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i think peter's wife has a slight edge.

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well....i didnt feel the earthquake..BUT....this morning caren noticed that all the paintings (we have a bunch) were crooked.

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thanks patrick...i didnt see the epicenter location. looks pretty close to some popular fishing spots. could have been exciting if it happened on say.... a glassy sunday afternoon in september.

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i saw it too but not until six so they must have shown it twice....couldnt feel it here.

good job brewster!!

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i seatrialed my 25 on a really nasty day. thunderstorms and a 3-4 foot cross chop. great sales tool. i was smitten.

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i know nothing about it but i thought prolonged idling was something diesels were really good at. years ago i went skiing in vermont with a friend who had a diesel mercedes. he never turned it off for three days. just let it idle all night. ran fine on the way home.

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snow?...i was raking leaves in a t shirt two days ago. i think its gonna be awhile.

meanwhile i love the shots of PR. that one is beautiful....keep em coming!!

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i would have to say that one of the most life altering (in a good way) moments in my life was the day in (i think) 2000 that i typed "Bertram" into google.

the list of things to be thankful for is long.

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UV...what's on the menu for tomorrow?

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amen to that.

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andre...i watched the super bowl at my friends bar....maybe 100 people there. 90 of em were rooting for the saints. easy team to like.

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ok...you cant make this stuff up. JETS win with 10 seconds left. last week 16 seconds left in overtime, week before in overtime, week before..26 seconds i think.....yikes!!

BTW UV and andre....i watched the whole LSU- Ole Miss game yesterday....big fun and i was rooting for you.

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i guess obama could have asked cheney to present it.

sorry.....but nothing else really matters except this well deserved and wonderful honor. all the rest is just political bs.

however... i'm willing to agree to disagree and let it go.

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thats good advice. replacing my engine mounts made a world of difference in keeping everything true.

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i could reply in an obvious political way to the digression this thread has taken. but i'll hold my thought and honor the person. does every damn thing have to be about gaining a political inch or two. EVERY citizen should feel the pride of living in the same country with such a fine man.......period.

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i'll wait......you know where to find me.

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Vicroy wrote:Looks like a Clorox bottle with a lit wick up its ass.

UV

LOL.....exactly!!

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OK...i want a ride in THAT!!

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rocky.....GOOD POINT.....all kidding aside it is extremely prone to end grain splitting if left untreated and exposed. when we built decks with it we coated the ends of every board with a special wax for that purpose.

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ask mike about it.

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epi's not really wood....its wood from a different planet. dosen't even float.

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i guess my boat being original in this regard is not in "compliance". one thing to remember ,at least as far as im concerned ,is that every sealed off area have either a pump or a valve. a big valve.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO_BAmCH ... r_embedded

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UV..i assume you mean "during". luckily we dont get too many of those....lots of kindling out there.

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sorry if you disappointed. shot this yesterday on the road between my house and the beach.

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thats it. on my boat it takes literally 2 seconds to shut down the saltwater and open the crash valve. by making the opening in the crash valve threaded i can screw in a length of PVC pipe that goes to a bucket. anything i put in the bucket goes through the system with just the normal pressure..no h...

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thanks UV

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i do the same....i run the engines with the new oil to winterize.

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colonoscopy.....simulated alien abduction.

UV..carens mom has macular degeneration and she was wondering if the treatment was experimental or very expensive.

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one nice thing about the crash valves (besides the peace of mind) is how easy it becomes to run fresh water or antifreeze through the system. when i redid my raw water intakes i set up the plumbing so i could screw a pipe mounted in a spackle bucket directly into the system. makes it a piece of cake...

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yep...i've seen that stuff . never knew the guy though.

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bobby....i never met mark foo but i certainly know who he was. tell billy i'm the guy with the wooden box of money in montauk.

the rumor always was that they flipped the negative so it would be a left.

this is fun...

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bobby..its been 25 years and i still see it plain as day. my girlfriend and i spent two weeks in a flop hotel in china town and i surfed the town breaks every day. i even surfed the west side a bunch. dark as a raisin, crew cut and i knew enough to keep my mouth shut. even got some waves at makaha. ...

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opunui, thanks...i had heard ala moana and sunset but was never sure. the take off spot in my story is named after the spot on the south shore of oahu. everyone just calls it alamo now. its a big deep water A frame that breaks on a rock reef way outside. thats big by local standards. the first time ...

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its huge again today...double overhead plus. yesterday was rare as it was onshore on both the north, east, and south sides of montauk. variable out of the east wind blowing to 30. i did a recon of the north side looking for the head high slightly over head gem you some times find. ixnay. i think the...

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every day should be veterans day. at least in the heart of a thankful citizen.

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ok john ...i'll tell you the story of this board and one wave. no pictures except in your mind. it was about 15 years ago when i would still paddle out on a day like today (montauk buoy 16 +). it was a hurricane swell and my friend gerry and i wanted to surf the rock reef way outside right off the p...

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this is my equivalent of your shot with kelly. the board is my 8'2" billy hamilton (laird's dad) gun. i got by far my most memorable wave in montauk while riding it.

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AWESOME!!

gonna catch some fish with that puppy.

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opunui wrote:Hueso..unfortunatly we lost Andy Irons after he pulled out of that contest.
25-30 foot faces on the country swell. surfs up!

theres surfs up and then theres SURFS UP!!!.

i know a bunch of people that knew andy well.....what a sad thing. a very loved and admired man.

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nice shot giff!!.....later today ill show you mine. few will get it.

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bertramp........i've surfed at one time or another with every great long island surfer....some many times. heres how it is. only ricky rasmussen was truly world class. when i worked at snowbird i skied everyday with some of the hottest locals on the planet, BUT then they had a pro downhill. we went ...

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yup....that is some NICE work!!

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85 F in Puerto Rico. Randall: Rip Curl Pro Search Surf Challenge was a total hit! Kelly Slater went to battle with local hero Dylan Graves.....Kelly is a killa! Take a look at this: http://70.32.66.235/index.php?ProSearch2010 i've been watching kelly surf since he was 14. one of the worlds great at...

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maybe mike o will chime in....his are two piece, internal line, completely clean and swivel base mounted. come off and fold away in the cabin in a minute and they work just fine. but i cant remember the manufacture.

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i think they have mixed feelings about 31s. on one hand the "best boat ever built" has their name on it........on the other..."the best boat ever built" is a boat yhey dont build and had nothing to do with. but it would be funny to anyone even remotely involved.

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that is just OUTSTANDING!!!!

but typical of the best boating site BY FAR.

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i won a ton of it on a boating site super bowl contest. so far i think their products are pretty good.

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i'm here on lake michigan but my friends are having fun in montauk. surfs up!

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ha...i'm in chicago....its supposed to be 68 tomorrow. timing is everything!

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