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Russ - I processed the order on Feb. 27 so it would have gone out of here the next day or so. Send me an email at royvictor@cox.net and let's figure out why you didn't get it.

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Doug, yes I do carry ReJex in the 12 oz. bottle for $10.02 plus shipping. I'm out of the 16 oz right now, but I've priced the 12 oz at the same per oz. as the 16. Just send me an email at VLR@RKKDLAW.COM with what you need and a ground shipping address.

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You would have to let the CX soak into the metal pores for a while, then wipe the surface clean with a solvent before using the ReJex.

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A lot of you have asked me how ReJex works on metal. I'd never tried it until yesterday when I took the B31 bow chock that sits on my desk home to polish it - its bare bronze, never appears to have been chromed. It had gotten pretty ratty from folks pickiing it up, so polished with some metal polish...

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Bruce - good one, I led with my chin on that one. Been around Thudd too much this past weekend, made me sorta slow on the draw. I don't even know why I'm in this Yannie cat fight, I got Cummins....like the Bride always tells me, keep your goddam mouth shut and you would be better off......yes mam, I...

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Tef-Gel it and forget it.

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The Tony Athens email was just him passing on to folks what he got as a Yannie dealer. Seems the suit claims Yannie did not keep good records of who they sold the 6LPs to, so the sue-ers (a legal term?) decided to send the suit notice to all Yannie dealers, thus how Tony got it. His email to me and ...

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I just got an email from Tony Athens attaching a copy of the suit and the class notice. The suit is pending in state court in Ga. Deals with valve problems in 6LPS. I'd suggest anyone with a 6LP should see this and take action now to get on whatever bandwagon there will be....... send me an email at...

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Dug, I'd be interested in one, assuming it would be a direct replacement (drop in the same bolt holes, etc).

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Randall, it was just a normal coonass bash. Doug asked me how many times a year this sort of deal is done here.....duhhhhhhh, maybe 15-20? Thanks again Andre', you de man! Randall, thanks to you & Caren for the silver auction catalog, got it today and dropped Caren a note....nice stuff. The tureen w...

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Andre' it was indeed a great party and thanks.....12 sacks of crawfish (about 45# each, yes Faithful, it was over a quarter TON of crawfish) were eaten up pretty quick. Yvonne was the life of the party for about an hour & a half...like the rise & fall of the 3d reich. Timmy was actually pretty good,...

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Tiger, best news I've heard in a long time. I can help in the rebuild, take AJ down there for a week at a time, haul material, got a 6.5KW on board, power stuff, got people that can come swing hammers..... As I said, the Bertram 31 Faithful will never forget your hospitality, you are one of us forev...

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Tiger, been wonderg....gimme a call at your leisure, 800 260 9908. Your hospitality for the Bertram 31 Faithful will never be forgotten. Could the UVI return to Port Eads?........

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Walter, glad you are home, just mend and keep at it. I tried to call you a few times while you were in the hosp. but no one answered in yhour room, figured you were out walking the halls.

See ya, the new improved Walter, in Panama.

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Wayne - Andre' thinks those are crawfish, I know better. Let me offer a coonass recipe for cooking those spineys. First, turn it (yep, while it's live, sorry PETA) upside down, take a machete or meat cleaver and whack it down the middle and split it. Then make a saute' in a little sacue pan of a hal...

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Randall, for commercial boats, the keel coolers are the cooling system of choice down here where we have a lot of shallow water, and big stainless props in Kort nozzles for the tugs. All dry stack. When the Port Eads harbor would silt up, Buzzy would call one of his buddies with a 3,000 hp tug to co...

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I'm headed to Miami tomorrow on some Uncle business, be there til Friday afternoon. Got tomorrow pm and Thurs. pm with zilch to do. any of the Faithful down there that wanna get together for minor b.s. & clears gimme an email, royvictor@cox.net tonight or call me on my cell, 225 937 1319 tomorrow. S...

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Rocket - my knock on the geared splitter is you cannot vary the rpm between the props. About 38 years ago I bought a 1947 45' cypress cabin cruiser, oddly enough, named the "Rocket", that had a pair of Chrysler straight 8 army tank engines. The old engineer guy I bought her from had designed a hyd. ...

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White hulls for sure, unless at the TSL, otherwise you'd never figure out which boat to get on......

The drivesplitter rivals the IPS (and casinos) on top of the list on how to separate fools & their money.

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Their lawyers made 'em do it......

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I ran into this when my son began making a fish attractant. The tax does not apply to natural baits as there is a specific exemption in the law.. Put a worm on the fly??????

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Tiara and Luhrs are just as good as a B31......Bruce, you have finally turned the corner I feared you were headed for..say it ain't so.......just a brain fart?

Yo Fren'

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Well, no B31 is a family cruising boat - they are simply a great day boat you can overnight on now & then. I have always viewed AJ as a pure day boat, and had either a houseboat or camp to do dock her and entertain in. I've had much bigger boats in the past and living on a boat is something you just...

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Yep Erensto, you hit the nail on the head.....getting there alive and getting back is part of the mistique....Now if you had balls the size of John Cranston, just run straight across. That is the way to get there, just calculate your fuel, stock up and go. It's only 401 n.m....... Shoot, you guys do...

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Ernesto, it can happen. Yep the fishing is still good down there, and Venice Marina can handle a small crowd of boats, even have a restaurant and bar now. I've even looked into renting a quarters barge for PE, having a fuel barge come down there if we all sleep on the boats. Its only an hour or less...

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Copper in the exhaust.....My Cummins 6BTAs, made in 1989, have the optional cupro-nickel exhaust elbows. I've had the hoses off them in the last couple of years, and they look brand new. AJ stays most of the time in fresh water, but my 5" stainless welded pipes that take the exhaust down and around ...

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Did two of these Friday and 12 poeple could only eat one, so got some real good left overs. Get a boston butt, bone in, about 9#, look for a layer of fat on the bottom and plenty of fat marbeling in the meat. Wash it good in warm water, let it drain. Get some really fresh garlic, not the crap that's...

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Sean - that's exactly what you do....Members of Congress have huge staffs to deal with their voters' problems with the federal government...its a tried & true vote buying tool. They all have multiple offices in their home districts for doing this stuff. Back to the topic of speed and diesel h.p., my...

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Look forward to seeing you. The bad news is I got deadlined (the bane of the legal profession) into taking depositions in Miami that week and probably won't get back until very late Friday nite.

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Ditto what Tom says....the boat needs to be in the water for a few days to get the right shape. The feeler gague is foolproof, try to get it under .003" Whoopeeee! 81 and sunny, been baking cakes with our twin 3 yr. old grand daughters on the pea gravel path..... Sent them home with a bushel of came...

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Yeah, Port Eads is a special place, but Venice ain't Port Eads. We shall see. John and me were smoking cigars one nite late in Pee Wee's Pavillion and I looked around and everyone else had gone to bed. I was gonna walk him to the Pain Killer (blue houseboat stuck in the mud and still there) to his b...

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John, it was our pleasure to meet you, and running 400 miles across the Gulf non-stop proves a few things, mostly we have some pretty stout boats and balls the size of grapefruit. As for Port Eads, I hear a rumor that the power co. is planning to restore power to the place maybe by the end of March....

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Crawfish Etouffee, pro. A-2-FAY. A food that makes coonasses stay here despite failed schools, rampant crime, crooked politicians, etc, rivaled only by crawfish bisque, a stew like etouffee but with the crawfish heads stuffed with corn bread and ground crawfish meat dressing, and a little seasoning....

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Randall - the Surgeon General made one for me a few years ago and a few baits with AJs pix imbedded in them......ranks up there with the stuff you have made for me & the Bride....& the Prof's UVI shirts, etc and all I can say is nice to know you guys.....who'd ever thunk that much talent could meet....

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Hey now Prof, His Timmy-ness did not puke in Panama, even in the 20+ ft. swells those first couple of days, nor on AJ in the various UVIs....course his luggage was lost in Panama, so maybe his puke pills got lost too. Figure he was so scared of the crabs, gators, & snakes at Port Eads that puking wo...

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Eddy, you may be ok since the deep cycles will make the voltage regulator "see" a bigger load to charge. My guess would be your on board charger is not "topping" them off and the alternators are trying to. I have the same situation on 21 KW home genset - the little trickle charger holds the deep cyc...

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I left out Kipp's Targeted Species....

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I can think of 10 offhand in La. & MS.

1. AJ
2. RR
3. White Rhino
4. Wet Spot
5. Suzy's Pissed
6. Centurion
7. Gayle Culp's
8&9 - two in the Houma area
10. The brothers Mendenhall at Grand Isle.

Think all but one Houma boat are diesel.

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Mark, you just can't help yourself, can you? Once an asshole, always an asshole. You don't belong here, get lost. Faithful, ban him, don't even give him the pleasure of an answer. You just don't get it.

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Thanks Tommy, I forgot there were 3 different flavors - seems I had gotten the mild & the medium before the cat burgular got them. Shoot, Andre's enclosure looks so bad an angle grinder would do better. The 500 will be interesting to see who gets caught cheating......I love cheats, made a good livin...

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Yes, the thermostat will do that, just like the one in your house or car...."line voltage" means you don't have to use a relay to cut the heaters on and off - the line voltage thermostat has enough amp capacity to do it directly. You would have to experiment to get the right setting, just use your I...

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I knew it was a mistake to tell you where the camp key was.......

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Just put a line voltage therostat on each one (www.wwgrainger.com) and set them for about 55 degrees. You have way too much block heater tho, 250w is about right for a 6B.

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That's it, thanks JP.

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One of the Faithful asked me what we use and I can't remember - I have the stuff at the camp, but not at home. The cream for polishing out haze and scratches, is it Novous? Also the need the name of the insulator wax to use after polishing - it starts with a "C".....he needs this for regular clear v...

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Wayne - there are a couple of places that have booths at the FLL show each year that make plastic panels you can put your own gagues in. Just send them a template and they cut to your specs, and as I remember it was pretty short money. When my original Cummins plastic panels started going to pot fro...

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Got the new issue of Southern Boating today and featured is a 75' Lazzara bubble boat with four (4) Vulva IPS @ 435 hp per. 78,000# of Clorox bottle and claims 31 kt cruise with a stunning 375 mile range on 830 gallons. The more I think about the IPS, the more I think they knocked off my original GP...

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The zince are normal, they are made to die.......instead of somening else. Do you have zincs on the tabs? Sounds like maybe the galvanic currents around the tabs are eating the copper in the bottom paint.

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Tinning - that is, all the strands of the wire are coated with solder - is common in marine wiring. You can get any size stranded and tinned, including welding cable. So let's get apples and oranges in their proper slots. If plain copper stranded (or solid) wire is isolated from salt water, it will ...

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Vince - I have the 250s and the port exhaust out of the turbo sweep goes down about 90 degrees, then there is a custom welded s.s. 5" pipe with about a half dozen angles that takes the exhaust out along the stringer with a big f.g. muffler. No 'crossover', its all below the rear of the engine. The f...

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