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Fan placement David Levine at 4:40am 03.14.05 Ask An Oday Owner 0/879 I have a 1983 22 which I would like to install either 1 or 2 12V fans in to make sleeping a bit easi
Want to add a starting battery Major at 4:35am 03.14.05 Ask A Catalina Owner 2/814 Did any one setup a 3rd starting battery ? If so, what do you reccommend.
LEWMAR PORTHOLES and SCREENS captainhappy at 4:31am 03.14.05 Guest Expert: Cruising with Kayaks 7/1615 I have a Hunter 30 (1990) with Lewmar portholes. I am interestedin getting new screens for my po
Lewmar Portlight Leprechaun at 4:30am 03.14.05 Guest Expert: Cruising with Kayaks 1/1063 Ben, We own a Catalina 25- 1987 and she has lewmar portlights installed both port and starboard,abov
Georgian Bay HSA Rendezvous 2005 John Vasey at 4:28am 03.14.05 Ask All Sailors 0/833 We have 2 great events planned for 2005!Tonch Point, Beausoliel IslandJuly 15, 16, 17, 2005D
Cleaning Sunbrella Bob at 4:25am 03.14.05 Ask All Sailors 4/1019 I was fortunate in that the previous owner of our 1988 Catalina 30, had custom made sunbrella (pacif
Catalina 27 Standing Rigging Norton Brooker at 4:19am 03.14.05 Ask A Catalina Owner 1/1354 Anybody have the lengths for the standing rigging for a Catalina 27
How best to stay onboard Tony5898 at 4:13am 03.14.05 C&C 3/1724 I am looking for advice on safety. I am anticipating that I will be sailing solo most of the season
Barient Winches - Replacement parts Daniel at 3:35am 03.14.05 Guest Expert: Cruising with Kayaks 4/1499 Ben: I have a 33.5 Hunter 1991, with main Barient winches. Since Barient is out of business, where d
Grease Dragonfly at 3:27am 03.14.05 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/1018 I have Lewmar grease to service my winches, Peggie recommends SuperLube for my head, someone recomme
Lewmar 40 rotates wrong way with load on it Pete at 2:56am 03.14.05 Guest Expert: Cruising with Kayaks 2/877 For starters, they are 25 year old Lewmar 40's. Is there a replacement pack for the gears? Or do
Bottom paint for Great Lakes John F at 2:38am 03.14.05 Ask A Catalina Owner 2/1314 Help! I bought an '84 C22. This will be my first time with bottom painting. We'll be sailing her
15 MM tubing for water supply David Hoch at 2:22am 03.14.05 Smaller Boats 6/1079 My 2005 260 has 15 mm water supply lines - I'm installing a pump and proper faucets - anyone know wh
Calling all stereo electronic experts for help Rick Evans at 2:18am 03.14.05 Ask All Sailors 9/1271 I replaced my 5 year old JVC cassette tape AM/FM receiver with a new JVC CD player and AM/FM receive
Dating of Lewmar winches David at 2:05am 03.14.05 Ask All Sailors 4/1135 Ben, in an answer to a previous post you mentioned that all post-1995 Lewmar winches are super easy
Raritan Lectra/san installation in a 37C Frank Bean at 1:48am 03.14.05 Ask A Hunter Owner 1/849 Is there anyone out there that has installed a Raritan Lectra/san in their 1981 Hunter 37C Cherubini
Rigging mainsheet traveler opa8589 at 12:14am 03.14.05 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/1650 We have a 1987 Hunter 31'. Can anyone help me out in rigging the mainsheet traveler? The traveler sy
Rig tensioning - looking for specs - Pat Hillard at 12:02am 03.14.05 Ask An Oday Owner 7/1433 I own a 1987 O'day 272 LE. She sails differently on each tack. Also, the roller furling gives too
Sunbrella chenille fabric Ken13507 at 11:50pm 03.13.05 Ask All Sailors 2/2018 I recently read that Sunbrella had a new chenille fabric. Does anyone know where I can find it onli
Transducer Removal CPT Tom at 11:38pm 03.13.05 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/928 I am attempting to remove my Raymarine ST40 Depth Transducer to replace it with a ST60 unit. Appare

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What is wrong with my sail? Crazy Dave Condon at 2:52pm 09.15.20 Loosen mainsheet and boom bang as well. If problem still persists then let us know
Let's start a conversation about ASA 101, etc. is it helping or hurting? Stu Jackson at 2:17pm 09.15.20 If they're younger and learn by trial and error in smaller boats, great. They'll figure it out and
Yanmar stalling issue Bill19233 at 2:14pm 09.15.20 By no means am I a diesel mechanic by the stretch of anyone's imagination. I used to fight my stalli
Need your help. I have no experience with moorings smokey73 at 2:08pm 09.15.20 I'm not versant about the COLREGS for lake Michigan but here along the east coast, by COLREGs, if yo
Let's start a conversation about ASA 101, etc. is it helping or hurting? Bob J. at 2:02pm 09.15.20 Can't you take ASA Basic keelboat to start? So in principle no capsizing. I would suppose the rea
SV Preston Point rescue shemandr at 2:00pm 09.15.20 If I read the account accurately the rescue swimmer was in the water up to 12 hours? He and the boa
Let's start a conversation about ASA 101, etc. is it helping or hurting? (1) Ralph Johnstone at 1:49pm 09.15.20 or sail themselves back safely...leaving me to drift away on an endless sea. The correct Viking p
Need your help. I have no experience with moorings rgranger at 1:47pm 09.15.20 Yeah Do a search for trickle chargers with controller. There are a lot of options
Let's start a conversation about ASA 101, etc. is it helping or hurting? (2) shemandr at 1:44pm 09.15.20 Any sailing course that starts with a blackbored is at risk of turning the students away from sailin
SV Preston Point rescue Stu Jackson at 1:40pm 09.15.20 What do we think happened here? Really? idiot goes out into what soon becomes a hurricane? Someh
Let's start a conversation about ASA 101, etc. is it helping or hurting? BigEasy at 1:39pm 09.15.20 Started sailing on a 15' McGregor cat. Never could get the thing to tack; didn't know squat about
Yanmar stalling issue (3) Ralph Johnstone at 1:33pm 09.15.20 You're on the right track starting simple. With the work you've done on the fuel supply, pretty saf
Yanmar stalling issue Calif. Ted at 1:33pm 09.15.20 Either starving for fuel or exhaust elbow clogging.
Job sheet jams dziedzicmj at 1:15pm 09.15.20 If you hadn't noticed, went over to the other tack.. could have been a bad day exactly!
SV Preston Point rescue IASailor at 1:09pm 09.15.20
Outboard whining 8hp tohatsu four stroke 2012 Mitty at 1:09pm 09.15.20 Curious if you found the problem? I have the same noise going on on mine. Its the same engine. Thx
SV Preston Point rescue dziedzicmj at 1:07pm 09.15.20
Need your help. I have no experience with moorings Stu Jackson at 1:05pm 09.15.20 Store away when using the boat? What is the correct layout? Solar panel direct to batteries? Solar
Yanmar stalling issue ggrizzard at 1:04pm 09.15.20 Junk in the tank? The treatment kills the bugs, but it doesn't get RID of the dead algae. Air in the
Yanmar stalling issue Stu Jackson at 1:00pm 09.15.20 Something to consider: https://forums.sailboatowners.com/threads/fuel-starvation-and-the-obscure-ba

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