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Hi all, I have a Prairie 36 with Hynautic steering and have been experiencing a problem. The boat always wants to drift to port and constant adjustments have to be made to continue straight. Maybe one every few seconds depending on wave and wind conditions. I have not found an external leak and...

Hello all, I have a Prarie 36 Coastal Cruiser. We have enjoyed this boat quite a bit the last few years as we have been fixing it up to do the great Loop. However, I have noticed a bit of slipping in the port side transmission. It got bad enough that I pulled the trans and brought it to a local...

I'm replacing the broken and crazed Gray Marine plastic opening ports on my boat. I'm replacing all of them starting with the one in my aft shower/head. That one had been replaced with a Beckson that was very similar to the others but not quite the same. When that one was replaced, the liner...

Hi everyone, I've been working on getting my old gennie up and running. It wanted to start but just couldn't quite go so I began trouble shooting. I've got good compression, fuel to the injectors but kick back into the fuel line to #1 injector. (It's a 2 cyl.) So I pulled the injector, took it...

Well, I have finally got both my heads working! WooHoo! So while I was under the decks running new hoses to the thruhulls, I noticed my fwd. shower sump was full. It has a drain from the shower with what looks like a little plastic box with a bilge pump and float switch. The inlet to the box has...

I have a Prairie 36 Coastal Cruiser equipped with a Princess electric 3 burner range/oven and I'm not happy with it's performance. I'm thinking of replacing it with a two burner induction cook top and convection microwave. I think this will use less electricity and perform better as well as...

I have a good friend whose father owns a Prairie 36. It hasn't been used much over the past 10 years or so. He is thinking of selling and I'm thinking of buying. I'm hoping to begin the Great Loop in a couple of years and this might be the boat. I've been doing some research and find that these...

Hi ya'll I'm another newbie looking to learn as much as I can about trawlers. I've owned several power boats and sail boats over the years but no trawlers. Have been doing lots of sailing in recent years and have learned to respect the little diesels in the larger sail boats. We have to use them...