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Mikey

Dug, If you're serious about a modern incarnation of the revered bow chock I would ask a questions. If you do a new one would it be blasphemy to modify it slightly, not in appearance but in practicality. Since it is the concensus of the group that getting the lights to work consistantly is a fruitle...

Mikey

DRAT!

Mikey

Randall,
As I always suspected, a beautiful, well-maintained boat.

Mikey

Kevin,
What engines are you running? With 6bta-300's I was told 900ma's. Thirty microns in the Racors and 2 microns on the engines.

Mikey

Dave,
An Irish prayer for your doctor's skill and your recovery.

Mikey

Throw you off the forum??? Hell, we'll just wiat until you fall off the stool.
Let the fun begin.
Does this make three Hatts, now? They're insidious, creeping across our boarders, working cheap and paying no taxes.
Where will it end?

Mikey

The last chapter of the bow chock insident is that Wayne Fultz contacted me and had exactly what I wanted at a fair price and he has sent it to me. It is better than described and I am planning on it's future home on the bow of Dreamsicle. Thanks Wayne.

Mikey

Roland,
How about a mold of that port cabin seat. That is what I want to do with Dreamsicle's dated settee.
Wow! Nice work!

Mikey

Randall,
My heart just skipped a beat, damn, I sound like country song. Right now I feel like one. Thought I recognized that red. My second 100-4 was that color, also original but only twenty-years old. Love the Brookline windscreen. I WANT ONE!
Keep it dry.

Mikey

Randall, It is truly a strange world. In another life I owned three AH 100-4's. Raced one of them shortly. I was fast but inconsistant. Not good for winning. Great cars. Lay that windshild down and take the bugs in your teeth. There are few cars that I would like to get back but my first is still a ...

Mikey

Thanks, Guys. Pat, the ladders in my life were the reason I finally went under the knife. When you stand at the bottom and contemplate the ascent, it's time to do it. Couple more weeks and we're on it. Fugure about the time we get back from the South. Sitting in the office watching the demolition of...

Mikey

Randall,
1956 what?
When I got the Bertram I sold a '57 Cadillac convertible. They both burn about the same fuel per mile.

Mikey

Went to the saw bones (literally in my case) today and he said from now until spring take some weight off when your tired by using a cane, throw away the crutches and come see me in a year. I told him I would use my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather's shillelagh. He ...

Mikey

Chiles, You buy it I'll lend you the $$$. Same usury rates as the streeters. Put in the yard next to mine we can encourage each other.

Mikey

Yea, but Coosa won't rot and doesn't have to be laminated in glass.
Now, where do I buy it?

Mikey

Rawleigh,
Might could. Still trying to get Cabrera to do what they said they would, four months ago. May have to get a Southern Florida connection to go over there, where ever "there" is. Keep you posted.

Mikey

Rawleigh, Walking with one crutch, so climbing a ladder is no prob. Don't tell Dr. Cardea. See him tomorrow, so maybe . . . Glassed up the excess holes in the hull this weekend (Weather in the seventies) so we should be floatable. Now, if Cabrera will return my fuel-tank top, it has only been four m...

Mikey

Zowie, Roland, She's as yellow as mine is orange. Gorgeous. Love to see pix of the interior, even if not finished. When do you splash? Want to hear the side exhaust results. Thought about this for Dreamsicle and have been dissuaded. The real skinny will do it.

Mikey

Rawleigh,
As UV is fond of saying, "the enemy of good is better."
I'll look at yours when the urge strikes me. If you get this today (Saturday, a.m.) I will be under Dreamsicle glassing some unneeded holes.Come on down.

Mikey

Bruce, Three inch fur . . .everywhere? I've already got it coming out of my ears. When the ice caps melt and the coast line shifts I'm getting on Dreamsicle and drift to my new home. Hopefully the owners of the new waterfront property won't initially know the value of their windfall and I'll get a n...

Mikey

Are there any pictures of the interior of Charisma/ Since my express' cabin is an empty hole right now suggestions are welcome. Pixture are better.

Mikey

Cahrlie,
Thanks. Checked their website. Probably cheaper than replacing the defunct block heaters, huh?

Mikey

John F, Thanks for the clue. I'll figure this out eventualllllllllly. Dan, Nice work. Love those 6BTA's. Smoooooooooooth. I had a rag boat with as many names (Mitsuko, Su Mark II, Banjo (?). I renamed her (against the advice of many superstitious) in a religious ceremony followed by much revelry and...

Mikey

If any of you are truly interested in doing this and want some insight into the project I am doing an express from the ground up. Except for the fiberglass everything in mine will be new including decks, engine boxes, and fuel tank. Let me know.

Mikey

Charlie,
Boat Safe? Que pasa, Dude. Haven't heard but sounds interesting.

Mikey

Dan, Welcome. Pictures, if you dare.

Mikey

CX would have fixed it, of course that would be a point for the Mrs.

Mikey

UV,
I'll call you in the a.m. at the orfice.

Mikey

Tommy, I wish it had been an oversite but after my investigation it was not.
Tony, The French connection has new bow chocks for about Six large. Whew!
Andre, Not a clue, Pal.

Mikey

How disappointing to me. I thougth we, as the Faithful, had a gentleman's agreement not to bid against one and other on Ebay items. I know in the past many of us have posted notices that we were bidding on items and asked that the Faithful please show deference by leaving this alone. My blood pressu...

Mikey

Patrick,
Before posting this item I remembered that I had something saved about zincs and reread everything I had archived for three years to no avail.
Duh, as soon as I read your post I remembered that the other archive that I have is "Building Tips" on our home page. You dah man.

Happy New Year

Mikey

Planning the transom zinc. Calculations I find suggest Approx. 6 lb zinc. The through bolts and hardware - bronze or S/S? What is the stand off for this zinc? Did I forget anything except leave the Canadian zincs on the shelf.

Mikey

Patrick,
You get that close you must come to VA and the center of the known Universe. Any luck at all Dreamsicle will be an actual boat.

Mikey

Tommy, Thanks for the offer, but the deal with Russ as I remember was if I decided to take it instead of bidding. You got it. I will talk to Uncle Vic about his. Harv, I thought I knew some internet stuff but I need a third-graders instructions as to what you do. Sounds like a different way to skin ...

Mikey

Love that "the older I get . . . "
Too close to home.
On the Blue fish, only eat the little ones and remove the dark meat.
And when ever in doubt remember Vic's staple to culinary success, "first, make a roux."

Mikey

Steve,
Not sure whether she loves you or the boat, but I wouldn't question it.
Very Cool!

Mikey

well, as Rawleigh says, if you can't beat them . . . kick'em in the things!

Mikey

Timmmy, Put me down for a medium, even if I don't get to Montauk.

Mikey

Harry, Thanks. I did part of that right and part wrong. I did bid early, oops. But I only bid once. I was told sometime back about this crap. Now I was the high bid (unfortunately) until the end, but also had a max high bid that I thought was high enough. Not! Thing that gets me is that in both case...

Mikey

Missed again. Second time in two days. Drat! And even with a fairly high reserve in the bow-chock case I missed by two bucks. How do it know? Got to get some inside poop on the Ebay bidding before I do it again. U.V., I know you haunt Ebay and are successful, am I missing something? I know now to wa...

Mikey

Timmmmy
I take back all the bad words about Hatttttttterassssss. That's pretty cool. Now I have to think up new ones.

Mikey

Skipper Dick,
Possible to get a picture of you in something that does not look like the coat and tie item from the local paper from your last promotion? A bit incongrous for this group.
Merry Christmas, pal

Mikey

Russ, Bless you. Let Tommy have yours. I'm pressing on with great optimism for the one on ebay.

Mikey

Platnum Sparkplug with Cummins?! It's a good thing. Walt, Congrats, you survived our health care system. Ya hoo! Remember, recovery is not a straight line. Once again I found this to be true. Because of the orginal accident I have a very low threshold for narcotics addiction. Three days ago I took m...

Mikey

This is a new online boating magazine about the classics. In the glass division we will rank highly.
Check page forty three, I believe. THis could be fun.
Subscribe: it's free, and the publisher loves old Bertrams, so he should be encouraged.

http://ipagez.com/view/?book_name=Classic%20Yacht

Mikey

Guys, There is a bow chock on ebay which I am bidding on and would appreciate your courtesy in not bidding aganst me as is the custom of the Faithful.
Bless you

Mikey

This is a new online boating magazine about the classics. In the glass division we will rank highly.
Check page forty three, I believe. THis could be fun.
Subscribe: it's free, and the publisher loves old Bertrams, so he should be encouraged.

http://ipagez.com/view/?book_name=Classic%20Yacht

Mikey

Very nice. If my engine compartments turn out half as nice I'll win awards for craftsmanship.

Mikey

Further note. If he was discharged today, let him rest today and call him tomorrow.
Just recent personal experience speaking. As much as I enjoy talking to you guys, the evening after discharge wouldn't have been one of those times.

Mikey

The installation manual for the 6BTA's says that the bottom of the expansion tank(filler tank) should be above the highest point of the cooling system. Be that true, where have you guys moounted the things. If I mount them as high as possible in the engine compartments the bottom is still lower than...

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