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In Memory of Vicroy

Looking at the latest issue of B&H today see The GPS Store (www.thegpsstore.com) has "factory reman" Garmin 3210C units, full one year factory warranty, antenna, both bracket and flush mount, for $1,389. This is the one that will interface with sonar, radar, WX, etc. Also a 1968 B31 hardtop (no FB),...

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Naw, I'm here, but don't boil crawfish any more, too much trouble. We buy them (and blue crabs) boiled from TNT Seafood on Hwy. 22 between Springfield and Ponchatoula, LA.....best in the world. He's getting about $2 lb. right now and he almost always has them hot. Will get some tomorrow on our way t...

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Having owned a Whaler since 1962 (she now is with da Judge) and having ridden in many of all sizes, the fact is (1) high quality construction and finish, and (2) GD things ride like a powered ironing board, jar your teeth out. Nice go-slow boats.

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Jack up the front of the motor with some hyd. jacks (put some 2x6 on the hull to jack from) to take the load off the mounts, remove the mounts and dig into the stringers. The stringers on the B20 were enceased in heavy glass, and the wood was mostly a filler to mold the glass around. Dig deep, get a...

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Well, the conventional wisdom that drinking hard likker makes you cold is a myth....over the long haul maybe, but when your ass is in somewhat cold water, a shot of pure JD will make you swim a little longer. Last Jan. when I was duck hunting with Capt. Brent and our son in law down by Port Eads, it...

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Well, me & Brew crossed paths without knowing it, but were pretty much the same. Daytime is one thing, sinking at night is another magnitude...the strobes can be seen a very long way and the LED flashlights almost as far. The bottle of booze in the ditch bag is the same principle as the Swiss St. Be...

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Inshore or warm water offshore, I'd use a Survial, Inc. aircraft raft, small, fairly cheap - a 9 man is about 1500. Good life jackets, a simple ditch bag, a waterproof hand held VHF, have DSC on your main VHF and/or SSB, with a registered number and coupled to a GPS and push the red button before yo...

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Well, I installed my SP 70 a long time ago.....used 3/8 plastic tubing with compression fittings and 3/8 pipe thread fittings since that's what the pump uses. Just "T" into the two lines and that's it. I mounted the fluxgate compass in the 'attic' in front of the FB way up forward on the cneterline ...

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Speaking of lawyers, I checked ino the hosp. yesterday morning (my first ever) to have a skin cancer cut off my neck. The nurse put the wrist band on me, then looked at the chart and said I needed a second one since I had vision problems....the second one was an OSHA looking yellow one with "SAFETY ...

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Garmin, Garmin, Garmin, and since you are not a deepwater guy, the shoot thru the hull ducer for the sonar black box add on will read fine to 250' at 25 kts. I love my 2010C.

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Randall, that looks like a lotta fun, sort of like you hi-stepping down the flooded dock at Port Eads with the 10' alligator gaining on your short ass. I had your back tho with the big stainless Ruger .44.....first you make a roux....

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Well, my view is that fuel prices are pure supply & demand. India and China are sucking up a lot of oil. We in the USA have limited our energy supply for political reasons (no drilling off FL, the east coast, most of CA, ANWR, etc), so we are reaping what we sowed. There is a lot of oil and gas out ...

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Us Coonasses are worse, we don't talk about it.....the dock at Port Eads is where we sort them out. Those still posting here made the cut.

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Harv - our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. You are good people.

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Aldon Chemical makes some really good brick & stone chemicals, and their "Effervesence Treatment" works real good on un-sealed brick and stone.....my slate had been sealed, so their stuff would not soak in well....soooooooo mixed up 50/50 CX and lacquer thinner and it did the trick, penetrated perfe...

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Well, a little off topic, but that's what we do here now and then. I just finished refurbishing the 40+ year old Vermont slate and brick patio at our home and learned a lot.....like what thin-set is, what grout is, how do do it, and then the most important, what effervesence is (the white stuff on/i...

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Steve - on the 15000 series Sherwood pumps the cam is harder brass than the body, so the bore wears a little faster than the cam does. The result is that after about 500+ hours the edges of the cam "stick up" above the bore and create a razor edge that shreds the impellers.....you can get some added...

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Same to ya'll....me & the Bride had the kids, spouses and 7 grandkids over for lunch.....I did a boston butt, a big one, 11#. Did a few things different this time......first, sliced the fresh garlic into quarter inch slivers and nuked them in the microwave for 40 seconds....just enough to soften the...

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I've used a cream in a tube - forget the name - that you put on exposed skin and it keeps the fibers from getting at you. Stuff is real yukkky tho, but better than the itch. Just proved once again that stuff you learn here makes things a lot simpler....today repairing a wooden lattice garden gate th...

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Tony - Tom Testa who started Reel Colors in Mass. years ago....Tom was a machinist with one of the aerospace outfits and was doing reels on the side. I had 7 or 8 old 80Ws that were near basket cases and saw an article about Tom in some mag....called him and he was just getting started. Quoted me $1...

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When you see mahi jumping horz. to the water they are chasing flying fish...when they jump like a rainbow a marlin is on their ass....

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Eddy - sure, I have plenty. Give me a call on my cell, 937 1319 and you can stop by the house and pick it up.

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JK, that time of year its so hot in the daytime that overnight trips are the way to go. They whack the YF tuna at night around the floating oil rigs offshore. Plus we have a dirty little secret.....lotta swords at ngiht between the 200 and 300 fathom curves, only 12 miles off. My son, the rich and f...

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The Soundown guy that runs their FLL shop frequents this site, he'll be around....I've dealt with him, top notch.

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Hey Charlie - since I retired I'm out of the small order CX business, the shipping of small orders is just too much of a hassle. I am still a dealer and can drop ship full case lots (or gallons) thru the factory.

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Yeah, I'm a classic....you guys know how this site has made a lot of friendships over the years. Let's try last night and today: Da Judge and his girlfriend JL (a criminal defense lawyer, ya'll hire her if you get to be Client #9, she's good) come over to Baton Rouge from Galveston, the fog was so b...

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The soundown is very heat proof....on my 6BTA 250's (cpl 1247s) with the "tombstone" aftercoolers, the soundown on the underside of the motor boxes presses pretty good down on the top of the aftercoolers and no heat damage, just some abrasion from the engines and motor boxes moving some underway. I ...

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Looks to me like a drug deal in the making, I'm calling Lyman right away. Ran-dahllllll...the Bride insists it can't be all out of one pc. of wood, she says it would be impossible. Set her straight.

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I'm sad to report that one of our old Port Eads regulars, "Pee Wee" Reeves has passed on. Many of you knew him as the owner of the 'blue boat', the 58 Choey Lee, Mary Joyce, a very bright blue boat. Pee Wee graciously let us use his pavillion at Port Eads for many UVIs. Pee Wee died aboard his big n...

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Harv - about 50 years ago my mom & dad had a 24' Lone Star alum. cabin cruiser with a 6 cyl. Ford engine and an Eaton outdrive that looked just like yours....no water pump, no exhaust thru it...as I remember it was pretty much bullet proof....we used if for bream and sac a lait fishing in the swamps...

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No rust tho. And the oil changes itself.

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Will Bruce's tin foil hat defeat the chips?

Oh yeah, Algore, we need you in Baton Rouge..it's snowing.

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Welcome aboard, you came to the right place. Capt. Dave was one of our regulars here and we miss him. Fire away with questions, our motto is "there is no such thing as a dumb question" when it comes to 31 Bertrams.

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I'd forget about it and check the oil often.....the Bride's 97 MB E320 has an annoying engine oil leak that they wanted $2,700 to fix six years ago....naw....bought a $8 gallon of Shell Rotella T to keep at the house, just finished the gallon and got a new one. Same on my 97 Tahoe, small annoying le...

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I have one of the Raytheon 398's on AJ along with a bunch of other GPS units. I checked the LORAN function on the 398 not long ago and it works fine, altho I usually leave it on the GPS mode since it drives my B&G large digit repeater on the dash....all obsolete after the Garmin 2010C came aboard. T...

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The TWIC is the law, period, like it or not. The Port of Baton Rouge was one of the first to require it, a test bed. National implementation has been put off a few times due to logistics, but get ready for it. Speaking of mindless taxes for "gov. services", my favorite is when we bought the camp on ...

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Try a 5# beef rump roast done the boston butt way but cooked to about 130 degrees, let it sit after cooking for about 15 mins. covered in foil before slicing.

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Doug - call Cummins main office in SC and they should have them...if not, I have two (one is for the 210s that came with AJ even tho she has 250s, the other is for the 250s that Andre loaned me) and I can send the 250 one to you to copy and send back. A very good manual. Think I may have a parts cat...

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Hey young lawyer, go with the tried and true Cummins 6BTA, near bullet proof, I know.

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The raw water cooled aftercoolers need a lot of attention......if it was me, I'd use Tef Gel on the mating surfaces. My 250s have fresh water cooled aftercoolers so they are about zero maint. - but not as efficient.

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Raul Castro did it.

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JK - as I remember you have the 300s, so the aftercooler is sea water cooled and Tony A says it should be cleaned on a regular basis, go look at boatdiesel.com and you will find his interval. The only other thing is the valve lash needs to be adjusted about every 1,000 hours, altho my Cummins dealer...

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I had something similar happen on AJ...the bleeder hose between the two ends of the ram was clear vinyl....the bonehead (not me) that bled the system after he installed the a/p left the two nipple vales open, so the system was running on some flimsy clear plastic hose....of course it bit the dust 30...

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Me too, the std. pump will handle you just fine. Mine worked fine with the tiny B28 style rudders and when I upgraded to Patrick's monster rudders I had to re-set the SP 70 to slow down the steering action.....takes about 20 seconds to re-set the steering rate....just don't lose the manual or you wi...

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I put a Si-Tex SP 70 on AJ about 15 years ago when pilots were real expensive and the SP 70 was a lot cheaper. Been real happy with it, Si Tex still makes it....very stable on the flux gate compass, and it will interface with some plotters, but shoot, clicking the port/stb button now and then to kee...

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The limit-er on the trip to Venice is the Belle Chasse tunnel on La. 23 (which you can detour around on a bridge) that is about 13'. Stick with 13' max and you will be OK....on the other hand the width limit in La. without a permit is 8'....I know, got stopped by the width po-lice one time pulling t...

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Scot - nope, not worth the effort. Any 4 cyl., 4-stroke diesel is a harmonic nightmare if run over about 1800 rpm, which is why the 4BT is such a great genset engine, but you don't see them in many propulsion applications.

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We don't have enough guys committed to rent the big houseboat, so it's FEMA trailers for shore accomidations for those not sleeping on boats. We will do some of our own cooking (thanks, Surgeon General) and eat at the Venice Marina restaurant otherwise. I've got my son, Capt. Brent, working on slips...

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Timmy, I think you look cute with glasses.

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Not an issue with the new packing materials such as GFO or with the dripless seals.

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