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It seems to me that I haven't got a lot done on the boat the last 2 weeks but here's an update 1. did several glassing sessions on the fishbox hatch frame reinforcing where I cut it to make it smaller. It is reinforced well from the top yet needs quite a bit of sanding and some fairing. I reinforced...

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I got my tank Saturday morning, the fabricator made them both the same and pressed in the pickups, I do not see an easy way to get them out.

I'll mess with one before the tank goes in the boat to see if I could get it out but I might have to nix the plan on 2 different height pickups.

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Adding water to a tank to get past the non-usable portion of the tank, could it work yes, but no way would I try it.

I plan my trips to come home and have 25% of my fuel remaining, so hopefully I won't run into the situation which he is proposing a solution to.

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I'm glad I asked about this topic, great info here.

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Hi Carl, I've had a water issue before, not sure if it was getting in via vent or I got a load of bad gas. So I am a bit paranoid and would like to do what I can to avoid the situation all together or be able to handle it easier if it does occur. Plus @$100 for the second pickup and valves, hose, et...

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putting it all together: run 2 pickups, stagger heights by one inch run primarily off the longer one, but switch them up every once and a while, if $hit goes wrong, switch to upper one to hopefully get at better gas. shut-off valves on each pickup as well as in front of racor high quality rubber hos...

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looks too low to me, proper measuring will help you out. Also research the ratio, I did more searching and some say as much as 1" per 5" back for high performance boats (that ratio seems excessive to me). at least you have 3 more holes to go up before options for raising get ugly so it may be a tria...

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Good ideas, The thought with having both pickups is I could switch to one side take the hose off the racor and blow into it to possibly clear and obstruction, not that the crud wouldn't come back quickly, but it might keep me running long enough to get me out of trouble. I had grand plans of having ...

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I'm curious here because I will have a bracket and most likely end up with a 300hp zuki so I would like to understand this for myself as much as helping Chris. I went searching through Chris's old posts and came up with his google share with photos, this photo somewhat shows the relationship with th...

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Single engine boat, I ordered my fuel tank with 2 pickups, case one got clogged.

Should I plumb both to the racor with shut offs right at the racor for each and just keep one shut off until I need it or should I run both continuously?

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Sport convertible, when I had I/Os I ran 15x17 and was under propped, probably could have run 15x20s. I think the 15 diameter was a little too big, I thing it was supposed to have 14.5" I'm guessing your boat is heavier so I would thing you would be somewhere in the 14.5x18 or 19 range.

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Wow, what's left? and does it still work?

You must have worked for hours to trace everything

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Hi Chris, something's off... When I had the twin 135hp I/Os, I did a test shutting one motor down and trimming up and was able to get the boat up on plane doing @17kts on one motor. That 300 zuki should have more than enough power to keep you on plane at a lower speed. When the boat is out of the wa...

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had to do daddy day care so I didn't get started working on the boat till late and got 1hr in and all I got done was to sand the transom for another round of fairing compound and I put a couple of small pieces of glass on the hatch frame which will go over the fishbox. I'm trying to do the entire de...

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I think I was overthinking it............ I wanted to transfer load from the transom to the hull and as a side benefit break up the almost 4' span of deck in old motor well. I agree with you on points 1&3 and am not sure about #2 your points: 1. I bought the aluminum bars to go on the inside of the ...

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thanks Scott!!!!!!

There is a retailer in MA who has that product advertised
https://www.cgedwards.com/ameron/ppg-index.html

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I've always just had 1 vhf, crewed on boats with multiples where we'd scan one set of channels on one and a different set on the other, both had same capabilities antenna wise. what are the pros and cons of having a second vhf? I think Mike Ohlstein stated that he had one with low db antenna for loc...

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I might be jammed there..... in researching this most of the NE states through NY banned this stuff 10 years ago.

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The Communist state of Massachusetts thinks that Tile Clad paint is unsafe to be used by its citizens and has outlawed the sale............ the local retailer won't sell it to me.

on to the next option

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I am reading about it and folks state that it is high VOC. how bad was it?? I have my boat shrink wrapped and don't want to uncover it until I have the deck down and glassed. I cut a hole in the front of the boat shrink wrap and between the door and lifting the plastic in the transom area as well as...

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Ian,

Any updates? have you made more progress on the project?

I'm wondering about the sherwin williams tile clad product. have you used it on other projects? how is it holding up?

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I get defenders weekly deal email, this week they have a pretty good deal on a simrad VHF, they had the deal on earlier this year and I bought one, I'm considering getting a second. I have not hooked-up and tried the radio so I cannot comment on how well it would do. https://www.defender.com/defende...

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that helmet is quite appropriate, one of the things I was most afraid of going under was hitting my head. I didn't have a weight belt so I remember hanging onto the shaft with one hand pushing myself further down so I could then reach up with the second hand with the knife. I'm not the best underwat...

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that's no fun. Years ago when I was crewing on someone else's boat boat we had the misfortune of hitting a chunk of rubber roofing which was partially buoyant just as we were about to leave West Atlantis canyon. A portion wrapped the starboard prop and some got jammed in the rudder. With no wet suit...

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My wife had stuff to do after work so I had to get my kids and didn't get as much as I would like done tonight but did get the excess glue on the transom knee cleaned up. I ran it through the jointer a couple of times to flatten the bottom and back then rounded the exposed corners over with a router...

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More info than you probably wanted - Coast Guard standards on fuel tanks
http://www.uscgboating.org/assets/1/Ass ... 002.01.pdf

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I'm not sure, from my understanding the PSI on testing a tank is not very high, maybe only a couple PSI and the tank has to hold the pressure for a certain number of hours. I would also guess that the tank would have to be emptied and cleaned, a lot of air + even a little gas can make a BIG BOOM.

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Mike, I would agree, I was trying to press on and get it done fast. In trying to conserve resin, I find that it is easier for me to setup a glassing table with plastic covering it, flip the glass over and wet out the mat side first, flip it back over and make sure it is wet out and then paint on som...

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Depends on where you boat and what the top is made out of.... the florida guys want the top a good distance off their head so the heat of the sun doesn't warm up the top and radiate down on them. Me personal I don't like hitting my head, and don't like being confined so I would want 6" or so over my...

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Ttownthomas, The tank looks good, It appears that the tank has been coated and that coating might have covered any type of sticker describing the tank. here's a pic of a tank I had fabricated for another boat https://photos.app.goo.gl/RcF3XCUXuiZKU6dx8 the only nit picky things and they are nit pick...

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did some work Sunday on the boat, nothing picture worthy but I'm making progress 1. got 1st round of fairing compound on the outside of the transom bump-out as well as the original scupper holes which I glassed in. 2. glassed the underside of the top cap on the starboard side where I made the deck b...

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I took a 1/2 day and did some prep work for a while until one of my friends could come by and help me put 2 layers of 1708 over the flat of the bump out. I really appreciate my friends help because even with 2 people keeping a 34"x 60" wet out piece of glass on the negative angle transom was not eas...

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In the corners of the motorwell. not the greatest of pics for what you are looking for but there is a upside down U shaped piece of glass over the opening. You can definitely clog it up with debris and keep water on the outsides of the stringers. There is a second drain outside of the stringers forw...

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Lets go for broke on this one.....

I have no problem with the $5 ones as long as I only try to do one at a time.

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is there a diving reference in here somewhere?

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I did a job I was procrastinating on for some time, I glassed the inside of my front fishbox bulkhead underneath the cabin. I really don't like working in confined spaces as I don't want to get resin on me and as expected I got some on my arms trying to get the vertical sections. https://photos.app....

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btw, If you wet slip it this year in salt water, make sure you change out the zincs, there is one type for fresh water and a different type for salt water.

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#3 looks like outrigger bases #2 B25s can be known as self sinking, since it seems stern heavy, that placard is quite appropriate, leave the drain plugs in when you go away, let the bilge pumps take care of any rainwater. #1, not sure why a hole was drilled in the deck Your boat looks nice and clean...

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a prize showed up today, quite heavy, going to be interesting installing. Now I have to scramble to get the outside of the transom done. I ground the outside flush yesterday and need no more filling, I'm going to put 2 layers of 1708 over everything and those pieces are a little too big to do by mys...

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I did similar to Cam.

The center stringer actually has another stringer inside of it, I wouldn't mess with that one, it is only @3" tall . If you leave the center stringer at the height of the bottom of the board, it will have a larger surface area to spread the weight over.

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before you go too far, lets see if you can hit your goal without cutting anything It looks like your current tanks are sitting above the height of the center stringer. If that is the case and they are 13" tall, I think you can do quite a bit without changing anything. If you do the math (43" Wide x ...

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Orvil, The decks on the express and Bahia Mar are higher than the sport convertibles and fly-bridge models. Here's a pic I found a long time ago and saved of a deck removed from what I believe was an express https://photos.app.goo.gl/AqPGwTDiMozwYDWU6 notice in the middle of the boat the deck is a f...

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first I heard of the number meaning anything, other than the 25 part. I googled and there was a thread on B31's having model significance, so it is likely 25's had similar http://bertram31.com/newbb/viewtopic.php?p=61129 Here's data on my hull - I have a sport convertible 25-455, written in large le...

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Now for dilemma............. I wanted to put in a battery box in the old motor well. In measuring from the top of the stringers to the bottom of where the deck will end up there is only 10" the battery will need all of that so that is not an option. I also measured the space left over between the fi...

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I got a few hours of work in on Friday, added 2 more layers of 1708 to I/O holes thinking it would be the last (more on this to come) then I started working on making a storage area inside the fishboxes. It took a while to get the angles and curves of the bottom of the boat worked out then I cut out...

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Orvil, a local welder is making up my tank, I did some of the surgery that Cam is alluding to and my tank will end up being 140 gallons. The quote on the tank from the local welder is $1450 3/8" aluminum. From your Pics, it looks like you have more head room to the bottom of your deck. If you are ha...

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I pulled the trigger on the Bob's Jackplate through a ebay seller, will be at my house in about a week. my thoughts is if I notch the transom it would be very difficult to get back to where I am right now. If I don't like the Jackplate, $2k and a bunch of effort will get me a full bracket or a bunch...

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Decisions,decisions, decisions............ finally got back with the fabricator and a bracket with a small swim platform the width of the transom bump-out would be 2k + an unknown cost for painting bolts etc, sub 1 month for delivery. I've tracked down a person on ebay who actually has Bob's bracket...

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Cam, I sent an email to the fabricator who is building my fuel tank to get a quote on a regular bracket that has a top which extends to the sides of the bump-out, I also sent an email to bob's and one of their managers wrote back that they had a 1000+ unit back-order so their business must be good. ...

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That row of boats is quite nice, I'm happy with the Bertram I have but If I had to chose from that row it would really tough.

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