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me too but i was wondering if you could lock up just one side depending on how you pulled it. i used to do 360s all the time in my TVR but i was a lot less precise...A LOT.

randall

great skill....but pretty tough on the tires. splain the large handle?

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apples and oranges.

you can make a case for keeping a classic car original if thats your thing...... but you are never going to find yourself 100 miles offshore in large waves and have your life depend on it.

i kinda favor doing what i want to do......if i can get away with it.

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i have to admit i thought about timmy when i saw this thread. taking boats apart is easy....putting them back together......not so much.

he's been running , back country skiing and shooting.

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i keep thinking its absurd here...been on the water all winter but then i talk to my son in minnesota. its been in the high 70's with a few trips into the 80's for the last month. it snowed once all winter. that sounds great harry....carens in florida so i thawed out some frozen home made turkey chi...

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bob....thats exactly how i restored the austin-healey with one difference. i would remove a component...like the engine or the steering box ...and send it to someone who knew what they were doing. then reassemble. i can take credit for putting it all together but not for actually fixing anything.

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welcome aboard....you are a man with vision....and tenacity.

i've spent a fair bit of time around the channel islands myself..

great project!

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yikes....5000 HP....if its not the most amazing sport fish on the planet....its in the running.

good on daryl!!

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i just remember the summer i ran with no reverse. i got into a narrow channel stand off with this guy in a 40 foot clorox bottle that thought i should back up cause he was bigger. i cant get the thought of strolling up to the bow and grabbing the 50 cal out of my mind.

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it would be fun......cept at the gas dock. you would always have the right of way!

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if it was a local boat that hit them i don't see how they can avoid detection.....thats gonna leave a mark.

unfortunate to say the least.

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thats great!!

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oh...complaining wasn't part of the equation. remember when everyone freaked out cause it snowed in october?

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ok...this is getting a little weird. flowers up in the yard....and a fun kayak fish today. no hat, no gloves, T SHIRT. if it wasn't for a stiff breeze coming off the ocean it would have been summer hot. as it was, its mid 70's in mid march. saw an osprey.....earliest ever by far. saw a clammer rakin...

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its really quite simple. they gave us everything we have.

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fantastic!

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good lesson.....but it doesn't just hold true for firearms. i was a professional roofer but still made one thoughtless bonehead life changing decision with a ladder. you cant be too careful....just sorry.

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i don't think it would effect buoyancy as surface tension has little to do with it at floating boat scale. now if a hollow BB would float it might sink coated with this stuff. maybe. or float lower.

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i'd wear it no problem. but i have enough t shirts to last a few lifetimes. i have one for a local sea food place with a naked girl riding a giant lobster.

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well ....as long as i can land the copter its cool.

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you should see what its like if we don't like you.

i still feel bad (sort of) for that guy that had to dock his bubble boat right in the middle of a Bertram rendezvous. wasn't pretty.

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OK....thats funny!

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i never put a front plate on any sports car i owned....thats over 40 years with no problem.(in 4 states) for some reason they don't seem to mind. i always had it with me along with a pre -rehearsed tale of "it just fell off this morning".

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yep...great minds think alike.........tooooo funny!

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UV...great minds think alike. in high school i made one out of cardboard and paint....worked till it rained. out here my plate fell off so i threw it in the pick up bed...didn't get pulled over for six months...gotta love really small towns. my finest forgery however was my home made pit pass for th...

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i'll look through the collection tomorrow.....maybe.

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UV...my boat trailer has the plate from an 80s vintage motorcycle trailer....wonder where that came from?

i actually have a collection of about 50 plates from 5 or 6 states. my favorite are my old utah plates from my 55 chevy pick up.....the letters are NMA.

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bob...i have black and gold 1956 plates with the much sought after "heart five"

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i'll tell you one thing for sure....i ain't ever going over to john's house unannounced......and i hope they never throw him a surprise party.

i just carry a knife ...but its very sharp.

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first off my 25 inboard had wood stringers. as Patrick pointed out.....absurdly overbuilt. i had to modify one a bit for a heat exchanger.....not fun. the boat is a tank. as to how it sits in the water its not about weight.....its about where the weight is. my scuppers sat well above where they sit ...

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needless to say i am a fan of 25s. i spent 3 years looking for the one i finally bought. while there are no "bad" 25s the inboard version is just a different and to my way of thinking ...better boat. in any guise....the best 25 foot boat ever.

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wayne....you mean there was another surfer with a 25 with V drives? wonder if he surfed off the boat.... where was this?

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i believe the guy you are talking about is paul. when i blew the reverse on one of my V drives i took it to him (after a season with no reverse). he is outstanding and reasonable. if he can't fix it...throw it away.

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nice boat!

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no results yet. the truth is i have no chance of winning the popular vote but that wasn't what i was after. i just wanted to make sure the judges didnt think i garnered no attention......thanks again.

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votin is over.....thanks everyone!!!

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looks good to me. i love this kind of friendly neighborhood stuff. last night on the news there was a story about the city of NY closing a newsstand thats been in operation in chinatown for 35 years. the problem....it THREE INCHES too close to the building its in front of. 9'3" instead of 9' 6"........

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mike love was my landlord in santa barbara. he sent his lawyer over to evict me because "mike doesn't want any hippy surfers living on his property". beach boys is just a band name.....total phonies in that regard...NOT A FAN!

BTW....never missed a rent payment and kept the property like i owned it.

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bruce.....i usually end arguments with over zealous fans by asking which position they play on the team. having played team sports all my life i naturally take an interest in pro sports but geez.......get a life if your recreational life revolves around a sports team.

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this is firmly in the "you can't make this stuff up" category... in a few different ways.

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great work!! is the cabin roof going to have a hatch so you can steer in the air like brewster?

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i beg to differ....fishing with walter is fun! i've done it a bunch of times.
plus ...you catch fish.

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peter.....the danger with backcountry skiing is gravity. if you dont stay above your escape route there is a painful slog in your future....and thats just navigation....most of the attention is focused on avalanche avoidance. its amazingly easy to get disoriented in the woods when the only direction...

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skipped the half time show.....real good food and lots of it. anyway.. there's a naked picture of madonna in the bar (age 20) .....so i just ate in front of that.

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as a jets fan i would have only enjoyed this if both teams charter flights crashed into each other on the way there. OK OK...i went over to the dark side....hey i am a NYer and how can you possibly not like eli. it was a great game. the INT pass was thrown well short...and a few key drops and thats ...

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then theres running in thick fog on autopilot using a buoy as a waypoint. uh oh.

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running in fog with andre' and thudd i learned a valuable lesson....not everything is on the chart or the GPS.

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very very beautiful. extended eye brow?

you must get a lot of comment on the name and hailing port.

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well....my dad was a navigator and flew many night combat missions so i figured i had it in my blood. i guess its not hereditary. i missed block island by two miles in the fog. (no electronics at all) i grew up on the water and always feel comfortable i'll get there. lost in the mountain back countr...

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thanks tom...one of my best friends is being treated there right now. frankly he is doing better than anyone hoped for. thanks again!

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