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Water ballast valve on H26 Big Rog at 1:12pm 02.14.20 Smaller Boats 10/1552
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Known object (1) Stratus3 at 10:20am 02.14.20 Ask A Beneteau Owner 7/1208 174996174996came with the boat bottom drawer
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Hunter 34 rudder bearing project Colibri at 9:37am 02.14.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 5/2441
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Installing halyard organizer plate Lovetosail21 at 6:37am 02.14.20 Ask An Oday Owner 7/3348 I am installing a halyard organizer plate on my ODay 23. There are four bolts, all appear through t
Dodger Oday 28 rogjack2 at 8:02pm 02.13.20 Ask An Oday Owner 3/1283 Can anyone show a photo of a dodger on an 81 Oday 28 keel centerboard with main sheet traveler mount
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Rudder Spacer for 29.5 Sovereign7.0 at 1:22pm 02.13.20 Mid-Size Boats 1/845 Hi, I'm trying to find out where I might find a replacement part for the plastic (?) ring that acts
Bow Roller for S2 9.2C BarbW at 12:57pm 02.13.20 S2 3/1097 I just purchased a 1979 S2 9.2C. I'd like to add at least a bow roller (possibly a windlass) for eas
Legend 40.5 - Cracking/Jerking noise (1) fero at 10:00am 02.13.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 7/1252 Hello again, When rolling, at anchor or while sailing off-wind, there is an annoying cracking / jerk
Electric re-sale value? Hogdriver at 9:10am 02.13.20 Ask All Sailors 79/10873 Thinking of converting Catalina 310 to electric power. Anyone have thoughts on how that would affect
Jib Furling Parts (2) Golfpro at 8:12am 02.13.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 12/2264 Greetings fellow sailers. Just retired and purchased an '87 Hunter H-31. Great boat. Getting ready f
Switch to PSS shaft seal or repack the stuffing box on my H33? Maurice Doran at 7:48am 02.13.20 Ask A Hunter Owner 15/2250 I'm thinking of installing a PSS shaft seal on my 2005 H33 and I would like other owner's thoughts o
US Sailing Vid cb32863 at 7:02am 02.13.20 Ask All Sailors 29/2872 Nice video, 5 minutes, from US Sailing. Sure, its a little geared towards racing but, getting the ki
Adhesive for new Mast Step AndreInPortland at 10:01pm 02.12.20 Catalina 22 6/3017 Hi all, For my 1984 original design C22, I purchased the improved mast step and halyard plate from
Sailboat Owner's Guide to Corrosion - Basic Theories (Collier 1-4) (1) Will Gilmore at 7:53pm 02.12.20 Sailboat Owner's Guide to Corrosion 72/18535 Welcome to our SBO Book club study of Everett Collier's book, 'The Boatowner's Guide to Corrosion".
Mast height on a Skipper 20 Treyolsen at 7:34pm 02.12.20 Trailer Sailors 7/3084 Can anyone tell me how tall the mast is on a Skipper 20 "Please"?

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no eyelet on the tack of my main sail shemandr at 6:38am 01.29.25 It's odd. Not only is there no clew cringle, the sail isn't built to have one. Is it possible that
Look inside 1979, 25 Catalina (1) SailingLoto at 6:31am 01.29.25 I like the storage divider/cubby under the cockpit. Mine doesn't have that.
Marelon Ball Valve VS Marelon Sea Cocks Project_Mayhem at 6:22am 01.29.25 Why not just replace any OEM "valve on a thruhull" with a stronger seacock valve? Forespar and (mor
Runaway diesel colemj at 3:55am 01.29.25 Never had it happen to me, but in a runaway diesel situation, couldn't you just flip the decompress
Marelon Ball Valve VS Marelon Sea Cocks colemj at 3:31am 01.29.25 I should also note that 3 out of 4 of mine had leaks between the thru hull and seacock when sealed
2000 Oceanis 411 Rudder Issue KStolten at 9:48pm 01.28.25 Hi jssailem thanks for the advise! I will try that. digging will not work for me as the boat is on
Runaway diesel dLj at 9:18pm 01.28.25
Marelon Ball Valve VS Marelon Sea Cocks (1) Hayden Watson at 6:54pm 01.28.25 One challenge that you will have is how to deal with the deep recess in the hull. Catalina used the
Runaway diesel Davidasailor26 at 6:49pm 01.28.25 I feel like I'm playing devil's advocate on this post, and its not intentionally challenging, but m
Marelon Ball Valve VS Marelon Sea Cocks Hayden Watson at 6:48pm 01.28.25 Thanks for the clarification. Mine has the same. I'm ok with the marelon valves but it's the plasti
Runaway diesel Hayden Watson at 6:42pm 01.28.25 Never had it happen to me, but in a runaway diesel situation, couldn't you just flip the decompress
Runaway diesel Robert Strickland at 5:59pm 01.28.25
Runaway diesel Robert Strickland at 5:55pm 01.28.25 Huh. My 2GM20, circa mid-80s, has 2 levers (one/cylinder), easily accessible at the top of the engi
Runaway diesel Davidasailor26 at 5:00pm 01.28.25
2000 Oceanis 411 Rudder Issue jssailem at 4:26pm 01.28.25 Karsten. Welcome to SBO. I would use a tape measure to identify the distance from the boat bottom (
Help with Catalina 25 Rudder Repair (1) jssailem at 4:19pm 01.28.25 My plan is to drill out, fill with epoxy, and re-drill hole For holes larger than a 3/16th, I pref
no eyelet on the tack of my main sail kappykaplan at 3:49pm 01.28.25 what are all those lines and hardware under the boom for? Recommend you find another Mac 26D nearb
Help with Catalina 25 Rudder Repair Stu Jackson at 2:47pm 01.28.25 You should also get to know these skippers: https://catalina-capri-25s.org/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=
no eyelet on the tack of my main sail Von Clipper at 2:35pm 01.28.25 what are all those lines and hardware under the boom for?
no eyelet on the tack of my main sail kappykaplan at 1:23pm 01.28.25 Sooo ya think I should have a shop sew in a cringle with reinforcement? Yep . . .

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