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In Memory of Vicroy

Clay, consider you-self in.

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Mikey - I have a shoot-thru-the-hull ducer on sonar box hooked to the Garmin 2010C on AJ....works perfect, will track bottom at 25 kts up to about 250'.

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Garmin.

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Andre' - you be's our official worry wart, consider it your job to warn us way ahead of time. See ya Wed nite at Mansour's with the Brides.

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Well, we have tenative dates that will avoid conflicts at Venice Marina. Arrive Sunday, July 27th and leave Sat. Aug. 1. Or any portion thereof. We have access to a huge barge houseboat in Venice Marina that will sleep 14, has a commercail kitchen and a real big lounge and deck. For those of ya'll f...

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Tropic Star Lodge in Panama runs 15 B31s with 4-53s (and one with Yannies). They put about 2,000 hours a year on them and rebuild at 6,000 hours. Head of maintaince down there told me he keeps the governors set at about 100 hp and the captains run them wide open, none of the boats have tachs. Bring ...

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The Tubb has too much 4" PVC sewer pipe duct work in it to sink too far, but half sunk it's still a good drinking platform.

Timmy, in my now official retirement, I'll come help with the now famous Tubb.....just tell me when and where.

yo Fren'

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Bruce - are we here that much better than the average boat people? I'll never forget that night on the dock at Port Eads when you fixed Mr. Pee Wee's a/c on his huge Choy Lee blue boat in a flash, and a couple of days later honed my crappy Sherwood raw water impeller cams to keep them from chewing u...

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Well, back from a week in the sun at Miami Beach with the Bride, great weather, great antique show and flea markets. Seems I missed a lot here, a lockdown, etc. I usually don't read the Wall St. Journal, but after the Bride marched me about 150 miles thru the show for 6 days, yesterday I sat on the ...

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While I admit I'm easily entertained, my first try was just 2,500 'cause I was trying to figure it out. Once you do, and write down the elevations and speeds, you can whack it.....sort of like going to a casino with the slot machine codes in your pocket. Since me & the Bride are heading to Miami tom...

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Me too, delete them.

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Andre' - it is solid stainless steel. Most of us non-broke dicks have paid up front to make it happen months ago...figure 350 or so, but for you it will be more since you laid back and let us pull the wagon. Now I could put in a good word for you if you take me to lunch tomrrow since me & the Bride ...

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I used the 1" with the lead sheet - did the interior of the motor boxes on AJ, not the wings or bulkhead. Made a huge difference, mostly in the turbo whine, cut it all the way out. An added bonus is the heat trnasfer is all but eliminated, no burned butts sitting on the boxes. I don't think Soundown...

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Harv - send me your email address (think I have it but let's be sure) and I'll email you the pix Dug sent me this afternoon....the original they copied and the copy side by side - amazing what they did. You, being the Official Geek of B31.com, can post up the pix.

royvictor@cox.net

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Nah, give Coonasses a bad name.

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There is a 41 Hatt. in the Baton Rouge paper this morning, "great mechanical shape" for just $110,000. Tim, maybe you could swap yours for it.....my favorite on the Tubb is the 4" PVC sewer pipe a/c vents....class deal.

yo Fren'

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Not really worth the hassle compared to the FLL show....all spread out in numerous locations far apart, traffic is a pain, lotta blow boats. Go fishing instead.

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Nope, you can't just bolt on stuff and get the hp up, it's a balanced deal that involves the pistons, cam, injector pump volume, etc. The 4BT 150 hp is gonna disappoint you on speed, but if you prop them to turn 2650 rpm with a full load they will run for 50 years at whatever speed they will make, a...

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Brewster - do you get raw oysters? If so, put the Oysters Mosca on the menu, they will bust your doors down....real simple and pretty quick. This retirement is getting to be work....ice machine at the house is busted, just went thru all the checks.....compressor is not starting or even clicking....c...

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Wayne - man I can drool over that spiney....when I was going to San Diego about 3 times a month on business for years, we used to hang out at the Fish Market restaurant in downtown on the waterfront.....real popular place, always had to wait for a table till we figured out a little secret - they wou...

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LDS - it's to tell you that you have high pressure on the gear which makes it shift.....the real practical reason is when it goes way down your gear is out of oil and is about to burn up......good news is on most gears, ZF, TD, etc, the clutch plates will start slipping when its losing oil to warn y...

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Now if the "slit" where you deposit the urine was designed correctly, I might give it a try, or pimp it.

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Timmy, consider you-self invited to whatever we end up doing, bring money this time, and your clothes. Andre' keeps telling me he gets calls from Panama wanting him to insure stuff down there, the callers saw you in your borrowed Fourrier Agency t shirt, the only one you had. Tom, you sure bailed my...

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Thanks for the clarification, Tomas....Timmy, we will be happy to drop you off at PE for a week, pick you or your picked-clean body up a few weeks later. The goats have teamed up with the crabs....."baaahhhhh, timmy, he never writes, he never calls". Andre' & da Judge were down at PE recently, said ...

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Prof, funny you mention the portable GPU, I been thinking the same thing now that I have time on my hands.......now is the season when the grosbeaks hatch out, so there are lots of little ones, so shrinking the design is a do-able thing. I'll put some time in on it and wiring it up to the tin foil h...

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Roger what Bruce says...the 6B's are very robust engines, but certain models had issues with blowing holes in pistons, ruining blocks, etc. Unless its a give-away price - like a "free" puppy or kitten, hire someone from a Cummins place to take a look. Actually, if its advertised as "blown" run fast,...

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For what, Thuddd?

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I was in Venice a couple of weeks ago duck hunting, and I prefer TSL to be brutally honest. But a gathering of the Faithful is always fun.

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Short answer is no, not at this time. Long answer we are shooting for the last week in July or first part of August. One of the Faithful is checking with Venice Marina for slips so we can avoid any major tourneys. Also working on lining up a big oil co. houseboat as a HQ, kitchen and bunk house. Pro...

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Nice tire bumber array, must have been done by a coonass. But on the other hand, we use white wall tires on yachts, save the black walls for the work boats.

Beer is cheap down there in the 3d world too.

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Well, if you would get off your ass and work, maybe you could make it back to Panama or PE....those goats still go "bahhhhhh, bahhhhh, Timmmy, he never calls he never writes"... Might have room for you at the UVI 8 & 1/2 late summer if you behave. I don't work no mo'....ya'll need to try it, sleep t...

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Nic - nope, the wood book and the paper book look exactly the same until you pick them up, and even then some don't figure it out. We had some guests at the camp recently and one was an artist, let her look and her comment was "this guy Randall Rosenthal can't be mortal - no one can do this".....sho...

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Nic - since he did it for me I'll chime in (thanks again lil' buddy), it's all wood, hand painted....it sits on the coffee table at our camp next to the real paper book and I love to watch people pick them up and marvel.....Also have his Pinas Bay, Panama chart, a couple of legal pads, and the first...

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Hey LDS, yo ole UV here.....we get some giant bluefins in the Gulf now and then, some say they spawn there. Usually in May. The few I've hooked up were caught on the UV bait, a 12" wide range Softhead in black and red or black and orange with twin 180 degree 11/0 Mustad 7732 hooks. But here we are f...

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That was good...until I got into the Fatal Shot stuff that the Africans brought....still have most of a bottle in the freezer at the camp, now and then I think about taking a shot, but its sort of lot getting sick on quamquats, takes a while for that to wear off, some 60 years and counting for me. T...

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Harv - you and he are in our prayers.

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Guy from the cable co. just swapped out the zapped modem and I'm back in business just in time for another line of storms to hit.....may unplug for a while...

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Got a lightning strike yesterday am at the house & fried some stuff including my internet modem....had to come to the office to see what's going on. Cable guy coming this afternoon.

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A Choupique (pro. SHOE-PICK) is a grinnel to you non-coonasses. A prehistoric fish that will attack your spinner bait while bass fishing or whack your tube jig while sac a lait fishing. Grows to 8+# and you can throw them out on the bank and they will live for a week, sort of like Timmy.

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Timmy - can you legally own a handgun in Mass? Mitt said he's outlawed them when Hillary was around.

Nice work Bruce, like you said, time & patience.

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Actually fried mullet is not that bad - the only fish you can fry in it's own grease. When I say it's not that bad I'm comparing it to choupique.

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Let the gas line run on the engine and light a match to see it.

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Nic, we have a few clears now and then, and some red drinks with 151 Bacardi floaters......I'll probably get there the last Wed. in October and leave Monday or Tuesday....the show runs from Thurs. thru Monday. The Flophouse, a/k/a the Ocean Holiday Motel, is a fun place and reeeeeel cheap by FLL boa...

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Doug - I got my 250 watt Wolverines from Tony too. They come in stick on because (now I know) the oil pans on the 6BTAs are aluminum. I put the sheet magnet on one and stuck it to the block just above the oil pan on a vertical surface. It got to over 500 degrees on the back, probably because the hea...

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Nic - you bet we have room for ya......

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The FLL boat show is the only real world class boat show. I'll be there the last Thursday in October 2008 after an absence of 2 years, one due to a huricane and the other,,,,,shoot I forget, maybe me & the Bride went to NYC or something. Afternoons at the Quarterdeck, what you say Ric? Let's book up...

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Randall - those funny looking yellow hi contrast glasses I wear help a lot....also some good dark roast coffee with a little Crown in it improves your aim considerably.... Harry - we may be over your way at the Grand Hotel in April....I'll give you a holler. Heading to the camp to rest up from the h...

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Just got back from Venice, LA after duck hunting with our son, the rich and famous Capt. Brent and our son in law Chuck. Yesterday was the coldest day in south LA in a decade, and the north wind blew all the water out of Brent's favorite duck ponds....but he has a new 35 hp Gator Tail surface drive ...

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The B28 style rudder has the rudder arm below the rudder table and the bearing on top while the B31 style has the rudder arm on top. The bearing is to keep the rudder stock from flopping around. Max Wax on the bearing will keep it from rusting....HD CX works too.

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Molds are not the problem, economics is the problem. Regular production of the B31 ceased after the 1983 model year, and the 1986 Silvers were tooled to produce 25, but they were only able to get orders for 23. Many of us have discussed re-introduction of the B31 with senior management of Bertram (s...

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