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on 12v a ground back to the battery is good enough.

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The forecast this past weekend was not friendly with 20+kts winds and 4-6' seas for offshore fishing. Inshore the seas seemed fine even though it was going to blow 15-20kts, gusting higher. A friend had been hearing reports of Albies/Bonito along the elizabeth islands out to sw corner of the vineyar...

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no chartering.... the guys that went on beat down trips or I was doing repairs on the water with, they returned the favors to me on their boats. a view from a friends boat. https://photos.app.goo.gl/rcbzC7bSgAkZKyyE8 - all I have to say, if your boat engine has an idler pulley you need to have a spa...

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Carl, No problem with the side step. I see a lot of posts on the forum for folks working on their boats and not so much of them using their boats, the majority of my posts are of me fixing my boat up. Since I've got the boat running, I want to try to make a shift to more content of using a Bertram f...

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these work?
https://gemlux.com/collections/boat-hinges/products/147

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Yannis, I would order them in my preference 1. Big-eye, 2.Bluefin, 3.Yellowfin when it comes to sushi. Albacore aren't bad but I tend to make steaks out of them or mason jar pressure-cook can them in good olive oil to make an improved canned tuna. my opinion on price comes down to my boat's range, I...

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my last couple of trips have clearly identified a need for rod storage under way and when clearing lines. Over the off season I want to get some type of aluminum tower pipework with rod holders that goes between my leaning post and the underside of the t-top. Right now my idea is to have a H pattern...

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I headed out today with a guy I've done dozens of canyon trips with over the years. We left the ramp near the house at 3:30am and made the run down buzzards bay in the dark, headed out quicks hole and then south. We started getting false dawn a little past Noman's and put in lines at the claw and wo...

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this morning it is looking like it is going to hook into the gulf of Maine. I think it will be far enough offshore that it won't hit the Cape with hurricane force winds. I am hoping that once it hits colder water it will calm down quick and Maine won't get hit hard.

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this week I tried calling around looking for crew and came up empty, so next best thing, tell my 6 year old girls we are going on a "whale watching" trip. Since we were going out with the kids we had a leisurely start at the Sandwich ramp in the cape cod canal and went out into the bay. The rid e ou...

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To me one of the benefits of the 25 over the 31 is trailerability as we got a trip in yesterday that we would have passed on if it were just south side weather. it was nasty on the south side 25kt winds so we trailered to the north side to get away from the wind. Windy.com showed the front heading o...

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The weather was going to be nasty south side of the cape today and a buddy has his seacraft in Winthrop which is off the side of Logan airport in Boston Harbor so we launched out of green harbor in Marshfield so I wouldn't need to trailer through Boston Traffic and met up with him and fished around ...

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I'm going to kick the can down the road.... $7 got me a pair of new incandescent bulbs, I could find the same bayonet but not the same size glass and these are bigger so hopefully they last.

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I messed with it some more, one bulb is bad, swapped good to other side and it worked, I am not sure based upon what you said if it is worth getting LED bulbs or just get a new set of incandesent.

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Hi All, My bow light wasn't working well so I went into it today over lunch, I started off with my red light working and the green not, ended up with the green working and the red not. shows you how good I am at troubleshooting :) I'm sure if I took a few more min to clean contacts and maybe replace...

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Most conventional reels you hold the rod in left hand and reel with your right. Spinning reels are the opposite but most spinners allow you to switch the side the handle is installed on. Choose which option suits you best for left or right hand. I had no idea that Penn made an opposite turning optio...

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I did some tweaks saturday morning and some worked well others not so much. I had been noticing some flex in the doghouse, primarily in a following sea so I was a bit worried I would need some type of gusset under the deck tying into the stringers, I went looking under the deck and found out that I ...

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I ended up with 1500yds 100# Momoi hollow core, I went to Red top and got a Shimano Trevala jiging rod and they had some partial spools of various different braids so I got a chance to feel them. red-top only sells by the yd so I ordered 1500yds online, a new spool of 80# mono and a 80# wind on lead...

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Cam, your setup looks quite good. It looks like you have the 2 functions of a hatch and a way to restrain the anchor done independently. I am thinking of combining those functions because I put a big hole in my anchor locker where you have installed the bracket which holds the anchor down. I'm sure ...

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Now that I have got through my breakin and all seems to be running well, I want to try out the vertical jigging bite for bluefin off Chatham. I have a heavy fin-nor spinner and jig setup with 80# braid and I wanted to get one conventional setup so I was going to use one of my Avet 30s and pickup a j...

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I have a pair of anchors and I measured them out https://photos.app.goo.gl/3yugbUiq1L6Fsmz68 smaller 8# West Marine Anchor. The bars are 18 1/2" wide , the tail section sticks down from the bar 5" wide and 1 3/4" deep. not sure the brand on the larger one but it has to be 10+ plus, the bars are 18" ...

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Speaking of good ideas................... It is wise to measure how deep your cabin is before taking on this operation. I'm sure this will only really apply to me as I shortened my cabin to get more deck space. I really wanted it to store some wire line rods and a mix of other inshore fishing rods a...

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Cam, I like what you have setup, my path might not be as fancy and as flush deck but use similar ideas of moving the cleat forward as you have done which simplifies the path of the anchor rode. Here's my foredeck, dirty from the maple tree and because I haven't fully sanded out the gelcoat I covered...

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just an anchor locker idea - https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1798/5181/files/NjM5MDg4RjIwNDgyMjMyQzM0NTY6MGE3OWRlYWQ5OTRjNjFmODAxMDJiYmRhZGQyMTI3NmM6Ojo6OjA_large.jpeg?v=1488266843 What if I made a setup which sat proud of the deck? If it were setup in 3 layers, cut in the main deck keeping it as ...

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Saturday, I took the wife and kids out for a day on the water, we left the wareham river and rode over to woods hole, from there we went over to middle ground near the vineyard and did a bunch of drifts fluke fishing. The bites were fast and furious and I could only manage 3 rods baiting, helping my...

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I messed around with it a while back and only got so far with it as I had other fish to fry. I found a logo online and did a few tests with it https://photos.app.goo.gl/GKxvPfYVL2rMjdmVA test run with Router https://photos.app.goo.gl/i1CJhu6drjHhfSrRA results https://photos.app.goo.gl/ehGv9Bn2jYBHE2...

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I was messing around trying to improve the transducer and noticed that I had some epoxy/filler which had got under edge of the transom when I had worked on closing in the I/O holes. Most of the transition was fine, except where the boat had been sitting on the bunks, not a lot of goop but enough to ...

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ok - you are right there are more issues..... I had purchased a Simrad RS35 VHF and it has AIS and I was unaccustomed to receiving the constant alerts as I am fairly close to the cape cod canal and there is a lot of commercial traffic. On a couple of trips I shut off the VHF because I was getting an...

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what do you think of this idea? combo of thoughts here purchase some of the cheapo SS 90 degree rod holders from ebay and drill holes in the anchor locker bulkhead and then install the rod holders so I can put the butt end in the bulkhead then use the lee's locking part screwed onto a board which is...

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In the past I had a warning buzzer go off when the pump went on, I will have to figure out how to make that happen with the new setup. I've been using the rig a bunch, my girls are slowly getting used to running at cruising speed and a few bumps here and there as we've been taking them to the beach ...

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Hi All, I am interested in getting some rod storage in my cabin and was thinking of using lees rod storage holders https://www.leetackle.com/rodstorage.html I am trying to figure out how to set it up and look reasonable as I shortened my cabin, the other issue I am worried about is the thickness of ...

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Cam, The bump contains the thru-hulls, livewell drain to port, fish box macerator pump drain to starboard, my regular and crash bilge pumps are higher up on port side https://photos.app.goo.gl/65dKvxSBgAtvm9zF9 I can't see the output from the bilge pumps when at the helm, when I had them out the sid...

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do you guys have to worry about molas? years ago we hit one 5 miles out of the Atlantis canyon and all seemed well until our trip home and we got a real bad vibration near the vineyard and we had to shut down 1 engine and come back on the other.

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Cam, My hull is registered and titled as a 1964, https://photos.app.goo.gl/hywBSuEANakXwHv66 tag says june 63 Here's a picture when I brought her home from Waukegon, IL in 2003, the scuppers are in the angled portion of the chine https://photos.app.goo.gl/EgK2fuJwYChfhULT6 here's a pic now, the scup...

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I've used the boat a few more times and have 15hrs on her. I fished with 3 guys on saturday and wanted to stay somewhat local for that trip but ended up going a fair distance. The motor is amazing, it allows the boat to get on plane with ease, even with a fair amount of weight on her. I am seeing 2....

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Cam, No tabs and I am going to try to avoid them if I can. The bow did pop up and want to run high if I stayed at 3k rpm ~11kts as there just is not enough power at that rpm to push her over the hump and get fully on plane. I did notice at 3300rpm and I was on plane doing 14kts so she still has her ...

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I made the mistake of selling a 2nd boat while I renovated and then covid absolutely trashed my timeline. I had a ray hunt designed hiliner 222 gypsy which rode as good if not better than my Bertram. I ended up selling to my buddy and he at least took me fishing a bunch of times. I also got rides on...

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First ride after the repower I got out of work at 5 and scrambled to fill the boat with extra tools, saftety gear and hooked up the truck when my wife got home. I added 56 gallons of fuel to get her close to 100 gallons and headed to the local ramp. When nothing is onboard at that fuel, the rear chi...

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Cam to your question 16" x 17 pitch prop

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I finally got my boat back yesterday afternoon. https://photos.app.goo.gl/oDCryUKcFihd8eoh7 The description of the maintenance items for the motor seems fairly straight forward 1. pair of low pressure fuel filters yearly 2. oil 100hrs 3. block anodes every other year 4. water pump impellor every 2-3...

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my house is less than 1/2 mile from a boat ramp into buzzards bay, maybe 1 mile to a regular gas station. I'm going to keep the boat in the driveway and tow. Gas is $3.60 around me, thankfully as I have at least 100 gallons to fill her up.

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not sure will find out in at 3pm when I pick her up

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Cam- given that she had @40 gallons on board, how is she sitting in the stern compared to your boat? I am going to pick her up today, I've got to finish up a few items before I test her hopefully tomorrow!!!! I'm not 100% of what's left to do on her to be able to run her as she's been at the marina ...

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I thought the SOP for fuel lines was 2 clamps, no slots in clamp bands, clamps turned opposite directions? I've got my fuel setup following this strategy but in trying to use it for other water hose applications there isn't always enough space for 2 clamps. Question, what do you do if there isn't en...

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after many trials and tribulations and a WHOLE LOT OF WAITING, the marina finally put the engine on my boat and did a water test today. I had only put 40 gallons in her when I brought her to the shop so I am guessing that she was light. I wasn't there for the test and don't know how many were on boa...

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Neil the Sport Fisherman in the front is obviously a topaz but I don't think the sunken one is. I searched through pics of Topaz boats in the mid 30' range and don't see anything that looks like the sunken boat. In looking at John F's suggestion of it being an Egg Harbor, the late 70s Egg Harbor 33'...

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Hi All, I was driving through New Bedford around new years and it was foggy and I was taking some pics of the fishing fleet. I noticed the sunken vessel north of Popes Island and framed a couple of shots. you can zoom in quite a bit to get a closer look, what do you think? https://photos.app.goo.gl/...

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folks, I haven't done much on the boat. It has taken more than I thought to transition to living full time at our MUCH smaller cape house and make it more livable. Add to that my work went stupid busy so I've been tapped out.

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someday when I have a house with a garage again, a factory five cobra with a coyote engine is on the docket.

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I would kind of agree with the article but for a slightly different reason, the radome is spinning 360 degrees, if sitting directly behind, you are only getting the beam 60-90 degrees so 1/4 or less of the time. The other part is that the beam is fairly compact the closer you are to the radar. https...

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