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anchor light sailor420 at 1:28pm 09.09.20 Big Boats 6/1220 Well, I need to replace the Aqua Signal series 50 bulb on our 2000 H420. The bulb is not the questio
Adding a Gas Cylinder to my Rigid Vang Sable Sailor at 12:32pm 09.09.20 Big Boats 7/1439 I've a '86 Legend 45, that came equipped with a rigid vang. But it doesn't have a gas cylinder or sp
Cracked liner after keel strike (4) ranmanca20 at 11:23am 09.09.20 Ask A Beneteau Owner 20/6490 In late July on a passage from Long Beach to Ventura, we struck an underwater object on our Beneteau
Unknown Sailboat Type (2) tosudbury at 11:22am 09.09.20 Ask All Sailors 23/1713 Help in identifying who the manufacturer the sailboat We were given a sailboat which had sat outsid
Thoughts on Seafarer 30? Scandium at 11:12am 09.09.20 Seafarer 3/13455 Found a nice looking S30 for sale in my area (chesapeake bay). A 1984, for $14k. Looks reasonably cl
Floating A Tax Deduction (1) Phil Herring at 4:10am 09.14.20 Ask All Sailors 5/1966 The author Herman Wouk once said, "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written
Jib sheet jams (1) wyctoronto at 10:39am 09.09.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 16/1307 Does anyone have a solution for the jib sheet catching at the bottom of the inboard shroud where the
Hunter 36 Siegener at 10:07am 09.09.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 3/1435 Good morning from Germany, Here in Germany, hunter boats are really rare and it is almost impossibl
Quietest water pump? Mr Fox at 9:25am 09.09.20 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 7/4069 I have one sink- so I do not need much flow at all, the current pump (jabsco I believe but I'm not l
Yanmar 35 Hp Engine Owners Manual Panama Jack at 8:25am 09.09.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 6/2006 I need to replace my impeller and I was looking thru my prior owners manuals that he left on board f
Hunter 33 deck core material changes StephenD at 8:13am 09.09.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 9/482 I am considering a 2005-2011 H33, and was wondering if/when Hunter changed the deck core material fr
Fuel tank repairs on 2004 Hunter 33 Belle Amie at 6:35am 09.09.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/718 What is the best way to do repairs on the fuel tank? I just purchased this boat and have yet to sai
Barometer vs temperature shemandr at 6:30am 09.09.20 Weather and Forecasting 10/1337 My question is should I expect an inside barometer, which is an air conditioned area set at 77 degre
Invest 94L (1) JamesG161 at 5:48am 09.09.20 Weather and Forecasting 0/419 This non-Tropical disturbance [weak LOW should not have time to energize before landfall. It is runn
Beneteau 373 on Lake Erie rschuenaman at 5:02am 09.09.20 Ask A Beneteau Owner 4/874 Hello Friends. This posting might be best answered by Larry at Cedar Point or other Lake Erie sailor
sailing Lake of the Ozarks SailingLoto at 4:07am 09.09.20 Trailer Sailors 24/4875 am I the only one here that sails here? Lake of the Ozarks Missouri?
WINTERIZING PLUMBING Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 8:07pm 09.08.20 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 19/7224 WINTERIZING PLUMBING FRESH WATER SYSTEM : There are two ways to winterize fresh water and
Winterizing our Hunter 386 Gary Ryan at 7:24pm 09.08.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/866 Got asked to schedule our pull out in the next 4 weeks. Looking at some pointers to winterize. I w
identify this boat (3) mickey13 at 7:19pm 09.08.20 Ask All Sailors 5/765 so I was told it was an Alberg 23, but an Alberg 23 owner told me it's a kestrel 23. can someone Id
Drilling hole to run lines through cabintop mounted traveller (1) Paleolithic at 6:44pm 09.08.20 Bigger Boats 23/2241 Hello, I've got an '85 O'Day 28. Thinking of running some rigging to the cockpit (mainsheet halyard

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Are These Davit Mounts? capta at 3:48pm 08.09.24 That is certainly a well made piece of metal work (solid or not) fabricated for a specific purpose.
Taking/storing a 32 sailboat off a trailer, properly? (Im in over my head) Marty P. at 3:43pm 08.09.24 That's the first year they built that boat. Where are you on the Chesapeake? I also keep my boat th
Get my engine running. (1) monocerosin at 3:00pm 08.09.24 226674 I think bypassing this old thing and going electric sounds great. I'm going to start pricing
Reading the SI's shemandr at 2:19pm 08.09.24 Competitors should definitely read the SI's! But I'm not killing these gals for several reasons:
Backstay Split Rigging? lrogers57 at 2:00pm 08.09.24 The mast does not have a hole for that weird end, the mast has a clevis pin I think i understand
Backstay Split Rigging? (2) lrogers57 at 1:48pm 08.09.24 In that case looking at your pic 8854, the longer of the 3 cables, the one with the tulip shape end
Solar Voltage dlochner at 1:43pm 08.09.24 Regarding the above link, we are talking about if fuse on the input side of the controller can prot
Solar Voltage JoeWhite at 1:39pm 08.09.24 Regarding the above link, we are talking about if fuse on the input side of the controller can prote
Backstay Split Rigging? (1) Claude L.-Auger at 1:19pm 08.09.24 The backstay is a split design, there are 2 chainplates to tie too at the stern. The problem i have
Reading the SI's JRacer at 1:02pm 08.09.24 Yeah, GJ wasn't paying attention either. And, not the first time that boats have "followed the leade
Backstay Split Rigging? lrogers57 at 12:42pm 08.09.24 Not familiar with your boat but it does look like the cable on your picture 8840 is your backstay.
New to me 216 - Cabin Seal - Deck Rot / Repair dmax at 12:37pm 08.09.24 You can use a vacuum pump, you need to leave it running for a while (hours). Works best when the dec
Backstay Split Rigging? lrogers57 at 12:34pm 08.09.24 My lower shrouds (on a Catalina Capri 22, Selden mast) have that end on them and they pass through
Backstay Split Rigging? lrogers57 at 12:33pm 08.09.24 The two short, and possibly smaller gauge wires, mount to two holes on the plate with u shaped conn
New to me 216 - Cabin Seal - Deck Rot / Repair Adam.Butler636 at 12:29pm 08.09.24 Appreciate the intel. I did hold my wet dry vac on it for a while and have been extreamly careful t
Reading the SI's Davidasailor26 at 12:25pm 08.09.24
What is this thing? Stu Jackson at 12:20pm 08.09.24 No, except that the Link 2000R has battery monitoring features, like Amp-hour counting, etc. I sho
Solar Voltage American_Mainsail at 12:10pm 08.09.24
New to me 216 - Cabin Seal - Deck Rot / Repair dmax at 12:08pm 08.09.24 You're going to want to get all of the water out of there before you start doing any kind of repair.
Concerned about keel bolt of Siren 17 Timm R Oday25 at 11:45am 08.09.24 Removing the pivot bolt , will require pulling the boat .. On every boat I've ever worked on , once

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