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times sure have changed. we sailed a 50 foot yawl into ft liquerdale and called customs. (berry islands previous port of call) feller comes down about an hour and a half later and looks at the four grungiest humans on the planet and says "guess there's no point in lookin at the boat now?". hitchhike...

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Uncle Vic, short term retirement, more of a sabbatical really. Sold the business, 6 months max unless I can pull a Randall or my liver gives out.[/quote] au contraire mon ami.........i NEVER get to retire...work till the end. i'll save you the trouble ...."you call that work!!" have fun...i sailed a...

randall

Charlie wrote:I owned both a Sunbeam Tiger and an Alpine. The Tiger had a 260 Ford V-8. The start of the Cobra was the Tiger.

griffith

randall

which boat would you rather own? remember the tri isnt much good in seas above five foot. and soul.....no contest.

randall

i thought about building one of these once. i had a friend with a derelict XK 120 to use as a donor car so when it was done the engine would have a 120 serial number and i could legally register it as a 1952 XK120 which is what a C-type is. but i bought a boat. http://www.picturelane.com/cars/jaguar...

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i have a different set of desires. i had an austin healey 100-4 for 25 years. it had the engineering sophistication of a biplane and my honda civic would turn faster lap times....especially if the race was more than 3 laps as the AH brakes were only good for two. its all about a feeling that transce...

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i agree...should have stayed with the original hull formula and refined it with modern materials. the race should be as much about the helmsman and the tactician as the boat.

randall

i would take a 289 over a 427 any day. the 427 like a viper is a car......toon but then again my dream car is a C-type jaguar.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/17/phil ... pebble-be/

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on my should woulda coulda list. drove one of the original 260 cobras all day . for sale $4000. not a rocket like a 427 or even a 289...but beautiful and real . so what did i do.........of course, I BOUGHT A BOAT!!!

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4K book direct from them......unless i am reading it wrong?

http://coralstar.com/bookatrip.html

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see...you're sellin boats already.

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thumbs up.......hard work pays off!!

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i agree with you bruce. i dont hunt but i tracked a deer with an arrow in it for two hours. i guess the "hunter" couldn't be bothered.

now killing a hog with a knife......i'm guessing you are pretty sure of the result.

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tropic star is a miracle of comfort without glitz. about perfect in the "feels right" sense. i guess because at heart it is so isolated and hard core all the BS is missing. if you try you will discover theres a bit more to the place than just the obscene fishing.

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andre....thats pretty bold!!

randall

that was great...i like the real backdrops. we used to do that with architectural models.

i still have to give it to the guys whose engines actually work.

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i watched it with 40 friends at a local bar. at least 35 of em were rooting for the saints like it was the jets or giants. frankly i have NEVER seen this before. it was great and maybe the feel good game of all time. and yes..........there was the hangover factor. couldnt be happier about it!! congr...

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they put waves over the transom....at least on occasion.

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no...i dont like those either...bah humbug.

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Capt. DQ wrote:Alright Harry & Sim lets get busy on this. I want a 1/6th scale 6BTA Cummins diesel like this for a Bertram 31 model boat.

http://www.moyermade.com/chevyV8.html

actually you need TWO.

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i dont know if its the same guy but i saw a few scale ferrari V12s in real life....amazing attention to detail. why.....because i can!!

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not to mention taking green water over the transom. the mate was cleaning a good size mahi when we had a sail on. the capt backed down so hard that the mahi and all the mahi guts wound up in my lap. everyone laughed. its that kind of place.

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i have no informed opinion on global warming but i know the difference between weather and climate.

we got nothing but you could stand on the beach and watch it dump about 5 miles off shore. absolutely weird.

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i got a malware warning when i opened the link!!

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nice fish gymnastics!!

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not a flake!!!.....10 miles offshore it snowed all day.

randall

just personal preference but i hate those windows. i hate those upright oval windows also and i especially hate those half round windows with fake mullions they use on houses. when it comes to windows i am extremely opinionated.......carry on.

randall

not a single flake yet

randall

i was lucky..............i realized it when i was 19.

the ONLY real wealth in life is how you spend your time and who you spend it with..............................and health.

randall

every gas guy has diesel envy........$$$$$$$$$.

theres a bunch of reasons why............

randall

ive only been on brewsters boat once, and near shore at that.......but i can vouch for the fact his front windows dont leak.

randall

i'm also a fan of the "rolling restoration" buy something that works and and enjoy it and improve it system by system. working on the boat is a lot less work if you actually get to play with it as much as you work on it. even when its "done" which for most is never.......you will still be working on...

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its really not bad at all here today. bout 38 with a bluebird sky and (its a miracle) no wind. took a nice walk.

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.. because he had good hand/eye co-ordination, had a good imagination, or had the ability to turn concepts into reality.

that will work.

randall

someday my grand kids are gonna talk about their pioneer grand pa that heated with wood.

randall

. Hands on is the only way to learn.

UV[/quote]

one of the secrets of life.

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speakin of patrick

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thanks john ..great shots....and great shots of the boats...the original idea.

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its not just using your hands to make something. starting in first grade we played football EVERY day after school till winter. then we played basket ball when we could and baseball EVERY day in the spring till it got dark. no adults......just a choose up game. we did little league too but we fit th...

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vic...when andre and i went kayak fishin i caught a needle fish... fought hard.........was about a third the size of that one!!!....maybe

roosters........

caught it at the next surf spot up the coast

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and you have expensive clothes hangers because................

nice...ive dropped the spray gun a few times...unwieldy suckers.

randall

"ribbon fish"

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cwj wrote:i could look at thous pics all day

heres some that show the cockpit layout

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no need.....its just easier to have every boat exactly the same. also a day can be a run out to the reef to catch bait, or bill fish if they are there,4 miles. or a run up the coast to catch bait or bottom fish, as much as 25 miles. or go offshore for tuna and mahi and billfish. or all that and more...

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and......since the closest dirt road that goes anywhere is 100 miles away.....they do it ALL there. a shop for every system and they know what they are doing.

randall

this is an interesting thread. i think paul really nailed it. i once had a friend who started life as a poor black kid in houston. he was obviously bright and very good with his hands. when he was 12 he started sweeping up at the transmission shop. eventually he was so good at fixing transmissions t...

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yep

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its a reality that most kids cant do anything with tools that dont have keyboards or joy sticks. ive noticed the local ball field stays empty now all summer. when i was a kid there was a game every day. there are a bunch of local kids that surf, snowboard, and fish.........the other 95% play video g...

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i had two study halls so they told me to pick another class. i took "art".................look how that turned out.

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nice shot andre!!...........i wonder how deep the water is right there..100 feet?

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