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H23 Toppinglift attachment Matthew at 7:40am 06.18.02 Smaller Boats 1/734 I need to know how my toppinglift is supposed to attach to the top of my mast. I have a Zspar mast
Vacu Flush Heads Joe Renn at 7:37am 06.18.02 Big Boats 6/1179 I bought my 410 last year with Manual heads and I'm thinking about upgrading it with Vacu Flush head
Help, I'm going to drill soon Ric Shultz at 7:21am 06.18.02 Ask An Oday Owner 5/906 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 3/1406 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 2/1349 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 6/872 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 12/1544 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 2/1141 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 8/1729 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 1/1313 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 3/919 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 1/1018 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 27/2348 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 8/1038 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 3/1305 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 2/2045 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 5/891 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 4/1305 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 2/1458 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 6/2263 I replaced all of the coolant hoses on my M25, in a Catalina 36, last year, except two - the 7/8" ID

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Tire size sail sfbay at 7:22pm 08.14.20 Suggest taking your local trailer shop to inspect and replace, if necessary, especially for safety r
Cockpit Table sail sfbay at 7:19pm 08.14.20 sgiarc........I have many stories like that, including mine!!
The Lighter Side of Social Distancing Davidasailor26 at 7:18pm 08.14.20 Hey all I just took the new Russian COVID-19 vaccine shot yesterday.:) I can tell can tell you the
US Coast Guard Shallow Water Aids to Navigation Survey Davidasailor26 at 7:16pm 08.14.20
Cockpit Table sgiarc at 7:13pm 08.14.20 Careful my wife wanted a table for our J-34 and that's how we ended up with the Beneteau 461
What GPS unit fits this mount? Tally Ho at 7:10pm 08.14.20 Scrap it I say. I assume it is not connected to anything. Greg
The Lighter Side of Social Distancing Tally Ho at 7:07pm 08.14.20 Speaka de English! Greg
Johnson raw water pump: leaking seal (1) jaysweet at 7:06pm 08.14.20 I appreciate the comments on the seal that failed. I want to point out that I think it can be a bit
Rudder Post/Bildge Area Tally Ho at 6:59pm 08.14.20
Securing the mast at the base sigsgmret at 6:58pm 08.14.20 Looks good to me. I have a newer Catalina 22 (1994) that has a bolt through the mast step at the ba
Number one.....or number two? Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 6:51pm 08.14.20 If this came from a power boater, yes you were mislead (except in the case of Ms. @Peggie Hall Head
Adding dedicated jibsheet winches to a H310 (2) sail sfbay at 6:48pm 08.14.20 Your manual running rigging diagram shows the jib sheets through a jammer to a winch on the cabin to
My first sailing video .... FDL S2 at 6:41pm 08.14.20 Good video! I like your music selections. I probably missed a few, but the only "dumbed down" thing
Thru Hull Fittings Peggie Hall HeadMistress at 6:39pm 08.14.20 Top quality stainless steel is ok for thru-hulls...plastic should be marelon. Bronze will last fore
Number one.....or number two? WayneH at 6:29pm 08.14.20 OH, my. I'm late to this thread but..... The admiral really doesn't like offshore is where I would s
Dinghy on a small sailboat, Bilge pump, ocean sailing David in Sandusky at 6:10pm 08.14.20 We carry a Sevylor inflatable and a DIY plywood bottom for rowing ashore when needed. It has a motor
Remember the Sun Screen shemandr at 5:21pm 08.14.20 It may be a while before I show up for a crew gig with Yoga pants and knee pads although that is wha
Genoa Clew Ring shemandr at 5:12pm 08.14.20 It's no joke. If a cringle and shackle smack you on the head from a flogging sail it's going to hur
Genoa Clew Ring thinwater at 5:08pm 08.14.20 I can't say what the material is used for the soft clew that's shown in the picture, because I didn
Remember the Sun Screen MikeO53 at 5:03pm 08.14.20 I agree that sun damage is cumulative over your life so that all that sun we got in our teens is the

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