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Climbing your mast alone Fuligule at 8:35am 09.25.20 Mid-Size Boats 8/2067 Title is in french, but I'm sure you don't need any words... hiA3PHnjKUk:150
The State of Insurance (1) Phil Herring at 4:10am 10.05.20 Ask All Sailors 8/1984 Sadly, it's been a busy year for boat insurers... but what's the state of your insurance? Did you h
H23 Cabin Access Reefing at 5:45am 09.25.20 Smaller Boats 6/770 Hello friends, my boat does not have the (pardon my lack of sail vocabulary) wooden slats that slide
NEED a new Auto Pilot? sailme88 at 5:17am 09.25.20 Ask All Sailors 6/640 Realizing that not everyone is on Facebook, I though I'd pass this on.. Defender Marine is advertis
Traveler Car Mainsheet CAT22SWTEXAS at 4:18am 09.25.20 Catalina 22 2/678 Anyone replaced their Traveler Car on an 86? My sheaves are shot. I ordered one from CD.
Boat mover Mhkent at 2:53am 09.25.20 Ask All Sailors 8/959 I want to transport my 34 foot sailboat from Corpus Christi to Florida. Can anyone in this forum rec
jet bow thruster sailaway50 at 5:35pm 09.24.20 Ask A Beneteau Owner 5/1679 Does anyone have a jet bow thruster on their boat?
110% Jib messes up jib sheet angle on my Hunter 26 bmorr at 4:59pm 09.24.20 Smaller Boats 16/2054 The angle of my jib line with the over sized jib is to steep when the wind kicks up. I have adjusted
Text a buoy and it'll text you back Lazy1 at 4:58pm 09.24.20 Destinations 10/1523 I didn't find anything here using the search but I thought this was pretty neat. Text a buoy in the
Yanmar 3YM30 Help (3) jdd01257 at 4:46pm 09.24.20 Engines and Propulsion 10/2935 Just had my yanmar serviced (oil, filters, impeller, etc.). 300 hours and running well. After first
Jack stands Jobedach at 4:12pm 09.24.20 Ask A Beneteau Owner 5/1119 I have a Beneteau 35s5, and am wondering what length of jack stands I will require. This is my first
Roll that beautiful blue furler! Project_Mayhem at 3:12pm 09.24.20 Ask All Sailors 27/1995 The spool on my furler would always fill up too soon and then jam. Earlier this week I pulled about
EVA Foam Floors Project_Mayhem at 3:00pm 09.24.20 Ask All Sailors 3/654 My dock neighbor just installed some foam flooring. It looks and feels great. Does anyone have any l
West Wight Potter P19 TaterYot at 2:36pm 09.24.20 Ask All Sailors 10/4387 Recently bought a West Wight Potter P19. With sailing moderate experience, is a P19 seaworthy enoug
Synthetic Oil ? btmarino at 2:34pm 09.24.20 Catalina 30 12/2206
Confused about pipe sizes - trying to make dip tube for new tank (1) Fredct at 1:35pm 09.24.20 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 43/4341 I have read "the book" and I am ready to replace tank and all hoses. There is a nice post on the sit
H26 electric control panel (1) Chiriqui at 1:23pm 09.24.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/339 I want to replace at least one of the switches or the whole panel. Where can i source this... see ph
Replacing strutt 82 34ft oday Swaney at 1:16pm 09.24.20 Ask An Oday Owner 1/644 I have some play after pulling a rats nest of rope from prop now strutt is lose any advice on how to
Steering wheel 82 34ft oday Swaney at 1:06pm 09.24.20 Ask An Oday Owner 6/961 I am trying to find an a smaller helm. The one inch slotted fine threaded wheel fills the whole cock
What are these? (2) ScottySailor at 12:18pm 09.24.20 Ask All Sailors 8/1403

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TD 14 Benny17441 at 7:42am 10.07.24 Are the weather gurus following this one? Looks like it will clear out before I head down on the 1
Just Bought My First Boat - About to Give it to a Scrapyard dLj at 7:33am 10.07.24 thinking about it afterwards, I think it may be my inexperience with the torque wrench. I was being
Catalina 30 Engine Smoke and No Throttle Control dlochner at 7:19am 10.07.24 Start with the simplest cheapest solution. Inspect the cables and linkage. An example, recently in
O'Day 25 Boat Stands dlochner at 7:10am 10.07.24 Brownell stands are the best. My old yard used another brand of stands and ~$15K later the boat was
TD 14 (1) jssailem at 6:55am 10.07.24 Today's Windy Report for Hurricane Milton. he North coast of the Yucatan peninsula tomorrow. This a
Just Bought My First Boat - About to Give it to a Scrapyard (1) Ward H at 6:44am 10.07.24 Here is the Keel Stub Repair document from Catalina Yachts for those interested. I also have it in
First sail... first trip... Hunter 23 Crazy Dave Condon at 6:11am 10.07.24 @Project_Mayhem When transporting my zero turn lawn mower, it is stored as forward on the trailer
Rudder Removal American_Mainsail at 5:44am 10.07.24 I used your tutorial many times. It was invaluable. Thanks Happy that we helped!
Asymmetrical Spinnaker rigging Dave Groshong at 5:02am 10.07.24 Maybe ask these people, they look like they've got it down! Flying the Asymmetrical spinnaker fro
Online Resources east coaster at 4:50am 10.07.24 There is also Boat US for hurricane prep if you don't have time to read all four volumes of the abov
Lazarette clasp ? jssailem at 4:43am 10.07.24 If you have been a small (20 ft or less), powered boat owner you may have heard there is a CG requir
Deck Core Repair east coaster at 4:43am 10.07.24 Agree with Shawnl check boatworks today. His latest video covers these issues and your concerns. He
Bow Eye pcharn01 at 4:30am 10.07.24 Trailer was deep enough. There was a slight incline between the boat and trailer which has been the
Bow Eye ...3TacksontheWater at 4:08am 10.07.24 Well, it's absolutely something you need to do plus it's a good upgrade that everyone should do even
Indian Summer in the Pacific NW jssailem at 4:01am 10.07.24 Thank you @gnetwerker for the in person update. I am aways south at the moment. We had a beautiful d
TD 14 (2) kappykaplan at 2:20am 10.07.24 Milton is definitely getting stronger . . . urricane comes ashore. 227909 Stay safe, y'all.
O'Day 25 Boat Stands David W at 11:12pm 10.06.24 The Brownell site has a stand calculator.
Just Bought My First Boat - About to Give it to a Scrapyard Alan Gomes at 8:50pm 10.06.24 The switch to all-glass keel stubs occurred around 1988. I was very active on the Catalina 30 list
Indian Summer in the Pacific NW gnetwerker at 7:21pm 10.06.24 It was a pretty nice day in Nanaimo today -- broken clouds, some sun, dry during the day. Wind yest
Just Bought My First Boat - About to Give it to a Scrapyard Richard19068 at 6:40pm 10.06.24 It has been way over a decade, and I do not recall the exact model. The story was either here or th

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