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fred....the first time i tried to change the plugs it litterally took all day (same 360's) the trick is the right tools and dont even try to look....can do all 16 in less than half an hour.......my trick is a stubby pressed steel open end wrench like you would have for a skil saw or a router....and ...

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walter...just came back from a little gardiners island cruise with mike....it is dead calm...........2 times in one week...definately a new record........the times printed average yearly wind speed for various places today and gardiners bay was over 20MPH.....

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if you really want inboards keep looking till you find one ...they are out there....took me 3 years and was tempted by i/os a few times but glad i waited.....

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cant help...... but admire your fine taste in boats

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how come you not signing up for the band?

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i can do the cd cover...i am so tone deaf my mom called on the way home from the airport and i had to ask who it was

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thanks....

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thought it was a fun place to visit...but i wouldnt want to live there.......and she did let me park when i visited..........caren and i had a great time visiting and goin to the show....and as usual....every new person we meet in this small world is an instant friend.....liked the look on patrick's...

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scot....once had a 22 sea ray....not a terrible boat and certainly no bayliner....but not a bertram either........specially when its snotty......which was not today.....maybe the nicest november1 in the history of the planet(on eastern LI anyway).....70+ degrees and dead flat ,no wind at all.....alm...

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done?

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scot....my 25 with twin inboards will do 40 and is very stable on flat water at that speed.................hardly ever do it for long however as its kinda like pouring the gas down the drain......i think 32-34 would be tops for a 31.....in todays world is this "average" planning speeds?

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sean....only lived in a dorm for most of one year.....got kicked out and had to get my own appartment...oh the punishment.....but i digress....no thieves in our dorm but we had the whole pittburgh police there on nice spring day.....one of my roomates was cleaning a comb.....says i "dont you know ho...

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another "panama" por favor?

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grow -up????

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dont forget getting paid 400 dollars to drive someone elses 57 vette to the victoria's secret langerie (sp) shoot....out doors in november no less..nice.... never mind

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you wont feel that way when you get there.........caught 6 yellowfin today...driving all over town giving away tuna.....saved a nice chunk for you, walter

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good motto

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ian....for three years i sea trialed every B25 for sale on long island.....when i finally got a ride on an inboard it was night and day.....3-4 foot cross chop in a large closed bay.......i knew i was going to buy the boat after five minutes....it just feels way different.......

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huh? my 25 has twin 360 chryslers (1984 vintage)....about 215...225 hp each............honest 40 knot boat......10.5 GPH at anything that keeps the secondarys closed (3300rpm) and the scuppers are well above water...which is nice......where i am confused is.... take last week....6 large friends on b...

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CG could not find my son and two friends clinging to a canoe....and they had the advantage of a copter and the relativly confined area of gardiner's bay ....lucky for them a local marine patrol officer figured out the wind- tide- current and spotted them with binoculars from a high point on land.......

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thanks....taking peter fishing for two hours then off to the city......the tooth finally fell out......look like a pirate........ARRRRRR

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then of course there's that art web site that you run.....recently up dated with work for various participants of a notorious boating site....BTW...is the pond rising?

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good luck russ......its just better to work on your own boat!!

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not a big fan of starboard...but before i knew better i fabricated a bench side out of it......to hide the screws i counter sunk them then hammered in plugs cut from scrap with a standard plug cutter bit on a drill press......four years later and not one has fallen out and you cant see them unles yo...

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me too....this guy is very good

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steve...ive done the stationary board thing......more fun to just paddle a set distance in the ocean or bay....bunch of guys just paddled from here to block island...bout 18 miles open ocean....maybe someday in the kayak.......BTW.....surfed a bit in delray, deerfield and boca....indian river....pal...

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one thing i did to keep me in the water almost daily was buy a long board and relearn how to ride it...........last time was 1968........spent many an hour this summer trying to get to the nose in waist high surf....good exercise and lots of fun should have done it years ago but was too addicted to ...

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sounds good...the nice thing about montauk is on a big enough swell the wind window is large...whats onshore on one side is offshore on the other.......at my age if i dont surf all summer no way im paddling out into way overhead surf....perfection is not part of the equation

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get any mark?................all righty then....3 days of overhead waves.....tried the "secret spot" but not happening....nice ride in the boat though....came back and surfed the point...great waves but got annialated on an outside set....saw my friend drop in really late on a double overhead+ wave....

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not quite yet........ernesto was fun but this looks like the real thing.....hoping for the once every few years secret spot

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dug....sorry to hear that......they appear after every big storm....last time i went to fishers island they were like a weed line....cept you couldnt run across it....hope the damage is minimal

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thanks walter....

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well...anyone who knows me and has been to my house knows i am far from "affluent"....but alas i live in the town of east hampton and it seems to color every journalistic endevor no matter what the subject...when i did the segment for the travel channel all i talked about was the amazing diversity o...

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brewster......if folks didnt buy objects that stirred their heart but had no practical use....i'd still be shingling roofs.....3 grand is cheap for something that gives you pleasure every time you look at it.......what kind of boat did your great grand dad have?

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this thread is a hoot......when i moved to utah in 1975 the first thing i found out was it wasnt cool for the powder skiers (me) to hang with the freestylers (bump skiers)....so naturally i became best friends with the best bump skier on the mountain...............then along comes SNOWBOARDS...........

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brewster.....no problem....this remains the only message board i regularly visit where folks can disagree and remain civil........says volumes about the kind of people that own bertrams

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off to where?

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UV....boat is about six slips down from mine at a very small neighborhood marina...........best i can tell it hasn't left the dock all summer....does look like they have fun.....and its got the standard house A/C sticking out the port side cabin window....

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UV....i know you now into picnic boats so with mikes help i have posted two "idea" boats for you to look at...what you think....see thread.....interesting boat

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with bruce on this one.....double eye witness account from responsible folks ive known for decades.....didnt say they thought they saw it....said they....and lots of others on a summer night at the beach.....saw it......so UV...whats your theory on JFK?

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about flight 800......a life long friend of mine and his uncle were sitting on a beachfront deck in westhampton looking at the ocean and saw the rocket (or whatever) ascend and hit the plane........im enjoying my expensive ethanol free summer.......next question....do the marinas in conneticut have ...

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you welcome

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know a guy....actually two....call me..RR

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a very sharp chisel works well..then the acetone final clean up.....done it a few times...................drop cloth....i dont need no stinkin drop cloth.................oh yeah....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!.......glad the world didnt end...

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patrick.....feel free to come visit....wore a full wet suit yesterday strong cool north wind....and a flannel shirt this morning....probably the coolest august in 30 years (not counting the first 3 days)....randall

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my boat ran fine on ethanol for two years and then in 10 hours running developed the dreaded black goo.....at the very least pull a plug and see what it looks like....if its black...pull the carb....if its black on the bottom and the intake manifold is also.....boat is on the way to a hung valve if ...

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great fish...better crew.........it really cant get any better than that...nice!!!...randall

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nice meeting you and the whole family.........and thanks for the ride....i know it opened mikes eyes a bit....randall

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