Sabre 27 Owners Association Community

Mike T 67 Posts Posted - 02/11/2009 : 19:49:16 Hi, Does anyone know anything about needing to have anodes on a sabre? I have just got a brand new shiny prop and dont like the thought of it erroding away like the last one. Thanks robbyc0 United Kingdom 25 Posts Posted - 02/11/2009 : 22:22:23 Err ... ...

Iain C United Kingdom 181 Posts Posted - 31/05/2013 : 09:03:29 Grr...just typed a long description of this but the forum lost it. So in the spirit of pictures being worth thousands of words, here is my new carbon fibre removable bowsprit, made from an old piece of 18' skiff mast and various bits out...

yerffoeg United Kingdom 48 Posts Posted - 16/10/2013 : 14:40:09 Good Afternoon. I have an old Kemp mast on Cariona, probably 1973 vintage. When I acquired it, it did not have a gate for stopping the mainsail luff slugs from falling out of the, mast so I made something up out off stainless steel, whi...

johnle United Kingdom 33 Posts Posted - 04/07/2013 : 18:24:36 Has any one had one of the above made and fitted recently if so does it fit ,are you happy with it , would you recommend manufacturer and roughly what was the cost? johnle United Kingdom 33 Posts Posted - 04/07/2013 : 22:14:49 the item in...

robbyc0 United Kingdom 25 Posts Posted - 14/07/2013 : 13:54:48 Hi all - I have Maggie May, 1973 bilge keeled 27 (No 200). While on the slipway having the mast refitted I noticed a bit of glass on the bottom of the outside of the port keel foot that would not dry. Turned out to be mushy. So I hacked ...

robbyc0 United Kingdom 25 Posts Posted - 10/06/2013 : 07:35:19 My stuffing box has a grease fitting in the threaded steel tube and a remote greaser fitted. The greaser has come off and been lost. I am trying to find out what the thread is to replace. I have tried m8, 3/8 whitworth, 3/8 bsp and its n...

SteveV United Kingdom 43 Posts Posted - 19/06/2013 : 10:25:09 My sabre has a plastic fuel tank in the port locker. I see most had a steel tank in the engine bay. I am conidering fitting one to save locker space and get a bigger tank. So has anyone retrofitted one? Does it hang from the cockpit floor...

Ian-G United Kingdom 4 Posts Posted - 24/05/2013 : 12:39:21 Hi All, I wasn't getting any speed read out on my Nasa Clipper Duet system - depth was working but speed alway 0.0kts. After reading some posts here I took the plunge (literally) and pulled out the paddle wheel for inspection. Actually not ...

nickbd United Kingdom 207 Posts Posted - 29/03/2013 : 11:10:15 nickbd's nickbd's Further to the initial discovery of a Marcon Filing Cabinet by Ian C, quite a few of the items are now available for scrutiny. Kindly scanned by Paul Howard, the following were retrieved: the ‘Build Sequence and Instruc...

Newly added to the website - the refit of Calypso:
http://sabre27.org.uk/index.php/yacht/calypso/