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harry...i had the 175HP version...maybe ill find a pic and scan it in....my senior year of high school we drove around on new years with the top down....woke up late the next afternoon to find 2 feet of snow in the car....had to shovel out the inside

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purpose built

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hay harry....had a 1969 turbo convert corvair....ten years ahead of its time and faster than a 250 auto vette (proved in the real world over and over)..........blew up transaxles all the time but i was 18

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i've taken walters approach....with cars they call it a rolling resto.....pick away at it every spring but havent missed a season in the water

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what bruce said.......as a former sea ray owner heres my two cents....not a bertram..but not a complete POS either...mine was 10 years old when i bought her and was in very good shape......i basicly beat the sh!t out of her for a few years and she was in fine shape when i sold her....not the worst b...

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you know the next time im at your house it might be time for a little "show and tell"

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and the right tool...in primer my gunwales looked great....glossy it was a bump run....the longer the board the flatter the surface...OK i got it now

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having seen the B31 buddy boy in person...pictures just dont do her justice............an amazing work of engineering and nautical artistry....nothing is perfect...but this puppy is pretty close

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chris...thats outstanding for a first try

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lets see....people who blow their spare cash on bertrams...i am somewhat familiar with that concept.....not to mention a lot of "spare" time.....my wife, caren, has been pushing me for years to put a progress page on the website and because of the response i am very glad we did...speaking of which t...

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thanks nic....how about this

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you can pee in my yard anytime........

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actually mike and i had a short conversation about how really nice the grips and handle are.....besides which..you know more about boat mechanics than anyone i ever met so you get no sympathy from me

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pamela williams gallery in amagansett...the national sculpture society is on park ave in that building on abour 44 st that straddles the ave...used to be the time life and before that the pan am building....i think

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thanks...ill tell peter that...i have a bunch of pieces in a gallery in amagansett ny and will have a piece soon in the national sculpture society awards show in the city...that show travels to south carolina...and in the spring in a show with some real heavy hitters...but still mostly word of mouth...

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no not this site ...my site...im over here at mike's house and we updated the site.....in the recent work section is a piece i did for bob le blanc called "cutting board"....linked to it is a bunch of pics showing the steps involved in carving it......i just got tired of folks going...yeah its all o...

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i lived in santa barbara for over five years ...and while there is no comparison in terms of quality or consistency...specially if you include the channel islands and jalama.....eastern LI (and block island) is way better than most would think.....a small group of world travelers have been showing u...

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uh oh...at least its just the gunwale insides

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not me...i wasnt foolin...i literally could not get to within six inches of the stuff before my eyes started burning.....did however pig out on the tuna that marshall and randy caught

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way before tow in when wiamea was the "big " wave the guys who rode it regularly used to dive down twenty feet ,pick up a good sized rock(100lbs), and run with it under water as far as they could. training hawaiian style...hey im 60 and know i will never face large(for me) waves again....but im than...

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we have our secret hurricane can only get there by boat spot and i have surfed it 3 times in the last ten years......its the opposite of an open ocean wave, as a matter of fact...its not even in the ocean....but can get double overhead.super clean and very long..........speaking of which....the rive...

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have you ever seen anyone ride it?...i grew up surfing atlantic beach to gilgo...

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nah...they fixed it and took it to florida....but they not happy

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i couldnt even get within six inches of the "fatal shot"...let alone drink it................there were a few times that day things got a little sketchy....but i never thought i was gonna die.......to quote marshall "dont worry about the water....the boat can take anything...its the lightning"

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that was actually a pretty easy take off....thanks for the vid.....i think it would be real hard to paddle into cortez due to the total lack of line up....maybe you could anchor the boat and hope it stays in one spot....getting caught inside wouldnt be fun....unless you were far enough inside.....go...

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sorry to hear that...best wishes for sure

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that was some of the best tuna ever..i/4 inch slice of bread size slices rolled up with wasabi......i had to walk away for i hurt myself.....at least i was pretty sure it was fresh and how it was handled

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yeah...im familiar with it...in the i know about it sense only....pretty cool but you can only tow in as its pretty impossible in the open ocean to know where you're sittin.....and waves that size are tough to paddle into anyway....as time goes on the'll probably discover more open ocean waves.....t...

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bruce...one woodworking thing i never did was work on a lathe....really looks like fun.....was at hanks shop this week....he made me a blank for a chess piece i have to carve....the chess set is worth 500 large and the piece has to be replaced with out anyone knowing....so keep it to yourself..........

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real nice bruce...whats next?......BTW.....you can carry anywhere with the right paperwork......when i was runnin my dads jewelry biz in NYC lots of guys had carry permits....i could have gotten one too but i figured i was just there temporarily

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hey alex....thanks...i didnt know about that website.....it was over 60 here today and i almost got out there...but cut firewood instead....real winter still to come

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not a big express fan....but thats a cool boat

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hey....nice to see you....i have a 25 ....its a bertram....thats the deal

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so let me see if i got this right...you cant see the GPS screen unless the letters are eye chart size...but you hit a duck at 60 yards....YOU ARE THE MAN!!

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andre....on a surf trip to santa cruz island off the coast of santa barbara i was alone on a 19 foot sailboat leaning back against the mast reading a book...something caught my attention and i peered over the top of the book..........to see a fighter headed right at me maybe 30 feet off the water an...

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anyone go...going?

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thanks ...you too

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hell UV...you easily amused......you'll never be bored...

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its just a day but we played volleyball outside this morning in t shirts and light sweaters......however its blowing hard right now......what were we talkin about?

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capy wrote:Merry christmas and happy new year.

And a belated happy haunnaka to my jewish friends.

hey ... shalom bro

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sometimes you just cant avoid getting screwed.....when my port tranny broke i did all the work necessary to pull the engine....the yard i was in at the time wouldn't let me use a friends front end loader so i used their fork lift...took 11 minutes to drop that puppy in my truck....detatched the tran...

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me too.....i spent my whole life not being a joiner....till i googled bertram and wound up in louisiana.....this is the finest bunch i have ever been associated with and sincerely wish you all a merry christmas and the happiest of new years

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or you can do what i do.....theres not much chance i can rebuild an engine or a tranny...but i can unplug em from the boat and plug em back in....saves a good bit on the bill.....and you learn a lot.....i did every system on the austin healey like this including the engine...much cheaper than just t...

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coecles harbor would be cool

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every summer various groups of boats raft up in 3 mile harbor for some sort of rendezvous.....they use skiffs and inflatables to access the beaches and resturants.....shinnecock bay....some quiet spot?

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ha ha ...i spent the last 5 minutes before we got there explaining the camera to caren.....so i guess i have to agree

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we only had time to stop by and say hi...but ive eaten at brewsters a bunch of times...ironicly some before i knew him...his fresh sea food salad is the best ive ever had....killer....to bad we missed harv

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geez UV.......but thanks......the truth is i feel quite privileged to be part of this group.....quite privileged

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ive seen them there a ton of times and frankly last night wasnt the best of the bunch.....the sound was a little muffled for the first half of the set...and trust me if deaf in one ear tone deaf me can tell it must have been bad..mike knows a lot more about the finer points than me.......they did pl...

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