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  • Gene Neill
    Gene Neill reacted to JBP-PA's post in the thread Terminal connectors with Like Like.
    Marine How To says "NOTE:When choosing crimp terminals I would urge you to buy from companies with a reputation to uphold and a long...
  • Allan12210
    Allan12210 reacted to capta's post in the thread What would YOU have done? with Like Like.
    Sometime in the early '70s I found myself powerless in a confined area. Back then Avon inflatables were just tubes with hypalon cloth...
  • Allan12210
    Allan12210 replied to the thread What would YOU have done?.
    It all comes back to me now. July 4, 2012 we were just leaving the slip in Alameda to participate in the 60th annual Boreas Race from...
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  • Allan12210
    Allan12210 reacted to Stu Jackson's post in the thread What would YOU have done? with Like Like.
    In 1987 we purchased a very nice 1981 Catalina 25 and berthed her in Alameda Marina in Northern California on SF Bay. The rigging was...
  • shemandr
    shemandr replied to the thread Oday 23-2 mast refit..
    It may have something to do with a compression sleeve. Proceed carefully. Don't beat it with a hammer or anything else! Bolts for...
  • Davidasailor26
    Davidasailor26 replied to the thread Sail condition.
    It’s probably not that different. Laminated sails, especially racing ones with Kevlar as the load bearing material, often have skins of...
  • Tally Ho
    Sounds like this is not a typical boat installation, so this may not be all that worthwhile….but I would not use Bed-It unless the...
  • Tally Ho
    Tally Ho replied to the thread Sail condition.
    Do you remember the guy that was making sails out of blue tarps? That was several years ago now I imagine….some inland lake or pond I...
  • Tally Ho
    I will probably get out to Tally Ho tomorrow and can get you a measurement. Greg
  • Tally Ho
    Tally Ho replied to the thread What would YOU have done?.
    I just shudder when I think that I could have been coming into the slip under power, and at the point I usually slow the boat down...
  • eherlihy
    I'm curious as to why people are looking to get rid of their V/F systems. I had one (improperly) installed in my boat when I bought it...
  • eherlihy
    If you upload pics, please select "thumbnail"...full size takes up half a page. However, there's really no need for pics...I'm very...
  • capta
    capta replied to the thread DC induction cooktop.
    I've been toying with the idea of 120vac cooking run from a portable power station of around 2500 continuous watts. The power station...
  • capta
    capta replied to the thread What would YOU have done?.
    Sometime in the early '70s I found myself powerless in a confined area. Back then Avon inflatables were just tubes with hypalon cloth...
  • capta
    capta reacted to JRacer's post in the thread What would YOU have done? with Like Like.
    Flying analogy, never press a bad approach. Execute the missed approach, Apply full power and go around!