After sailing my 26X for almost 2 years - I finally had the opportunity/reason to run the boat for a long distance under power without interference. At WOT - it was showing 7000 RPM (a tad high perhaps?) the top speed was only 11 kn (GPS) - light tail wind - boat only lightly loaded - mast up - no b...

Looking to acquire an autopilot for my 26X - have priced out the Raymarine Sportpilot and the ST4000 Mk 2 - in looking at the specs - it seems that the ST4000 can do a bit more than the Sportpilot, but appears to be bit more difficult to install (belts, motortmount, etc.). The ST400 is also slightly...

John What does it cost to keep your boat there, and how much to have them put it in the water. We have a place down in Palmetto where we keep the boat for the winter - costs us about $85.00 per month (we feel is quite reasonable) but when we were down at Christmas, they charged us $285 to put the bo...

Rich - what dealers in the TO area are handling this stuff - tried unsuccessfully to find a Cdn dealer last year - this looks like interesting finish - I'd be interested in hearingfomr anyone that has used it

Great -we plan on being there by the 14th - keep the "forum" posted as to the plans - looking forward to meeting some of you guys personally Ah - warm weather and water :D we just has another six inches of snow last night - spent a good part of today snowblowing the yard & driveway how...

is anyone still planning on this cruise in March - I'll be down that way and would love to go with a few others - see my post in the regular "posting" area

We are planning to be in Florida mid March - thinking of doing a small trip from Tampa (Bradenton) area down to Sanabel island - between the 14th and 23rd - anyone else going to be cruising that area durng that time.

Unfortunately we live in the "boonies" - the only high speed available to us is via sateliite - very expensive and very unreliable - maybe someday this part of the country will join the real world and we'll have modern stuff like high speed, telehones that actually work all the time (when ...

I'm looking for some assistance from any of you "technie" types (anyone that can use a tape measure) I had some modifications made to my rudder brackets (the older aluminum type) and I didn' t say anything to the machine shop where they did the owrk - and now it looks to me like the webbin...

We are planning on going down to the Tampa Bay area in Florida over Christmas/New years to do some sailing on our boat - now on the hard in Bradenton - Our son and his wife will be coming as well - but we do find that our boat is a bit small for the four of us - Does anyone from that area know of an...

Has anybody "successfully" manufactured thier own rudders - I would think that if one took a piece of 1/2" marine ply - sand to shape (airfoil shape) and laminate 4 - 6 layers of fibreglass cloth/mat - reinforcing the bottom and leading edge, and were the bolts go through - would ther...

We have 'bout 100 strps of black elastic with velcro at each end - thhetraps are about 12 - 15" long, 3/4" wide, with the two parts velcro about 4" on each end - work great around the boat for any number of 'tie down' applications - we get them here (Canada) in packages of 10 at the &...

OK - my next question then is where is the jib halyard supposed to be bolted to? I just went out and tookanother look at the rigging (it happens to be parked in my yard right now) - unless the through bolt holding the RF and the upper shrouds? Does anyone have a good picture of the rigging so I can ...

Whoa - you just scared the h___ outta me - where is the jib halyard supposed to be connected? When I had my RF installed last winter - the installers removed the jib halyard and sheave totally - the next time I had the mast down - I saw what looked like where the bolt had been removed from at the to...

OK - whats the "WIFI" card about - we have traveled up and down the I-75 to Florida a few times - seen some of the Flying J's - are you saying you just park there and spend the night - sounds like a good idea