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randall

caren and i went out to mother's day dinner at a waterfront restaurant around the corner. nice sunset and a view of what has to be the most bubbly bubble boat on the planet. how would you like to throw an anchor off that bow in a six foot sea? reminds me of the unfortunate soul who had to slip his i...

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outstanding plus!! love the gray hull.

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outstanding!

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buju....thats not gonna happen....i only have two galleries and i can't keep up ....but its not like its breaking rocks. i'm lucky to really love what i do. however.. this summer i'll linger at the beach and spend a lot of time in or on the water.

randall

frank....i had two very busy years. (worked 350 days in 2012). in the last year i was in a show in tokyo and montreal and a bunch of other group shows AND a one man show at a gallery in NYC. now i thankfully have nothing major on the horizon and have vowed to enjoy this summer. just hang at the beac...

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ha ha...i've seen that clip a lot lately. i had a large fish pull me over the rocks and into a white water tide pool in panama....but never hooked a shark. the truth is since i got the stand up paddle board i almost never use the kayak. i surfed on it till christmas than flat water paddled all winte...

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mine didn't seem to leak at all...but we're talkin a 25 so a lot less surface area. i kept the bilge bone dry so if it didn't rain and there was water.....i'd investigate. found a few leaky hoses that way.

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Kevin..i had the PSS and they worked perfectly for the 12 years i had the boat ....BUT ...as a friend of mine once told me..."the enemy of good is better". if its worked fine for 30 years why open that can of worms? unless you are doing a complete running gear refit. my 2 cents.

randall

mike ohlstein wrote:I guess this makes us a 'band of renown'......

saw that coming.

good luck with the boat. what engines?

randall

i've helped mike winterize the boat a bunch of times....the valves work great and are super easy to install.

randall

"I would have run up a beach (nice soft sand) instead (assuming that was an option). " wood hulled, keeled, downeast style commercial fishing boat. the ramp is adjacent the marina with a large fork and travel lift. i think the problem with a night beaching is running aground before you can get her w...

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bruce....i gave exactly that a lot of thought when i built my crash valve system. so i made them as easy to use as possible. to me the deciding factor was can you stop the water from coming in? if you can its the big bilge pumps. if you can't...like a hole or broken off running gear i figured i coul...

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i had crash valves but never had to use em. i did have over a foot of water in the bilge when i blew a raw water hose. two 2500 GPH pumps emptied her pretty fast. another time a neighbor's bertram was pretty flooded at the dock after a hurricane. (i get there is a huge difference between at the dock...

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lookin good harry!!

it was 80 here yesterday. i spent the afternoon on the water. still no buds on the trees however.

hell....sometimes i would just let the engines idle at the dock so i could listen to the rumble. music.

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i'm pretty familiar with the area. it can certainly get "sporty". the short answer is the boat can take more than you can. take bob's advice and maybe brewster will chime in. around there i was always more afraid of the shipping lanes than the ocean. (small sail boat)

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the guy has a funny sense of humor....hey....sex sells. even for a junk boat.

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there are folks around here that have raccoons as pets. no thanks. as to deer.....i'm pretty sure i could kill one with a knife.......not to sporting when they lose their people shyness. i've been seeing small herds of whitetail way out in the wetlands. viewed from the paddle board.

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had one in the house...came in the cat door. he got up on the room divider and sat perfectly still.....thought i wouldn't notice him. at one point he was on top of an open door so a swat with a broom was all it took to knock em outside. i gave up on bungie cords for the garbage cans as they learned ...

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my first thought (when i stopped laughing) was water unicycle.....how fast can you pedal? musta fit in something....pontoon boat or paddle board.

randall

ok....more weird water stuff. i paddled around a fairly remote harbor all winter and found various derelict boats, a few abandoned boats including a nice aluminum skiff and a pseudo hobie cat .......but today i stumbled upon this....... http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n186/randallro/waterunicycle...

randall

mike and i took a raccoon fishing. i was surprised how strong and intense he was so i said ok...you can go. eventually i knocked him off the gunwale into the water and then spent a half hour trying to rescue em with the throw ring.(don't laugh) bet he was REALLY pissed off when he got to the beach.

randall

i think its the "eldorado"...13 foot with straight trim lines along the rub rail. the larger boats swoop down a bit at the transom. the fins are WAY out of proportion to the boat. i mean like seriously huge!

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AC1977 wrote:Looks good all cleaned up

i think thats a different model.....bigger with more freeboard and proportionally smaller fins. you'd have to see this in real life.

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i think the old owner is gonna drag it away.....we'll see.

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the old merc is cool however.

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someone once sat down at a drawing board and thought this is what a boat should look like. friend bought a house and this was there.

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peter...they dredged the opening of accabonac harbor this winter (where we launched the flats boat). 24 hours a day seven days a week. one day they had the dredge head above water so i paddled up to it on my paddle board. they didn't like that much but nothing they could do about it except blow the ...

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hard to believe looking at the ocean here. i wouldn't want to spend a night a half mile off shore. 10 miles would be better. especially on a vessel thats attached to something. hope they got hazard pay!

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why would they stay out? talk about rockin and rollin.

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what was it reading yesterday? looks about 20+ out here.

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mike....you definately used sikaflex....i almost have it removed from my hands but its never coming out of my clothes. stuff never dries.

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tony...true story. when i was 5 my good friend's dad was the dentist for the giants. we used to go to the polo grounds and sit in the dugout during batting practice. every foul pop that went straight back hit a net and rolled down into one of the dug outs. we had a zillion balls and a zillion autogr...

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thanks mike.....i suggest you folks look at some of the other artists work. torrens is my favorite. his work is insane. rawleigh.....no worries...i stand up paddle almost every day for an hour and surfed on it till christmas. it's great for us "senior" surfers cause no prone guy can out paddle you f...

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thanks tony.....its like i'm living my life in reverse. played around till i was 60....now i'm working 350 days a year. i'll tell you one thing......it takes a lot less time and money to keep a stand up paddle board running than a bertram!

randall

we're ALL related.
rosenthal is basically jewish for smith or jones. about as common a name as any.
my favorite is frank "lefty" rosenthal. the real guy the movie "casino" is based on and played by de niro. and of course joe......who shot the photo of the flag raising on iwo jima.

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think about him most days . he once said "if any of you need my help and don't ask for it i will consider it a personal affront"....and he meant it.

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here's a piece i did this year. i have a gallery in NYC now and they have no mercy. they have shown my work in a handful of group shows, including montreal and tokyo.......and a solo show last january. thanks bruce....we're fine and caren still spends a week a month in florida. http://i112.photobuck...

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just stoppin by to say hi. been stupid busy for the last year. then i had some trouble logging on to the new format but we got that resolved so here i am. whats new?

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take a surfboard.......great spot.

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the round bottom is also important. it doesn't go to a hard line at the keel.

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i have to admit of all the things i heard him say the funniest one was when he was explaining to (name omitted) why he couldn't possibly win the UVI. the man brought a lot of joy to a lot of lives. and like patrick, he was responsible for getting a lot of very very different people together on the s...

randall

amen to that.

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"if anyone here needs my help and doesn't ask for it.....i will take it as a personal affront".....vic roy

well...you were there for me vic....and like mike i'll readily admit i love you like a brother....er, maybe an uncle.

randall

drove one of the original 260 cobras and could have bought it for four thousand dollars ...................but instead i bought a boat. one of my heros for sure.

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HANK!!

i get lots of oos and ahhs

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patrick...OK...that is a very interesting firearm. what's it like to shoot a 410 out of that little barrel?

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get a wet saw with a diamond blade and wet the plaster......clean as a whistle and no dust. just a thought.

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i built models for a living for years.....that is a great job!!

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my cockpit wash down was a TSL style system and every thing got more manual from there. i ran for months at a time with no steering, or no reverse on the port engine, or no idle on one engine. to me a physical manual link gives you more control....not less.

randall

what mike said. i rigged my crash valves so i could easily run the engines off a hose or winterize by myself. nice to run some fresh water through there once a week or before a long period of non use. AND.....the one time i opened the engine hatch (not at the dock) and saw a foot of water in the bil...

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