know where I can obtain a swing keel for a 1981 hunter 22? Does anyone make them?
Do I need outside jib tracks? AaronD at 7:43am 05.06.21 Catalina 22 9/2827 It's time to rebed my outside jib tracks. They're one of the last bits of deck hardware I haven't at
Good place to mount EPIRB H38 flightlead404 at 7:39am 05.06.21 Big Boats 5/535 I'm looking for a good place to mount my EPIRB. Ideally I want it reachable from the cockpit as w
Hunter 216 keel cable off the pulley... (3) Terriblerabbit at 6:48am 05.06.21 Smaller Boats 8/1235 Working on the new to me 216 and need to get the cable back into the pulley.... Anyone have experien
Vinyl Wrap thetone at 6:36am 05.06.21 Ask All Sailors 1/593 Hello, I own a 1990 Beneteau 35s5 sailboat. The headliner is falling off and nasty. I need logical r
Hunter 410 Air Con Seawater flow Don Lucas at 4:13am 05.06.21 Big Boats 12/1258 I am currently living it up in a marina with almost free electric so am running the air conditioning
Tapping threads in mast ricksoth at 11:52pm 05.05.21 Ask All Sailors 17/4660 I am planning on drilling and tapping 1/4 - 20 thread for SS machine screws to hold an additional cl
Charging house batteries fireboatcaptain at 7:47pm 05.05.21 Ask A Hunter Owner 11/2351 I'm needing to charge my house batteries with the generator after motoring all day. I thought the dr
Survey day (4) Flying Jay at 7:00pm 05.05.21 Catalina 310 14/2006 We took the next step in the process today and it all went well. Had a great surveyor and the broker
Hot water plumbing davelinc at 5:51pm 05.05.21 S2 6/1236 Retrofitting our 1982 S2 9.2A with a Kuuma 6 gal water heater that fits on the platform provided und
New upholstery and cushions FBD at 4:50pm 05.05.21 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/760 My 2005 Hunter 456 has good bones but is long in the tooth. It was cruised extensively for many year
Paper raw water impeller gasket - quick Q SV_IdleHour at 3:43pm 05.05.21 Ask All Sailors 20/4824 On my westerbeke 10-2, the raw water impeller housing has a thin paper gasket from the factory. Anyo
Bent Starboard Stern Rail (1) Necessity at 3:01pm 05.05.21 Ask All Sailors 11/1415 Would love to erase this memory of the angry pylon that took a swing at our railing. Does anyone ha

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Runaway diesel dLj at 6:30am 02.01.25 My thought was to get the engine spinning, pull off the drill and close the decompression levers.
Runaway diesel colemj at 4:29am 02.01.25 And if/when the engine fires off, then what? Sounds pretty dangerous. The crank for my Yanmar 1GM--
New Ham sailcapt340 at 4:23am 02.01.25
Handcrank starting a small engine. colemj at 4:23am 02.01.25 I am curious if anyone has tried using a cordless impact gun to start an engine. A cordless drill I
Seattle Boat Show Indysailor at 4:18am 02.01.25
Outfitting a little bare boat Will Gilmore at 10:37pm 01.31.25 I think maybe Blitzen is a bad luck boat. My father thought she might be haunted. That was the se
Outfitting a little bare boat Urban Hermit at 7:44pm 01.31.25 Wow. I think maybe Blitzen is a bad luck boat. Without knowing where the storm came from, inland o
Raritan Seara bowl fills with water Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 7:42pm 01.31.25 If the sea water version, install a vented loop in the intake line. 'Twould be best if you can put i
Runaway diesel dLj at 7:23pm 01.31.25 Kinda like the pilots of the single engine prop jobs that hand-spin the prop to start them. If you
Runaway diesel Tally Ho at 7:18pm 01.31.25 My thoughts - pretty close to deadly.... As in, it could kill you. Candidate for the Darwin award
Runaway diesel Tally Ho at 7:15pm 01.31.25
Outfitting a little bare boat Will Gilmore at 6:36pm 01.31.25 We were helping the owner deliver Blitzen back to Clearwater. Her husband was lost at sea and Blitz
New Ham Alan Gomes at 5:10pm 01.31.25
New Ham Don S/V ILLusion at 5:09pm 01.31.25 "I came across a Morse Study disk, one of many ways I learned from years ago. Besides sitting and l
Outfitting a little bare boat Urban Hermit at 4:57pm 01.31.25 Will, where in Mobile bay did you go aground? Blizten looks like it might draw seven feet. I can i
Outfitting a little bare boat dLj at 4:18pm 01.31.25 I've never known a simple Ziploc bag to keep things dry for more than a few minutes in water. Use
Outfitting a little bare boat (1) Will Gilmore at 3:35pm 01.31.25 Another poster was kind enough to share a link for a book about two (of his friends?) Nope, never
Marelon Ball Valve VS Marelon Sea Cocks Hayden Watson at 2:00pm 01.31.25 I mentioned earlier that I use sealant on the threads, but didn't mention which type. coincidently
Handcrank starting a small engine. Rick Webb at 12:26pm 01.31.25 I am curious if anyone has tried using a cordless impact gun to start an engine. A cordless drill I
New Ham kappykaplan at 12:23pm 01.31.25 What information? "I came across a Morse Study disk, one of many ways I learned from years ago. Be

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