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CaptPatrick

Mike, You'll perhaps have a hard time tracking Bob down... He sold the company to Scott Henley (part owner of Venture Boat Company), split up with his wife Peggy, and went off to some pie in the sky late mid life crisis adventure. You might try contacting Scott, (Henley Enterprises in Stuart, FL 772...

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John,

Hull number 161 would be the 60th production hull, (161-101=60), your's would be the 67th hull. The two are exactly a month apart, so they produced 7 hulls between Sept 23 & Oct 23 of 1961...

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Just passing this along from Lin Spears: "From: Lin_Spears@Countrywide.Com Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:18:45 We have reservations for 70 people for lunch on Saturday and hope more will make contact today and tomorrow. As of this time, we have 70 people planning to attend the Harker's Island gathering ...

CaptPatrick

Nic, Anything you do in regards to adding to the exterior of the rudder port is just a bandaid... You need to fully remove the port(s) clean off the old bedding and re-install. For best results, use 5200, (fast set is fine & will get you to step 2 faster), re-install the port(s), but only tighten th...

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Tony, I haven't used Norscot Seals, but I wouldn't be in favor of them either. Here's a basic dialog on the Norscot system: The Norscot seal uses lip-type oil seals pressed into bronze housing. The bronze housing is machined to a bearing tolerance and clearance to fit each size propeller shaft. The ...

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Raybo,

You coming to the Montauk Rendezvous? If you're waiting to be invited, consider it done...

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Carl,

GL14 is also a color available in cast acrylic, as before, I don't know if you can get it in polycarbonate...

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Gary,

You know my stand on both Tides, Strong, and any other than PSS-PYI...

Shift over and breathe a sigh of relief.

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CaptPatrick

Lord Gary, thought you went to take a dump & the hogs ate ya'.... Missed you at the last Liquordale Boat Show, but then it's a long hike from the left coast. The UVII is coming up the third week of next month & again will be held at Tropic Star Lodge in Panama. Rumor has it that Port Eads will be ba...

CaptPatrick

Carl, The darkest tint, without film, is greylite 14, (or some call it Grey Light 14), also called "Black Glass", but it isn't really black. That's true for both cast acrylic and mineral glass, and will be a premium cost for that color over other most standard colors. Not sure that you can get it po...

CaptPatrick

Craig, Inexpensive approach is with hose barb fittings & hose clamps... Best is use Eaton Aeroquip Stainless Reusable Fittings. You can install these yourself and buy your hose as one continuous piece, cutting as necessary. The male fittings don't need a mandrel to install on the hose, but the femal...

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Craig,

Use marine grade fuel hose from a manufacturer that specifically states it is compatable with alcohol fuels & you'll be fine.

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Vince, It all looks good except that you need to really study your joints on the tubing and channel fiberglass... Think carefully about the joint strength when the boat flexes. I can see that you'll be tabbing the joints, but you should be using epoxy as your bonding and glassing for strength. Polye...

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Walter,

Thanks for the generous suggestion! As soon as I get a chance, I'll build a page for you, it can happen. I'll direct all orders to you...

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Ricky,

Bertram31.com Book Store, (associated with Amazon.com), is at: http://bertram31.com/bookstore/

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Mike, John is referring to a post made on the old board: http://www.bertram31.com/bb/bbs.cgi?noframes;read=58442 The thread starts with a post from Bob S entitled Battery Chargers: http://www.bertram31.com/bb/bbs.cgi?noframes;read=58392 Bruce's post is as follows: Wiring in general is easy. On new w...

CaptPatrick

Mike, As discussed here before, the old factory wiring and all modifications made by previous owners should just be scrapped in most cases... Original wiring diagrams are about equally worthless. You're better off to make your own diagram, consistent with your onboard electrical equipment, & pre-pla...

CaptPatrick

JC, They are available from Alex Witaker at Bertram 31 Specialities for around $1,000.00. Shipping to San Salvador will probably eat your lunch... The crate would have to be shipped to the east coast by motor freight and then ocean freight to your nearest location. That could easily be a couple of g...

CaptPatrick

Phil, Bertram started production in early 1961. Sam Griffin won the second Bertram driven Miami - Nassau race on April 14th. The first B31 I worked on, ( Fortuna/Iasgair ), was the 60th hull to be completed, dated September 23, 1961. The rough math for the 1961 production year is around 120 B31 prod...

CaptPatrick

Cody, USCG does maintain a searchable data base of documented boats and owners, but it's mostly current data Or very newly expired... I tried searching for your doc #, but to no avail. The Coast Guard data base search is actually under NOAA's Office of Science and Technology Contacting the Coast Gua...

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Mark,

You still have to have a cleat...

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Steve,

Replace the whole assembly. You ain't got nothing there but junk...

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Matt, We've been having a problem with that for a week now & the Techs are trying to solve it... At the moment the solution isn't getting any closer. While using Google to search the entire site, (mostly excluding outside websites), isn't as accurate as a board search would be, and may not return ve...

CaptPatrick

Marshall, The Interlux 2000/2001 barrier coat is epoxy, & I'm pretty sure that it's 100% solids, so no pre-coat of regular epoxy is needed. That is, other than any necessary fairing or patching. What makes the barrier coat more effective than just straight epoxy is that it's formulated with micro pl...

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Phil,

If you have an old TX registration number, you could trace it back to what information TX has on file. Where did the DLZL number come from?

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Phil,

DLZL00080989 is not even a Bertram hull number. It's obvious that it was a number assigned by some bureaucratic agency when being registered by a former owner and no hull number could be found... See if you can track down who you bought the boat from & get some more info.

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Marshall, After you soda blast all the bottom paint off, you'll find that sanding the exposed gelcoat down to parchment paper thin will be pretty easy with a DA & 80 grit disc. By not going all the way to fiberglass, you'll avoid getting a bad case of itch. I've had the Gel Peel machine used a coupl...

CaptPatrick

Bertram 31s do not blister enough to worry about, what you see are all gel coat or paint blisters. The quality of the resins Bertram used to build them assures no blisters. AJ has been in the water for 35 years and has no blisters. Quit worrying about blisters on a B31, not gonna happen in our life...

CaptPatrick

Carl, In that vintage range, Viking & Pacemaker were pretty much competing for the same customer level as was Ocean, so quality wise not a whole lot of difference. Viking really didn't emerge into the quality range until after '95 & then only because of their association with Man Diesel. Mater of fa...

CaptPatrick

Damn, I'd almost forgotten about the 29'... That really was an awful boat. Lots of them sank, or came close to it. I ran Mike Calvi's '88 48' SS for a couple of years and actually enjoyed the boat. You had to be aware that you were going to sea in an egg shell and avoid following seas, or at least k...

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Doug,

You're right about the cork probably not needing Permatex, but you know me... I like sticky stuff and overkill techniques.

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Scooter,

You're fine, I just prefer the cork...

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Ernest, There's a 1/4" bronze mating ring fiberglassed into the underside of the tank top. Tapped 1/4"x20... From Napa, or other auo supply, get a sheet of cork gasket material for the new gasket. Use Permantex #2 on both sides. A hand held paper punch makes a good tool for punching out the holes. A...

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Looks like Mike's are maybe Rupp Top Guns ?? http://www.ohlstein.us/images/Mike/predator%20project/07-04-04/predator%20project%2007-04-04%20005.jpg The Lee Junior mounts go on the side of the bridge face, with 3 main contact points, 2 for the wish bone, one for the base. These two images are of "Bud...

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Bill,

Without a half tower structure, about the only riggers that you can brow mount are the Lee Juniors, but I think Lee no longer makes them so you'd have to find a set that can be refurbished. You'd also have to do some serious reinforcing inside the bridge side walls.

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Carl, The '32 Osh*t Yacht is one of the worst models they ever built... Overly stiff, hard riding, and prone to hull cracks along the axis of the out board stringers. They were, like most Ocean Rots of the period, poorly built, thin hulled, and tons of unsealed plywood to rot away. The hull splittin...

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Lookin' reallllly good, Cowboy!

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Frank, With Trawler(s) involved, round Sandy Hook into the NY Harbor and take the scenic route through Manhattan. My one trip from Stanford to West Palm Beach was delivering a 60 ft Defever motoryacht. http://bertram31.com/defever.jpg Talk about a slow boat to china... 7 knots, all offshore once we ...

CaptPatrick

Terry, You're right! That's the trip I've made three times, always coming from, going to the north shore of LI, one trip down from Stanford, CT. The Sound & through Manhatten is a hoot. Bruce made two of those trips with me and another with someonr else. Always have strange visions passing Execution...

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Frank, By the time you dick around with tides & bridges, skipping through bays and around Shelter Island to get to Sag, you'll have gone just about the same number of miles as if you just went ahead and kept the throttles down and round Montauk point, north over Gardners Island and come in on Sag th...

CaptPatrick

Marshall, Don't even try... Hand power planers are fitted with high speed straight steel blades, usually 2, that turn in a direction opposite & perpendicular to the direction of travel (like a barrel laying on the surface to be planed). Gel Peel type cutters are more like a biscuit cutter with a cir...

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Vince,

The hole thing really didn't work as well as I thought it might... Best to cut 'em flush with standard packing boxes.

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Harry, UHMW stands for Ultra High Molecular Weight. It and HDPE are same except for density; both polyethelyne... Frank, Yeah, I'm way too easy to find any more. So much for anonymity & low profiles... If you have a problem finding PVC Foam Board, call Mike at Sun Ray Plastics, (phone number on the ...

CaptPatrick

Scooter, The purpose of that particular piece of wiring is to give a path for static electricity to find a true ground without arcing. You can route it however you want as long as the fill manifold and the fill hole on the gunnel is well grounded with the shortest run. If you're using stranded wire ...

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David, You're right, but the parts that are engraved can be re-anodized. That's the advantage of having the engraving done through Tom rather than just an engraving only shop. Also, anodizing is a fairly hard brittle surface & engraving through it could cause some minor chipping around the engraving...

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Doug,

About like the day you arrived at Ft. Liquordale with the cute little blonde. Some things just light my fuse...

Frank,

with regards to the PVC Foam Board that Rawleigh mentioned, see: PVC Foam Board as an Alternative to Plywood

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Nic, Believe me, Kurt & Bonnie get no ration of crap from me... They are a good find & I'm sure I'll be using them, or at least recommending them in the future. It's the damned governments, misplaced security emphasis, and general charlie foxtrot that can only be mishandled adequately by hordes of b...

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Nic,

Great projects, both of them good to see.

Speaking of "Good to see" have you seen any lost, lonesome, & highly guarded wooden crates around Sydney?? Any bomb threats lately?

Now I've got a guy in Tahti wanting a set of rudders for a B28...

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The first thought that crosses my mind is, that for most marine applications, all HDPE, (high density polyethelene), suck... The biggest problems arise from the instability of the material, where expansion and contraction are concerned, the difficulty to effect any kind of a structural bond, and low...

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Bill,

Try toluene and/or naphtha...

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