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Capt. Jack - I have the same unit and had the same chart until I got the newer one that covers all the way from Brownsville to Key West. on one chip..its the cats meow. I've fooled with a lot of chart plotters and still think my Garmin 2010C is far and away the best of them all....easy to use, easy ...

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DD 6-92 block. Rods & pistons hanging out a plus.

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Mikey - not sure about UVI this year as progress on rebuilding the Port Eads marina is slow, in part due to the drip-drip-drip of indictments of the local politicians grovelling for the FEMA pinata'. Even with the place up and running (if your oculd call it that) in prior years it took me about 6 mo...

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The bookies are saying The Crimson Pussies are favored over the LSUs by a point & a half in the BCS game....now talk about a sucker bet. I boldly predict LSU will embarass Lil' Nikky & his over-rated marshmellows by a socre of something like 34-13.....the 13 is not because they make a field goal, it...

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Somebody gonna end up with a small fortune getting them 6-92s. But of course they need to start with a large fortune.....

Lovely motors.

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My Bride & middle grandson demanded that I get a horn for the camp golf cart....so got a Chinese Ooooogahhhh horn for 20 bucks and it puts out about 120 db. No kidding, its so loud it scares dogs three blocks away...in fact, its too loud, now they are demanding I quiet it down....a foam whiffle ball...

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Ditto what the others have said, a huge improvment, especially going from the B28 style rudders like I did. While you have the rudders out, its a good time to check & change your rudder flange bearings - a short money deal from a place like Grainers. When we removed my old B28s we had to use heat on...

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When you apply the Tip Top oil - use a rag not a brush - you will get some on the adjacent fiberglass and it will mildew pretty fast and leave a stain, which is easily removed with some lacquer thinner on a rag. Most of my teak can be fairly easily removed from the boat as its attached with screws a...

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I used that Cetol stuff once and it peeled after a short time....maybe I didn't prep right but I didn't like the color either. Hamilton has the Tip Top oil for $47.99 a gallon, cheapest I saw online. You can use boiled linseed oil instead of teak oil but it tends to mildew pretty quickly here in the...

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Walter put me on the Tip Top Teak products and their teak oil is the best I;'ve ever used. I buy it from Hamilton Marine in Miane a lot cheaper than I can get it from the factory in Mississippi...go figure.

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Rocky, it really turned out good.....me & the Bride ate almost all of it last night. So the "for 4" might be a little short. You can easily double the recipe, just get a bigger pot. The trick is to really cook it down slowly....the body and taste start off kinda weak then as it cooks down suddenly e...

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Me & the Bride drove down to New Orleans Monday to celebrate (a little late) our 45th anniversary. Ate dinner at Tommy's on Choppa-Two-Lass St. Maybe the best food we have ever had in the city, which is saying a lot. Sort of creole-italian...nothing fancy, mostly old reliable dishes, but the best......

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Our condolences, Brew. She sounded like one helluva gal.

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Hey, that's great! Yep, gumbo over rice is the deal....now, for her next trcik, y'all get some file' - pronounced "Feee-Lay", ground up sasafras root you spinkle in the gumbo after you pour it over the rice and stir it in, makes the gumbo real thick and adds a real neat flavor. Comes in a glass jar,...

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I'm with you Tony, this is a damn rough crowd, shameless, mean, etc. But I've found the other half of her cutting board makes pretty good backing plates for rod holders.

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Marine Exhaust Systems of Alabama have advertised in Boats & Harbors for years - think its a foundry that casts manifolds & such. I'll see if I can find one of their ads.

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Ray - I bought some screws from them last year when I was rehabbing my old 13' Whaler but bought the 504 grade since the boat is in fresh water and have not noticed any rust or discoloring on any of them yet. Surface staining on stainless is pretty common and more a cosmetic issue than a structural ...

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There ya go, what a wonderful world...instant cookbook with 211 hits.

Thanks, Ole Fart.....

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C'on Bobby, its good stuff. First, try a little of the Savoie's dark roux in the jar with my recipe' for the dark gravy that's under the lunar eclipse thread. Let me suggest for your first stab you get about 6 chicken leg quarters and do them in the gravy after browning them in the oven.....cook 'em...

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Shoot, Tony....I've probably put enough recipes up here to make a cookbook already...maybe one of the Faithful can dig them out and put 'em all in one place. Sometimes you run across a dish that is really unexpected....the other day I was in Whole Paycheck by the fish counter and looked in their 4 o...

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Mikey - pretty she sho' is....the top is a knockout. I had a 72 B25 hardtop with the same detail on the aft end of the hardtop.....slick as owl doo doo....art deco.

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Look quick and you will see what your Express should look like:

http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camer ... Miraflores

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Harry - I've had several Humminbirds with good results, nice stuff for short money. AJ came to me in the early 90s with a Humminbird color sounder that was a very good unit....knonked out once and they fixed it way out of warranty for free. The CRT began to dim and I replaced it with a SiTex CRT yea...

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Well, of course you use a roux to make a dark brown gravy. I'll give y'all the short way: Run a couple of medium size white onions thru the food processor until its mush. Add about two heads of peeled garlic and re-mush it all. Put a half cup of olive oil in a cast iron Dutch oven and heat it till s...

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Possum is damn good, much better than coon....tastes like pork. A real dark brown gravy does the trick, stew it down for a good while. When I was a kid we lived way out on the edge of town and possums were everywhere (as were grosbeaks, but that's another story). The possums liked to walk on the ele...

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The TV weather guesser said last night it would be probably too low in the western sky to see much of it here (91 degrees W.) and it was cloudy anyway. But I did catch something.....some critter has been digging up the Bride's begonias in the back yard so I set up my new IR Moultrie game cam last ni...

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JP - you guys are like human seines....congrats on a great year and Happy Holidays to all the Faithful.

An honor to know you guys.

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Kevin - the Cummins is really a little big for the Hyena Boat, too tall, even the 4Bs from what I hear. Weight is real important in a 31....the 6BTAs with the ZF 220A gears weighs in at about 1,350# dry....the Cat 3208 N at 210 hp weighs in at a staggering 2,300....a pair weighs a TON more than the ...

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Roger that Harry....nah, Les Miles will be here for a while at least - his contract says if he wins the national chanpshionship his salary goes to one dollar over any other Div. One coach, so he's fixin' to get some serious cheese.....especially if Texas goes whole hog to get Lil' Nikky or some othe...

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My original #18 screes were bent and I replaced them with stainless lag bolts and you don't even notice the hex heads unless you really look for them. I thought about grinding down the heads and slotting them but after trying one it was obvious leaving the original hex head was fine.

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Kevin - objection duly noted.....here is the real killer on the "off brand" engines over the years - staying power. I've seen 'em come, and seen 'em go....BMW made a big splash some years ago with a marine line, a promised dealer network, and a lot of media fanfare. Talk about a "trusted" brand name...

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Hey Harry - not to change the subject (grin) all the talk on sports radio around here today is that Lil' Nikky is headed to the U of Texas to replace Mac Brown.

Y'all that fed up with him already?

yo Fren'

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No contest - go with the Cummins. The other ones don't have a decent dealer & parts network, are unproven, unknown (resale?).....The Cummins 270 is in my view the best engine - period - for the B31. It has a fresh water cooled aftercooler that requires no maintaince vs. the higher hp Cummins whcih u...

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Jeeezzzz.....we must all be afflicted with the same disease....I bought the same little white MGB years ago, fought the damn thing for two years then traded it for an even worse 23 Mako with twin seldom-running Evenrude 140s with something like 12 carbs between the two....I was drinking a lot back t...

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Kipp - my son Capt. Brent is now running a Yamaha 350 four stroke on his bay boat and loves it. He's been on the Yamaha guide team for years now and swears by their 4 strokes. He's duck hunting in Stuttgart right now but I can put you in touch with him for a first hand chat. A pair of 350s would mak...

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Damn, Bob, that reminds me of the three happiest days of my life: (1) 45 years ago when I handled my last divorce case; (2) 25 years ago when I sold my lawnmower, and (3) 15 years ago when I sold most all my stocks. A great lesson on why the stock market is a bookie game. Seriously, Cummins has made...

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Some general info on the Cummins ReCon engines:

http://boatdiesel.com/News/News.cfm?P=2 ... ruiser.cfm

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Tom - repower at night.

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Bobby, you already won, your coonass care package is coming your way this week.

Bring on all takers.

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Tom - twin Vulva TAMD 30 DPs - little 4 cyl. turbos with the duo prop outdrives. 20 kt. cruise, huge range with original 113 gallon tank. Maintaince nightmare with shit falling off the motors all the time and with them jammed up so tight. Had a full tower on her and probably caught 100 billfish off ...

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Yep Pete, the market for all boats is real soft due to George W. Bush's economic depression caused by not taxing the rich enough. I have followed the "asking" and "actual" prices of B31s for years and right now I'd say the "actuals" are down about 50% from what they were 4 or 5 years ago. No questio...

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Ditto Capt. Patrick on the Todds, and suction cups might even work with a safety tether. After many trips to TSL and seeing their live biat methods & custom tanks & tubes, I thought about making some to use here in the Gulf where live bait for billfish is almost unheard of. I have thought out a syst...

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Wow....that's a awful lot of boat & good looking iron for the money - puts a totally different value on most of our boats I'm afraid. I have room at my dock for her behind AJ....is it time for ole UV to double down? I could make it to the Prop Stop in 9 minutes vs. 13....the ZF220s are getting close...

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Sure, double or nothing?....LSU's gonna embarrass the Crimson Pussies.

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Most of the Faithful who have tossed large sums $US at our beloved boats could care less about recouping.....they do it because they want to, and most importantly, they CAN.

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Yeah, its a B31, done by Carl at Elite Marine in St. Pete...real nice but a little optimistic on the price, and no genset & a/c is a bummer. Nice layout tho.

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Wait a second....pie are round, cornbread are square?

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Yeah, stick to the Dr. Pepper....back before 9/11 me & the Bride were flying a Swissair 747, sitting up front in the land of free whiskey (lots of frequent flyer miles, I didn't pay for the upgrde) from Zurich to ATL and the capt. found out somehow I am a pilot and invited me to join them in the coc...

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Roger that Capt. Jack....I remeber the first time I flew (in the back) over the far north and looked down at the endless ice pack and black rocks here and there and wondered what would happen if we went down......I shut the window shade and asied the nurse for another drink.....

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Capt. Patrick - does Thompson still own her? Fond memories of he & Lee Irvin years ago when they took me, Mike O, Thudd, & Ric sailfishing and we rode around during one FLL show on Lee's Bahia with the nosebleed tower. How time flies.....

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