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Stephan, I redid mine 5 years ago. For my cover boards, I just used high end marine ply (Okoume) from a local East-Central Florida company. This type of ply is used for making wooden boats that are stained/varnished to show the wood grain. So the finish is very smooth, but not quite Formica. http://...

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Bob - if you wait to bilge out at night, you won't have any rainbows :-)

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David, Are you at Telemar? My B28 is stock as far as the cabin sole is concerned. Drains forward and aft inside the main cabin sole. Drain in the head, no sump on my boat. I had a 5gal hw heater on port side shelf between hull and engine. However I removed the hw heater 5 yrs ago and installed a Eem...

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I bought new ones for my B28 about 4 years ago....
Garelick 26327 Traction Teak Step Plate 5" x 12" 15446
Saw this on Ebay Motors for ~$40 each.

Paul J
1973 - B28 PALADIN

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Welcome to the Space Coast... I live in Melbourne but keep my boat on a lift in Fort Pierce. You'll find that if you're on the Space Coast you're stuck with Canaveral or Sebastian as your inlets. Canaveral is safe, but a big commercial port and you're about 30 +/- miles from the Gulf Stream. If you ...

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I redid my cooling systems 4 years ago. The heat exchanger and oil coolers have zinc anodes that screw in-bolt type rods. How often do you need to check/replace? Does it matter if the boat is kept on a lift?

Paul J
1973 B28 - PALADIN

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I assume your not taking your boat! Only marina would be Sanibel Marina.
I reccomend trying www.vrbo.com. Lots of weekly rentals there.

PaulJ
1973 B28 - PALADIN

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Rawleigh and Tooeez... Followed both of your suggestions and was finally able to fix it. I used PB Blaster and was able to jam a pipe wrench on the flange part of the packing base. Using another pipe wrench and some "persuasion" was finally able to get the lock nut to turn. Spun the lock nut to the ...

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Space Coast Plating did my cleats and lee's rod holders and a couple other deck plates. Nice work. About 5 miles from me.

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Harry, You understand correctly. The threads inside the nut are buggered. I did remove all the new packing and tried to screw on without packing and only got the two turns on it before it jammed up. Backed it off and decided to pack in some stuffing and screwed it on the two turns until it locked up...

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Tooeez...Hmmm, hadn't thought of that. Worth an hour of effort to see. I'm going to work on it some today and see what happens.

PaulJ
1973 B28 - PALADIN

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Raleigh, about 1.5" between end of coupling collar and the nut on the box. And the collar on the coupling is about 3.5". That's my delimma. The shaft log and the box are butt matched and joined with the hose, so no room there.

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Rawleigh - i will check to see if i can do as you suggest. Not sure if i have enough room to get it to clear the hose, but ill try. The bigger problem is how to fix the threads inside the packing nut. Need to get it off the shaft to work it. Tooeez - yes it has been a while, and I enjoyed your compa...

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Navatech - thanks but I'm not a big fan of the drip less. Carl - the only way to fix the packing nut (female side) threads will be to pull the nut off the shaft. Almost no room to get any tool between the shaft and the packing nut threads. The male section looks ok and it acts like its the third or ...

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Time for some advice. B28 with gassers and have a problem with one of the stuffing/packing nuts. It has been leaking and I kept righting it down until it was time to replace the stuffing. The screw tool was too big to fit in the gap and the wadding was so packed in that it was almost impossible to g...

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Hillary, I have Bennett Tabs on my B28. I think you've gotten great advice here. I see you're my neighbor. Is that your boat at Telemar? I keep mine in Ft Pierce. Let me know if you'd like to check out how mine are set up and take them on a sea trial to see them in action. Cost of the trip is a six ...

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Oh yea, I left out that I had some aluminum cap plates made and topped the stingers at the motor mount points with them for added strength.

JH... Omg, I could have taken those same pictures. Vey familiar. It was an experience and glad I did it, but don't ever want to do it again!

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On the Paladin, I went to our local wood shop that handles various exotic woods and made a deal to purchase a rough-sawn slab of mahogany that was 2.5" x 14" x 8' for $60. I then took it to a cabinet maker friend who planed it and cut it to my specs for the price of a couple of beers and some fishin...

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Heed Dcasey's advice! He is wise beyond his years. Chase your new bride around the house and carry on like crazed rabbits. The time will come when she will INSIST that you need nto get a hobby, just so she can get away from you. That's when you spring her with the idea of restoring an old Berty. Bre...

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Tooeez..... I did EXACTLY the same things. The guys at Michigan Motorz were great. I think my total for parts, including tranny rebuild was ~$12K, but I already had some new spare parts. The hardest part of the whole job was the remodel/rework of the engine beds and rewiring. I did mine in the heat ...

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Best tool I ever purchased to chase down cooling problems.... http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ryobi-Non-Contact-Infrared-Thermometer-IR001/100674438 I shoot temps on each part throughout the cooling system, including sending units, intake manifold, exhaust manifolds, risers, heat exchangers, hoses, etc. ...

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I used Michigan Motorz with great success. They sell rebuilt as well as new. They provide all bolt on parts as well. Shipped directly to my house where I built them up using some of the previous engine parts/transmissions, etc. http://www.michiganmotorz.com/ GM 350 (5.7L) 4bbl Quadrajet, Thunderbolt...

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What Rawleigh said! FWIW... I made my own back-flush tool for my closed cooling system. It is made of a PVC ball valve connected to a female screw type hose fitting on one side and another fitting made to connect to the raw water exit of my heat exchanger. Disconnect the exit side of the raw water p...

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I've used Ospho to "prime" any rusty areas prior to painting. Make sure you follow the directions when using. I will first use a SS wire brush and rag to clean off as much surface rust as possible. I will wipe off any oil/grease with denatured alcohol until my white rags are clean after wiping. I th...

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My guess would be that the risers have some clogging at the exit side/port before you get to the hoses. Depending on how old your risers are, you might consider replacing them. To test this theory though, remove the exahaust hoses from the risers. Carefully, using a small thin flexible metal instrum...

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Well, that was easy! Planned my day around swapping parts between engines to figure out the problem. First things first, started both engines and got them to temp. Then I reached down and did the ole wiggle the wires test on the wires going from the distributor sensor to the TB module... And, engine...

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STraenkle - Neat trick. Didn't know that about the pump check. I'll definitely check that out. It may sound funny, but it would be much easier if it just wouldn't start and run so well. If it didn't start and there was no spark... easy peezy. If it sparked, but no fuel... easy peezy. Something will ...

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Thanks everyone for your inputs. And thanks to Capt. Patrick for fixing my account as I've been locked out for a day! Sounds like I have a few things to test to isolate the problem. My local mechanic said it could be a short in the Tachometer. Says it happens all the time. Grounding of + in the tach...

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I'm looking for opinions and insight... B28 with 5.7L 350 Gas, FWC, Thunderbolt Ignition, 4BBL Carbs, Velvet Drives. Had an enjoyable weekend running to and fro. Ran the boat for about 2.5 hours total on Sunday without problems... until about 3 miles out from the dock in the ICW. Port engine lost RP...

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Thanks for the advice.

Paul J
1973 B28 - PALADIN

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What about foam insulation for a small built in cooler? I've been looking into Dow's Great Stuff product as 2 or 3 cans would easily do my project.

Http://great stuff.dow.com/

Thanks,
Paul J
1973 B28 - PALADIN

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Done.

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1973 B28 - PALADIN

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Capt Pat and crew, Thanks again for the help and this board. I was able to cut the bearing down to weaken it enough that a couple of wacks with a hammer loosened it off the rudder post. Once it budged, the gear puller worked like a champ and I was able to easily pull of the bearing. I had the use of...

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Thanks Capt Pat. On my way to cut bearing off and replace.

Tefgel will be used when replacing!

PaulJ
1973 B28 - PALADIN

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I need to remove the rudder bearing on my port rudder. I have removed the locking collar and friction plates from the top of the rudder bearing and also removed the set screws using an allen wrench from the top collar of the bearing itself. I unbolted the body of the bearing from the rudder shelf. T...

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I was looking for an obituary for my son-in-law's grandfather who passed away this week to get some of the particulars for the funeral and found out that one of the local stewards had passed away. Amazing how these boats get into our system and are so much a part of how people think about and rememb...

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Thanks. This is the same type of transducer I'm looking at. I like the idea of the plug/method to cut larger hole.

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Bruce, I have full access to transducer both in the bilge and below. It's just Stbd of center near cabin bulkhead. I thought that I could pull the nut and bang it out the bottom with a 2 lb hammer. Theres a wedge on the bottom to keep the transducer at level. Could I use a chisel and break it off? T...

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My 1990s RayMarine depth sounder died. My 1989 Raymarine radar still works, but looks like something from a museum and takes up much room on the bridge. I have a 2005 Garmin monochrome chart plotter that works well, but is now almost 10 years old. Looking at the new Garmin setup with multi-function ...

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Yannis, My drain hole is centered in the sole space between the head, cabinets, forward bulkhead and door-bulkhead of the "head" room. I don''t think there is any way to get into the area under the sole so I don't know how you would be able to make the plumbing connections under the sole like your d...

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Yannis and Capt. Pat. This is exactly how my shower is setup on my B28. I pump overboard... no issues. For reference, I have installed an Eemax instant electric marine hot water heater. Good enough to raise the water temp 15-18 deg F and here in FL that's enough to take the chill off the water for t...

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I used Capt Greg Poland when I took my wife down for her birthday 2 years ago. http://www.gregpoland.com/gregpoland.com/Welcome.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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I repowered my 28 with GM 350 carb, FWC. I purchased almost all engine parts through Michigan Motorz... they were helpful and price was very competitive. I had the Velvet Drives remanned by TMI in Ft. Lauderdale. I reused non-mechanical parts (brackets and such) and built up the engines myself rathe...

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In my update to by B28, I installed the "porta potty" type system identified in the referenced article.... "An upgraded version is the SeaLand "Marine Traveler," which is a toilet bowl atop its own 9-gallon tank which is fitted for pumpout, and uses pressurized water from the onboard system, but ver...

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The two different sets of engines I've had on my B28 are FWC. Both used kits to FWC manifolds with block-off plates between manifolds and risers. Risers are raw water cooled. Expect to get ~3 years (maybe 4) of use out of risers. May get more years out of them depending on how often you use the boat...

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Where do the outriggers and fighting chair go?

Paul J
'73 B28 - PALADIN

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I had the very same thing happen Saturday. I pulled the stick after I returned from a run and found pepto pink. I drained it by disconnecting the cooler from the hoses and using my own breath/pressure, blowing out the pink crap. I then poured in clean fluid and "rinse and repeat" until no more pink ...

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An interesting way to work the flats, but where are the rod holders?

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Harry,
I found another special picture you might enjoy.

Scroll down to Carlos' picture: http://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-out ... at-16.html

PaulJ
1973 B28 - PALADIN

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My wife and I like watching American Pickers ( http://www.history.com/shows/american-pickers ) and American Restoration ( http://www.history.com/shows/american-restoration ). It's amazing to see the way things used to be made. What quality. The fact that you can take a piece of equipment that has be...

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