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Skipper Dick

Harry, You are either a genius or you've had everything imaginable happen to you. I got to thinking about the belt on that engine and your comment about belt dust. It has been noisy for a long time and I've been babying it all along for the past three years. Every time it squeals, out comes the can ...

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Harry,

The outside of the air filter on the intake where the vent tube from the valve cover is attached was covered with carbon. Your guess is probably correct. I hope to get back to it this afternoon and see if I can find out why there is so much carbon in the vent.

Dick

Skipper Dick

I need to add to this discussion because I just lived this scenario a few days ago. Last month, I had some friends down from the west coast. We drove down to the keys for a few days and a couple of days before they left, I took them for a howdy cruise up the Caloosahatchee river to the railroad tres...

Skipper Dick

Now that cracks me up.

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Sort of reminds me of going to DMV here in Florida.

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Cliff,

I have a 1983 B28 with 300 HP Horizons with 1 1/4 shafts. The props are 17x16 with WOT at 4400-4800. I cruise 20+ kts at 2950 rpm and at WOT I've got her up to 32kts. I get 1.1-1.25 knots per gallon depending on conditions.

Dick

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Buju,

At 9:AM here in Cape Coral this morning, it was 38, but supposed to get colder this evening.

How did the shrimping turn out? My favoriite food.

Dick

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Good one Sim,

I've found that going fishing will solve a lot of ills and solve problems. The bigger the problem, the more beer you take and just plan on dropping the anchor somewhere.

Dick

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Very cleaver and good old American ingenuity and he's talented on top of that.

Skipper Dick

Damn Vic,

I'm with you and wish I were there. There is nothing like slurping down a few dozen oysters with your favorite brewski. I think I'll slip over to my favorite watering hole at Matlacha tomorrow and have a few.

Dick

Skipper Dick

I used the Awlgrip also, but I mixed double what was recommended in with tinted gel coat and then rolled it on my fordeck. It turned out great and is a long lasting installation. My cockpit deck, on the other hand, is the factory non skid. I have repaired it with the plastic pattern and screwed it u...

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Frank, When I got ready to replace my 190 gallon tank, I siphoned all the gas I could get out from the tube, then pulled the tube to get acces to the remainder with the siphon hose. I got all but about a cup that remianed then I tied a rag on a wood pole and sponged the rest out until there was no m...

Skipper Dick

I've been using a Port Cable for years. I've got one that I sanded the bottom gel coat off of two boats and she is still kicking. I can hook a shop vac to it and it will pick up about 2/3 of the dust.

I'd get another in a heart beat.

Dick

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Rocky, I do not have a lower helm, but I do have three separate battery switches. There are separate banks for the port, starboard and house and they are maintained separately by an isolator. The switches that control the power for the engines are located on a panel beneath the hatch that is beweeen...

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Mine is the main power switch for each engine bank, and they are separate from each other.

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Harv,

I sent them an email a while back and they came back and said that they were no longer making fuel tanks for marine use.

Dick

Skipper Dick

The guy holding up the fish has the same bunch of flies around him as the guy in the gadget thread.

Skipper Dick

This is hard for me to believe. I ordered my 190 gal. tank for my B28 from him. He was great at getting the price I wanted to pay for the fibergalass tank and I paid the manufacturer directly. He was very helpful and I stopped by to talk with him before picking up the tank not too far from his shop....

Skipper Dick

It looks like a decraminator to me

Skipper Dick

Any printer that does boat graphics should be able to duplicate that for you.

Dick

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Ditto what every one said here. I've had a neutral switch go out on me. And, on my 300 Merc Horizon engines, they both rotate conventional. The counter rotation is in the transmission linkage hookup.

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Steve,

I removed the blue striping and the painted Bertram name using wet 360 and then used wet 600 and buffing compound to blend it all in. It worked fine. I replaced the painted name with a stainless one just under the bertram logo.

Dick

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Harry,

I have the ZF63A with 8 Degree down angle. They were installed with the Merc 300 horizons in "99" by a previous owner.

Dick

Skipper Dick

I have an 83 28B with standard rotating merc 300HP engines. The counter rotating comes from the way the linkage is attached to the tranny's. I also have hynautic on the steering with the original rudders. The boat steers great through rough seas. The only time I've noticed squirrely steering is when...

Skipper Dick

Check with Richard Kidd at Bertram or High Tide web site. http://www.hightidemarine.cc/fuel-tanks.htm

Skipper Dick

Kevin, You are absolutely correct about aluminum tanks and urine. I remember seening one made out of galvanized sheet metal and it only lasted about a year. Stainless is another one too, but I'd get a poly tank. They aren't as strong as metal, but they are impervious to just about anything including...

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Wingnut, I have an 83 diagram some where on my computer if you think it might help. I'd bypass the switch and then check the lead at the other end. I've found deteriorated wires that have broken in the casing and replaced them with marine grade wiring. Check the ground for continuity if the hot lead...

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Bill,
The inside of that tank looked very close to the same as the inside of mine and I don't ever recall putting gas in it that had ethanol. I feel much better with the new one in and secure.

Dick

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I get mine from a pool store

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I think it is under the disc as I recall. The adjusting screw holds the tension on the vibrator. The whole mechanism is like a solanoid, but the part that vibrates to make the sound is managed by the adjusting screw. It doesn't take much of a turn to make a difference. I had to play around with it f...

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Same thing happened to me that happened to Giff. My horns stopped working so I adjusted the pitch and they work fine now. The adjusting screw had some thread lock on it, so don't forget to put some back on or the vibration may undo the adjustment.

Dick

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Ray, When I had to remove blisters and gel coat on a Bayliner a few years back, I used 30 grit on a 6" orbital sander. It took me about 4 or 5 days to get the bottom gelcoat off and I went through 3 suits and 4 paint masks doing so. It is hard stuff. Then it took me another 3 days to fair it all out...

Skipper Dick

Scooter28 has a good point. see the following URL.

http://bertram31.com/proj/tips/strainers.htm

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Mike, You absolutely correct about that. I was in the process of being boaded a couple of years ago and just before the guy in charge of the boarding party stepped aboard my boat, I told him that I had loaded firearms on board. Everyone on the CG vessel came to the side of the boat when they heard t...

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Kevin,

I sent you a PM

Dick

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JeremyD,

Mine is mounted on a thru hull back by the transom, just forward of the bilge pump and on the port side of the centerline. It has a bronze ball valve and I use it for raw water wash and livewell.

Dick

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Kevin

Are you any where near Marathon?

Skipper Dick

I've had my 28 out in the Gulf of Mexico in some pretty miserable stuff. 20 and 25 knot winds and 8- 10 foot swells. It wasn't fun, but the only time I'd get a little wet is when the wind would catch the wake and throw it up on me on the bridge. It will roll on you if you are in a trough and have th...

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Bob, I know one thing for sure and that is you are correct about lifting the boat by those cleats. When I replaced my side and stern panels a couple of years ago, I decided to replace the cleats also. The new cleats did not have the same bolt pattern, so I had to drill that 1/4 inch plate and tap it...

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The bolts that hold those cleats on are screwed into a threaded plate attached to the stern wall.

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JohnV8r

I googled for a couple of days and found the best price for manifolds and risers at the url below for my Merc 350's.

http://bpi.ebasicpower.com/mm5/merchant ... BasicPower

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Just to add to what RussP said, if you leave your boat on a lift as I do, the hull tweaks a little and conforms to the bunkers it is sitting on. My bulkhead door fits pretty tight and sometimes when the boat is on the lift, it rubbs on the threshold a little, but it works good while in the water. So...

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Buju,

The whacker had to have a new carb. The old one was gummed up from some thing the E10 disolved and it was all through the little chambers through out the carb. They weren't sure, but they thought it was some of the seal material. The new carb. has E10 proof seals, they said.

Dick

Skipper Dick

When my weed whacker went tango uniform, I took it into a small engine repair and the owner told me that they were swamped with similar repairs due to the ethanol. He said he had to send a couple of his top guys to class to learn of the effects of the stuff and then I said that there must be an addi...

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Rawleigh, When I went over to Bertram to pick up my fuel tank last December, I sat and had a long talk with Richard Kidd. I said that it is too bad that Bertram doesn't make a 28 or 31 for the boater that wants a mid size cruiser and at the same time, build them like they did, not like they do. He t...

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I can tell you that working for the Department of Fish and Game in Anchorage where most of the annual quotas are set for both sport fishermen and commercial, that for decades the commercial reporting was a big joke and only during extensive surveys of the fisheries did they find this out. Meanwhile,...

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I hit a killer whale once while cruising around Humpy Cove just outside of Seward, Alaksa. I was running a 28 foot Bayliner. It's a good thing it was just a good bump or I'd probably have sunk in 600 foot of water.

Dick

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Bertramp, I just put a new fiberglass tank in my B28. You being in the Lauderdale area, have got a number of fabricators who can make aluminum tanks and some even do stainless as well. I had Richard Kidd get mine made by a company that makes fiberglass tanks and other items for Bertram. Since I lliv...

Skipper Dick

28 is a straight pipe and all one has to do with it is have a large socket or cresent wrench to unscrew it.

Dick

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Hookshurt, Around the bronze pipe pickup, there is a fine screen brazed on. You can pull the pickup out of the tank and clean it. I did mine, but you should pull it out gently so stuff doesn't fall off of it, it was pretty clogged with varnish and stuff. I used a brush and a cleaning solution, but y...

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