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Harry, Back in the '60's when race cars were my passion I shared a warehouse with several guys with the same disease. One of our crowd distributed Jiffy Pop, that stuff in the aluminum container ready to pop. We had a case of it and no conventional stove. But being young, enthusiastic, hungry and re...

Mikey

Damn, Rawleigh is going to be more jealous than I. He is building a shop with lots of machining toys and when I need help he jumps into the fray. Harry, that is a sandbox for big kids, especially kids with a passion for building great boats. I don't understand half of what I'm looking at and I'm jea...

Mikey

I'm with Brewster, let's see your playroom.
Very nice work, Harry.

Mikey

Now that's an express!

Mikey

IS this what you're thinking?
This boat is in Tortola, BVI. If you want more info I can contact the owner in February.

Mikey

Walt,
My wife was born in '45 and she's older than you. It's all in your mind.
Hope she doesn't monitor this board.

Mikey

Damn, Patrick, wish I had seen that a year ago. So simple when you see someone else do it.

Mikey

So Ohlstein, where's yours?
Git'em John, do it the hard way, standing up in a hammock.

Mikey

August 22, 1943, same as Vic but a year younger, Nya, nya, nya, nya, nya.
Just got my first Social Security check. Feeling so much more social and a lot more secure knowing that our Government is helping me. Whew!
Happy Birthday Leos.

Mikey

Having just been through this with my port 6BTA I'd bet on the alternator. Take it to a reputable shop and have it tested ,including the tach connection. The stator which controls the tach as well as the alternator output may be kaput. Rebuild was just South of $100. How is the output of the alterna...

Mikey

My post above, VDO Ocean gauges.

Mikey

The Gold-medal women's eights were on the Today Show this morning.
Pretty cool.

Mikey

Powder-coated this to match the windshield frames.

Mikey

Walt,
"Ever deeper in your debt."

Mikey

Hueso,
Nice tree. I'm jealous. Close as I'm getting right now is riding herd on my home owners.
Don't believe this is what Vic or Andre would refer to as sucking head.
The fish? Edible! Right? Right? Oh, the scientific name? Uh, Uh, uh?

Mikey

Aw, gees; cheese it guys, the cops!
Way to go Kevin, stay safe.
What is it someone on this Board says about sleeping safely because big ugly guys are willing to . . . ?
I feel better already.

Mikey

What do you use for bait?
What's the limit?
Citation?

Mikey

JP,
Give me the manufacturer and/or source for same. Are they colored LED's

Mikey

Patrick
My bow chock has no guts at all. No lens' or sockets. Any help?
Have an idea for a modification but will need red and green LED fixture and bulb to fit. Any clues there?
Thanks

Mikey

UV,
Just got goose bumps . . . not from the cold cabin (I remember) but the description.
FISH ON!

Mikey

Peter, Thanks! The boxes and all the replacement fiberglass is Cabrera. Good quality stuff, very hard to work with. Wonder what happened to the Stuart boat? You might want to give Chapmans a call. Could be the new owner has the top on the beach. I can give you complete instructions and pix to make i...

Mikey

Think I may have asked this before but can't remember. Does anyone on this site have or know of another hard-top express? I know very few were made and I haven't seen or heard of one existing. Pretty lines and very useful, but not well made. Unfortunately the very heavy top was not well supported an...

Mikey

FINALLY took her out last evening for a shakedown with a couple of friends. After replacing the two small pipes at the rear of the port tranny (did the STBD last year when it started leaking and bought the parts for both but didn't get to it) we took off, literally. Some time back when I told a frie...

Mikey

John, Nice job on the windows. I replaced the fronts and curved with a later model set. The size was different, but I made it work. I used the T-head bolts and for the ones needing replacement I used toilet-flange bolts. THe same only different. The sides are American Marine. All frmaes powder coate...

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John S.
Pretty! Pretty! 90% finished and 50% to go.
Capy,
Only Thuddddd can pull a Thuddddddddd!!!!
Like the bumper sticker says,
"I may be slow, but I'm ahead of you."

Mikey

Think it would have to be the same as in most cases the engines rotate in the same direction and the props in opposite directions. Therefore one transmission is running one way and the other tranny the other way.

Mikey

Damn, Ric. You can afford copper and fuel?
Wow!

Mikey

Gracias, guys. More pix as I get the time and inclination. Rawleigh, Brother Tom brought the bubbly and after yesterday's efforts and high anxiety I was Thuddd, face-down drunk after half a bottle. Ernie, Stainless not chrome. Chrome is so gauche. Kabar, where did you get that! I need it! Harv, Lobs...

Mikey

Who's line says, "Amazing what you can do with an old boat and $100,000." Here's one example. More later when I'm more awake. http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x54/mikeylikesitnow/P1010002.jpg http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x54/mikeylikesitnow/P1010005-2.jpg http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...

Mikey

Ah, two of my favor things . . .
Drunken laughter and gun fire.
A coonass anthem.

Mikey

Damn, Was ready to actually splash next week and decided today to push the shaft as close to the trannys as possible to see what's what. 2 1/2" from prop to struts with 1 1/2" shafts. So now I have another project to complete this Memorial Day Weekend.
Keep'em cold, I'm coming.

Mikey

How many of the Faithful need S/S nameplates? COuld we buy as a group and get a discount? I will certainly need a pair soon = 31's = Eagles.

Mikey

Love that express!

Mikey

Every Memorial day, July 4th and Labor Day we fly the flag that flew over my Great-Grandfather's Monument at Arlington Cemetery. PAst and present they all made it possible for us to do our Bertram thing.
Even at four dollars a gallon.
God bless America.

Mikey

What Harv said. The reason they are wet boats is that they are so stoutly built no one slows down. You'll find the boat will take more abuse than you care to take.

Mikey

I asked this once before but got no answer. Why not use the original water tank. It's fiberglass, right next to the head and the right size. Anybody?
Don't plan to use the tank for water, she's a day boat. If I feel the need for fresh water, I'll bring jugs. plenty.

Mikey

Where there's no sense there's no feeling.
I'm only 65 and too cold for me.
I would have prayed to the insurance gods and called for HELP!

Mikey

Rawleigh,
Got you a copy. At the house.
Craig,
She's in the water, other than that . . .
Keep you posted when I here more. Actually she just went in last week or so.

Mikey

Pete,
Just did mine with two-inch Soundown to muffle those big Cummins. Wow, it's quiet as a library now.
Well, at least a library in a subway station.

Mikey

Going to look for this Prop Talk at the yard today, thanks.
Saw Tabasco in Deltaville, Va last week.
Sweet!

Mikey

A bald head and tee shirt! How's the itch? Harry, did the same thing. Sweated out the first cut and finally waited until no one was at the yard so that if I f#*ked up I could blame it on ??? Measured 86 times and made the plunge. Not bad for a first job. Came out pretty nice. Anxiety was worse than ...

Mikey

Tony,
We need pictures!

Mikey

Knock me out! Eleven months? You must have had an army of guys working.
Great treatment on the transom. She looks damned contemporary for a forty-year-old boat. But that's what we all knew from the start, huh?
Now, go fishing!

Mikey

John,
Did I miss something or read wrong. You bought an express with diesels and are taking them out and putting them in a flybridge?
What happens to the express.
And no I already have one.
Thanks

Mikey

Yo, Dog, check it out! A little pitchy on the painted zincs. Attention to detail is unbelievable. Love Pat's intakes and Cabrera's decks etc. Giving me courage and high anxiety. Got to get to the yard, daylight is wasting. This is the reason we all slave over these critters. Not a contemporary boat ...

Mikey

Not sure what model you have, Tony, Brain fart. Mine is an express and everything bolted on with obvious bolts. If you're talking about a backing plate it may just be stuck in caulking. Got pictures?

Mikey

Rawleigh,
How about your bio-diesel? Thinking of using that. Made here, keep the $$$ here.

Mikey

Bob, First job out of college I worked for an old Jewish merchant. He was in many ways a mentor. One day after watching me shlepp heavy cartons of merchandise he said, "Michael, I can move anything on earth with one finger." "Oh yea," says I, as I was about to pick up the last and heaviest box, "let...

Mikey

Before you go any further at least take out what you've done and wire brush the entire interior. Doing it now is a damned site easier than when you have a lot of new stuff to work around. You will want to paint the bilges eventually and will hate yourself and the huge inconvenience of having not don...

Mikey

Guys, You sure about mahogany? Mine were oak.

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