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My threaded hull drain is under the starboard engine, right of the center stringer and about 10 inches forwards of the transom. You remove it from the inside via a t-handle type mechanism. I’m not sure if this is standard or was added at a later date.

Congrats, that’s a great looking boat!

Alright, I’m going to work towards getting the tanks out today if the rain lets up, then evaluate the situation. I’m definitely liking the idea of removing the center stringer and laying the tank and low as I can to create some possible storage space.

Well now you got me thinking. All these decisions to make. If removing the center stringer isn’t some crazy procedure, I could lay the tank in deeper, make it slightly taller for more capacity and still have some room to maybe fabricate a storage bin to mount above it for extra storage for ropes, to...

I had a feeling this was the case, I’m happy you could confirm that for me. I’m honestly a little nervous about cutting into the center stringer, but from reading other threads it appears the center stringer is not needed as it wasn’t installed on later models. If I remove that portion of the string...

That looks great!

Ktm I think you are correct. From other pictures of B25’s that I’ve seen I feel like my rear deck is a little higher giving me a little more space under the floor. Not really sure on the difference in floor level between other B25 models. The current Moeller tanks installed are 19 gal tanks and they...

I’ll definitely look into that. I’m going to order my tank today I think. Seller said it comes with some kind of ceramic(?) coating, but I’m sure I can always add some extra protection.

Thanks for sending that design Cam. I’ll check the fit and get a quote, but I feel like it’s going to be hard to beat the price of the tank from hightide marine. If by chance it does fit on top of the center stringer it’ll work out great, I’ll have less modifications required and it’ll keep it out o...

Looks great! Let me know how the trailer works out, I’ll have to get a new one soon, been looking around.

That’s what it appears to look like. There is a center stringer that’s about 6 inches tall and about 4 inches wide, but even with that there’s a lot of room before floor level. These drop in tanks are about 13 inches tall and I’m assuming you need 4-6 to niches for connections. I’ll have to double c...

The bladder seems like a great idea. I’m not really wanting to do a bunch of cutting this thing up at this point, so I’m gonna stick with the 80 gallons. Cam are you saying with the new single 80 gallon tank I’ll have to modify or remove the center stringer? I was hoping to just have to add some mor...

Just spoke with someone from hightide and their fiberglass tank supplier went out of business, they now supply 80 gallon aluminum tanks with a ceramic coating and all hardware for approx $1200, which I feel is a pretty good deal as far as the other quotes I’ve gotten. May end up going that direction.

Thanks Cam. I’d definitely like to see your design. The quote I got from FMT was based off another drawing I found online, which looked good after I verified the measurements. With the current tanks installed it’s hard to tell, but I wasn’t positive if the angles on the bottom LH and RH sides would ...

Why would he put in a fiberglass tank instead of an aluminum one? Cost? Safety? High tides website says they have replacement fiberglass tanks but after looking further into it, it appears that they fabricate aluminum replacement tanks. Have yet to get in contact with them, but I haven’t seen any o...

Thanks Mike. I’m in the Georgia Coastal area, so it’ll mostly be used for beach trips and cruising around the intracoastal. I’d like to be able to get out to the Gulfstream but pretty sure it’s about a 80-90 mile trip off the coast and that doesn’t look possible without some serious mods to add larg...

First post here. I recently acquired a 1963 Bertram 25 Express. Not sure if this is an unpopular model because I don’t see many of them around, but the large birth area will work out great for my family. It runs and actually got to take it for a short ride before purchasing, but it does need some lo...

Using the method cariedl post works great but from my phone I found the images being too big and it doesn’t give you an option for thumbnail sizes. So I found this info below: You can specify the small version of the image by appending s to its base URL. For example, the URL of your original image i...