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Mikey

John,
The hardtop is a factory original. It may be the only one left on a 31. As far as size, let me know the measurements you want and I'll measure.

Mikey

Thanks Mean Michael from you that's high praise. Did a little cocktail cruise yesterday with a house full for the Urbanna Oyster Festival. Best oysters in years. Perfectweather. Autumn sky full of color and seventy degrees. Rock fish still in the creeks and refusing to leave because the weather here...

Mikey

If there is some interest in hardtops why not find an original. If there is enough interest pull a plug and make a few. Look at the hardtop on Da Judge's boat (yo, Trey, poste'er up) or my 31.
Probably no savings but how classy.

Mikey

A bit drastic for a Halloween costume, don't you think?

Mikey

Harry, Here's what I know: First, the John W. Brown is the last Liberty ship afloat as I understand. It lives on the Chesapeake Bay and gives summer cruises. http://www.liberty-ship.com There is a part of a Ghost Fleet in the York River in Virginia which is being sold for scrap and to prevent leakag...

Mikey

Can't believe that Rawleigh hasn't chimed in here. He's the only lawyer I know with a complete machine shop in his garage. He can close your real estate deal and machine a part for your forty-year old boat at the same time.
God bless the talented.

Mikey

Randall,
Only water that close to your body should be in a glass!
Where are the palm trees?

Mikey

Damn, Tim. Been out of town, just got the news. Was hoping to meet with you when in the islands and spend some time fishing and sipping rum. There are several 31's on Tortola that need help if interested.
My thoughts are with you.

Mikey

Bob, My tank swap was a 31 not 28. Don't know if there is a difference but Patrick will. First, remove the deck. Easy, huh? Now, I used a long thin piece of steel to run down between the tank and stringers and the tank and bulkheads to cut the foam. Lots of small passes and you will know when you bo...

Mikey

John,
Mine was not as big a pain in the patoot as his and I still remember all the steps. When you see me in Annapolis we'll talk. I got it out by my tiny little self. Amazing.

Mikey

John, I will be working for a friend with a booth between Fleet Reserve Club and Fawcett's. This is a new clothing store from Irvington called Jimmy and Sooks. It carries it's own original line of Crab embroidered clothing. Very cool stuff. Check his web site: www.jimmyandsook.com. Come by and see m...

Mikey

Nothing I wouldn't expect from a perfectionist. Soooo clean!
What are the gray panels. I'm at that stage with Dreamsicle.

Mikey

Damn, Randall! You had to run those pictures again, huh?
I WANT ANOTHER ONE!

Mikey

Harry, you are one sick Puppy.
Seem to be a lot of that around, eh, good company.

Mikey

Git'em Pat!

Mikey

We pat him on the head and make him sleep under the porch.
He can't fall down any further than that.

Mikey

Thanks, we need all the help we can muster.
May the wind be always at your back.

Mikey

Harry,
[The last that I heard he was training bird dogs.......... ]
Is that the halt leading the lame?

Mikey

Rawleigh,
Try to get by, but a busy week. You had to throw that Tortola thingy in didn't you? I'm jealous. Have a great trip and raise at least one glass to the North and the working slobs.

Mikey

Thanks Guys,
Thought about that first, but with a list like mine (and probably yours) begging for garage leftovers was much easier. Guess no one has any so off to the hardward or McMasters-Carr.
Thanks

Mikey

Guys, Don't want to appear anal about this item but first I avoid Perko at all costs. Their favorite metal is chrome-plated zamak(sp) which I translate as chrome-plated corrosion. Can't understand why a company selling hardware for boats used in a salt-water environment would foist a highly corrosiv...

Mikey

Mack, Have been going to the Urbanna Oyster Festival since it's inception in 1956. Going again this year, probably Friday, and by Bertram of course. When you stay at the Tides Inn you were about 1/2 mile from the house, next time you're coning, call. The Inn sold the Miss Anne to a guy in Colonial B...

Mikey

Walt, Thanks. If I do it this way it will come down the hull to the waterline and be tied underneath. Padding is a must as I found out on my new curved windows. A loose piece of shrink wrap flapping against the plastic left very fine scratches on one side which I have not attacked as yet since I nee...

Mikey

Since many of you are removing or covering your windshields has anyone got the adjuster knobs? All four windshield sections on Dreamsicle are operative and don't leak enough to justify sealing or covering. Also I like the fresh air in the summer. The knobs on mine all have a threaded metal insert in...

Mikey

Shrink rap will last several years especially if not used year round. I talked with my yard guys and suggested that I might shrink rap to the water line with a zipper door for working access and in the spring cut the sides up to the rub rail and slip the whole thing off and store until the next wint...

Mikey

Patrick,
Back in the saddle and tending to bidness.
Check's in the mail.

Mikey

Harv, my friend
Been on the road since last week. Just saw this post. So sorry, will say a little prayer for you. Stay strong.
We love you.

Mikey

It pains me to look and remember.
Very nice work.
Keep the pix coming.

Mikey

John,
When you say interested, as in buying? Don't want to bid against a brother.
Rawleigh,
Pulled her out Saturday for the Full moon and equinox tides so will just let her bake in the sun. Thanks for the heads up.

Mikey

Looking at a boat (Bert) in Bear, DE. does anyone know a surveyor in that area? Found a flybridge cruiser on ebay with Cummins and have a friend interested.

Mikey

a cheap imitation.
As I remember, Dreamsicle was the original and Popsicle Corp. bought it to stop the competition with their Creamsicle.
If the band plays fifties rock and roll they pass.
If they do the Coasters, I'm coming to see them.

Mikey

Vic,
Let's go back to female hurricanes, less trouble me thinks.

Mikey

Capt Mike,
So sad, but not necessarily the end. I agree with Harry and Pat. Get it out, get it surveyed by someone of your choice, let'em total it, take the money, get'er repaired. Wish I lived closer, I'd bring my Tyvek suit and help you do it.

Mikey

You sly old fart, did your B-day slip by us unnoticed yesterday? I was playing movie star and was out.
You're still a month younger than I and always will be.
Welcome to Social Security! Feeling any more social or secure?
Me neither.

Mikey

Haven't tried this yet but thought about putting a piece of window gasket (sticky-back closed-cell foam) between the box and deck. I have Cabrera's decks and boxes so the deck turns up and is 1 1/2 inches above the deck level. However wash down and rain allow water to sneak in and do exactly what yo...

Mikey

Tony, There were ten originally
the others weren't stout enough to make the trip.
Thank God it's a Bertram!

Mikey

Capt Mike,
Glad you survived. Black Sheep will probably be fine. Stout ships those early expresses. Stern in the water? Fire up those Cummins and back her off. Time to fish!
Keep us posted pal.

Mikey

Illustrious fraternity

Mikey

Harv,
Yesterday while working on America's Most Wanted the makeup person was telling me a similar story and her surgeon, head of surgery at Johns-Hopkins, told her before surgery we'll try this. Works many time and eliminates the knife.
Worth a shot, pal.

Mikey

That's not a bow reg # - it's the name. Don't think it's Cuba, picture taken from modern car and in the background of the stern shot is a parking deck.
Dan,
Any other pix for clues?

Mikey

Brewster,
I was about to say, "Seems a little extreme," but what was I thinking? You and I have the same basic idea, make them accessible!

Mikey

Harry, Dreamsicle is becoming a real boat again. Still with the bugs, but slowly getting them sorted. She is a fabulous creek cruiser for the cocktail set and until I get her worthy of taking on the worst that the Bay can throw at her and her geriatric steward she looks good and has the locals askin...

Mikey

WHEW!

Mikey

Harry
Just went through this with my VDO Ocean gauges as one of my tachs quit. VDO say (without any sympathy) that they could have engineered them to read both but it would have shortened their market. So buy new tachs or repair your alternator. I did the latter and all works just fine.

Mikey

Place those suckers so that in an ugly sea when a filter clogs or water appears in the bowl you can get at it. I placed them at the aft end of the engine box with plenty of room to work. HAte lying on a hot engine to do filter maintenance. http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x54/mikeylikesitnow/P1010...

Mikey

Harv,
Can you lick your eyebrows?

Mikey

Bruce
You missed it early on. Use the same thing that kills the old New Yorkers . . .
Corned beef on rye.

Mikey

Harv, Lobster on me when you get out. May have to wait until next Atlantic City but it gives you plenty of time to recover. Take it from one who has had more surgery than a Marine division in Iraq, Be sick, lie around! Don't try to be a hero and get up. Give yourself plenty of time to recover before...

Mikey

Whew, UV, Whew! Sorry about the trees. That has to hurt. Just talked to Rawleigh and we're making plans for Hanna and being apprehensive, a fancy word for just shy of fudging our shorts. This could get ugly, not as ugly as you guys on the Golf just had but none the less . . . Just learned that the o...

Mikey

Randall, Harry Love to see those chisels in the box. Reminds me of my Grandfather's. He had a shop twenty by forty. Two drill presses, three table saws, shapers, routers, a twelve-inch planer, clamps of every size. A row of chisels to make you drool, and the piece-d-resistance a lathe that would tur...

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