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Talk to a couple local boatyards. They arrange boat transport all the time and can give you contact information for haulers. As Carl said a backhaul should be a fraction of the cost of a priority haul.

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I believe the digital radar emit less radiation and would be better if located anywhere your head.

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And finally here they are—my new investment cast stainless steel mixing elbows. Don’t look much different do they but my checkbook will tell! Thank you to both Tony and Carl for steering me in the direction of a better and less expensive alternative to the Yanmar replacement parts. http://i.imgur.co...

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For Carl http://i.imgur.com/CEBev9f.jpg Bob-Maybe “Easy Peary” for someone with your skills (and probably Carl’s) but a stiff job for someone like me. Still, it’s done and I’m very happy to have the new interior. BTW I think I mentioned it in an earlier post but I’ll repeat that Igot the original id...

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I called Marine Manifold in NY a couple weeks ago and also left a message. Two days later Paul called me back. Very nice guy and he recommended I reach out to HDI in WA who apparently specialize in this equipment. I did and they called me back a couple days later to confirm they had the parts I need...

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Doug- I've been searching for an old post with process of painting over the old laminate and came across your post. Been a few years, how has the paint held up? If you were to do again, would you paint or laminate over? Thanks, Carl https://bertram31.com/newbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14446&p=135619&hil...

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Doug Thank for the explanation. I actually have pretty soft water, and it is a Navien Combi. They tell me to flush the water heater side annually. They don't seem to recommend flushing the heating side which I find strange. Tony, I can find my way around an espresso machine but not so much with a C...

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Doug Interesting that you don't see any sediment. So then since it comes out on the dark side, looks dirty it's working. The Combi unit does not contain any iron in its components. I believe the boiler section is Stainless. Something is working since you’re flushing dirty water out but you could ju...

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BTW, I have a fresh water flush plumbed into my intakes which I hope will minimize my scale issues. Rick, I don’t know if this will reduce scale. In my experience working with boilers most scale is deposited during extreme temperature change I.e. ambient to boiling, in our case when the engines are...

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Thank you for the pictures and for reaching out in the first place but we are not a match. I guess that would have been too easy. Back to looking at new. HDI Marine must be doing something right, recommended by two members on the Forum and this morning Paul from Marine Manifold (the other one recomm...

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AJ I will not need my original mixers anymore if you want them. I did drill a hole in one mixer for an egt probe. I will attach some pictures here shortly of the mixers. Thank you, I will take them and make a donation to the Forum! Pictures of mine are posted above on this thread to see if they mat...

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Tony, how recently did your friend order from them? I emailed yesterday and called today but no response to either yet. Marine Manifold Corp way out on your coast responded pretty quickly.

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Yannis-here are the images.

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Beautiful condition, nice and clean. How could they ever be corroded on the inside!

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It’s been 22 years so I thought it was time to replace the exhaust mixing elbows on my Yanmar 6LP-STP’s. The estimate for parts came back at $1,250 per engine. $3,500 total for both engines including shipping and labor. Ouch! This mechanic has always been fair—not cheap but fair—so I don’t believe h...

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It’s interesting we all have such different experiences with bottom paint. Amberjack usually get 6-7 years between coats. The boat was painted spring of 2023 and last spring on the annual lift didn’t even need a pressure wash. We lift the boat every year late one morning for a quick bottom inspectio...

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What a tribute to the Bertram 31 hull design and construction. Any other hull this age and condition would be designated for remediation but I have never heard of a 31 hull being scrapped. Thank you for taking on this project.

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Hopefully by early April she will be mostly finished. Nice work on the boat Rick, I’m impressed especially as you did almost all the work yourself with your wife assisting. It is appropriate that you used the qualifier “mostly” as we Bertram owners know they are never finished, only passed along at...

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Looking at an expanded view your front window frame has a slightly different contour than mine and I can also see the pin or something there. The difference may be that your boat is a 1976 and Amberjack is a 1969 model or maybe a previous owner modified the window frame. At any rate I’d enlist someo...

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Jeremy-If you are talking about the front glass windows they hinge up. There should be two latches on the inside holding them closed. release those and they rotate forward and up, then you can pull them toward you out of the hinge. I took mine to a glass shop and he did a good job at a reasonable pr...

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JJ I’d be interested to see what you found on the market for diesel powered FBCs in decent condition. We bought Amberjack a couple decades ago and always wonder what value to put on it for insurance purposes.

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Tips….tips….ahh, tip toes! I thought you might have meant tipsy which looking at the image could also be appropriate. Anyhow, looks like fun.

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Beautiful Carl. We get those here in the Pacific NW also about this time of the year. They are so overwhelming it’s hard to absorb it all. Thanks for posting. I’m a bit puzzled though. You’re on the East Coast but it looks as though you are heading northeast back to harbor with open water behind you.

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Yannis,Tony is talking about shrink wrap. We use it a lot over here. Cover the boat, heat it up (or whatever they do) and it contracts covering the boat in a tight skin that doesn’t need a frame. When I did it one winter we cut a door into the shrink wrap that gave me access into the cockpit and the...

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Carl wrote: ↑Oct 29th, '24, 12:48
The wire and pole thing on the foredeck, is that to be used as a handrail? It's a cool looking thing.

That owner was a marine historian. Its the same clip on lifeline used on WWII submarines. I agree, it’s very cool.

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Good morning Peter, I’m writing from your side of the country today. Boy you guys have beautiful weather! Is it always like this? I also just installed Garmin autopilot after years of navigational simplicity. In my case it’s to use when piloting from the cabin during bad weather allowing me to remov...

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Great images, they give a glimpse of the understory of my boat. Thanks for posting them. It’s unnerving how many openings are in our hulls, some original build, some added by previous owners. Early on in my ownership I mapped all the openings I could locate, many disused and capped off, one with a h...

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I used Fleetwax a high carnuba content paste wax for years. Buff the hull down with a light rubbing compound to get it clean, then do two coats of Fleetwax in quick succession and forget about it until next spring. The old gelcoat on the Bertram just loved the wax and seemed to absorb it which is wh...

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It's a pop up camper at best when it comes to weekending My wife says it’s like camping in the back seat of a Porsche 911. We spend a month on our 31 FBC every summer and enjoy it. Over the years I’ve modified the boat enough to make it practical: a small double berth forward, a butane cook top sto...

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As Tommy said scrape some of the paint off the inside of the transom about 10” inches above the keel. Mine (1969) are on a piece of paper glassed in there. If there is one you won’t hurt it by removing the paint.

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Carl wrote: ↑Sep 17th, '24, 07:00 They are wet,

Yes they are wet unless you can run dead into the wind and chop so the spray falls away on both sides. As Admiral Nelson said “Damn the maneuvers, go straight at them “.

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The hull number will be written on the underside of the cabin sole hatch covers. The hatch covers were apparently cut to fit rather than being jig or pattern cut. I still have mine and avoided painting the undersides for that reason.

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What an epic find, a Bertram 31 in excellent original configuration and condition. The only updates I see are sensible and in keeping with the character of our boats. You easily have $150,000 in upgrades. Congratulations!

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Awesome trip, way more adventurous than anything I’ve done. What boat?

Thanks for posting this.

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Tony Meola wrote: ↑Sep 11th, '24, 21:30
Unfortunately, people are forgetting.

Even in the far northwest corner of the United States we remember.

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Carl, you are correct of course. I have 1 3/4 shafts on Amberjack and think I may be over sized but that’s what started this train of thought. Kevin I look forward to hearing what power plant you decide on and what shaft diameter the power people call out. My repower happened the same way yours did....

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1 3/4” shafts are plenty for any power you could squeeze into a Bertram 31

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Here are images of my cockpit sole. As you can see it hinges from the sides and allows me to lift the center section for access. The center piece is still heavy though and best managed with two.

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Hello everyone-Back in civilization again. We crossed the Straits of Juan de Fuca headed south this time in pretty decent weather. Image taken from American Camp, San Juan Island on a beautiful warm calm day http://i.imgur.com/W7R05KO.mp4 Holed up in Port Madison for a couple days to aclimatize and ...

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Ah Peter, that’s Alaska. When it decides to rain it can rain long and hard. I hope you were on a cruise ship with a warm cabin.

After minimal communication all day the phone rang and said the lead mechanic was on his way. It’s fixed and we’re outta here tomorrow.

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We moved over to Roche Harbor Marina yesterday and are sitting at the dock waiting for the replacement water pump to arrive by small plane, if it arrives today. First AM delivery up here is 3 PM. Meanwhile I have time to post a couple images from our hike out to the isthmus Saturday. View across the...

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Ganges got depressing after awhile but Henry Island is great and our neighbor gave us two live Dungeness crabs for dinner tonight. You bet it’s sweet! I’ll post a couple images from our hike tomorrow.

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Hello boys, back in communication after a couple weeks in the wilds of British Columbia. After fueling up at Friday Harbor-Amberjack loves that fuel dock-we checked in to Canada by phone at Boundary Pass and motored up to Ganges Harbour, BC. Easy couple days at dock to rest up and resupply, especial...

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We left our Seattle winter moorage in Portage Bay on Lake Washington at 11:00 AM and idled through the various canals and connecting lakes to the Hiram Chittenden Locks. It was a sunny Sunday and there was a crowd waiting. The large locks opened after half an hour and we all crowded in, experienced ...

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Nice car @amberjack Looks like a 1987 3.2 Carrera with 16x6 and 16x7 fuchs. I tracked a few Porsche's over the years and always told my friends that owning a boat makes Porsche ownership - even tracking a car seem reasonable. https://www.thehulltruth.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=230410&stc=1&d=1...

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Something tells me that they won't be recovering the restoration cost... Although it would be nice if old Bertrams got the same treatment that old Ferrari's or Old Porsche's They do Jeremy, in fact better! http://i.imgur.com/PlBgmRSh.jpg I’ve easily spent 10X on my Bertram as on my old Porsche. htt...

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Steve, in the past when I’ve updated the software I inserted the chip, went through the download process and removed the chip when done after maybe 30 minutes. I followed the same procedure this time but no Canada charts came up. I did it a couple times and even tried leaving the chip inserted but s...

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This is the chip

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With all the wisdom on this forum I’m hoping someone is knowledgeable about older Garmin GPS units. I bought my GPSMAP840xs with the Canada chart package. Last year when we crossed into Canada all the chart detail disappeared. I contacted Garmin who told me I needed their Canada chart MICROsd chip. ...

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Lifted this morning for a pressure wash and zinc change the yard had a new comporter with functional gauges. Amberjack weighs 12,000 lbs with 110 gallons fuel, 30 gallons water and zero stores.

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Beautiful place to work on a boat

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