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Vacu Flush Heads Joe Renn at 7:37am 06.18.02 Big Boats 6/1185 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 5/914 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 3/1409 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 2/1363 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 6/879 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 12/1565 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 2/1150 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 8/1736 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 1/1315 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 3/931 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 1/1035 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 27/2369 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 8/1040 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 3/1310 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 2/2047 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 5/903 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 4/1309 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 2/1466 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 6/2268 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 0/1063 Anyone know when the Catalina 30 came put with the lead keel instead of the cast iron? Also, how abo

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What qualifies as "advanced" when rating sailing ability? Ward H at 7:04am 08.20.20 Someone who would happily jump aboard their boat and go is most likely someone who's boat is prepar
What qualifies as "advanced" when rating sailing ability? Kings Gambit at 7:00am 08.20.20
Rue Clips - Anybody use these for shrouds and stay pins? Justin_NSA at 6:50am 08.20.20 Wrap pins if you are looking for easy
What qualifies as "advanced" when rating sailing ability? dlochner at 6:35am 08.20.20 My point being that people are never good at assessing their own skills. Hmmmm..... Interesting.
Battery Data GonzoF1 at 6:21am 08.20.20 Five years? Not bad, replace them. Last month, I just got six years, almost to the day, out of my
Rue Clips - Anybody use these for shrouds and stay pins? sailme88 at 6:16am 08.20.20 I found these on my John Deere tractor. Do you think that they would be good for the shroud/stay pi
What qualifies as "advanced" when rating sailing ability? sailme88 at 6:10am 08.20.20
Yanmar 3GMD Just Shuts Off, Restarts Later Stu Jackson at 6:08am 08.20.20 Ken's right. https://forums.sailboatowners.com/threads/fuel-starvation-and-the-obscure-ball-check-v
Battery Data Stu Jackson at 6:06am 08.20.20 Five years? Not bad, replace them. Last month, I just got six years, almost to the day, out of my
What qualifies as "advanced" when rating sailing ability? sailme88 at 5:54am 08.20.20 making up definitions for made up terms is fun. 3x 365=1,095, so, 1,095 days (24hr days) at sea sh
What qualifies as "advanced" when rating sailing ability? JK_Boston_Catalina310 at 5:37am 08.20.20 Personally I think you are crazy excepting racing experience as valid for cruising. I have met way t
Rue Clips - Anybody use these for shrouds and stay pins? shemandr at 5:30am 08.20.20 Too pointy for my taste. Now that you've brought up etouffee - we need a recipe!
Backstay Failure shemandr at 5:01am 08.20.20 In the photos the forestay/furler are overboard with the spool still in place on the bow. Looking a
Backstay Failure sailme88 at 4:43am 08.20.20 At our club we have our own hoist to step and unstep masts. The lack of knowledge of the rig on som
How do you store DougM at 4:31am 08.20.20 One of the few things I let the yard crew do is an annual oil change when the boat goes into storage
Backstay Failure Bob S at 4:03am 08.20.20 Looks like the forestay failed at the masthead.
B and G H1000 Autopilot troubleshooting wsconner at 4:02am 08.20.20 Sorc - thanks.. still feel like I'm learning, even though I've figured out a lot, so what ever I can
Backstay Failure Will Gilmore at 3:46am 08.20.20 I posted some photos and a description of how I found her. Is it not possible that when the backsta
Insulating our Hunter Fridge senang at 12:53am 08.20.20 If you want to improve the functioning of your fridge the other way to do this is by improving the a
Backstay Failure thetone at 12:49am 08.20.20 I haven't seen it yet. I pulled it out of the water and tied it up down. Hopefully the yard will ste

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