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In Memory of Vicroy

Slick..... What would be the result if someone put 25 of us together with an unlimited budget, paid all our expenses for a year, and gave us a stripped B31 hull? No, not the Buddy Boy, that's already been done......

UV

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Bruce, I agree with you 100%. All this engineering b.s. these pretty boys are spouting don't account for the fact that a heavy thing is harder to lift than a lighter gizmo.

Case closed.

UV, Esq.

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You forgot the added weight of the longer rope.

Very little gets past this crowd......

UV

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So whatever happened to inertia????? Objects at rest tend to stay at rest, objects in motion tend to stay in motion????? Energy must be applied to change either, so where does the energy come from to move the disc?????

UV, Esq.

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Wayne - I have it, should ship from Dallas today. I'll email you an invoice bye & bye...

UV

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No, ya'll still dodging the issue of water weighs more than air. If the disc is inside a PVC pipe, won't the deeper the disc is make it harder to move? I may be dumb, but after hauling the Bride's pot plants in before the freeze last nite, I can tell you water weighs more than air. My back tells me ...

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Wayne, yep, I can drop ship the gallon for you from the factory for 72 bucks plus a little shipping, maybe 5 bucks to the left coast.

UV

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So why not put the disc in a long PVC pipe so you get the advantage of the added water column?

UV, the never satisfied......

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Hmmmm.......deeper means more weight on the flopper, so harder to pull up. I'm no engineer, wanted to be one, but the math kicked my butt in the early 60's so I opted for law school where reason is thrown to the winds. I remember a college physics class where the prof was explaining that a huge brid...

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Cummins used to offer several exhaust elbow options ranging from cast iron to cupro-nickel. I got lucky and mine came with the cupro-nickel ones that are pretty much bullet proof. I looked at both of them within the last couple of years (engines built Nov, 1989) and they both look like new inside. T...

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Rob - Bellues has the best boudin, bar none and they will ship it to you.

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Harry - obviously you never met Timmy......Let me put it this way - his social skills are not like ours here in the South......At the fancy hotel in Panama City, PA on the way to the UVI at TSL he made the cute desk clerk lady cry by being......well, just being Timmy... Good news is her boyfriend Gu...

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Mikey - thanks for the anniversary wishes, 40 years is a long time for her to put up with my b.s. And after seeing Pete walk around the FLL show with the best of us, it's worth it. Get you-self well, I need a boat driver.

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I saw in the paper a few weeks ago that someone's navy caught a sub off Panama smuggling dope. Was the B31 the guide boat and the bulges off the transom under the waterline the guide? After all, its from NJ, and you know how those guys are...... UV, always a conspiracy. Like Bruce says, even us para...

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Buy me lunch tomorrow and I'll restock you, free.

UV

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CX informed me today that the price of the aerosol CX, both regular and HD, plus the 16 oz. regular pump bottle, is going up a buck a pop effective Jan. 1. Other products are not affected at this time. So order now. Remember, I'm selling to the Faithful at wholesale and what meager profits I make ti...

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Tubb is shorthand for Tubb of Guano.....

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A lot of the big shrimp boats around here use similar (but a lot larger) devices off their trawl outriggers. Obviously the farther outboard they are the better they work.

UV

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Drug smuggling pods?......

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Hey Surgeon General - I like the 8 courses of wine.....

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There is a dirty little secret around Baton Rouge I'm gonna clue you guys in on. www.belluescajuncuisine.com Place was started by a cop years ago up by the Exxon refinery where you needed large cal. weapons just to drive to it. They just opened an outlet by our house and all their stuff is better th...

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The Bride gave me a wireless bbq therometer for our 40th anniversary, what a gal. The thing makes cooking big chucks of meat on the grill a snap vs. a crap shoot. We have used the wireless to do a fresh pork ham (big sucker) and a beef rump roast, both with great results. Tonight we did a rolled por...

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Put the opened tube in a zip lock and then in the freezer and it wil last. Same for glues like super glue.

More ways to skin a cat than feed it melted butter.......

UV

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Steve - try an electric heat gun and see if you can work some CX between the surfaces.

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'bout the only way any sane person can be coaxed aboard a Hyena Boat. Do you get to pick out your two?

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Dug - what's a "greek stripper pole"?

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Bruce - just got the aftermarket Klixon. It's a 3 in one deal with a capacitor, the relay, and the overload all in one little unit. Instructions say to hook the 3 various colored wires up to the compressor pins, one to the "start" pin, one to the "run" and the other to the "common". I understand the...

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Don't even think about bringing that pile of crap near my camp or Andre's. We have restrictions against house trailers too. Plus draws too much water, and even if you could get it in the canal at high water I'll bet I can put a real small group at the waterline with my 30.06......

UV

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Doug - Hamilton Marine in ME has every kind. www.hamiltonmarine.com

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Mike, I'll take a stab.....The fuel pickup tube in the main tank is made out of rolled copper and soldered up the seam. We have seen that joint crack and suck air once the fuel level in the tank drops below the crack.

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Scot, no, I have a soft spot in my heart for the B25. I first became the Steward of a Bertram in 1976 with a 1972 B25. Ran it for 17 years, caught over 100 marlin off that little boat, first B25 I know of ever repowered to diesel in 1984. The B25 has pretty nice lines, as does the B20 Bahia Mar. Not...

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Both Butt Ugly to my eye. Look like old Hatts trying to be Bertrams. The lines are just not right. Hey Timmy, that's what your old Tubb will look like after the chain saw job, but without your signature 4" PVC pipe a/c exposed ductwork. Shoot, the things us True Faithful have to endure is getting to...

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Hueso - no, don't have a pix handy, but they look like a long skinny dorado with big eyes. Watching the Monday nite football in the snow in Seattle. Seldom snows in downtown Seattle, but reminds me of the time I was doing a case for Uncle out there and got snowed in, took me 3 hours to get to the ai...

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Kevin, no, the Hyena Boat should remain "lowly". After all, this is a Bertram 31 site devoted to the Best Boat Ever Built. The B31 Faithful have been very graceful in welcoming the owners of lesser boats here, but there is a line we cannot cross. "Lowly" is just a word, but "Butt Ugly" better descri...

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Well, that's a toss up to me since they are different kinds of fish. Dorado will turn a golden color and stay firm in a smoker. But whaoo will sort of shrink up and melt if you smoke it. For grilling, my view is there is no better fish in the ocean (well, maybe a pompano) than wahoo, particulary the...

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On an inboard boat, even a lowly Hyena Boat, the transom has no stress, it's just a water dam to keep the waves out of the cockpit, so flimsy is OK. If you are going to hang a swim platform off it, beef it up, otherwise just forget it. Now I will chime in too that your steering tie bar is something ...

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Now the UV dorado recipe' is just a little different, since the filets are a little thinner, in fact, the thinner the better. Use a lot less saute' in the skillet, just short of a dry skillet. Rub the fillets with the same stuff, dust with flour, heat the skillet to just under smoking the saute', th...

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Hueso - good eating size. We call those "snake" wahoo here in Louisiana. Here is a recipe' for you: cut the filets up in little round steaks about an inch thrick. Rub them down with a little sea salt, some red pepper, some crushed garlic, then dust them with flour. Take a big iron skillet and melt a...

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Thanks again Bruce. Just called an appliance parts place and they knew instantly waht I needed. They sell an aftermarket unit that replaces both the klixon and internal breaker for $23. Plugs into the three pins on the compressor and then you wire the two hots to it. Worth a try for sure.

UV

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Thanks, Bruce. Yep, it's the ice machine in the camp shop but it did not flood since it's up on a stand about 3 feet. I'll pull the Klixon cover off and first douse it in CX then if that does not work get a new Klixon. The compressor will run a little before the internal breaker shuts it down, so it...

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Hey Faithful - I have an old Whirlpool under the counter ice machine at the camp that seems to have crapped out this morning. Its the kind that freezes a slab of ice then releases it to slide out on a grid of heated wires and the little cubes drop thru the grid into the bin. Anyway, when I turn it o...

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3600 rpm, unbalanced, vibrate like crazy, LOUD, parts fall off, Farryman service is terrible, raw water cooled (salt water in the block, no HE), did I mention LOUD? I had one, not assembled by Panda, but the same set up with the same engine. You can I.D. the dreaded Farrymann by the dome shaped valv...

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Beware, think those have single lung Farrymann engines......

UV

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AJ has no reefer, just a few ice chests on the motor boxes. I do have a little portable Igloo DC thermoelectic ice chest I use now and then to keep the boudin rouge cold & dry vs. on ice. Reefer in a 31 is a waste.

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Jimmy, now that's a buck. I see the bow & arrow rig, but the hole looks like a 30-06. You musta shot hard.

Andre - went by your boathouse yesterday and you now have steel beams welded up there for the lifts. The mosquito invasion is still on, they almost outran the golf cart.

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Hueso - nice baits. Bonito as sushi? Man, the Sushi Police are gonna be all over you guys...... On the subject of bonito, many years ago when I was a rookie in offshore fishing, me & the 7 year old Capt. Brent got into a bunch of big bonito right offshore of Port Eads and thought they were tuna fish...

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The new issue has an article by our own Capt. Mike Holmes about the Tickfaw River with the famous pix of AJ, da Judge's B25 Bad Habit, and my B20 Bahia at my camp dock. Mike didn't mention it, but at the time the 3 boats were a combined 100 years old..... Also Mike wrote a Christmas boating poem tha...

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Harry - the Bertram factory has tons of them. Call 305 633 8011 and order one. If they give you the run around, call back and ask for Bryan Bogue, who is the new "Marketing Intelligence Manager" (interesting title) and the guy that they has assigned to keep us old Bertram owners happy. Tell Bryan th...

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JC - I see nothing wrong with putting some washers between the rear of the prop hub and the nut if you can maintain the "one shaft diameter" distance between the rear of the strut and the forward end of the prop hub. That rule of thumb is the maximun, so if its a little closer, that's OK. Yes, a loo...

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Hueso - looks like the old man may have done that before - his presence in the fighting chair tells us that. Sure would like to meet you and the old man some day..... UV, fresh back from NYC and some good times....Flying out of JFK this afternoon was not for the faint of heart or bladder - how many ...

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