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David, I am way down in Southwest Florida in the Fort Myers/Cape Coral area where it gets hot and muggy almost year around. I have a 12,000 BTU unit in my 28 and it will keep the interior nice and cool. Of course, you will need a generator if you want to use it off shore. I do not have a generator, ...

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You might try Uship. I've had pretty good response there.

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I repainted the cowling on my Yamaha outboard a while back. The sun down here is brutal if you do not have the engines covered. The decals were on the outside of the clear coat. Man, were they expensive. I used the Yamaha rattle can and put down 3 coats of base coat, sanded with 600 wet/dry and then...

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I have Bennett tabs on my 28. They are 14x9. I can trim for speed and fuel consumption using my Navman fuel flow. I can't imagine running the boat with out them.

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When I removed my cutlass bearings, I found that the indented holes for the hex bolts were filled with wax and faired and painted. If I had not looked hard for them, I would not have seen them at all.

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Capt. Rex. When I was looking for them I found them on line. They were gray or black, but I spray painted them white. It has been a few years or so back and I don't remember where I got them, but I do remember that I didn't have much trouble finding them. I think they are about 1 inch in diameter as...

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Thanks Patrick. It looks like Acme Plastics in Fort Myers has it. At least their web page says they do. I'll be on the phone in the morning to find out.

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Thanks Patrick. I'll scout around and see if I can find some locally or on line. I need a piece 14" x 63.5". It's a real PIA doing this job over and over.

Thanks

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A while back, maybe 3 years ago or so, I started noticing pieces of rotted wood gathering under the bench seat on the bridge. Sure enough, the base plywood in the in the seat was rotted and about to completely disintegrate, so I pulled the seat and replaced the rotted plywood with a fresh 5/8th inch...

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Sean, several years ago, I bought a new fiberglass tank from the company that makes them out of Miami. It was the 190 gallon model and with the help of a few friends, I installed it and filled it up with gas. That was before gas went out of sight. Almost immediately, I started having problems keepin...

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Great workmanship. Wish I could work that fast.

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Kevin,

I did my struts a few years back and purchased the bolts from this company. They have all the right sizes.

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Kevin, I too removed the struts when I replaced the bearings. Once I got the old bearings out, I wire brushed and cleaned the inner walls of the strut while the new bearings were in the freezer over night. They went in easily with gentle tapping with a rubber mallet. Then I just tapped a dimple into...

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Peter, I have an 83 28 FBC and I replaced all of the carpet a few years back. I ripped out the old and found that it was glued down. I cleaned up the glue and used the old carpet as a pattern and put back a nylon carpet. It was perfect and looks great. I did not replace the carpet on that area below...

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I've been using Preval for years with gel coat. Assuming you can get a good match, I usually do my own tinting and overspray some because it usually orange peels to some degree. With over spraying it, you can easily use a wet/dry sand paper to smooth it out after it sets for a few days or longer. I'...

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Rawleigh,

You got that white.

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Very, very nice Russ. It's amazing what a lot of money and hard work can do. It's time to enjoy your hard work.

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Pete,

When ever I have a tough time finding a Mercruiser/GM part from Mercruiser, I go to the local GM dealer and get it there. Some times they are not the same, but on the other hand, sometimes they are. Mercruiser just puts their own part number on them and raise the price up.

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Nope!

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I had mine made up at a local engraver for about a buck a piece. Black on white and white on black.

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Thanks so much.

Dick

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I never met the man, but feel a sudden loss.

Rest in peace.

Dick

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Almost too good to put in the water. You gotta be a proud Bertram owner. She is absolutely gorgeous.

Dick

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UV, We've never met, but I am both saddend and shocked at this news. For some reason I though you were winning the battle. I guess i got that impression from your always informative and sometimes humerous posts which I always looked forward to. I can only say that I wish you and your family the very...

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Scott,

I bought some gel coat from these guys. It was already mixed for the Bertram color and it blended quite well on my project.

http://minicraft.com/

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Mike,

I had the one with the cover attached by a chain and lost the lid eventually. Now I've got the kind in the url and have had it for 4 years and love it. Mine is stainless and seems indestructable.

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Wingnut, I have ZF 63A tranny's and have the same situation. The port transmission rattled at idle (600 RPM) and as soon as I kicked up the RPM a bit, the noise went away. I don't know how many blogs I've read with the same problem and it seems always to be the port tranny. I checked alignment and w...

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That's damn near close to Ass Kickin wheather.

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Gert,

That is absolutely gorgeous. I'd almost be afraid of using it for fear of getting it dirty or a footprint on the deck. You can be very proud of her.

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There was one on my boat just off the starboard center line. I ignored it for the longest time and finally took a look at it hard one day and noticed that the former owners bottom painters had painted it up good, which is a no no. So I replaced it. The old one was not even hooked to the grounding sy...

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Hey! Good for you Vic

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TailhookTom wrote: thereby hoping such change will bring about a constitutional modification appointing BHO as Leader for Life.

Sound like a plan?

That might be "Dear Leader" comrade

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I've had these bearings on my rudders for about 4 years now. I grease them and inspect them thoroughly about every 90 days and have noticed no wear at all in the time they have been installed. I was a little leary at first and almost didn't do it because of the price and the fact that the weather do...

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Harry, the ones I used have heavy nylon housing and the bearing part and the grease fitting are stainless. A similar unit is a Kilian KNR-FL204-3/4 No Rust 2 Bolt Flange Assembly.

(Actually it would be the Kilian FL205 1 for the rudders.)

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i got my stainless bearings at my local bearing supply house. The bearings were nylon with stainless races. I've had the rudders off several times since I replaced the bearings with the rudder shelves several years ago, but I would still coat them heavily with some CX.

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Gert,

Was the Ice Blue painted on with a brush too?

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Well done and a great tribute.

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@Skipper Dick: "I've even done it on the lift with a small boat tied up under the rudders to catch the rudder." Did you not like the small boat? Well, to perfectly honest, it was a plastic kayak and I had a line around the rudder to let it slide gently into the kayak. It was my wife's kayak, so I h...

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What can't you do with just a little money?

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Wursty, I've had my rudders off several times and it's no big deal if you are hauled. I've even done it on the lift with a small boat tied up under the rudders to catch the rudder. Once you loosen the packing nut and remove the tiller arm and the loosen the set screws on the bearing, it should almos...

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Mike, I've got an 83 B28 and I believe that 83 was the first year that the exhaust system was changed. I'm not sure why they changed it, but the exhaust coming off the side and into the slip stream instead out of the back and into a vortec works for me. I'll have to dig into that. They also changed ...

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Rocky, Even the pilot ignored the stall warnings when he hit the cockpit. Had he tossed aside one of the co-pilots and assumed command, the flight might have been saved. Unfortunately at 2000'when he realized as much, there was not enough height to nose over, gain speed and lift. If you have zero v...

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John,

I didn't actually believe that you could not paint starboard, so I set out to test it. The paint practically slid off in less than a week. I'ts just too slippery and rouphing it up doesn't help at all.

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Frank, Thanks. You've pretty much painted a picture I can see. I think my solution is to get a larger sump and faster pump. The 3/4 hose I've used to direct the flow to the sump seems to be capable. the problem is on the very end at the sump. If I get real ambitious, I might just pull my deck since ...

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Frank How did you design the gutter drain? I've run tubing from each gutter drain to a sump, but it is mostly ineffective. I think the small pump in the sump gets overwhelmed and most of the rain water and such just over flows and goes into the bilge anyway. After every typical Florida rain storm, I...

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I'm the same way. This is an amaizing installation and I guess because we can't see the whole picture, it just isn't clear. It makes me want to rip everything out of my bilge and start over.

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I'm with you Walter, but that was an awsome video.

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I used to make aluminum wad cutters for my .357 Magnum. They didn't carry far, but at close range (10 to 30 feet) they would destroy a 3 inch phone book and you didn't have to worry about the damn thing going through a wall.

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I made this pulpit a couple of years ago out of fiberglass with a plywood core using a mold I made. It's larger than I would like, but it isn't as gaudy as some. Dick <div><embed width="480" height="360" src="http://static.pbsrc.com/flash/rss_slideshow.swf" flashvars="rssFeed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed153.ph...

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