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PeterPalmieri

So Walter if it's alive the legal thing to do is throw it back but if it comes in dead do you know what the legal obligation is?

PeterPalmieri

Guy's Not only are there ugly boats but the safety factor comes into play, the uglier they are the less sea worthy they become. I surveyed a 45 Maxium motor yacht a while back, this thing was butt ugly to look at. The mechanic and I were the only ones on board, he stepped into the cockpit and the b...

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Bad news for this guy and I don't know the answer. Unfortunately many others could "accidentally target" blue fin with their nets and call it by-catch which wouldn't be a good thing, assuming you agree that this method being illegal is a good thing. What was he supposed to do? Report it and hand it ...

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Charlie, that would be the best case scenario if they are late. I would think more likely the earlier migrating fish passed us by and we are just getting the tail end of it. I guess that's the pessimistic outlook. In any case just a fishermans guess, no facts involved on my end. I don't understand t...

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I threw them back ;( Caught a few smaller fish 20lbs earlier, should have kept one of them. I like to let the big ole ones live another day. Plus I think the smaller ones are better eating. Any normal day the 20lber is the big fish. Did I just complain about not catching small enough fish? My runnin...

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Gert we wait all year to hope to see these fish and rarely do. 90% of the boats have already been hauled. Walter, I'll gladly take Carter out to montauk and pray to the fishing gods before every trip if this is the result. My buddy Tom in the photo is 6'8" BTW. I've been out on more fishing trips wi...

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Great day today!

PeterPalmieri

I was on that carver Carl posted a link too. Didn't leave the dock just walked on after being tied up next to them for the day. As ugly as they may be man they've got a lot of creature comforts. In my neck of the woods many boats make the 3-4 mile trip across the bay to fire island for a weekend of ...

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I'll fess up. I had no idea that was cotton

PeterPalmieri

237 deaths in 102 years of the event. Not much more needs to be said.

PeterPalmieri

Mark,

Your strength is an inspiration.

Pete

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Our prayers are with Mara.

PeterPalmieri

Is there an actual rescue boat at moriches CG station or does it have to come from shinnecock?

PeterPalmieri

I heard this too but no further details. Were they navigating the inlet or fishing the breakwaters? The front of the inlet is a giant sandbar and it's pretty common that guys get right into the middle of the breaking waves. It's held bass all year long and you can find a number of guys on nor'east w...

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Walter I don't have swim platform. Sometimes I wish I did with the family and summer beach trips. Who knows I may add one someday. If I do it makes this part of it easy. Otherwise in the cockpit on the teak deck it will either come home with me or I'll prop it up on the engine box when I'm not on th...

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Pete, Thanks for the info. To be clear that one pump is suppling both live wells and the wash down? The normal overflow discharge that runs Under the deck and out the transom is just gravity fed? And the macerators are totally independent? Are the wells permanently mounted to the deck? If so how do ...

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I've built a few in the past using two plastic fittings and a heavy plastic pail/barrel. Being that you can buy a molded one for a few hundred bucks, I don't think I'll do that again. Any experience with the keep Alive 30 gallon round tank? I can use up my cabelas points and get it for little to no ...

PeterPalmieri

Hey guys thanks in advance for your comments. I think one of my projects over the winter will be to add a live well to the boat. The boat doesn't currently have a saltwater wash down. I do have a current thru hull for my manual head. Can I tap into that existing fitting or should I have a dedicated ...

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Tony, I think the figure I got was from the guys Harv used and 22k was a ballpark figure per motor with transmissions for the remans didn't get into a lot of details. I will certainly enlist Bob when I'm ready, right now it's still a pipe dream. Boat is running good at the moment, fishing the Riverv...

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peter please call me dec.14 to go last day of bass fishing. most likely 30 degree`s or less i will let you start the engines.they don`t start one turn i buy lunch when they do in half turn we go to mama`s. I wouldn't miss a trip to mamas regardless of who's paying. To bad they stopped making the pi...

PeterPalmieri

If you search on photo bucket by user drspencerortho you'll see the album.

Coming along nicely.

PeterPalmieri

Sorry to hijack the thread. Mike is that the model they don't offer any longer? I know the popular ones to talk about are the yanmar 315 or cummins 250. But that little 4 cylinder is probably super efficient requires less modification to the boat and all at a cost savings. Last year I was given a qu...

PeterPalmieri

Thanks for the info guys, I'm still about 75k short of converting to diesels however it is on my mind constantly. The one given is that the boat sits in a "village slip" for 12 months which costs me less then $1000 for the year. There is no shore power from December - March but I generally don't run...

PeterPalmieri

Dumb question.

Are the cummins 6bt not a good idea if I don't have access to shore power in the colder months to run engine block heaters? Or is this all diesels?

PeterPalmieri

Well I'm disappointed. Flew down to Charlotte this week and went to a nice restaurant for dinner. Asked the bartender if he knew how to make a mint Julip and I got a funny look. Guess they're not " coonass" enough down in NC.

Maybe next time.

PeterPalmieri

Hey Whaler what's going on with the boat?

PeterPalmieri

Well its certainly easier for a business like Cabrera to set up a facebook profile and post a photo album. Which will alert anyone who "likes" them to get notification. Seems to be a better marketing tool in some ways then updating pictures on the website and hope people check in to see the update. ...

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randall wrote:um...why not just make the boat 3 feet longer and install an outdrive? absurd.

Yeah that armstrong bracket with a motor built into it brilliant idea. That may be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

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https://www.facebook.com/#!/ConchitaCabreraYacht

Dug try it this way...Much better pictures then they have on the site. Looks like I saw an entirely new bridge layout but no windshield.

Damn didn't work cut and paste

PeterPalmieri

Volvo IPS props are forward-facing, Cummins/Merc are rearward. I read on the Cummins site that the skeg is designed to shear if it takes a big hit. Ostensibly to reduce repair costs to the pod. Tucking them into tunnels will reduce draft. Call it an engineering experiment...single poddie with thrus...

PeterPalmieri

Tony,

In reading the story of the 38 install it didn't increase the draft on that boat, unless I read it wrong.

PeterPalmieri

It's worth mentioning to those that aren't tech savy. The website link on the bottom of bobs post provides a nice photo album of the progress.

PeterPalmieri

Spencer,

I hope it works out for you. These seem to be the go to motors in our boats. This is probably the route I am going to have to at some point. Please keep us posted.

PeterPalmieri

Bob H,

This is no Bertram 31, it's a 31 Higgins built on a bertram 31 Hull. When she's done there will be no other boat like it. I regularly wonder how you continue to have the drive to do all this day in and day out.

Thanks for sharing.

PeterPalmieri

Ed Millian wrote:Hi Pete

How did you know????
Ed Millian 31 FBC

Ed. Good luck with the sale. I hope you got my rather poor attempt at humor, I'm funny like 5% of the time.

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http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n493/firened/IMG_1367.jpg Rumor has it he bought the larger yacht in the background. What looks like a ramp leading down to the floating dock is actually the bow pulpit that's waiting to be installed on the new yacht. He also stuck a good deal on a new tuna tower...

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Dug,

Can you share the photos with us? I'd love to see them since I don't get the magazine.

Knowing a big piece of that budget didn't go to a diesel conversion or generator there must be some serious upgrades in her.

PeterPalmieri

First I'm hearing this. Was out yesterday. No chatter on the radio.

PeterPalmieri

The head light went out in my wifes altima. Went to auto barn bought a replacement bulb. Opened the hood couldn't figure it out. Looked in the manual which said see dealer for service. Called the dealer they wanted $250. Found a step by step on a forum online, had to take half the car apart just so ...

PeterPalmieri

Well that Sea Vee seems like a cool boat. Would seem that the single inboard engine style boats could benefit from the pod in terms of manuverabilty. I really like inboard center consoles, not enough of them around. Unfortunately the most common single diesel boats are down east style and there woul...

PeterPalmieri

Well it blew 20-25 today. Being that I rarely have a day to myself I went out anyway and got my head beat in with no fish to show for it.

PeterPalmieri

Look at the bright side. At least you don't feel like ballerina barbie.

PeterPalmieri

I once had a friend who bought a new outfit, I think it was a loomis rod with an intl bait caster. We talked about it over the phone and that morning all the way across the bay. It was wet and drizzling out. 1 cast, man this is a great rod. Second cast he launched the rod into the water. Should I me...

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The byproduct of learning to cast a conventional reel is that you get really good at untangling a birds nest long before you get good at casting. The braided lines help with distance but the birds nests are miserable. While my old surf fishing buddies can handle a conventional I need to gear up for ...

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Well Tony that's not quite the ringing endorsement I was looking for. The boat seems to be running pretty well, left the dock at 6am and didn't shut her down until 4pm except for a few brief moments. Starboard motor stalled at idle once but started right back up. Not even priming before turning them...

PeterPalmieri

Happy birthday bob!

BTW for those of you that I have never met, the picture is one of the crew not me. I'm much better looking.

PeterPalmieri

Direct link to video, didn't embed in the original post.

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Bumped into a friend http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/peterpalmieri/Fishing%20Photos/Bertram%2031/PA090001.jpg http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/peterpalmieri/Fishing%20Photos/Bertram%2031/PA090002.jpg http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/peterpalmieri/Fishing%20Photos/Bertram%203...

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Just noticed another B31 in Babylon on the Carlls river in the marina just north of Babylon Marina (not sure the name of that yard). It doesn't have a hard top or Bimini and the hull is either dark blue or black. It may have been the same boat I saw on Sunday mid day running west along Robert Moses....

PeterPalmieri

Thanks Cap. That is exactly what I plan on doing. Right now I have the thru hull for the head between the engines along with the holding tank and tank discharge. The batteries are located port side of motors. Gin pole mounted On starboard shelf. No bilge pump in center, running two, one forward and ...

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