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- Apr 3rd, '12, 16:20
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rudder Sizes for a 31 Bertram
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5496
My 1972 B31 came with B28 rudders and one engine operation was impossible without dragging a bucket off one side. I was one of the first to go with Patrick's oversize rudders and was able to eliminate a lot of the "toe in" which gave me some extra cruise speed. I can now run either Cummins 250 wide ...
- Apr 2nd, '12, 10:03
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Good day in the DEEP SOUTH
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3895
Having been to your little Fish River paradise Harry, I can visualize it too. Its been a very, very warm winter and spring here in the Deep South. Me & the Bride did about the same thing Sat. nite on our deck over the boathouse at the camp....sipping martinis and eating chips & dip, just watching th...
- Apr 1st, '12, 18:00
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stamoid the magic fabric
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3891
- Apr 1st, '12, 17:34
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Electric rope cutter
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1275
- Apr 1st, '12, 17:32
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Electric rope cutter
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1275
Electric rope cutter
I've always wanted one of these but they have always been too expensive for the big 150 watt ones. Hamilton Marine has them on sale this week only - I just ordered one. They have the 100 watt one for about 22 bucks too. http://store.hamiltonmarine.com/search.htm Hint: the Po Boy's version is an old ...
- Apr 1st, '12, 16:55
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stamoid the magic fabric
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3891
Ed - that's pretty amazing, never even thought about stuff like that. My half tower top - which is laced on - has a couple of pin holes in it which are probably fron pine cones & sticks hitting it during hurricanes, but other than that, zero stiffness or delamination. A drop of 4200 has fixed the li...
- Apr 1st, '12, 14:24
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stamoid the magic fabric
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3891
Stamoid the magic fabric
Well Faithful, yesterday I gave my 1972 B31 FBC Another Joy a deep spring cleaning. She stays in the water all year at my private dock, outdoors. She's partially shaded by a big short leaf pine tree, but she gets pretty dirty from lawn mowing dust and the ever-present mildew. AJ has a Pipewelder's h...
- Apr 1st, '12, 14:09
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DD rebuild help :)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7436
- Mar 29th, '12, 16:55
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DD rebuild help :)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7436
I remember boudin rouge day at one of the UVIs......it was about Wednesday, daylight....we'd been hard at it, drinkin', eatin', & fishing in rough offshore conditions since Sunday.....the fleet is very slow to get going. I'm at the helm of AJ, Mike Ohlstein is on the FB with me as we idle out of Por...
- Mar 29th, '12, 15:39
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DD rebuild help :)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7436
- Mar 29th, '12, 15:33
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DD rebuild help :)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7436
Gosh, Rickey, every grocery store here sells two dozen brands of boudin. My favorite is Richard's (pro: Ree-CHARD's"). I like their boudin blanc mild, its real good. The two bouts of chemo I've had in the past 4 years have left me unable to tolerate any red pepper at all so I have to struggle to fin...
- Mar 29th, '12, 15:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DD rebuild help :)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7436
- Mar 29th, '12, 10:54
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: using original struts/ how to tell if original
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1986
And the originals are faired to a knife edge on the leading edge My originals were cracked during Katrina and I got new ones from Hi Tide that are massive - the leading edge is rounded and very thick. Capt. Patrick warned me to have the leading edge ground down or I'd lose some speed. I instructed t...
- Mar 27th, '12, 17:37
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: for those that have everything
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5741
Or you could step up like our buddy Daryl P. did with the Mary P......a new article on her. The dock shots were taken at her berth in Biloxi, Miss.
http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/trini ... ary-p.html
And she catches the woo-woo outta fish.
UV
http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/trini ... ary-p.html
And she catches the woo-woo outta fish.
UV
- Mar 27th, '12, 13:55
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Grady White 226
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1898
- Mar 27th, '12, 09:29
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: for those that have everything
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5741
I had a freind in law school in the 60s who's Dad's friend had one he'd converted to a sportsfishermn. They kept it in southwest Louisiana - Intracoastal City - where the 100 fathom curve is 100 miles offshore. I was invited for a three day trip on it to a coral reef called the Flower Gardens. As I ...
- Mar 26th, '12, 18:31
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone know this boat or owner? Bertram 31 Express rammed.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9756
- Mar 22nd, '12, 18:40
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Build on China
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3840
I agree with Sim. Maybe years ago their stuff was 99% crap but not now. I bought a pnumatic framing nail gun from Northern Tool for $99 that is their "quality" chinese brand and Its better than any $500 American or German one I've seen. Ditto on other stuff. It probaly won't last much longer. I've n...
- Mar 21st, '12, 20:04
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Don't splash the Bordeaux, please!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2757
Its all true Faithful. I have a cute little Capri 14.2 sailboat I keep in the water at my camp & sail away the lazy days. One of my elderly camp neighbors, who ain't all there no mo', saw me going down the canal in the blowboat with the sail up and told another neighbor I'd put a sheet on my bass bo...
- Mar 21st, '12, 19:53
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Prop shaft question
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8719
Look in Boats & Harbors - there are a number of places that sell new, complete heads for 4Bs as well as rebuilt ones. Not very expensive at all from the aftermarket guys vs. Cummins. The 7 mm injectors are the ones you want. Walter, the Bosch injectors that dropped tips were only used on the hopped-...
- Mar 21st, '12, 15:46
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Prop shaft question
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8719
I think you should be fine with the 155 hp and the small-ish diameter props, assuming your shafts are in good shape, no cracks, etc. - spend a few bucks having them magna-fluxed and checked for straightness. I had an inch & a half AQ22 shalft snap off behind the strut on my B31 with the 250 6BTAs & ...
- Mar 21st, '12, 15:35
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Congratulations to John Brownlee!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3470
- Mar 18th, '12, 19:09
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shimano TranX
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2683
I've got several Calcutta 700s and have caught tons of tuna up to 100# on them. I loaned a couple to my son who put Power Pro on them and tried to horse in 200# Tarpon....reels didn't like that,had to get them rebuilt. I tried to tell the boy the drag is for slipping, but shoot, it ain't his reels.....
- Mar 18th, '12, 12:17
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another Knee Surgery & The Boat's Got to be Sold
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12785
- Mar 18th, '12, 09:14
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hurricane Theats
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1689
Ditto what Bruce says. I kept boats at the mouth of the Mississippi River for years with a hurricane bulls eye right on them. Its a 5 hour trip by car and boat from here to there, an hour by seaplane. I'd always watch the projected storm tracks (they are damn good at it nowdays) and assess the risks...
- Mar 17th, '12, 18:29
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another Detroit Diesel question...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3875
- Mar 16th, '12, 10:26
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Zincs - which mfgr today?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7232
- Mar 14th, '12, 17:52
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Detroit Desels
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3153
- Mar 14th, '12, 10:38
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another Detroit Diesel question...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3875
- Mar 14th, '12, 09:01
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another Detroit Diesel question...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3875
Frank - that would be a DD 16 cylinder V engine, which is two V8s end to end. Either a 16V71 or a 16V92 series (cubic inches per cylinder). Pretty common in big sportfishermen and commercial vessels. I've seen some with a common oil pan and some with spearate ones. Don't know where the name plate wo...
- Mar 13th, '12, 20:21
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Detroit Desels
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3153
- Mar 12th, '12, 16:04
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mansley Transmitter by Ray Jefferson
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3450
I'm pretty sure I have the manual at the boat and it has the schematic. As I recall you will need an all-plastic screwdriver to turn the pot, and it may be a square screw head like a deck screw, but you would have to look. It will be a couple of weeks before I get back over to the camp. You might lo...
- Mar 12th, '12, 10:05
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mansley Transmitter by Ray Jefferson
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3450
- Mar 11th, '12, 11:27
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mansley Transmitter by Ray Jefferson
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3450
Heathkits did more for me learning elecronics than anything else, and especially good soldering techniques. Do you know if they still make them? Most of the VHF radios made today are so flimsy its a miracle they work for a week offshore. The older Icom 125, 126, & 127s are built like a brick s**thou...
- Mar 10th, '12, 21:35
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mansley Transmitter by Ray Jefferson
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3450
I built my first crystal radio receiver when I was 6. I entered my home made spark gap transmitter in a jr. hi science fair the year Sputnick was launched and got disqualified because my transmitter had such a wide bandwitch (like it took up the entire radio sprctrum) it jammed some fat kid's Sputni...
- Mar 10th, '12, 19:19
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mansley Transmitter by Ray Jefferson
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3450
It was a AM marine band (2182 KHz) transceiver. I had a similar one on my 1947 45' Hickock. The high voltage to run the transmiter tubes was generated by a dynamotor - which is a motor driven generator. Mine used 24 volts to drive the motor which in turn spun a high voltage generator. Back then, bef...
- Mar 2nd, '12, 10:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: possibly relocating
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4690
Hey Charlie - why stop half way? I have some lots on the water across from my camp (next door to Andre's camp) that I'll make you a deal on.....low taxes, great fishing & hunting, lots of breaks for seniors, like a $5 annual hunt/fish license, all our state officials are Republicans, etc. C'on down!...
- Mar 1st, '12, 16:00
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: transmissions for cummins 250
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1243
Well, the net result is the prop will turn slower with the 2:1 than the 1.5 (obvious) meaning you will need more diameter on the prop and/or more pitch to accomplish the same as the 1.5. I have 1.5s with the same motors in my B31 FBC and turn 21 x 22 three blades. 21 inch diamter props are about as ...
- Feb 28th, '12, 10:18
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Carrier landings...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11012
When I was learning to fly many years ago I was on a solo training cross-country in a Cessna 150 from BR to Gulfport, Mississippi airport. Its an old military base and one of the runways - closed for many years - was a carrier landing training strip with slots in the concrete for the arrestor cables...
- Feb 26th, '12, 10:41
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Fishing Shirts
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6404
- Feb 25th, '12, 19:28
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: new twist on Bertram restoration
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3673
- Feb 25th, '12, 11:47
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Striped marlin caught from bridge of a B33..solo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1685
- Feb 24th, '12, 17:50
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bertram 25 Restorer
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6245
- Feb 24th, '12, 13:44
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Global 1200
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5294
- Feb 23rd, '12, 17:36
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Permit on fly
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5771
- Feb 23rd, '12, 10:48
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: License plate.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7235
Ya know, some might view us a scoff-laws due to our antics, but I'd rather compare us to those who are glorified for civil refusal like the "Occupy" people. Idiotic laws don't need respect. Stop and think about it.....what is the real public value to licensing small boat trailers? None. Its just a w...
- Feb 23rd, '12, 09:20
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For our Lawyer friends here
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2853
Roger that. I served for many years on various Supreme Court panels that handled lawyer disbarment. I got to see the bad & the ugly. I quit when the bad & the ugly outnumbered the rest of us. Our profession went to s**t with the advent of unlimited advertising. It has largely become a money-grubbing...
- Feb 22nd, '12, 18:59
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: License plate.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7235
Shoot Randy, you may have missed your calling.....there is a helluva market for Green Cards around here. One of my sisters is an artist and she did a great forgery of an LSU student ID for my girlfriend so we could go to the football games free. Black & white photo with the LSW law school in the bac...
- Feb 22nd, '12, 18:20
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: License plate.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7235
Randy - I had one boat trailer plate and it was many years expired.....so I'd sold my daughter's Corolla to some out of state guy so kept its plate....and carefully cut out the expiration date from the Corolla plate - using my finest tin snips - and epoxied it over the expired date of the boat trail...
- Feb 22nd, '12, 12:31
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: not boat related..FN 5.7 cal pistol
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10602
Thanks Prof.....warning - don't use CX on ammo....it is so creepy it will get in the powder....I took some boxes of .22 LR my dad had given me that were sort of corroded but shot okay and cleaned them up with CX....every damn one turned into a click, click dud. We shoot Glazier "safety bullets" in o...