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Jimmy, congrats to you and your daughter. I showed the pictures to my girls 7 & 4 and they want to catch one too. I also explained the tradition of jumpping in the water after your first and Mallory, my 7 yr old doesn't want to jump in the water until she gets back to the dock she thinks the sailfis...

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John, Keep the old system. Hyd are simple and a little green on the copper never hurt anything. As long as there's no creases or punctures in the copper it will hold. Btw, having gutter's replaced on my folks house with copper, should last at least 80-100yrs before they need to be replaced again. I ...

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Don't forget to allow for the foam-factor ;) I haven't weighed mine, but my 1/2 ton truck knows it's back there. On another Steyr repower topic. How do you think a pair of 300's would work in a B35? General thinking is the B35 needs at least 350 diesel hp to bring it closer to todays standard of per...

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I agree about the weight and found this supported by other B35's with diesels especially Cats. I believe my balance was upset a little when the previous owner moved the ac units and batteries over the water tank. Then added an extra 110gal in front of the old tank where the AC units had been. When b...

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Hi Alan, Sorry to year you had to pull the tank. I'm facing the same thing in my B35 but am waiting until this fall/winter. Fortunately my deck had already been replaced with an aluminum insert and comes out real easy. I had a leaky aux. tank in front of the main a few years back, so my front bulkhe...

JohnD

Welcome Back!!!

You're just in time for the fall "Rockfish" season. Hope you get all settled in soon and can take a few evenings and weekend to relax and get re-acquainted with SUPERMEX.

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Hi Ken, just wondering if you had any info on the cockpit-freezer?

Shoot me an e-mail: johndunker@yahoo.com

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Mike O, that's a sweet ride!!! My B20 is gray and white, "Jabba Jaws" from shark river NJ, I've got the motor out being rebuilt and will probably do the transom and floor this winter. Now that the B35 basically works I can play with the toy 20. I found mine at A/C and after a ride out the inlet and ...

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Count me in for 2.1

1) Bertram 35 vintage 1972

2) Bertram 20 moppie 1965

.1) v-12 from www.boatplansonline.com, got the motor and fg kit hope to complete before spring '07

ps. I'm a charter member of Bertram anonymous & so is the wifeâ€¦

JohnD

Ken, yeah it's scary. The fact is that ethanol will breakdown our fiberglass tanks due to the type of resin used to make them. Once the tank starts to breakdown there's a residue which passes through filters that then solidifies in the cyl chamber causing sticky valves or imporper seating and the en...

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Ahhh, Gas prices. I paid $3.65/gal Balt before I left for AC last week. I fueld in the C&D cannal before heading to Cape May $4.15 (ouch) at least it was only 74 gals. South Jersey was $3.64 (I think, buy this time I quit looking). So all in all it took me about 480 gal round trip to Atlantic City. ...

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Charlie, Thanks for another great year!!! The past 2 I wasn't able to bring my boat, but this year we made it, despite the tropical storm. What a difference it was staying on your boat at the docks. Melinda & I had a great time visiting with everyone, both old and new friends. It was a pleasant surp...

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I spoke with Doug yesterday and will put up the MD guys on my boat. On sunday I had a starter go up on the stb motor, I was able to get it replaced and then the motor wouldn't start. I changed filters an checked a bunch of stuff. It seems it had a vapor lock from when I switched my old fram fuel/wat...

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Harris, Welcome from another B35 owner (mineâ€™s Gas). Over the past several years Iâ€™ve considered the same thing youâ€™re talking about. Hereâ€™s some random thoughts. -- Yanmar v. Cummins â€“ Both are good and would serve you well, so the deciding factor goes to mechanicâ€™s available and parts....

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Doug, I've already got 3 coolers so I'll pass on the behemoth. I was just offering ice for it if you were going to bring it. Harv, Looks like Iâ€™ll be a dock rat myself. I had a starter go up over the weekend and will have to run all the way back on Sunday. I thought we had the kids covered until M...

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I have an older onan, but there's also a breaker on my genset itself, aside from the one at the electrical pannel. Also, recheck the wiring, could be a bad splice at one end or the other.

Hopefully it's something simple.

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Doc, that's bad news. I looked forward to seeing Happy Hour this year, you guys were missed last year. C'mon anyway, you'll be welcome and we'll find you some space to sit, mix and talk. Afterall, AC is the only place I'm allowed to have Martini's ;) Who knows, perhaps Holtz will turn up the heat an...

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thought I'd give some feed back.

I ordered 6 filters on Wednesday monring and received them today. All at a good price and fair shipping.

I paid abot $17 ea for the replacements and the chains were about $30.

-jd

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I'm not sure if I'm up for sharkin, too much bait cutting and I don't have the right tackle. Unless I can talk Hav & Sy into joining me (and bringing some rigs). Guy's I've got A/C, TV and a comfortable bed.....I'm just alot slower than Doug. I've got enough stuff for a Tuna/Dolphin spread, just hav...

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UV, Congrats!!!!!

Glad to hear the ordeal is almost behind you and you'll soon have your AJ home where she belongs. First cruise & you'll forget all about the previous months without her.

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JK, I don't think there's a time other than standard check in around noon. This is the first year that Thursday is optional and since I'm making such a long journey (for me at least) I wanted to have as much time as I could. I think the Tock-Tail party kind of kicks off around 4-6?? I think it's goi...

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I thought maybe they had dockage there. Man feeding her lobster 2 nights in the same week and she's gonna forget we're just Po'Folks ;) This is going to be a kid-free trip, after my indoctrination into the Del-Bay aboard the Crows nest, they'll have to get a little older before I take them. Not to m...

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I had wanted to fish, but not sure I can get the tackle together. I'm going to bring what I got and work on it while "killin chilles". So I'm definetly a maybe, as in previous years depends on how good the Dock Party is on Friday. Though at least this year I'll be on the boat and not have to leave a...

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Spoke to Canvas guy last night and he's putting up the new bimini tomorrow, ought to help keep the sun off my bald head ;). Even thinks he may have the front of the enclosure done by Tuesday night, which would be really cool. I just too Lady D over this morning to have a short haul and blow the bott...

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It's 10pm and I just finished pulling out old staples out of the floor from the carpet. I must have been crazy for replacing the carpet 10 days before I needed to leave for AC. But hey, at least I'm floating, just 10k little things to do between now and then.. I haven't seen the Enclosure guy since ...

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JK, know what you mean. Jan of 05 I thought I'd make it but didn't finish the rudder shelves until then end of June, at least this year its cosmetic stuff. I was just thinking last night I've got to finish the re-assembly of the fighting chair and spool the reels if I even hope to fish. Capt Frank, ...

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I'm looking to pick up some spare fuel/water sep filters for my new racor's and noticed

www.marinefilters.com

Their prices looked good and I wondered if anybody had used them.

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I'm looking forward to the Rendezvous and finally being able to bring my boat. I've had my B35 for 5 years and have slowly been reconditioning different systems to make her sea worthy enough for such a trip. This is my year I'm damn well going to enjoy it. I'm leaving the Chesapeake on Wednesday nex...

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Oh yeah, being a complete non-professional I did about 100 dry fittings at all different stages. Also, to anybody that really knows how to fiberglass my work kinda looks like my 4yr old did it. But from 6 ft away it looks clean and solid. Look at it this way if the original marine ply unprotected la...

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JimmyG, Boy, that's a tough choice but you're of the right frame of mind. Hope you don't have too much trouble selling. The only thing worse than making the decision to sell is then not being able to find a buyer. "Fighting Angel" is a beauty and was done right so at least you've got that going for ...

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Bruce I agree with your thingking. The only other factor is range, which can possibly be solved by installing a larger tank. If you've got a generator, then there's another $8-$10k to add in. For my B35 if I repower with cummins (excluding labor) it comes to around $70k plus. It may be bossible to g...

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I replaced mine in my B35 per Capt Patrick's instructions it was a some what tedious process & I made it more complicated by cleaning and painting the whole area while I was in there. It's been over a year and half now and still looks good. I also painted my steel steering tie bar with rustlock (don...

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Yup, that's what I plan on doing. I'm on my last tank of non-e-gas and will burn that this weekend. Then add techron and fill 30-50 gal for the next week for local runs and to get short hauled before Atlantic City trip. Change of filters on hand to replace when necessary. That way hopefully I'll hav...

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Peter, this is some good info and may explain some of the randomness of tanks being affected. I'm still in the wait and see category. I'll fill with ethanol in a week or so and will have extra filters on hand and be adding chevron techron to the first tank. I'll also be adding an aux tank of 110-150...

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I'm considerint the same type of thing for my B35. A few years back I had to pull out an aux tank ~150gal that was leaking and I never replaced it. I'm considering replacing, for extra fuel and being able to take the fg tank out of the picture. The only problem is that at 30+gal an hour that's only ...

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I just saw some listed on e-bay motors, just do a search for Bertram.

Though there's 6-days left.

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Mike, those are some great pictures.

Sounds like you guys had a blast.

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