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Need help identifying these lines (2) Undertow at 8:20pm 05.16.20 Smaller Boats 5/793 Hi all, I will eventually get through all of my sailing newbie questions; but in the meantime, can
Repairing Mast Foot 95 Hunter 26 (2) TriangleCircle at 6:10pm 05.16.20 Smaller Boats 9/1749 Anyone have experience repairing the mast foot on a 1995 Hunter 26? Any advice is welcome. We tried
cabin top hood removal -leak deck crack (3) d-marko at 5:49pm 05.16.20 Catalina 30 5/1768
Rub Rail Adventure (3) jaysweet at 5:07pm 05.16.20 Ask All Sailors 30/5555 Behind our (Hunter 306) aft cabin, I've seen something like 3 or 4 water trails coming down from the
Shore Power and 12v power Sands Riddle at 4:34pm 05.16.20 Ask A Beneteau Owner 2/852 Can both panels be powered up at the same time?
Diesel fuel leak shea0613 at 3:06pm 05.16.20 Ask All Sailors 17/4606 Hi All, I hope you are all doing well and getting back out on the water. I have a 1999 Catalina 380
Stuck throttle? (15hp Chrysler/Johnson) sbcwolff at 2:04pm 05.16.20 Engines and Propulsion 3/1850 Our "new" boat came with a 15hp ob. It started fine, but wouldn't idle or rev up. I took a couple vi
Oceanis 331 Keel crack (1) Anemone at 1:35pm 05.16.20 Ask A Beneteau Owner 29/4086 Hi, looking for some recommendations on how to repair and suggestions for root cause. thanks!
deck chips gary16188 at 10:32am 05.16.20 Ask A Catalina Owner 2/875 Hello, I have a 2 spots on the grey non skid where the paint has chipped away (each no bigger than a
Varnishing with urethane capta at 10:25am 05.16.20 Ask All Sailors 7/919 I thought we might do something different this time so I went looking for info. There have been seve
Sail Trim and Aeronautic Theories. jssailem at 9:04am 05.16.20 Sail Trim with Don Guillette 61/12433 Boy did I get my thinking scrambled a couple of months ago. I was chatting with @DrJudyB about the
Fuel pickup tube thaeni at 7:29am 05.16.20 Ask All Sailors 7/725 Approximately how far off the bottom of the fuel tank is the pickup tube.
Big time decision. All U Get at 4:17am 05.16.20 Ask All Sailors 3/529 Hi all, We reached that point where the decision of how many years of useful sailing versus not doi
Gooseneck Zander at 4:05am 05.16.20 Parts Search 1/352 Need a gooseneck, (boom to mast), for an O'Day22.
Beleated Hello - Y25 Owner (1) drew_d at 2:21am 05.16.20 Yamaha 6/1226 I've been lurking since I bought my Yamaha 25 two years ago, and I kept putting off actually posting
Anchoring...yes, I'm asking an anchoring question. Kevy at 9:40pm 05.15.20 Ask All Sailors 32/2910 Hello all! I've been so impressed with the advice and engagement on this forum I thought I'd throw
Nominal Spar Wall Thickness Brian D at 8:31pm 05.15.20 Ask All Sailors 10/1915 I know it depends on a lot of variables to include spar height, but does anyone know the nominal wal
Transmission problems yanmar 2gm20f with km2a Fashin at 7:04pm 05.15.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 10/2854 Hey guys maybe someone can help me out before I go removing the gearbox. I changed my oil today and
Looking for new mast (2) Sailavie1 at 2:57pm 05.15.20 Ask All Sailors 18/1478 Well my season has ended even before it began. The Marina Tracktor driver hooked my lines on another
R20 Spreaders (1) WollochetBoy at 2:52pm 05.15.20 Ranger Boats (WA) 3/976 Photos show the outboard end of our spreader(s). Is the shroud attachment/control fitting an OEM ite

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Tosca gets a windlass jssailem at 3:41pm 09.02.24 Nice write up @mermike. Really makes you ready to take on the Salish Sea.
3M 5200 capta at 3:28pm 09.02.24 Oh no. Not this again! (5200 haters) Epoxy is permanent too. No on mentioned some of the very eff
Electric Winch on a 42 Passage capta at 3:11pm 09.02.24 There is also the situation, aside from mere age and wisdom, that crew injuries on a short handed b
Megayacht Bayesian sank dlochner at 2:19pm 09.02.24 I was also thinking the hull got punctured, but first I asked myself how much anchor rode they had
Megayacht Bayesian sank odaydokay at 2:01pm 09.02.24 I was also thinking the hull got punctured, but first I asked myself how much anchor rode they had o
Cabin ceiling vent latch part MachZ at 11:07am 09.02.24 Thanks for the replies. I will attempt to find some manufacture id on the latch assembly next time I
H42 Passage lists to port artboas at 10:23am 09.02.24 Move your beer
How to chart a course across Lake Ontario dlochner at 10:23am 09.02.24 (Understand that my degrees and a good deal of my background is in linguistics. So, I pay way more
To charge or not to charge artboas at 10:22am 09.02.24 I have found that Cristec chargers were installed by boat builders owing to low cost. Once you start
Tank Sensors artboas at 10:16am 09.02.24 Yes, I have done this, and the sensors work fine now. I did a post on this awhile ago. The problem i
O'Day 28 Ritchie Compass SailingCal21 at 10:14am 09.02.24
How to chart a course across Lake Ontario dLj at 10:13am 09.02.24 Using "piloting" rather than "pilotage" will not likely ever result in a misunderstanding, run shi
Electric Winch on a 42 Passage artboas at 10:08am 09.02.24 I converted all my winches to electric, as I single hand my 49. It was a safety issue, if anything.
Tank Sensors Boiler at 10:04am 09.02.24 The old sensor had a problem when the float became waterlogged. I replaced mine. :biggrin::biggrin:
How to chart a course across Lake Ontario Foswick at 9:31am 09.02.24 Yeah, I definitely didn't mean to offend or even correct. I am definitely not trying to prescribe ho
O'Day 28 Ritchie Compass odaydokay at 9:27am 09.02.24 I finally took it off. It's an HF-73, no longer made, of course, but my sense is all it needs is a
Traveller on Catalina 16.5 jssailem at 8:40am 09.02.24 After viewing these guys sailing their Catalina 16.5, I think I would not worry about controlling th
Catalina 16.5 Mast Flotation Rick Webb at 8:38am 09.02.24
Traveller on Catalina 16.5 Oldskoolguy at 7:45am 09.02.24 good luck, it'll work fine.. whatever you do. Something like that is easy to tweak and modify. N
Traveller on Catalina 16.5 Joe at 7:40am 09.02.24 good luck, it'll work fine.. whatever you do. Something like that is easy to tweak and modify.

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