Re: USCG proposal to remove markers off New England coast
Sounds like the red / white clear water buoys and ones that are redundant.... they were set up so you could dead recon with a compass in the thick fog , be off and hear them ring to get to .. take a
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Keith Bucklen
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W27 Shutdown Process
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Hello - New to me W27.? There is a Red emergency stop pull in the aft locker that attaches to a lever on the high pressure fuel pump.? The bar on that pump is spring loaded and was frozen.? ?It
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Tim Woodworth
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Re: USCG proposal to remove markers off New England coast
Thanks Dan, your narrative is spot on and very useful. [email protected]> wrote:
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Jim Harman
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Re: Water Tank Gaskets
The extras are on the boat and I don¡¯t recall the sizes. I used a caliper to measure them, and then found something close at Grainger. -- Joe Cleary Kestrel? -??S36 #54? -??Boston
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Joe Cleary
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Re: AGM Battery recommendation
Hi Bob I bought new AGMs for our 402 3 years ago and went with Rolls Batteries, they have great reputation and are made by Surette Batteries in Nova Scotia. ?They have a good selection of marine AGMs
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Allan
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Re: USCG proposal to remove markers off New England coast
I made the point that electronic navigation has too much that can go wrong. "The prudent navigator never relies on a single aid to navigation." Following (tl;dr) are my comments: This public comment
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Dan Grossman
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Re: S28 MK I ignition lock/switch wiring
I am not sure I would put 12v through the switch without ohming out the wires to see where they go even with an accurate wiring diagram. Sabre put Universal, Volvo, and Westerbeke engines in these
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Corey Manero
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Re: USCG proposal to remove markers off New England coast
If you write a reply, keep in mind that channel and hazard markers are indeed critically important, but pure "navigational" buoys are mostly obsolete.? The test should be something like, "a marker is
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Jim Starkey
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USCG proposal to remove markers off New England coast
A friend alerted me to a Coast Guard proposal to remove hundreds of navigational markers along the New England coast, including red/white checkered harbor entrance buoys, several buoys around Block
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Jim Harman
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Re: How many are still around?
A blast from the past. I remember your name from 20 years ago when we both had S28s. Great boats and a absolute sleeper on the race course. Bill Kellner ExS28 Second Wind hull 258 S32 CB Throwback
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Bill Kellner
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Re: How many are still around?
Interesting question... I personally witnessed the demise? of two of them.? Passing Fancy was done in in a collision with another sailboat under power.? Very tragic... Passing Fancy (319). I owned
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Sid Wax
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Re: Water Tank Gaskets
Or your local marine chandlery if they carry engine parts; so $12 cash for three sets of four ring gaskets (water, waste, diesel) is better than $16 for one at WM. Just bring in the old ones to match.
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Franz Alvarez
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Re: How many are still around?
Hi Rich small world!! Thanks for the comeback. Good to know. she was purchased by Tish, a sailing instructor, brought round through the Chesapeake and Delaware canal and up the ?NJ coast to her berth
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Eugene & Maureen
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Re: Water Tank Gaskets
Joe, What size did you find for the deck fills? -- Christopher Evans Habanero S32 Reedville, VA
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Christopher M Evans
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Re: Water Tank Gaskets
Thanks Joe, I never thought of Grainger...Or McMaster-Carr. -- Christopher Evans Habanero S32 #89 Reedville, VA
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Christopher M Evans
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Re: Fairclough cover for S28 free
As an FYI ¨C these are great covers but they are cotton canvas / duck and do shrink. On my other boat we had Fairclough add 10¡± to the aft section several years ago after ~ 12 years of use from
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Nauset Beach
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Re: Squirrel issue
Chris you can by pass the Erie Canal and go to lake Champlain and then to the st Lawrence river. It is longer but no delays and you get to see Montreal. Sabre 402#37. Lake Ontario Mike Newbury
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Mike
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Re: 426 belt replacement - raw water hose makes it difficult
Hi Neil, Unfortunately I don¡¯t have any pics of our motor as she looks today, just partial pics. I am enclosing a 2003 426 stock Yanmar install. This is not our boat but it was how our boat looked
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Allison Lehman
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Re: How many are still around?
I just got instructions for changing signature - Subscription/settings/signature. -- Piotr Serwik S28 Mk I (standing rigging from Mk II). 1972, Hull #13 "Deep Blew" Rock Hall, MD
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PIOTR SERWIK
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Re: How many are still around?
This is a great list. I've added Sheba VII...a 425 hull #88.? Now i have to fig¨´re out how to add my signature...
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April Bilawchuk
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