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JohnD

Need some help and advise from the faithful. I'm in the Chesapeake and problems keeping barnacles off my running gear. I like to get in early in the spring and have found that by late June, July at the latest I'm loosing speed and my running gear has fowled. The last 2 years I've been sanding, primi...

JohnD

They're pretty nice, a bunch of us ran into Mike Linus (sp?) at the South Jersey Shark Tournament this year. He use to own a B31, The Hucklebuck, but traded up to the Liberty Express a couple of years ago for more range and comfort. He piled us into his car and took us over for a closer look. He see...

JohnD

Joe, I too have a B35 and initially looked into buying a 100-200 gal bladder to get me through this year. I don't recall the costs, but found suppliers through google. I think the costs were $1k or more by the time I added in some additional fuel lines and rigging. On the 35, the tank is pretty easy...

JohnD

As ya'll mill about the show, see if there's anyone who's willing to build a fiberglass fuel tank that's ethanol proof for less than an arm and 2 legs.

PS, Have a clear or 5 for me, I'm still at work!

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JohnD

JohnD

JC, sorry to hear about your bad luck. I had a bad vibration which turned out to be be a bent shaft. It was found with the boat pulled, but you may be able to sue the same technique in the water. Put a block of wook between the hull and shaft, then rotate the shaft and measure any changes in distanc...

JohnD

Ah, more good news.... not We're in the growing pains stage. Eventually everything will have to be reworked to accommodate Ethanol as a fuel source. In the mean time it will cost us our tanks an current engines. go diesel young man... at least the changes to diesel fuel seem to be more on the nuisan...

JohnD

Also check out boatdiesel.com for some RTO's (gas) knowing diesel is where you want to be, maybe $3k for a set of RTO's (gas) can buy you some time until the pocketbook is ready for diesel. Heck, if I can work out the #'s or win the MegaMillions and can repower I'll make you a heck of a deal on my m...

JohnD

Charlie,

I'm not sure if it's where you're at or not but, my neighbors were just over there visiting their son and the guys took a flight in restored bi-planes. From the pictures and stories, it looked like a really neat way to see the Islands

Have a great time and hope you get out fising.

-jd

JohnD

I had used bilgkote on a shelf above my water tank which was redone by the yard that surveyed my boat at purchase. They had used sand to non-skid the area it gets and remains dirty. I've repainted several times with bilgekote only to have it look like crap in a few months. I suspect the problem is t...

JohnD

Harv, I'm sorry to here of your motor troubles & that you're down hard. Maybe you could work on everything else but the motor rebuild, to buy yourself some time. You may be able to keep an eye out for an RTO to replace your port motor and buy some time. Unfortunately I think that gas motors are in t...

JohnD

Done, glad I could help out.

Hey Charlie H, is this where you go on "The Road" ;)

JohnD

Capt Patrick, what's the running gear coated with?

If you're going with a green bottom, I like the yellow sides. If you go with black, I like sea-foam green or light blue.

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JohnD

JohnD

Timmy, The motors/tranny alone are $23k+ so I think you'd be on the higher side to have a yard do all the work. Do some your self and you can save a little. The cummins are cheaper at about $18k+ per for 330's but not as fast as yanmars. There's lots of ways to skin th Diesel cat Capt Patrick are yo...

JohnD

Welcome Timmy, I'd do the list thing, that is make one of what you want and then sort it in the order of importance. The 31 came in different models and configurations. Poke around here on www.bertram31.com as well as the yachtworld listings to see what's available and how some boats have been custo...

JohnD

Thanks Ryan, I'll let you konw.

JohnD

Rayn, do you have 3116's in yours?

I'm considering those if I get them for the right price. It seems to me like a lot of the RTO 3208's are overpriced.

JohnD

I also posted under the Ethanol thread and on B33.com I just spoke with High Tide about tanks for the B35 and found that they don't make them yet. In order to make them they would need orders for at least 3 The cost of a 190gal tank is $4,300 and for a 300gal it would be around $5,000 to $7,000 At $...

JohnD

I just spoke with High Tide about tanks for the B35 and found that they don't make them yet. In order to make them they would need orders for at least 3 The cost of a 190gal tank is $4,300 and for a 300gal it would be around $5,000 to $7,000 At $5k I would be very intersted especially if we could ge...

JohnD

Dave, I was talking about myself. But I know one of these days you'll dump that wallowing B50, and upgrade, maybe move to a searay, or bayliner, before you jump in with both feet and get a hatt for all your off shore boating needs. Now there's a death spiral for ya.... btw Timmy, My tired old gas B...

JohnD

Hey Timmy maybe you can make it to Atlantic City when you're done. Mike can show you the way.

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JohnD

You know this got me thinking about the a set of 450 cummins for my B35 after all my floor could use a little rework anyway.

Not like I'd do it but it would sure make the boat scream. I bet I could make Atlantic City in 6 no 5 hours as opposed to the 9.5 it took me on gas...

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JohnD

Congrats Capt. Mike

You know what they say...."Work is for those who don't know how to FISH"

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JohnD
(still at work...)

JohnD

I've got a neighbor with a new Dodge cummins, how often should the additive be used? every tank or can you skip?

Thanks,
JohnD

JohnD

As for my opinion, I don't care for them. I was on Doug's boat which had one coming apart while returning in from the first day of the Jersey Shark tourney. It caused a violent wobble in the shaft and trying to fix in 3-5's wasn't working and we had to limp in on one motor. Bottom line, I think, was...

JohnD

John, sell your B31 and buy my B35 then you'll have all the brige room you want and a saloon to boot. It just uses a little more gas than you do ;)

Good luck, what about the window project???

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JohnD

JohnD

H,

check the clearence without packing, should be much play. Also, make sure you're using flax and not teflon.

here's a thread from the old board.

http://www.bertram31.com/bb/bbs.cgi?noframes;read=80072

I did mine 2 years ago and only had to tighten one this spring.

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JohnD

JohnD

I've got a '72 gas B35 and face this ethanol issue. I've been considering switching to Diesel. Since I'm on the fence about it, if my tank is good I may convert sooner. If the tank is bad and needs to be replaced I'll replace it with AL and repower down the road, at which point I consider the tank t...

JohnD

Welcome Joe!!! Congrats on your B31 and soon to be new arrival. If you're delivering in Annapolis General, its a nice place, where we delivered our 2 girls. As for the bulkhead, I'd second resetting the snaps or perhaps taking a tuck in material. You'd probably be able to find a local shop who can d...

JohnD

I'll take you up on the trip.

Still no real decisions made yet, but getting closer.

You'll have to try some light tackle on the surface with road-runner's about 3 yrs ago I was catching some trout that way in the fall.

-jd

JohnD

Brewster, that's a good point and I'll definetly check with the yard first. They've been good to me so I'll probably just use them. By allowing me to do the prep work it will save $$$ on the job.

JohnD

Ok, I'm getting numbers together and may just be able to figure out a way to do the repower thing. Pretty sure it will be the cummins remans, though I will also price Yanmar and Volvo. Considering I'll be doing most of the grunt work and have a yard who will fill in (pull the old and rig the new). S...

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Rawleigh, I've got the Lee Sr. which have the main tube angled about 60degrees facing aft and the support comes from aft it does slide on the main tube, but not enough to allow me to lay the rigger down. Steve, I agree as a matter of fact I may just take a ride out tonight and see if there are any R...

JohnD

I've been wanting to do it for 4-5 years, but just didn't. Then last year when retruning home from a weekend trip, I followed another and they were able to do it.... I'm still not comfortable with the look, after all she's a SPORTFISH!!!! Not some loveboat thing. Even the wife shot me down a few yea...

JohnD

Them's the ticket. I had a thread on them a little while ago and it was either discussed here or on boatdiesel but these are infact are new mechanical motors. Everything on the block is new including the block. Should be able to pick up the under 300 hp model for less that $20k per side with tranny ...

JohnD

Joe, I don't think there's any easy answer to this question and I'm facing the same thing in my B35. A while back, on the old board, there was much discussion about Stainless Steel tanks. I think the one thing that stood out was that they were not approved for a charter ( vessel for hire ) boat. Als...

JohnD

I had planned to go to NY camping for the weekend with the family, but decided Wednesday to cancel but keep my day-off on Friday to button down the hatches. Boy am I glad I did. In Baltimore the wind seemed to heavist from the north-east. Good for me since I'm on the north side of a creek which runs...

JohnD

good report, beats the heck out of the cost of a marine gen and the hastle installing...

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JohnD

Cool, I saw you turn behind us and figured you saw the wahoo. I'm not sure if I should tell if I should tell my neighbor that you picked up a White right behind us.

Glad you found some action.

-jd

JohnD

I got a last minute invite to fish yesterday, Labor Day Monday, aboard a late model hat 50 out of OC/MD the "Blew Bayou". Well I know it's not a Bertram, it got me offshore on a nice day. Early we had an Bull Wahoo attack our stb bait, leaping out of the air and making a clean bite off. Then noting ...

JohnD

The thing that's got me is my motors arn't bad but the reman program is an excellent way to repower to diesels with what's essentially a new motor for a 30-40% discount from the new price. The year after I got my boat, 2001, I priced new cummins 330's and they were $25k per side (I think). That's tw...

JohnD

Bruce, thanks for the advice.

I was thinking the same, but hoping that wasn't the case.

Well the maintenance/restore plan will get another revision soon.

Once agin, I don't think I'd be able to keep and use my Bertram without the support of this board and "The Faithful"

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JohnD

Here's the link from the website's links (sticky above).

http://bertram31.com/sponsors/rbertram/

you can also find links to some other sponsors such as high tide at:

http://bertram31.com/links.htm

Good Luck,
JohnD

JohnD

A question for the faithful It may be a crystal ball kind of question, but I was wondering if anyone knew how long the Cummins reman motors would be available. The timing is not right for me to repower, I'd like to do a couple of other smaller projects first, among other things. With the price of ne...

JohnD

Merc's now there's your problem.... Kidding aside, on my crusader's there's a remote oil filter on the back of the motor (probably same marinazation relocater). Anyway I had a leak on the plate which covers the stock oil filter location. I got it off but couldn't get the stupid thing back on (Port m...

JohnD

I've found the vinyl on mine has started to come loose and needed to be tucked in.

No real help, but perhaps Richard Kidd or High Tide would have a source?

Let us know if you find anything.

JohnD

JohnD

David your right on. Converting gas to diesel is always a good topic for debate. Until the ethanol I believed a well maintained and properly run set of gas motors would last for several thousand hours. Thus for the guy who only puts 100hrs per-year on his boat, thatâ€™s 10-20yrs. And basically being...

JohnD

I just read this last night and hope it brings some type of change to the ethanol requirement in diesel fuel. As has been mentioned before, it would be easy to simply not put it in deliveries to Marinas since it mixed at the time it is loaded in trucks for distribution. Clearly the rug is being pull...

JohnD

John, I've been tempted by the similar savings on rto's. In the end it probably just not worth it. I know we've discussed this before, but here it is again for discussion. With you doing most of the grunt work of cleaning and painting area and misc. stuff. Should you choose a gas repower it will be ...

JohnD

Happy Birthday UV & Bruce!!

With many more to follow.

JohnD

JohnD

sounds like the right hp and size for a gas => diesel conversion.

watch the price, also check to see if you can get a set of reman 4bta's knowing everything's new & a 2yr warranty might be worth a few more$$.

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