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Square sail (1) LagunaJay at 6:21pm 06.15.20 Ask All Sailors 18/3740 I am in the process of converting my Laguna 26 into a square-rigged vessel. My slip neighbor pointe
Laguna 26 mast lowering/raising (1) LagunaJay at 6:07pm 06.15.20 Trailer Sailors 21/3553
Diode for mast light? symont at 6:04pm 06.15.20 Smaller Boats 7/1079 I think this is an easy one. The steaming light on my H260 works fine (front one, toward the bow).
Powering a TV Onboard jviss at 5:55pm 06.15.20 Ask All Sailors 19/4732 I have three options, it seems. Get a DC TV (nearly double the price of an AC powered TV); Run an
Oil sheen mcelduce at 5:46pm 06.15.20 Ask All Sailors 10/2863 I proud new owner of a Hunter Vision 36 built in 1994 with a Yanmar diesel with 2000 hours on it. I
An adventure with my mast light Brian D at 4:58pm 06.15.20 Ask All Sailors 34/4154 Last month I get notification that our marina (US Military Base) will not start boat inspections. We
Bose Sound System Replacement Lee Coller at 4:17pm 06.15.20 Big Boats 3/1182 It's time to replace the Bose all-in-one surround-sound (soft of) system on my Hunter 44DS. The rem
Countertop teammintaka at 10:31am 06.15.20 Ask A Catalina Owner 2/535 I have a 1983 Catalina 25, and I wish to replace the galley countertop. What I need to know if there
Why I ask you, WHY!? (4) cb32863 at 10:19am 06.15.20 Ask All Sailors 5/666 Some back story first. I have been adding the screens for my i50/i70 instrumentation. I went out to
Sail Needed...still Leerooker at 10:06am 06.15.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 0/3 My apologies. I failed to mention I own a 1983 Hunter 34. I will blame it on the early hour. Lee
Well it happened (3) iSaint at 9:50am 06.15.20 Ask An Oday Owner 26/2853
Selden furling mast issue (2) DRhoads at 9:22am 06.15.20 Big Boats 15/1994 Having an issue with the furling system. The bottom of the sail will not extend fully and about one
Groco HE head part I can't find (2) fourwhitesocks at 8:07am 06.15.20 Ask All Sailors 17/1664 Hello, I have a 1986 Oday 28 that has the (prob) original head which is the Groco HE model. I just
New Owner Here... Rennsail at 8:00am 06.15.20 Catalina 22 11/983 Hi all, I've been hanging around the "trailer Sailor" forum for a week or so and someone suggested
O'Day 34 Propane locker repair LouisMK at 7:51am 06.15.20 Bigger Boats 2/1165 Hello all- Wondering whether others have found a good fix- the flanges of my propane locker are shea
Sail needed Leerooker at 7:33am 06.15.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 8/944 I lost my 1983 Hunter mainsail in a storm last week. Does anyone have a used mainsail they would lik
Motor mount bracket (1) john6206 at 7:17am 06.15.20 Trailer Sailors 6/1547 I could probably get a better picture in a couple hours . . . .but I think you can see this. My mo
Hunter 41 - 41DS air conditioning install Tim Mills at 7:07am 06.15.20 Big Boats 15/2568 I am taking up the charge to install air conditioning in our 2006 41DS. The boat was built with an
Beneteau 36cc - boat manual frietti at 6:53am 06.15.20 Ask A Beneteau Owner 1/598 I just became the owner of a 2000 36cc. Does a manual download exist? Also - what is the proper way
Traveler - 222? Waitewigmailcom at 6:49am 06.15.20 Ask An Oday Owner 13/1874

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Hunter 260 Mast Base loose?!? Help! isaksp00 at 5:53am 09.11.24 You could get a pop rivet tool and some aluminum rivets and replace the loose ones. I had the mast o
Reefer/freezer installation Tally Ho at 5:53am 09.11.24
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure smokey73 at 5:48am 09.11.24 First question to clarity. Do you have both a pressure gauge of some sort (reading actual sensed pr
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure adamv at 5:25am 09.11.24 Thanks @Ralph Johnstone ! Yes the m18 technical manual and parts list just shows an oil switch screw
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX kappykaplan at 4:36am 09.11.24 Latest projection (9/11 AM) is 4 to 6' in Lake Pontchartrain, same for MS Coast Good luck! :beer:
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX BigEasy at 4:33am 09.11.24 Are you expecting much in the way of storm surge based on its point of landfall? Latest proje
looking for Lat/Long plotting software Davidasailor26 at 3:31am 09.11.24 Giving David's post about ChatGPT a second look, it might be that he is saying that ChatGPT would b
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? john2 at 11:59pm 09.10.24 I liked the colors of the sail and the sock was included (second hands sail). A furler ads an onothe
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure Ralph Johnstone at 11:19pm 09.10.24 One more suggestion is to clean up the wires on the pressure switch. They look to be in bad shape a
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure (2) Ralph Johnstone at 11:14pm 09.10.24 Awright, jets on cool. Do you have a Universal M18 maintenance manual from this site yet ? I'm t
Tank Sensors artboas at 10:13pm 09.10.24 This was the solution I posted about a year ago. It works perfectly
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure adamv at 10:12pm 09.10.24 Why are you so obsessed with this bloody oil leak ? It isn't worth mentioning. It has nothing to
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure Ralph Johnstone at 9:36pm 09.10.24 i spotted some oil on top of the transmission - it looks like its dripping from above Why are you
looking for Lat/Long plotting software Foswick at 9:08pm 09.10.24 I will say that using GPT is not a good fit for this sort of problem. I work intensively with machi
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX smokey73 at 8:43pm 09.10.24 Hope it doesn't shift your way DAMMIT Jim. Are you expecting much in the way of storm surge based o
Pumpout Carts Suck Foswick at 8:39pm 09.10.24 This is s__t hose, and what you see is the correct product for the use at a practical value. Howeve
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure smokey73 at 8:38pm 09.10.24 I'm a little confused on which problem we are trying to solve? The apparent "low oil pressure," or
Potential Tropical Cyclone SIX JamesG161 at 8:31pm 09.10.24 Category 1 on landfall. DAMMIT Jim...
Pumpout Carts Suck thinwater at 7:58pm 09.10.24 Oh, I am under no delusion that marinas will pay for a better hose. My hope is that I acn convince
Universal M18 leaking oil / low oil pressure Tally Ho at 7:27pm 09.10.24 Hard to tell what that tubular device is without some detailed photos on any connections. My firs

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