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Help, I'm going to drill soon Ric Shultz at 7:21am 06.18.02 Ask An Oday Owner 5/897 I posed these questions before with only one response. Do I call Rudy?Question: 1After 1000 hours
28.5 Fuel tank Don at 7:20am 06.18.02 Mid-Size Boats 3/1394 Need some help with replacing the fuel tank on my 85 28.5. I believe this is my problem as I get fue
H33 mast wiring (2) Tim Dalton at 6:54am 06.18.02 The Cherubini Hunters 2/1345 The mast on my H33 was pulled for the first time and the yard cut the wires at the base of the compr
Reefing the jib? Hayden Jones at 6:20am 06.18.02 Smaller Boats 6/869 I have a Huunter 235 with a roller furler (CDI I believe, name plate missing). In heavy winds the h
Pumpout woes Don at 5:21am 06.18.02 Marine Plumbing and Sanitation 12/1542 Peggy: I know you've answered this question before (many times) but I can't seem to put my finger/m
Dinghy Davits Ed at 5:08am 06.18.02 Big Boats 2/1123 I'm considering installing davits that can hold my 10' Porta-Bote in the "set-to-go" position. I've
Sailing an 18.5 to the Bahamas Tom at 4:43am 06.18.02 Smaller Boats 8/1707 Greetings,Has anyone sailed a 18.5 or other small Hunter to the Bahamas from Florida? Any and al
Transom Stress Crack Walter Cullars at 4:41am 06.18.02 Mid-Size Boats 1/1307 I am considering the purchase of a 1976 Catalina 27 with a stress crack @ the chain plate position o
boat rental Tony at 4:40am 06.18.02 Smaller Boats 3/902 I am interested in periodicaly renting a Catalina 22 or 25 from a private individual.I have just re
New Sailor Needs Rigging Help Linda O at 4:38am 06.18.02 Day Sailers 1/1002 With no sailing experience I just bought a Widgeon - Does anyone have a diagram or outline on riggin
Noisy Neighbors Doug T. at 3:33am 06.18.02 Ask All Sailors 27/2292 This subject just came up on another e-mail list and I thought I'd ask you folks about it.Our boat
Soy Bean oil fuel.... Greg Sampson at 3:16am 06.18.02 Ask All Sailors 8/1020 Is anyone using this instead of diesel? I read something somewhere about a marina that only uses thi
Please Help Me Remember...... Guest at 2:53am 06.18.02 Ask All Sailors 3/1296 I purchased my first boat 15 years ago and at that time I used a combination oil/grain sealer on my
Grounding and Keel Damage Randy C. at 1:44am 06.18.02 Mid-Size Boats 2/2039 My 82 C30 broke her mooring chain (Yes you should always dive on mooring tackle every year) in a win
Small blisters on O'Day 22 Gene Kauffman at 1:21am 06.18.02 Other Sailboats 5/871 I'm in the process of doing a bottom job on my 22. When we took off about 5 coats of bottom paint,
Fractional Rig tension adjustment Randy Rathmann at 12:59am 06.18.02 Ask All Sailors 4/1291 I have a Hunter 26.5 which has a fractional rig. I set up tension per instructions that came with th
Hunter Legend 40 hull to keel interface Malcolm Brookes at 12:33am 06.18.02 Ask A Hunter Owner 2/1451 Need knowledge of how to solve a clearly defining crack between hull and keel. Hunter reports this
Universal M25 coolant hoses problem John Visser at 12:33am 06.18.02 Ask All Sailors 6/2242 I replaced all of the coolant hoses on my M25, in a Catalina 36, last year, except two - the 7/8" ID
CAST IRON/ WING KEEL F SONDERGAARD at 12:32am 06.18.02 Ask A Catalina Owner 0/1055 Anyone know when the Catalina 30 came put with the lead keel instead of the cast iron? Also, how abo
Archives down Phil Herring at 11:52pm 06.17.02 Forum Help (Site Talk) 0/917 FYI - the archive server went down last night and won't reboot unless I'm there, which i can't be fo

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New Boat Meriachee at 9:13am 08.06.20 Yeah. Sign me up for one of those. Me too. Being an inland guy, this business of fuel consumption
Keeping the engine running shemandr at 9:10am 08.06.20 Bad fuel? There are services that will come and empty your tank and either cart the fuel away or po
New Boat Kings Gambit at 9:06am 08.06.20 Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Isn't marketing fun? Yeah. Sign me up for one of those
New Boat Meriachee at 9:03am 08.06.20 Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Isn't marketing fun?
New Boat Kings Gambit at 9:01am 08.06.20 Ah, another quest to find the perfect boat. Can go anywhere, in comfort and safety, virtually hassle
Isaias Report from New Jersey JamesG161 at 8:43am 08.06.20 Cliff Notes version 1) Locate essential circuits. Examples: Refrigerator, main bedroom, kitchen
New Boat Kings Gambit at 8:37am 08.06.20 At some point there is no question that I will want to do transpac from cali to hawaii and I know p
What brand of bottom paint is best for fiberglass small sailboats fstbttms at 8:36am 08.06.20 Are you saying you painted your boat with Trucoat and leave it in the water? This guy "epicjohn" d
electrolytic corrosion fstbttms at 8:33am 08.06.20 I hauled out to paint and have discovered extensive pitting on the iron keel. You sure what you w
My ideal battery charger...does it exist? Justin_NSA at 8:29am 08.06.20 I would like mine to be on the IoT. Internet of things, so I could manage it from my phone.
My ideal battery charger...does it exist? dlochner at 8:27am 08.06.20 I doubt it, the market for such a beast would too small to pay for the engineering costs. You'll ha
My ideal battery charger...does it exist? JohnShannon at 8:22am 08.06.20 I don't think so. You can assemble this out of separate components.
Isaias Report from New Jersey smokey73 at 8:08am 08.06.20 But again.... It you want to discuss how I can make this one work like whole house power, you hav
Manual for 2007 26M TRAILER (1) sail sfbay at 8:08am 08.06.20 Thanks for the photo but I cannot tell what the hanging pin is used for. I will take a guess the up
Isaias Report from New Jersey Captain Larry-DH at 8:01am 08.06.20
Manual for 2007 26M TRAILER (1) Biddyyyhz at 7:58am 08.06.20 Here is the picture, I do not have a trailer hitch lock like your picture shows, this trailer seems
1985 Mac 25 cockpit drain sail sfbay at 7:58am 08.06.20 Might check with SBO MacGregor site and Blue Water Yachts who sell MacGregor boat parts. SBO site sa
Keeping the engine running Don S/V ILLusion at 7:50am 08.06.20 The same boat yard did replace the fuel line from the tank when they commissioned her. This is one
Isaias Report from New Jersey JamesG161 at 7:48am 08.06.20 Just bad luck the motor was OOS when he needed it most I would suggest good preparations, for any
Keeping the engine running dmax at 7:45am 08.06.20 A vacuum leak is excess air getting into carb/intake. All combuston air should come through the thro

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