:) Well the Best of Luck in the Charlotte Harbour Area :!: You both , Picked a Very Fine Area for Sailing & General Retirement Fun During the Winter Months. Our Summer Storage, is just down the road @ All American Boat Storage, in Port Charlotte. Please give US an Email , when You are in Town fo...

Well it seems just like the install I did, last year. Raymarine A60 "New, Discontinued" Chartplotter, With Rotovectra St40 Wind Instrument.. Also Talking to a Raymarine "New, Discontinued S1g Hydraulic Autopilot" Wind Transducer is just (two Wires) to Deck Plug........... Thats w...

:) While I can't speak for first hand experience with a Mac 26 X , or 26M.. I have had a Teleflex Seastar Outboard System "Hydraulic" Steering , installed on My Girlfriends Odin 820. This project , was recently tested in Floridas "Charlotte Harbor for about 1 month of beta trials. Als...

:? Try the Detective solution of , Taking a small vacuum cleaner output side. Press fit the Output hose into the Ballast Tank Vent. Turn on the Vacuum Cleaner , with the Ballast Gate valve closed, and You will find the leak... Air rushing out of a small hole "Maybe from a SCREW that has penetra...

:wink: For Sure go for it, The Price is Just Super.. As the "6200" Control Head is $ 500.00 bucks alone :!: The individual parts "Sold On Ebay Alone" would net You back What You Paid, If It doesn't Work Out. Anyway, Defender is a class act, so Go For It ! Ya Need To do your part ...

8) Please don't forget the "Boat" is moving as Fast as the Towing Vehicle... Just can't forget the Lines, Straps or Bands preventing abnormal forward movement... Like Emergency Stops :cry: Attachment both front, and rear of the Boat to Trailer. Stopping Fwd, and Also Rear Motion. http://us...

8) I Must Agree, Just Don't want to be on the Winch End, If the Mast Falls During the process.. :?: But it's great to see all the Options around the world :idea: ..... http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5123/5266138251_a4162bae3e_o.jpg http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5005/5266138287_af48f2caf9_z.jpg http...

Found the nice video of Rigid fix'd "A" frame mast raising... Just Beats the Gin Pole and removable raising stuff on My Boat... Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/user/1velero#p/a/u/0/BfFnQM3jlhs

Captain Jack

There is one fellow on the Odin820 Site, from Finland.... and Last Year He purchased a New Boat. While the boat was in storage for the winter... He had custom made a Teak Rear Platform. :) Really Nice, and it's Truly Just like the Boardwalk @ Atlantic City New Jersey http://lh5.ggpht.com/petri.aj.ko...

The Heat Gun = $ 500.00 , none repeat expense Propane tank, from the back barbie welder gloves = $ 8.50 None Repeat 1500 Feet if 1/2 Poly cord banding = $33.00 Supplies For Belly band, and Tie Downs,and Roof Internal Arch's 1 Roll of Error 3 Inch Wide Tape aprox = $ 18.00 Supplies 1 Roll of 4 Fold (...

Well, Just got very tired of giving Others too much money for end of season Shrink & Disposal of material.. :x :idea: So, got the Shrinkit Heat Gun, Poly 1/2 banding material, Gloves, Error Tape, and 16 Feet Wide x 200 Foot White 7 Mil.. Virgin Shrink Film... :!: Now Have Supplies for (Five Seas...

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Just get one of these, and Two New Batteries, and some nice new Marine Grade Battery Cables...
and You will never have a problem.

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Good Luck
Captain jack

Well I love this topic, as I am Almost a Senior Citizen :cry: , and will do anything to make My sailing Day, for Myself & Family, just an easy Safe-experience. While, I have no experience First Hand, with the Inmon boom-furler, for the past 7 seasons... I have worked on My European Mac Clone &qu...

8) For sure this selling season , as observed by Me in the Northern New Jersey Area. New 26M :macm: , have been sold B4 landing... So they are not sitting on the sailboat lot @ All. I guess the Margin , depends on the dealership being able to carry the $$ for the boats on the floor for any period. A...

:?: Oh Fellow Water Ballast'd Sailors : QUESTION I am very interested to hear about the different experiences had, while sailing or motoring in following or quartering Seas. While the Web is saturated with articles about powerboats both (Inboard & Outboard), not much on Water Ballast'd boats wit...