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In Memory of Vicroy

Guys - I'm a CX dealer but don't stock anymore. I can have the factory drop ship case lots or gallons direct to you. I can give you about 25% off the quoted retail price, plus shipping. I would just bill you via eamil and you send me a check. If I get stiffed, ....well, stiffing a lawyer can have so...

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I have the same tachs on my 250s. The hour meter function works off the 12 volt + from each ignition switch - i.e. when the switch is "on", the hour meter runs. I'm not positive whether there is one 12v+ to the whole tach (pretty sure there is) or two, one for the tach function and one for the hour ...

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Just got the Tasco Bruce recc'ed and mounted it on the Marlin 99 - a snap, the only tool you need is a coin. The sight is amazingly well made for 31 bucks - all metal and nice and tight. The red dot brightness is adjustable in 11 steps but I find the brightest is best and easy to see in direct sunli...

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You can get CX in gallons....or 55 gallon drums. A half quart of it in a 5 quart gas motor would do wonders. Marvel Mystery Oil on steroids. I ditto Walter's advice on the little electric screwdriver...I have a $18 Black & Decker that uses regular AA batteries and they last an amazingly long time & ...

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Pete - this is all part of the shaking down process we have all been through. Don't get spooked just yet. Put an extra coil in the parts box and go to Greenport. You can count of the Faithful to jump in and help if you need it. Running the boat yourself is the way you get familiar with how she feels...

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Great advice Bruce. And if you use a big ole bell, make sure you don't mount it right under the compass..... how do I know....

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I was under the impression that on the 250/270 the circuit board triggers the alarm light & buzzer and not a hard switch, but could be wrong. I took a big wave over the f.b. years ago and soaked the panel causing all the alarms to go off....some CX got all but one, the low voltage alarm, to go off. ...

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Gert, you are my kind of guy....screw the weather, take the boat to the south of France, Okay.....she will turn some heads en route for sure.

Have fun.

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Pete, your thinking is flawed in that the goo problem has been seen to first cause problems in the valve train causing the valves to stick either open or shut and usually bending the push rods. Or gumming up the carbs so the motor won't get gas. Worn cylinders and piston rings will almost never caus...

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Whoa, Nellie.....there are a lot of two bit things that make gas motors not run other than needing a "rebuild".....air, gas, spark, etc all need to happen....that's I guess why Mike asked if it turns over - if it spins it can me make to run, maybe not great, but run....first start with seeing if she...

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I have used the flourescent dye in my gears to find oil leaks. It works very well - requires a black light to see the dye. Available at many auto parts stores or on line. Mix with a small amount of gas and then go back at night with the black light. Be sure you get the type for oil vs. the kind for ...

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Congrats!

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Thanks, Bruce, just ordered one. I like the adjustable brightness. I assume that mount will just slip right on the groves in my reciever?

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Gert - consider switching to aviation gas. It's trouble to haul around, and more expensive, but not as expensive as a new tank. 10% killed the tanks here, suppose 5% would do the same pretty quickly so keep your eyes on the push rods first.

The av gas has been a solution for many.

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Thanks Scot....little rich for my blood maybe. This is the one I was looking at, will fit my 3/8" dovetail groves. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=barska+ac10650+review&rlz=1W1ACAW_enUS403US404&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=792&bih=385&wrapid=tlif131068127342110&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&ci...

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I have a Marlin model 99 .22 automatic my dad left me that has a trashy Tasco scope that is useless. I want to put a red dot sight on it - will use it around the camp for plinking and snake control. The rifle's reciever has the dovetail groves for a scope mount. I have low vision and need a pretty b...

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Harry Babb and his lovely Bride, Joanne, hosted me & Elaine, our daughter Jennifer & her husband Chuck & their 4 little girls to dinner Sunday at their cool boathouse on the Fish River on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. We all had a ball, especially the girls who went wild sliding down Harry's huge...

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Bertram went to the larger 222 (usuable) tank in the 1972 model year. The original tank will have a typed paper tag glassed into the top of the tank at the rear near the pickup fitting. You may have to scrub the grime off to find it. My 1972 model FBC's tank tag shows the tank was built in March, 19...

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Only work at night, no OSHA.

UV, the always helpful.....

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Well....CX has come out with some new products and they just sent me some to try...Xtreme Clean, a super-duper cleaner in a pump bottle and Pro Wash RX, a concentrated boat and aircraft detergent with a shine built in. I'll try them out and let y'all know. I've re-upped my CX dealership and can offe...

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Does not sound that bad to me - the zincs are there to be eaten up instead of the good stuff. Your bonding connections look fine to me, the green stuff is normal and a shot of CX will take care of it quickly. Your rudder bonding idea is a good one that all of us should copy when the rudders are out....

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Me & the Bride took our fishing-fool middle grandson Hunter, 11, to the camp this weekend. He wanted to go after "big fish" like gar and giant blue channel catfish. We had some left over mahi-mahi filets that we had marinated in extra virgin olive oil, garlic powder, onion powder, and chopped parsle...

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Gert - couldn't understand a word until I drank 7 Heinekens, then it all made perfect sense.

yo Fren'

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The USCG has issued a warning for "severe shoaling" in the South Pass of the Mississippi River with many areas of less than two feet in the center of the channel. They advise mariners to avoid South Pass.

Shucks, we knew that a long time ago, right Capt. Jack?

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Ask Margo to send you some gas money & that you know a guy that had an erection that lasted more than 4 hours. Keep 'em guessing.

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Make sure you get him a mount of it, a life time deal. My son was 9 when he caught his first and still has the mount some 31 years later. A white makes the prettiest mount of them all in my view.

Congrats!

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Like a cross between a Spotted Owl & a Whooping Crane.

How come Trey did so much better? I know you were handicapped by the Commies impounding your guns, but that's a lame excuse.

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Mike - my old saying is "you gotta fish where they live and must be present to win".....that was us on this trip, a lot of experience fishing this area and putting 2 & 2 together and coming up with the right combo. Now, not to start a controversy, but this fish is the second blue marlin in a row tha...

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Congrats - sushi anyone? Nice fish.

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Good news, Faithful.....the Garmin 17X HVS GPS anteena/sensor outputs NEMA 0183 and works perfect with my Garmin 2010C plotter...which means it will work with all the older Garmin plotters that use NEMA 0183. I hooked up the new 17X in place of my old dead 17N to check it prior pulling the old wires...

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Thanks, guys....Terry, I feel's yo' pain, but I'm at least half a let up on ya, I quit working for a living several years ago and highly recc. it. The AIS is a gadget I really........need?...want...yep, want. My Garmin 2010 color chartplotter and Raytheon 41X radar both take NEMA 0183 data inputs so...

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The recent trip aboard the Mary P. was my forst encounter with the Automatic Identification System where every AIS equipped vessel within a fairly large area around you shows up on the chart plotter and radar with its name, type of vessel, MMSI number, etc. I understand the prices have come way down...

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Thanks, Capt. Patrick for guiding the computer dumb thru that....the perpretrators, from left: Trey, the Capt./Engineer; Alex, first mate: Chris, second mate: owner Daryl Pennington (behind Chris); and your ole Uncle Vic, the angler. Pix taken by my son, Capt. Brent. Me & Daryl are known as Team Ger...

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Okay - if I do this as instructed by Capt. Patrick we should see a pix of my tail wrapped blue marlin....

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She is indeed an amazing vessel and has a good many features that may be of interest ot the Faithful. I'll first describe our tirp. Daryl and Mary are old friends from the Port Eads days & my son, Capt. Brent is his favorite light tackle guide. Daryl knew I'd had a couple of bouts with cancer and no...

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Advertised dry weight is 10,300# but that's factory new with gas engines. As Tom says, depends......for example, the Cat 3208 option adds a good bit as they weigh 2,200# EACH with gear.

Anyway, tell 'em 10,300.

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Back from fishing the UVI 10 aboard the 122 foot Mary P. with her owner and my son. We found a dream rip about 112 n.m. south of Biloxi - some 75 n.m. southeast of Port Eads and fished it Sunday afternoon and Monday, overnighting offshore on the sea anchor. Two blue marlin, one white marlin, a 100# ...

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Congrats, little buddy. Quite an honor. Elaine & I are lucky enough to be stewards of some of your work and all that see it are stunned, as we are too.....the statement that "you gotta look at it" is so ture, but you also "gotta touch it" to make sure your eyes are not playing tricks. Is that the cu...

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its the end, the market won't support it without the payola. Buy pork belly futures now and short them as the prices will go down fast.

Right, Prof?

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Thanks guys, he loved all of ya. Elaine & I went by the funeral home last ngith to pay our respects and they had some pix displayed of Snow with the Faithful at UVIs, made quite a stir and a lotta smiles. I relayed all of your thoughts to his wife & kids and they really appreciated it.

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Its unburned fuel caused by too much fuel and not enough air. Start on the easy side, the air. Check that something is not stuck in the air filter opening, like a paper towel...then take the air cleaner off and see if you can spin the turbo with your fingers. Now very carefully check the pressure ai...

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True story...Canal Street, New Orleans, an idiot cab driver tried to grab me thru the passenger side window when Snow hollered to me "Duck!"...which I did and The Snowman leaned across me & put his .40 Glock in the cabbie's face and said those exact words. Would he have blown the guy away? You bet, ...

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Faithful, I'm saddened to report my friend and former driver, Snow Foster has passed away. He had been battling cancer since 2005. Many of you will remember him from UVIs and the FLL boat show. His funeral will be Friday here in Baton Rouge.

Smooth sailing, ole buddy......

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I'm sad to report that my friend, client, and the long time harbormaster at Port Eads, Jeffery M. "Buzzy" Scarabin, Sr. die over the weekend. Buzzy ran the Port Eads Marina for some 25 years. He was 69.

His remains will be scattered at Port Eads.

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Roger that, Rawleigh, we will be on the Mary P fishing the UVI 10 and I smell a winner. Anyone else who wants to enter just let me know.

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Eddy's idea is a real good one. Having the same micron filter on both the Racor and the secondary defeats the purpose of having two. Go with the 30 on the Racor and leave the 10 on the spin on. I used to clog a 30 micron Racor about every 25 or 30 hours until I put the Algae-X magnetic fuel conditio...

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Looks like a fiddler crab to me....y'all be around Port Eads? What micron filters are you running in the Racors? May be too small....Most of us run 30 micron on the Racors and 2 or 10 on the secondary spin ons.

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The saga continues....got the new Garmin 17X antenna today and the box has "NEMA 2000" all over it....my Garmin 2010C plotter speaka de NEMA 0183. Called the place that sold the 17X to me, the fast-talking salesman swore Garmin told him it would work, gave me the phone # for Garmin Tech Support....c...

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Not sure if it would over a week....unless there is no check valve or equivalent in the fuel return line, and the return line dumps in the top of the tank vs. having a tube down into the tank similar to the fuel pickup. On mine, the fuel return just dumps in the top of the tank and I've let her sit ...

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Walt, I've never trusted the check valves - I'd go thrugh the Racor from top to bottom again looking for air leaks, especially in the bowl, its drain, and the small o-ring around the T-handle. A tight fuel system should not drain back in a week or so, but a leaky one will drain back fast. Our 6Bs ai...

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