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It was a typical New England day, rain followed by more rain, I was sailing alone just off the cape when a thick fog bank rolled in masking every object. I sat and listned becalmed in a misty world, after an hour of only fog horns in the distance I heard a screen door slam just in front of me.

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I lived in Seaview WA for 2 years just out of highschool and worked as a bait boy on a couple of headboats that fished for salmon in the Pacific back in the day when you could. We ran the bar every morning and night, I spent a few nights out in the ocean at the mouth of the river being banged around...

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Hey Guys these are 35 HP Gator Tails with modified spray plates, they are mounted on HYD jack plates with break free hinges, 12 inch props that can run dry or wet. If you are down in the swamp these are the ticket no ifs ands or buts or is it butts. You won't never see three on the tree unless you a...

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I foul hooked one of these once, best thing you can do is get a couple of photos then cut the line and let it return to the deep blue.

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I lived next to a rich guy in Montana on Flathead lake, he produced all of the Dean Martin Comedy Shows his name was â€œ Greg Gâ€ he built a giant log home on the lake and proceeded to buy a bunch of those carved wooden bears and put them on the dock fishing or in a tree climbing or standing on a r...

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Looks great: I bet she looks even better in the light of day.

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Hang on here we go!

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Speed week at Bonneville: Got to be on your bucket list. If any of the brothers are going let me know and we can have a cold one on with salt.

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Bruce as always is way out front only he could point out the humor in someone elseâ€™s failure: Come on I had the old snip snip after my third child and still named my first real boat a (B31 FBC) "Proud Cut" boy did that piss of my second and third wife's. FYI A "Proud Cut" horse is one who used to ...

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Post your best photo of a Funny Boat name - extra points for Bertrams -

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350ci/350hp 1958 muncie close ratio 4 speed, Zoom clutch covered by 1958 Ansen 2 pc. scatter shield (with the bottom 1/2) 1961 12 bolt GM rearend w/welded flanges - She drag raced in the early 1960s with a 1958 Corvette 283 (I still have it in a crate). I mention the bottom 1/2 of the scatter shield...

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One of my favorite logo's and slogans

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Randal: I just about got rid of my 1954 this year, I sent it to the hot rod shop to get new steering, disc brakes and a new engine they put in a new fuel tank and a new battery - I had a friend pick it up and bring it home, when he pulled up to the house I smelled fuel, I checked the engine then ope...

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dancing in the moonlight
everybodys feeling warm and bright
its such a fine and natural sight
everybodys dancing in the moonlight

we like our fun and we never fight
you cant dance and stay uptight
its a supernatural delight
everybody was dancing in the moonlight

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Breaking one of the most basic rules of boating - water depth minus boat draft should not be less than 0. Capt. Pat the mate on the bow in the last clip has the same raw courage unfortunatly his Captian flunked math. http://www.nauticlink.com/nl/watersportvideos/hoe-diep-steken/we-nu-video_2ae62a492...

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I tried G scale once but after my first hour I was demoted from Engineer to "Off Site" Station Ticket Collector just because of one small derailment. Im just guessing but I think the guys who built the set felt like Randall did after he handed over his models, in fact as I was leaving one of them wh...

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All I have are three APN numbers written on the back of my birth certificate ( I wrote them on it for some profound reason but even that memory is gone now). The last draft call was in 1972 but they kept up the lottery until 1975 to give us dumb ass kids something to worry about. Here were my lucky ...

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Here is one of my favorites sort of that same feeling except the engineering side of your brain is trying to calculate things like thickness vs weight and where is the reinforcing steel, etc. Top it off with a Bob Dylan song with Dave Mathis and Neil Young singing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGC...

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I think this one is still for sale if anyone is interested:

He wants 40K but it looks like a runner and is ready to go in NJ.

http://www.thehulltruth.com/boats-sale- ... -sale.html

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Is your boat set up with one engine forward of helm and one rear of helm one V drive and one straight shaft and does it have single rudder?

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I took my son to see the Rangers play the Giants on the 30th and they won the game 4 to 2 it was grand and was our first world series. We came home and had high hopes for more wins but our dreams have been dashed on the rocks like a rotting tomato thrown by a lefthander. We both take pride in the fa...

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Great job, I really got a great laugh "I will take away your computer" HA

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They say they have FIMA funds ready to rebuild Port Eads Marina, but they also say the launch site is perfect because of its isolation -

http://www.mda.mil/news/media_library.html

Take a look at the Aegis program videos. Port Eads will never be the same if they build a launch facility.

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http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/ ... _test.html

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I sure hate to put a damper on the rum celebration but I fear Port Eads is slipping away forever:

http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/ ... _test.html

The first thing they do is historical survey, then endangered species survey, then they build the fence.

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Randall - I got out of the Heart don't let me down again HOUSE a couple of weeks ago to find a video that the speed shop did on my 54 getting a new 350/350 she is also getting new disc brakes and a bunch of other things that I wanted done before I give it to my son. The 57 corvette 283 had seen enou...

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Iâ€™m looking at the pictures and it looks to me like you have plenty of room to add two more 350s and get yourself a 4 pack out back (thatâ€™s a down under way of saying outboard). I am calculating 68 to 70 mph in calm seas using the industry standard "Horse Power multiplied by boat length divided ...

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This is a follow up on building an artifical reef, Here are a couple of videos of us dumping the concrete blocks from an Ocean Going Barge 22 miles off the coast of Texas at Matagorda Reef site 712 FYI - BP and the Federal Government did not do any engineering or design work on the lever that create...

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Charlie: Congestive Heart Failure - Upper left interior Ablation last year with lots of complications and now it looks like open heart surgery to maze the exterior this summer, if the mazing is sucessfull I may be able to fish again, If it is not sucessfull I get to go on the heart transplant donor ...

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Answer: Tropic Star Lodge - My old B31 "Proud Cut" is getting fitted with a pair of Detroit 4 bangers here in Corpus Christi and then she is shipping out to Panama where she will be re-outfitted at the lodge to match the other boats and be put into service in 2011. I plan to make a trip in 2011 just...

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a couple of shots of the wire saws at work, large moorings were 30x32x10 feet they were sectioned into 20 pcs. each cut takes about 16 hours - six 800 ton blocks and nine 200 ton blocks plus all of the piling that supported them. Wire is 3/8 diamond ring with spring backers, saw motors are 40 hp hyd...

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Here are a couple of photos of some 800 ton concrete ship mooring anchors we are removing from the Corpus Christi Ship Channel, We are cutting them into 50 ton blocks they will then be transported by barge 25 miles offshore to Matagorda Disposal Site 7 off the Texas Coast - water depth is 135 feet, ...

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Here is my favorite hog hunting video -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uVYAtf1zVI

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Eddie would go!

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Well I can not beleive it, ran offshore for the first time in weeks as the wind finally got below 30 mph - ran out to look for weed lines and see if we could find a Hoo in the chop. No luck so on our way back we hit a couple of rigs about 6 miles offshore. Caught our limit of Red Snapper and headed ...

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Tuna in the Big Easy

Two of seven 100 to 150 class - Nothin better than a sunny day 60 miles offshore and fish on all day long - one thirty pound Mahi Mahi just to round out the Tuna day.

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guess the comment, "you probably could have paid someone to fininsh the 31 for what that cost" wouldn't be helpfull?????? I Probably could have done two Hatterass in half the time, hired some one to train a dog to do the work for food and a pet once in a while and felt no remorse about ending up wi...

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Can not seem to get it together on the B31 FBC and my kids really want to fish bad this year - I went crazy for a moment and bought a 36 foot cat. I fished off a 32 most of last year last year in Venice LA and just had to have one. My Kids named the boat and came up with the design for the wrap. - 2...

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Not sure if this is a fit but I have been using one for a year with wet discs to eliminate the dreaded fiberglass itch. 4500 max rpm but can jump it up with more than 90psi. Works dry as well, I bought the 99.00 one to see how it went and it just keeps on going. I use a 6" thread on pad when using s...

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Capt. Pat. In 1999 I worked on a project at Rend Lake in Illinois; we were hired to locate abandoned exploratory coal drill holes from the 40s and 50s that were done before the USACOE built the dam to create Rend Lake. Console Coal was advancing mine shafts 150 feet under the lake and there was a se...

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I heard that this place is great. Most of the funding for the pens came from Exxon as part of a Federal subsidized grant for â€œrenewable energy" seems that the floats on the nets are made from soybean meal that is somehow more durable than plastic. They are using Willy Nelson bio-diesel fuel in the...

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Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the Hurth ZF two speed transmissions? I am looking at a B31 equiped with 300 hp cummins and ZF 90 two speed trasmissions, guy says they are rated to max of 320 hp at 2800 rpm he says that they are great fuel savers if you are making long runs - They have ...

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Here is a Bahia Mar with the top cut off. http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f29/31-bertram-31214.html Note the Dual Exausts on Port and Starboard ? Never seen that before. Here is one that was for sale in Texas a while back it sold, some photos of it also. http://www.fishing-yachts.com/featured_bo...

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I was going to go quail hunting in NY but now I am afraid to drive my truck there, does anyone know if there are seat belt requirements for bumper mounted shooting seats? In Texas they are not required unless you are on a designated interstate and the shooters guns are loaded, I had them installed a...

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1974 FBC - USCG Certificate of Documentation for Offical Number 975140 states - Gross Tonnage 11GRT - Net Tonnage 9 GRT.

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Well here is my two cents on the TWIC issue. I applied on line for an appointment to get a TWIC card this in itself takes a while (make sure you do this as there were at least 30 people sitting waiting there turn when I arrived at the Port of Corpus Christi issuance center, at 9:15 my scheduled appo...

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UV I will be located just downstream on SW Pass at about mile marker 17 building a containment island for one of the oil companies who lost some storage tanks and are now cleaning up hydro carbons by creating a steel walled containment island. I would sure like to fish a day or two, I have access to...

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I lived in Hawaii for 5 years we shipped all of our construction equipment, trucks, boats etc. via Sause Brothers - This is barge shipping and it is far cheaper than any other method. Washington and Oregon loading locations.

http://www.sause.com/

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Does anyone have any information or insider knowledge about a B31 Bahia Mar "Just Teasin" I know she worked in the charter busisness out of Savanna GA and is for sale. I would like to find out more about the boat before I fly out to look her over. Here is a photo of the boat. http://i124.photobucket...

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Fond Memories

Re: Running the Columbia River bar!!

Coonass go fast

A prank gone right

August = Speed Week

Boat Names

I hate Otis Redding and most of the state of California

Port Eads "BAD" News

Off the subject but this one is for Randall

Where is B31 Heaven?

East Coast Surf

Receipt for Order 20299249

Big Easy Day Fishin

2009 Fishing Season - B31 will not be ready so I had to punt

Hurth ZF two speed transmission

Does anyone have any info on "JUST TEASIN"