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Harry Babb

White Bear, you are correct in saying that Richards son is still running River Radiator. He told me that last night. What is your real name....I will mention it to Richard when I see him again. The tank he has runs very well. He tells me that it has a Rolls engine in it and that he drives it, with a...

Harry Babb

I was riding down the road today when I noticed a HUEY Helicopter sitting in a guys yard......although this is Alabama, not everyone has a HELICOPTER their yard. Well......I decided to find out who this guy is and why he has a helicopter in his yard.....(needless to say I am impressed) so I stopped ...

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Went to Pensacola Naval Air Station this afternoon to the Blue Angels night show....focus was veterans and veterans day....for me it was an emotional experience.......I salute ALL of our military! ! ! !

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Thats great Neil....beautiful boat.....keep Jr happy after all he is the one that will take you fishing when your older and he is also the one that is gonna choose your Rest Home.....LOL

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Bring-um on Hueso..........keep hurting us with pics......all I gotta say is that it hurts so good! ! !

Is that a pic of you snorkling??

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Harry Babb

Brew wrote:Get to work on that boat! That will keep you warm.

Your right Brew.......worked on DeNada today.....worked hard enough to get the temp up to the low 70's........I never took my sweat shirt off.

BTW.....working on the rudders

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Harry Babb

Alright guys! ! ! ! ! this AIN'T funny........its nearly 8:00 AM (9:00 before they screwed up the time last night) and its still 37 freaking degrees outside......

YAW'LL close that NORTH DOOR! ! ! !

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Harry Babb

Okay my friends today my memory actually worked and I remembered to research where I bought my Strut Bolts. In Pensacola Fla "National Standard"......I talked to Ann.....I believe she told me that she has 6, 3/8 x 4 on the shelf @ $2.75 each and these are Silicone Bronze Flat Head with 2" of threade...

Harry Babb

Keep positive Harv.......the ocean is calling your name.....this time next year this will all be a fog

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Harry Babb

What is a Rocker Stopper???? ........................................heeeeheeeeheeeee! ! ! !

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Harry Babb

That sure brings back memories.....beautiful boats

Cool!!

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Harry Babb

Harry tell miss Joanne your making a family heirloom to pass on to all those grand kids She's thinking pickling me with the bottle of Patron that I brought back from Greenport, then placing my body inside DeNada the burying the whole kitten and kabodle in the sandbox. I came home really late the ot...

Harry Babb

Well Harv.....just a little set back

My wish for you, is that you can get back to good health and back out on the water......

Good luck next week

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Harry Babb

Brew Jo Ann is still laughing.....she really liked the idea of burying me in the sand box! ! ! And now she also wants to know if its such a good boat why does it need rebuilding.....you did a great job there my friend. I tried but the computer voice would not say it right. May try spelling it out AR...

Harry Babb

Speaking of engine hours........I worked at a Mack Truck dealership in the early 70's. The question about Engine hours vs Clock hours came up in one of our discussions. In those days the tachs recorded hours were mechanical driven by a cable. The anwer was a Tach hour matched a Clock hour at 2100 RP...

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Bruce
I've been told that I don't smile much...and probably don't.....but I gotta tell ya that one made me laugh out loud....now that's funny! ! !

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Harry Babb

Bob I have purchased all new fasteners to use on DeNada. The idea that I followed is that I used Silicone Bronze to fasten all bronze details....like rudderports, ball valves and strainers. I purchased my silicone bronze fasteners from www.boltdepot.com I used all 316 fasteners to attach my stainles...

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18-8= 18% Chrome and 8% Nickle Not sure what the 316 is but for a long time now my fastener suppliers use 304 and 18-8 interchangably I just went out on the Sea Spray on Sunday.....10 years ago we built 316 SS Struts and Rudders. Bill tells me that he particularly looks for "Pitting" or "Crevis" att...

Harry Babb

Okay John I found dem little buggers in my van......good place for them.....I think everyone needs to keep a set of Strut Bolts in their van.....I bet Harv don't have strut bolts in his van...LOL At any rate the bolts I have are Bronze Strut Bolts, 3/8-16 and 4" long threaded for a length of 2" and ...

Harry Babb

Actually guys......I may be confused (happens more and more these days) what I have may be silicone bronze.....I will check for sure. The bolts that I have ARE strut bolts....I bought them at a bolt shop in Pensacola Fla when I was reworking the port strut while I was under gas power. I now have Sta...

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Congrat JP.....looks like on happy young man.....keep up the good work! ! !

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hey Capt John

I think I may have some of them....They are Manganese Bronze....I will look tomorrow and check the length.

DO NOT use regular Bronze Bolts....not strong enough.

I think may be I have 6......

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Harry Babb

Very, Bob......very very happy.....one incrediable day.....low seas, first trip for the little blonde kid, Ben....he told me "Paw Paw this is most fun I have ever had"........fish just jumping in the boat....

A bargain at twice the price!! ! ! !

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And today Alabama reports in....one incrediable day! ! ! ! ! http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/chip51maker/IMG_3830.jpg http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/chip51maker/IMG_3853.jpg http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/chip51maker/IMG_3854.jpg http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r289/chip...

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Sean
It makes perfectly good sense to me. If the water cannot come in it cannot go out.....and if it cannot get out it cannot come in.....seems like a pressure gage would be a good compliment to the flow sensor.

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Matt
Looks like a GOOD day to me......We are going out Sunday, hope we do as well.....

Great Pics....I really love to see the kids involved....cannot get that thrill from a video game! ! ! ! !

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Harry Babb

Funny that this topic came up......about 2 weeks ago Jo Ann told me that she wants her Driveway fixed (its pretty bad) and she wants me to finish the Gazebo.......after a short discussion she suttlely reminds me that I am near the end of the DeNada project and that its her turn...... Let me tell you...

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Frank 10 years sounds like a good run to me. As you and I know nothing last forever. I don't know much about paint but I would think that its longevity depends on its exposure to the sun. Now about the wife......around my house it works like this.....we have a "Needs to know" and a "Camphouse" rule....

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That's just simply cool! ! !

Sounds like DETROITS

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Andre wrote:Then all of a sudden Capt Pat grabs his tail and starts this tug of war

I like the idea of grabing tail......but not when there is a snake on the other end.......LOL

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Harry Babb

Was the pic that you posted taken near Greenport NY? This past summer we were on our way to ISLIP, after leaving the Greenport Rendezvous, when I noticed a 31 on the hill for sale. I do not do well with CHANGE.. As it turns out a lot of us are feeling the same way.....I'll stop here so that the Capt...

Harry Babb

I was in the Boy Scouts as a youngster. One day while at summer camp I was fishing on the bank of the lake at Camp Euchee. Well a Common Water snake came swimming by....I beat him to death with my cane pole then took him to the Nature Hut to be put on display. From there one of the senior scouts sco...

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Harry, ya' gotta' go on a rattlesnake hunt... Pat.....you gotta know one thing for sure and certain......spiders don't bother me much at all, crazy and unreasonable witchey women....no problem, the dark don't scare me much at all, I have dove in the ocean with sharks, hit with 3 phase high voltage....

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I looked into a camera system and decided the better alternative was preventing a breakin, not recording one. Bruce, that actually make a lot of good sense. This topic generated a good conversation that I personally have enjoyed......thanks guys Good shot Bob....to bad you cannot get that one mount...

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Matt The police told me that the chances of catching or recovery was slimmer than none. But I filed our loss on scraptheftalert.com and that is how they found these guys. The officer later told me that the only reason they were caught is because of the Scrap Theft Alert report. I would doubt that yo...

Harry Babb

You guys amaze me.......those are great looking doors

Looks like the work of Randall to me! ! !

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Harry Babb

Hey Marlin......here in Bama we spell it AR15.....but that night the operator was dead asleep. Buttttttt........just for you guys information......there is a website called http://www.scraptheftalert.com and it works I went online and listed the description of the material stolen, I had plenty of id...

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Bob
do you remember a model number?

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Harry Babb

Hey guys...a couple of weeks ago we got hit by some thieves. This incident has propelled me into the mode of installing surveillance equipment. For years we lived in Po Dunk Alabama where for the most part we never locked our doors. Well I have to say that for several years now things have been chan...

Harry Babb

Other things of concern the surveyor brought to my attention were the following: -Small gas leak at manual primer on starboard engine. -cracked hose going to port engine, salt water intake I think. -plates and bearings at top of rudders completely rusted, and bearings freezing -gas tank sending uni...

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harry , dug , john there ganging up on me please tell them at 36 and above the boat is riding on the inner stakes and does not rattle your teeth! The boat handled incredably well......like I have said before......It felt like driving a 31 foot jet ski....great acceleration, great steering response,...

Harry Babb

I would go with the engines that can be serviced and supported with local talent and local parts inventory.....you and I both know that sooner or later something is gonna happen that will require parts and labor......and the time that it will happen is the evening before a major fishing event..........

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Andre' For the life of me I cannot think of one thing to say about the story that you published.......lost for words..... And I can usually come up with some smart ass thing to say....... . . . . . . . Its now 5 minutes later and still nothing.........I give up LOL.........did the guy have a full se...

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Robbie, I have to say once again......thats a great looking job. I am extremely envious of you guys that have a building in which to store and work on your Bertrams (and other project)......I have done all of the work on DeNada outside......what a real pain..... Great work....give yourself a pat on ...

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UHMMMMMMMMM............that is funny.......sounds like something Jo Ann would say.......and she thought it is funnier than I did.

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Vince
Glad you got things going your way.

We always apprecited a follow up post.......thanks

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Harry Babb

Cranston wrote:OK,
Which is better, Cummins or Yanmar. I don't think this subject has ever been covered.
Thanks.

Yes, absolutely......yes

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Harry Babb

IMTS starts tomorrow morning. Anybody going to attend this year? We will be leaving Mobile on Thursday AM and will actually spend a few hours at the convention on Thursday afternoon then all day Friday and Saturday. If any of you guys are going to be there at the same time that I am gonna attend gi...

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Now that IS funny......wonder if the Pelicans taste anything like Spotted Owls?

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