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Mikey - been over at the camp.....the one on my desk is the solid top one. Appears to have never been chromed, doubt its from a Bertram. No electrical at all, but the lenses are good. Has a few dings, so it was used on something. If you can't find a "real" one we can do a deal. I abandoned trying to...

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Bruce - yes. The Poly-Glow lit says to use ammonia to remove it, and ammonia will eat any way too.

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I buy a lot of stuff on eBay, mostly sterling silver, and the trick is to know how much you are willing to pay, period. I ususally watch an item until an hour or so before the bidding ends, then pop my max bid and forget about it. I get some good deals but eBay has become more or less a retail outle...

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Those are the 6.2L truck motors. No turbo. Like Walter I doubt the speed numbers. The B31 with the 170 hp Cummins V504s at 170 hp is slow, say 17-18 kts cruise. On the other hand, the boat seems pretty nice. The Hynautic engine controls are a real plus. All the stated numbers for fuel, water, etc, a...

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Bruce - word on the street is the alleged retarded guy had a Mensa membership card in his pants, was shooting at the cops and 5 of his own ricocets got him in the back. Doo doo happens, ya know.... Your deer gutting procedure is a little more finesse' than we do here in coonassland....hang 'em by th...

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Dug, Port Eads makes the banjo boys in Ark. look like Sunday school class. Many of the Faithful have been there and know what the real South, especially the coonass South, is all about. Who remembers the chorus line to Hollis' classic original "I'm More Redneck Than You"? Seems some of us were gonna...

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Find one of those old Honda 50cc dirt bikes with the folding handlebars. I traded a divorce case for one about 35 years ago and had a huge amount of fun on it. Would do maybe 20 mph but would downshift and climb a 60 degree dirt pile. Two happiest days of my life were 30 something years ago when I d...

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He got the traditional Southern blood stripe on each cheek. It's what makes you yankees fear us.....A 7 year old Southern boy (oh yeah, he just turned 7 last month) can pick your ass off at 200 yards with his .243. The kid can do a 4" group at 200 yds all day long. Capt. Brent called last night as t...

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Timmy - my late Momma taught me if you can't say something nice, don't say anything.

Bye now.

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My 7 year old grandson Hunter (one of Capt. Brent's boys) killed his first buck yesterday - one shot with his .243.

Venison for New Year's....first you make a roux....

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Depends on where you are. Down here in the South 12K min., 16K is better. I have 12 with a glassed in front and solid side windows and its adequate, but if the 12K Cruisaire goes out a 16 will replace it.

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JP, I'll dig them out and have them scanned.

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Two pc. mold. I have some pix of them splitting the molds at the factory.

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There is an article in the new issue of Sport Fishing about Alexi, one of the mates at TSL, rigging ballyhoo with circle hooks for sails. Its a 25 step process he can do in about 45 seconds...... Same mag had an article about him rigging Panama belly baits a while back. I could use a little Panama t...

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Ran-dollllll, ya know, I was thinking about that. I felt bad you did not win that last year, but maintaining strict standards is very important in a world-class event. Fly fishing, surf boards, where will it end? Tom P. tried to enter a red snapper in a UVI, a woman from Florida caught a blue marlin...

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Well, having you back and on the mend is a very good Christmas present for us all. Now on the other hand, a fly rod division at UVI 7 is probably a stretch since I have to maintain certain standards to insure the event is properly and fairly run.....

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I gotta have some too.....now if Andre would just get off this ass and finish the B31 lift in his fnacy new boathouse down the bayou from me I'd have a shipyard in my back yard to do them. I did hear that Andre' The Electrician has mastered 240 volts AC and how to reverse it. It is indeed a great wo...

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Like the can of CX in the foreground.

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Oh yeah, don't send stuff to the hosp. since they live 120 miles away in the east hamptons and would have to cart it home. Wait till he gets home to send stuff. He really sounded upbeat and asked me to tell all the Faithful how much he appreciated us pulling for him. I think we need to start a pool ...

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Hey Faithful, just got off the phone with Walter and his wife. He is in the hosp. in NYC and had the hip done yesterday and they had him walking up and down the hall today. He was in very good spirits and said good thing I called this afternoon vs. this morning when he "felt like crap". He said the ...

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I'd put all 3 straight out the transom, as low as possible.

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You are.

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Good deal, look forward to seeing ya'll.

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I just spoke to Don and they have no objection whatsoever.

Go for it.....probably a good idea to let me look at the design first.

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Harv, I went back and looked at his orginal post and he's in NYC Presbyterian Hosp. I'm gonna Google it and get a phone # and call them in the morning for his room. Harv, if you can get by there, give us the scoop and give him our best.

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10-4, I'll call him and see you at the usual. How's your electrical work on the boathouse going? Guess its going better than I figured since you are still alive, assuming its you posting and not Gizmo......

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Andre - talked to the G-man today about him ruining our middle eastern cuisine availability here and persecuting the slumping grosbeaks. We need a holiday lunch, how about tomorrow?, I'm buying and he's available.

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Walter was to have his first hip replacement today at a NYC hospital. He said he was gonna be out of commission for a while and away from a computer. Anyone - Prof, Rahn-dollllll - know how he's doing? Let's all just bow our heads for a few seconds and wish him the best. He is about the coolest guy ...

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I'll make a call tomorrow.

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Eddy - sounds like you are almost done. Sure thing, how much CX you need? If your old camp is not open I have tons of room at my dock behind AJ.

Give me a call at the office 927 9908 - I'll trhow some CX in the truck tonite.

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If they are 250 hp 4BTAs they are rated at 3000 and should be propped to turn just over that, say 3050-3100 at full load WOT.

Eddy - have you got the Yan 240s in the Gotta Go yet? We gotta race up and down the Tickfaw sometime. Now that AJ is in her Howdy Boat config. she's fast.......

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Mikey - Tony Athens of Seaboard Marine in CA designed a vastly improved impeller for the Sherwood pumps and has them made overseas. As I remember you have the 6BTA 300s, CPL 970? The 210s and 250s use the Sherwood 15000 series pumps and I think the 300s use the 17000 series. You can tell the differe...

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As long as it's complimentary to the brand, and not sold commercially, just given away to the Faithful, even with the promise of a minor donation to support this site, I doubt the Bertram Yacht folks would mind, but of course I don't speak for them. I still like the license plate holder motto, "Best...

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Capt. Randle - places that make them up are a dime a dozen in any industrial area - most NAPA stores will make them up while you wait. I used to take an old one so they would get the fittings right the first time, and the brass fittings are the best vs. the steel ones for boat use since the pressure...

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I gotta agree with Scot that if you have short runs and budget, it is hard to beat the DD. The entire fleet (15 of 'em) of B31s at Tropic Star are powered with identical DD 4-53 naturals at 140 hp, but the manager says they have the governors set at 100 hp. Boats have no tachs. Wide open to run, I'd...

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Well Faithful, I see that 711 people have viewed this fundraising thread, and a huge number have responded with financial support. Sure, we banter around here with our friends (any of the Faithful are our friends), but when someone asks a real question, there is always a serious and professional ans...

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Walter, you will come out better than new and rest assured you have all the Faithful pulling for you. Anything you need, ask us first.

The Pinas Bay sails are shaking in their boots.....

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what gear ratio?

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OK Faithful, we enjoy this place at lot, and support it with our financial contributions to Capt. Patrick to keep it going, no dues, for free. Sit back and just think about the friends you have made here, the free advice from the people that really know that you have gotten here, the deals of people...

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Doug, let me know when you are ready for that Lee Sr. base, and can I send it to where I send the CX?

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Doug - looks great. Tip: ditch those paper air filters on the 6BTAs and order a pair of the permanent S&B ones from Tony Athens, pay for themselves in a year easy.

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walter, sure we can. I shipped some of the Prof's UVI shirts to Louis Sola's kid Anthony down there, piece of cake. I'll get the details to you. I did a big - probably 7 or 8# - bone-in boston butt pork ham/roast yesterday. First I took a LOT of fresh garlic cut in slivers and stuffed it in holes pu...

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Mikey, get it on, I need a helmsman bad......one that can syncro those Cummins. Holler if you need anything, 800 260 9908.

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Agree - Walter's book is top notch. I doubt I'll ever put one together since there are dozens of good cajun cookbooks floating around. Walter, bring a couple to TSL in June and we can raffle them off toward the bar tab....

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When the Monkey Boats started showing up off Port Eads in the early 90s we just slept late and moseyed out about 10 am to look around. Most of them would start running out of fuel before noon if the blue water was more than about 25 miles offshore. Here the best blue suit bite has always been betwee...

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Bruce, when I was in college a math prof tried to teach us coonasses that Pi R square, but we wouldn't buy that b.s. 'casue we all knew pie R round, cornbread R square.. BTW, put the new klixon on the ice machine compressor, and it kicked it right off with no chattering, but the bad news is it will ...

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Let's say I put a one ton (2,000 lbs for you engineeringly challenged, like Timmy) weight on one side of the boat off a rope, and a two pound weight on the other side. Both suspended the same distance below the surface on identical ropes. Both have the same vertical cross section, imagine a sash wei...

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Thanks, figured that - we have Cox cable and they are still fighting with the NFL network, so guess I won't see it. If I cared enough (don't) I could get it on my shortwave set, screw it, watch some mind-numbing stuff or read how the Rocker-Stoppers work Pure science on them Rocker Stoppers.

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Our local paper just installed a new $60 million printing press made by, yep, the MAN-grenade folks from Germany, and of course now our paper comes at 9 am instead of 5, half the time has only half the print in it. Point is the sports section today did not have what network the NFL game is on tonigh...

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Work? You and who else? I got the pissin' off the back down pat. I can help pass tools to those more better than me..... I also make a good security gurad before dark time.

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