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Duggie absconded (hauled ass in Timmy-speak) with our cheese to one of the Guays, probably in collusion with the call-ahead-ugly person in FLL.

Dug, inquiring minds need to know....I ain't getting no younger and would like to see my chock while I still can.

Yo fren'

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The existing systems use a variable pitch prop and are waaaaay expensive vs. using a variable ratio gear.

Go for a million.....I'll be happy to be your human torpedo.

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Still shucking away on that huge sack Capt. Brent gave me....done the half shell, the Mosca, more half shell, some bbq (half shell with Parm. cheese and bacon bits on the grill) and just did the Oysters Saute'....for two people, can add more oysters and maybe go up on the saute' ingrediments 25% per...

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Yeah Randall, I'ze be's very easily entertained... Oysters Mosca: Quart of oysters, drained; 2 cups of Italian bread crumbs; one TBS of crushed red pepper; Juice of one small lemon; 3/4 cup olive oil; one clove of garlic, pressed; 3 TSP of chopped parsley; one cup of Parmesan cheese; salt to taste. ...

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Lil' buddy, we were talking about a B31 in SD, oysters, and warm weather as I recall...yesterday afternoon I was sac a lait fishing in the Goo Boat right across from my camp dock in shorts & a t shirt....then last nite a cold front blew thru, rained a bunch, and this morning it was in the low 40s......

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John Plavan had her first in San Diego, brought her down from the L.A. area. When I was going to SD a lot he took me for a ride on her, same trip where I took the pix of the cop boat there. Has Cummins 6BTA 300s,. CPL 970s. Nice boat, a Westerbeke diesel genset and good gear. John sold her several y...

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Ditto from Coonassland, whre it's shorts & t shirts again. Block heaters???

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Shoot guys, I did not charge that much most of the time as a lawyer, now when I was a plumber, lots more. There is a solution...learn to do it yourself....the Prince of Potions, His Honor from Galveston, has an airplane in additon to his Bertram. He got tired of paying big bucks to get a licensed ai...

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New surplus ZF IRM 220As are selling in B&H for about 2500, with an alleged "factory warranty". They are good gears, and rebuilding them is not a bad idea, depending on what's wrong to start the train wreck. Getting someone to fool with them is another issue.

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I think the sun shines on their heads more in the Southern hemisphere and makes them sorta nuts...what ya say, Nic? Notice the route avoids the Southern Ocean where the real round-the-world guys go in the blow boats. I built an 8' plywood flat boat when I was 13 and put a 10 hp Wizard outboard on it...

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A bunch of us rode on one of Carl's B31s at the FLL show a few years ago, the one with the all white interior...the underwater exhaust sprays water up at idle through some releif holes, sort of annoying. Maybe he has modified it since.

Think it had 315 Yannies and the sucker was fast....

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Well, you can load up a diesel genset at the dock by turning on stuff like the heat or a/c, no real issue. Now with the diesel mains you cannot warm them up enough to do much good at the dock, even goosing them up to high rpm that will usually just annoy your neighbors. You have to un tie and run at...

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Sir Randall is a giant among us....a talent we are most privileged to be counted among as his friends.

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Got some reading glasses with plastic lenses that got all scratched up doing boat stuff....yep, you guessed it: two coats of RejeX and the scratches be's gone. Let the coats cure overnight after you buff the initial haze off, then polish out with a soft cloth.

We know's some stuff here, huh?

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Rawleigh, real Coonasses only worry about getting there, getting back is a bonus. Then a Coonass from here in Baton Rouge named Coco (last name, related to my family) invented the Go-Devil, a big Briggs air cooled motor with a 10' long drive shaft that mounts like an outboard on the transom of an al...

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The sales pitch is hole shot, period....at a high price and that "clunk" Bruce mentioned is gonna turn into a "clank" sooner rather than later. I quizzed the ZF guy one year at the FLL show about their two speed gears and he was giving me more double talk than Hillary and Edwards combined. Dumb idea...

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It's the UVI 8&a half....sure, you know you are invited. Sounds like a big crowd vying for second.

"the money's in the iron".....

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Was 83 yesterday afternoon until a cold front blew thru, was 37 this morning. The pad/sheet magnet gizmo on the side of the block gets too hot on the back (exposed side) of the pad....heat gun shows over 500 degrees. That seems way to hot, worries me some fuel could spill on it, etc. Northern Tool h...

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Just glued the 250 watt Wolverine to the sheet magnet material and it stuck real good......Slapped it on a vertical frig door and there is no way it will fall off......put it on a big iron vise and plugged it up, the back of the pad gets to about 325 degrees but the heat transfer to the vise thru th...

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But Bruce, on the other hand, sort of like owning a gambling casino, if it was not for stupid people, you would be riding on the back of a garbage truck about daylight.....kinda like me & crooks.

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Yeah, and what about: Choupique Sac a Lait Channel Mullet Manatee Garfish Gaspergoo Alligator Gulf Sturgeon Piling Snapper My view is your proposed rules are way too complicated and biased toward certain factions, you know who you are.....My UVI rules are simple and easy to understand. Like you say,...

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Do you keep your boats near the campus of the second place SEC team?

Yo fren'

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Harv - If the UVI guys buy a couple of the Tropic Star boats, fish on them for a week, then sell them back, all paperwork in order, do we qualify?

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Charlie, hear ya.....it was 84 here today and sunny...I took my afternoon walk in shorts & sandals, supposed to be hot thru next week, thank you Al Gore. It can get in the teens here every decade or so (going on two now, thanks again, Al) so I'd like to have a heat system in place for the engines......

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Well, Harry was right....the Cummins 6BTAs have aluminum oil pans sono magnets will work on them. I have a flat spot big enough on the port side of the blocks down pretty low so I'm gonna use the magnet and put them there. It's a vertical surface but the sheet magnet the Prof put me on is real stron...

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Harv - you gotta be kidding...my little grandkids could write a better form letter than that...she sucks, just plain ole sucks....saw on TV today that in view of her falling poll numbers, now Bill will participate in her Cabnet meetings "if asked". Our country will go the way of Hugo and Fidel if sh...

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Underwater pirates stealing good props and replacing with eaten up ones?

On a night where we lost Capt. Dave Kosh, he would enjoy that one.....

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Faithful, it's my sad duty to inform you that Capt. Dave passed away this morning.

Fair winds, friend.

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Charlie, no, I sent her to a better place a few years ago...she now lives in Key Largo with one of the Faithful who fixed her up real nice. She is now probably the finest B20 Bahia Mar on the face of the planet.

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Tommy, it's just a game....yeah. I like Ray's Oath....winning in Coonassland is all that matters, it's really a big deal down here. I see cheap tickets for the BCS game in the Superdome are $1,300, good seats are pushing 3 grand.

Gonna be fun.

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Dr. Gerry - super job. Now, what does PAOLA translate from Spanish to English?

I want to be you when I grow up.

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Like that "little tower" on the Express, just right.

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Get with Tony....if he can't get them, I have a new B&H and can get you a list of ZF parts places...they still make the 220A and the last new one I saw at the FLL show still had the double-trouble pipes, so they still make them. I thought hard about having a machine shop fabricate some from stainles...

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After 2,000+ hours, about the only issue on the Zf's is those two little pipes.....put zinc paint on the new ones and keep 'em doused with HD CX.

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My alma mater and home town team made it to the BCS champ game vs. the Ohio St. pussys. The GA coach is on ESPN right now whining that his team did not make it - shoot he did not even make the SEC champ game, as he excused, because the BCS rules are unfair. Les Miles is staying at LSU, and with WVa....

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My Cummins 6BTA 250s (CPL 1247) built in Nov. 1989, came with the optional manual oil pump out option, a little push-pull pump mounted on the outboard side of each engine.....there is a HD hyd-type hose that goes from one of the two oil pan drain plugs to the manual pump....it would take half a day ...

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Thanks Patrick, I saw that....a little concerned about its max. temp range of 140 F....the Wolverine model 16 pads only weigh 1.1 oz. per my scale, so ain't gonna take much to hold them in place....the 2" strips the Prof is using will hold 54# per foot and are good up to 212 F. My thinking is that h...

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Finally found my Wolverines in a box at the camp....they are model 16s. Pretty sure my Cummins oil pans are steel, but will take a magnet and check next week. The 16s are 3.5 x 4.5" so for two of them I might be a little short with the 2x12" sheet magnet from McMaster....thinking about using two str...

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250s, 1.5 gears, 21x22 three blades, no cup. 5.5 on two, 4 on one. We sometimes tarpon fish real slow and bump in and out of gear. I have the big Capt. Patrick rudders so steering on one is a snap.

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I bought my 250 watt Wolverines from Tony Athens at Seaboard Marine in CA (www.sbmar.com). Tony said the 250s are right for the 6B Cummins.

Harry, the Cummins don't have glow plugs and get balky on the start below about 60 degrees.....hard on the starters, batteries, etc.

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I rented a car one January in Brainard, Minn. on a business trip...the rent car gal handed me this little block heater that had a magnet on it...."what's that?"..."Mr. Roy, it's a heater you have to put on the oil pan whenever you shut the car off"....."Well, where do I plug it in?"....."You ain't f...

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Thanks Prof.....yeah, no way I was gonna grind the paint off the oil pan even if I could get to it. Your method sounds just right. I plan to put the pads on a line voltage thermostat - already have 120 v. in the stb. motor box, set it to cut on & off at about 60, maybe a little higher since they are...

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Prof - thanks for the idea.....I looked at that sheet magnet and it comes in 2" wide.....my 250 watt Wolverines are wider than that as I remember....did you use two strips? Also says max temp is 212F....seems like the pad heater gets hotter than that?

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Best to leave them on, but don't forget to turn them off when you run the engines if you have a genset. The Wolverine pad heaters work great, so I'm told - mine are still in the box, too lazy to put them on so far. Cummins don't like to be started without aux heat below about 50F since they don't ha...

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High Pockets - responded to your PM and it bounced back...maybe the board has your old email address....send me a quick note at VLR@RKKDLAW.COM and I'll send the response direct.

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Well, we all knew it was coming....Honda is about to launch a small biz jet that is very innovative. I post this since I know a bunch of us are pilots and we are all boy toy-junkies.....www.hondajet.com

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You can get it from me, 25% off retail + shipping. I'm trying to set a min. order amount of about $50. Email me at VLR@RKKDLAW.COM

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You right, High Pockets, could be a crowd. Tell Andy he's invited with his new 37 Topaz. And of course you are invited. Speaking of UVI, a couple of people inquired if UVI 8 is full....talked to TSL and the lodge is basically booked solid for a year....I smell prices going up. There are 6 of us goin...

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Capt. Patrick - what's Tuf-Gel? vs. Tef-Gel?

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Rob......yep, we shall make it happen, and you bring the good beer. Let's see, who plays the git-tar? and who can sing? Other musical instruments? Last UVI we had down that way we relied on Hollis from Mobile to entertain us on Miss Vikki's porch with his red neck tunes...maybe we can get him to com...

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