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i'm sad to say i'm one of those folks not putting in this year. i'll still get on the water every day in a kayak, a surfboard, a canoe , a stand up paddle board, or the inflatable......but i cant swing the bertram. its almost memorial day and there are LOTS of empty slips at the town dock.

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i surfed montauk yesterday and didnt see a single boat go by.

good luck brew!

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pretty funny.

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i always liked em too. they go fast here when for sale.

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id be surprised if it needed to be primed.

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The system has utterly failed. You're better off not hiring. Stay small, keep it all is the new credo. thats my theory for sure. if i fail , i fail alone...not because some knuckle head wants to collect unemployment.........which BTW i dont get even if im injured and cant work for months.....nada.....

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the marina business is like any business. even my business. i go the extra mile for the people who take care of me.

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i was the forman in a civil case. our job was to assess proportion of blame. i immediately told everyone to write their ratio on a piece of paper and give it to me. i added em up and divided by the number of jurors to get the average. i then asked if there was anyone that couldnt live with it. then ...

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now you're talkin. flybridge sides are classic...been runnin that through my mind for years.

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um...before you guys get to carried away i've sailed plenty and know plenty of sailors that not only do an excellent job of taking care of their boats (and paying for it) but have taken them where no bertram is ever going to go....like to hawaii and tahiti. or caribbean in the winter and here in the...

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i left a yard once and the owner told me he was glad to see me go. i quote......"i dont want some guy that pulls his own engine and puts it back in........i want a guy that gives me his credit card number in april and says do what it takes". havent been in a private marina since......and it was numb...

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actually what i did was pour acetone down the intake manifold with the carbs removed. i cleaned them separately. i took the plugs out and turned it over with the starter till it ran clean .........well, a lot cleaner. i took precautions but it threw a lot harder than i expected.....kinda like underc...

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just a really great job....i was surprised how "right" it looked when i saw it the first time........now it looks even righter.

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nice!!

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hes a friend of a friend and thats enough for me. i wish him nothing but the best but have no interest in the boat.

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really great in every way.

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About 3 weeks ago I was buying cartridges in the local WalMart. I turned a corner between the shelves and was run into by a probably 350 lb woman who was speeding down her aisle in one of their electric carts while she was talking on her cell phone ! did she run the red light?..too funny. cool inve...

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dosent matter what you do....just keep movin.

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this is one area where 25s have it over 31s.....running on one engine. even with inboards and the micro rudders its quite doable in a 25.

good luck with your search but consider docking a 31 on one engine is gonna get old fast if its anymore than pulling up abeam to a bulkhead or floating dock.

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i never turn off the blower if im running. i have blocks that fit in the intake vents because thats where all the foredeck water runs. i occasionally forget to take them out (did it with patrick and bruce on the boat) and the engines run fine......plenty of air gets in there ......not to mention wat...

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im sure ill be by a time or two.

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lookin good!!

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walter...saw bluebeard sittin in a slip...let me know if you need any help moving to montauk.

the thread is already jacked to what the hey.

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id pay to see that

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really really beautiful!!!

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the original plumbers were nice enough to put the original well head in the basement so it really takes a lot to make it flood.

caren and i took a long walk and i saw deep standing water in places ive never seen any water before. thats over 30 years of looking.

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rachel welch? yikes were old !!

clay..good luck.

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good day to test the bilge pumps ...........or start building an ark!

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bob....if its 15 foot you wont have any trouble finding waves near montauk. all the slightly offshore reefs will show. some might even break...like "great eastern".

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you could sailboat it and tack so you always had a quartering sea....its not that far. but you'll probably try to get air. take pictures.

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looks snotty no matter how you read it.

i was hiking with my friend in new mexico and he kept talking about the wind. i kept asking "what wind"? it was a bit over dead calm as far as i could tell. you forget that most places are a lot calmer than here.

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no....but i would buy a caddy from a man named boat. we used to have a baby blue 59 convert.

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nice shot...i dont get tired of seeing it.

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mike ohlstein wrote:'Bleeding' can sometimes be caused by using non-stainless tools during the installation of stainless hardware. Stainless steel loves free iron. Iron rusts.

this is why the shoreham nuclear plant never opened. too many bad SS welds to fix.

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it wont be in the 70s here for awhile. im doing a little portrait of einstein at the moment. my favorite quote: einstein, "imagination is more important than knowledge".

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UV...we are having a snowy winter but yikes!!...its sunny and over 50 today. a long walk down the beach and through the woods seems in order. i mean...........how often do i get to weather gloat on march 2nd?

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sorry to hear about your troubles. my wife and i are fighting with 2 different insurance companies about 2 different things. its a crap shoot. good luck!!

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heading to new mexico...hope theres lots of snow.

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no argument from me ....thats exactly as i understand the situation.

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mac ..no attack. at least ive never had any kind of problem (no anti viral softwear) and it seems to work quick and without all the drama of PCs. i have no vested interest and i hear PCs are much better at spreadsheet kinds of things but EVERY artist, photographer and architect i know has a mac.

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there is another solution to virus.

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it fell another half inch of wet and heavy last night. the suns out and its total winter wonderland right now......sorry....but i REALLY like it. plan on taking a nice long walk in the woods.

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i looked at the ocean this afternoon.....breaking waves as far out as i could see......looked around 15 foot.

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we only got two or three but it rained so hard last night i thought about startin an ark.................................and of course all the car doors were frozen shut.

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hell bob....marshall (suzi's pissed) and i ran 55 miles in adriving rain with no enclosure. we had to keep resetting the GPS because his glasses got so wet he couldnt see at all . "um , randall...tell me when we're 15 degrees off"

my boat has a lower helm..........very very nice in hard rain.

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WOOD IS GOOD!!! (no pun intended)

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just out of curiosity....if everyone is lustin after the sedan it seems like it would be REAL easy to make one from a bridge boat. a sportfish with the lower helm would be a good candidate.

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well there you go!!

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mark....i've been daydreaming about one if for no other reason it would keep the bow of the boat between the pilings when i go out alone on windy days...which is almost always. my idea was to run two mahogany boards parallel to the outside of the hatch (like an extension of the sides so they taper) ...

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