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randall

thanks for all the kind words....UV...you can assure the blond bombshell that it is carved from one block of vermont white pine ,no glue, and hand painted with ink and acrylic

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a life well lived....all anyone could ask for

that shot in front of the "club" is archival at this point......theres just a scar on the ground where it used to be......same for us ............eventually

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not anymore.....its all about plates......i just drove my pick up upstate and took parkways .....no prob

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wayne...sorry...im still not getting it....if you dont plug them but the valve that would open them is closed...what purpose do the plugs serve? BTW when i got my boat it had threaded bronze plugs ...i took them out permanently the first time i had trouble opening one. i just let the valves do the w...

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i think thats the old regs....it went from never, to covered bed,(camper) to anything goes as long as you dont have commercial plates or signage on the truck. at one time all pick-ups had to have commercial plates.

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i dont plug my crash valves....i use them to winterize the engines so the valves get moved at least twice a year....why plug them?

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my new tacoma has regular plates and i was told i could drive it anywhere..

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no empty land south of montauk highway (ocean side) south of a mil..there are half acres starting to show up now in the least desirable neighborhoods (like where i live) for 400K......its science fiction....bought a small commercial lot in 81 for 6K...not as an investment but to expand my property.....

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holey moley......its a little more expensive here.....i did however manage to buy this 130 year old ex tool shed with which you are very familiar for 38K.........story in todays paper about the housing slump....median house price for town of east hampton dips below a million for first time in a few ...

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that was fun.....when that happens you can reach me sailing around some tropical ocean ...oh right, you wont be able to reach me the only thing i chipped was a tooth

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4k as in four thousand? 24 with a house?

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thank goodness i live in the warm north.......its about 55 here and if it was snow it woulda been about 2-3 feet.(flood watch in effect). now wind...you want wind...we got it...this has been a warm but extremely windy winter... sorry to get off track but we been on the wrong end of a lot of winter g...

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very nice to meet you.

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let me get this right...your engine only leaks in one spot?....i'd settle for that

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Randy, Wouldn't hurt the intake of water at all, but could cause some distrubed water at the top of the props resulting in cavitation. Any way you could move them back the same foot but also inboard close to the centerline? br, Patrick partick...they would be inboard of the struts...right now they ...

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mine are hard to reach and ive been thinking about moving them. what i want to know is how would it affect the water inflow if i moved them back about a foot. they would be pretty close to the strut then.

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you're wrong...not what he meant.
more like if people get frustrated and hopeless enough they will accept anything that looks like relief. not a good solution .

sorry to speak for you walter but if im wrong ill be surprised.

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they really did build the inboards different....my stringers arent hollow.

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good point. on the other end of the spectrum my old british sports car didnt have a horn. every year at the inspection i would press the button and make a loud horn noise....always passed....gotta love small towns.

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a few observations...surfboards are generally made with closed cell foam...trust me...it absorbs water. it just does it slower than open cell. my B25 because it is an inboard is rock solid. (ask patrick and bruce) with no bonding or cracking issues because the stringers are very overbuilt and over b...

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well...im part of the unregulated militia ..there.s a lot more of us

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bs is right....i feel sorry for someone trying to make a living solely as a charter capt....between absurd fish regs, the price of fuel. and and an increasingly intrusive govt....it cant be easy. the govt put the local baymen here out of biz and they only fished the surf

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good description....but i read it anyway.....groan

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no surprise there

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nice, nicer, nicest.....great shots!!!

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if its not to bad a little clean up is all thats needed. remove all rust and scale, clean with brake cleaner (no residue) mask and paint. or you can go crazy like me and take off every external assembly , sand blast ,prime and paint....but thats excessive....and the engine i did in the boat looks th...

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thats better...pretty boat

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uh...no real photos of the boat? all close-ups but i have no idea from the ad what the boat looks like

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i dont know....when i go on my friends 60 it might not have the square footage but the beam makes up for a lot.......its pretty roomy back there

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hey....im not that big....ask any pretty girl in town

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Harv wrote: As big as me????
6 ft 1 in, 315 lbs
31 Bahia Mar works just fine for me,
and I've had no problems on the FBC either.

harv....i was sayin the B31 looked big to me ,not that i was big .....as anyone who ever met me will attest.....but i do weigh more than patrick.

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i dont know...they seem pretty big to me.....what do you think patrick?

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wow... sounds great!!..here are your pix......

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thats a hell of a patch...i hope i get to fish on her again someday.....obviously a lucky boat

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so... how was it?

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katrina

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ten years ago i accidently ran over my glasses with my truck....never got new ones. surprisingly my eyesight is far better now then it was then...bring your glasses over here and i'll see (no pun intended) what i can do...my new truck should completely flatten em

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i hate when that happens!!

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lessons learned the hard way...and since i have a tendency to use tools in ways they weren't designed for i have a few scars for the effort.....heres a hint....routers were not meant to be hand held in space without the base as a carving tool. first on the list was this act of pure genius.... my old...

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thanks, but you forgot my favorite.... ANGLE GRINDER.....a tool used to set a perfect 8 inch circle of material on the front of your shirt on fire................ive done it twice and dont forget...LEVEL....a tool with its own unique definition of what its supposed to measure....since no two read th...

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aaaaaaaa...bridge envy...has to be the cleanest !!

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interesting site...do a search for "joy rosenthal"

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i would suggest you do what you want and put a sheet of glass over it.....anything else will not be a good writing surface for long.....unless maybe you fake the caulk with something hard (ebony?) and glue the whole thing up like butcher block.......cool idea by the way

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thanks for the replies....he had this whole other life as a community activist...helped found a local school and raised a zillion dollars for local causes...not by writing checks...but by rolling up his sleeves and working. there was a time bout 20 years ago when i fancied myself a pretty good softb...

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not much of a consensus here.......of course most of my electronics are other peoples take outs so i take what i get.

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there was a british guy named franklin....he tried to find the northwest passage but instead became famous for eating his shoes....didnt marinate em though

too bad walters not here...he likes blue fish

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roy schieder died yesterday....this is kinda affecting me on a few levels.....the first one is i was a fan...even before "jaws" i really liked him in "the 7 ups"...a fact he found amusing. heres how "jaws " affected me....i saw it with a bunch of surfers and didnt really feel like it had any real im...

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beautiful....love the wood

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bertram performance is a given. but i always like to hear about it! heres a question for you...on another forum i visit there is a discussion about eating skippies....what are your thoughts on this? .....brewster?

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