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I made the trip three times, but not on a B31 - was on my father's 53' Ocean. A couple thoughts. Jacksonville to Southport is really long of a run unless you are planning to idle back and move along at low speed through the night. Note that the straight line between ports in that part of the country...

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Looks like one of these... mid '90s Bertram 30 Express.

http://www.boattrader.com/listing/1994- ... -102265225

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That boat looks like one a friend of mine used to own... I am pretty sure his was originally Greg Venturo's boat, and if memory serves me, my buddy's boat was black one before he repainted it light blue. Assuming this is the same boat, looks like it was repainted again. The give-away for me is the r...

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Bruce, I have no idea what they were trying to prove by driving the Prius on battery only... the vehicle is not designed to work that way (other than the current Prius plug-in). I have two of 'em in my car fleet, and the first one had a battery failure at 70K miles. Was covered by the 100K warranty,...

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Estimates on the Tesla Web site say $10.19 for a full recharge... which is more or less same that I would pay where I live in the northeast (if I had a Tesla). Remember A/C runs around the clock day after day, while the Tesla recharges for 10 hours then is done. But there are other considerations, i...

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Your timing is unfortunate... There was one on Craigslist in north/central NJ for months... basically almost free... something like $2K including a ratty trailer. It needed work, motor was gone, but had potential, looked pretty complete otherwise. I just checked for you and appears it is now gone. P...

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You guys surely noted the nice Pete Barrett article in the Sept/Oct Big Game Fishing Journal on the B31. (The article itself is not available online. )

http://www.biggamefishingjournal.com/

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Thanks Vic, I stand corrected. Thought for sure I had downloaded an IRM220A manual from there a few years back... I see it's not there any longer. BTW, you can get the vast majority of the gear oil out using a pump sucking out of the dipstick hole. Pulling that plug at the bottom would be tough unle...

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ZF has manuals online you can download.

http://www.zf.com/corporate/en/company/ ... nload.html

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Bruce,

I have an Icom M700 SSB + AT130 tuner sitting in the basement collecting dust, which is looking for a new home. If you're interested, let me know at algillen@yahoo.com.

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Hey Charlie, How does your neighbor's boat perform with the 200 HP diesel? Years ago I had a 22' Cutlass with a 327 CI Chevy (about 225HP), and it performed really well, ran about 22 or 23 knots at something over 1.5 NMPG. I'd imagine that it has to a 2+ if not 3 MPG boat, and may well run in the 22...

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Sounds like the motor running 135 is the one that is the problem - sounds like thermostat is not working right. You really should come up to temperature on that motor even at idle in the summer months.

algillen

My friend said it was $40K.

algillen

This boat showed up for sale at a marina where my friend keeps his boat. For the Bman that has (almost) everything, but not a B20. (I have no financial interest here, just thought you guys would appreciate seeing this.)

http://www.boattest.com/resources/view_ ... ewsID=2737

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Scot, Far as I know, the newer 25 model did not have a prop pocket, but I guess it is possible that there were variations. I have seen 25s with a single screw that did not have a prop pocket. Without a pocket, the wheel hangs way, way, way down deep because of the deep V. My twins were pretty good i...

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You guys can be pretty opinionated. ;-) The Blackfin above is actually a 24, generally believed to be a spash of a 24' Formula, hence the outdrive bubble. The 24 Blackfin was never powered by I/Os, and was later updated to a 25' configuration, and at that time lost the bubble on the transom. "Batter...

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Fishlook, please see the PM I sent. Thanks.

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Thanks! All I can say is you must have access to some serious launch ramps! I used to haul around a 24' twin diesel boat, and it was always a real chore getting it on and off the trailer, and it always made for a more challenging experience when we hit dead low tide -- regardless whether we were goi...

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Wow! Two questions. Do you float the boat 100% of the way onto the trailer? If not, do you use the hand crank winch to get the boat the last few feet? Or will you put a power winch on? Second question. Do you chain the bow down so it can't ride up over the bow pad in the event of an unusually fast s...

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I love it when this topic comes up. You guys are so defensive (to a point of beyond reasonable) of what is perhaps the one ding on the B31 hull. I have been on on friends' B31s, and put a thousand hours on a Blackfin 29 Combi running offshore. The B31's ride is great simply because the hull runs ver...

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The 26 was made in wood, but I am not so sure there was ever a 26 made in Fiberglass. If memory serves me, I think the 26 was available with a single or twin V8s and was a rocket ship with the twins. Personally, I always admired the wooden version of the 22 in the center console design, with the var...

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There were at least three variations on that boat... there was the center console model, which was pretty fishable. Then there were two different cuddy designs that I am aware of. One had a Bahia Mar-like design with a pair of seats, one on either side of the motor box. I owned one of these for seve...

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Not sure about the boat you posted, but I had a ride on this boat back in June... the owner said it would do about 90 mph ... to myself I mostly laughed that off as wishful thinking, but the next morning when we were doing 65 knots and he was only at 3/4 throttle, I quickly became a believer. Boat h...

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Pics are not great, and leave some to doubt... but assuming that is in fact a 1975 Blackin, that would be a Cary hull, not a later model so-called "wide body" hull. The hull ID (if it has one) may begin with something like KAMC, for Karanda Marine. Once upon a time I owned a 1976 Blackfin 24, and it...

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Not trying to be hostile or critical, and I'm pretty distant to the situation on I45, but can I at least suggest that you step back a level higher, and think about why the officials are so anxious to clear the road? From what I have read, the objective is to go fish out the thousands of people who d...

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I don't mean to dismiss the value of $800, but you must have never had a chance to own a pair of Volvos.... that same list of parts painted green would have run you at least $3,000. Did you try getting pricing from Brad out at Seaboard Marine? Typically Seaboard is competitive on pricing.... I bough...

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You Garmin guys owe it to yourselves to at least buy a spare data cartridge... takes about 1 minute to copy all your data onto the spare memory card. I'd encourage you to buy the Garmin Trip and Waypoint manager software, and you can upload all your Garmin data into your PC.... or even better, if yo...

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Actually, there is a paint that will stick to the manifold ports... Try the Rustoleum high temperature paint: http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=112

Color may not be perfect match, but at least you won't have brown.

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How about using something simple, say, a cell phone. Pick up the phone, call lawyer, ask for divorce, tell the lawyer that there is a couple hundred thousand that was invested into the boat and the woman wants her half.

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Harv, if you remember what we did in the Bertram-Blackfin Shootout, we only allowed the ONE fish per boat per category to be entered. So you could only enter one bluefish (your biggest baddest bluefish). It was structured more a derby where the more categories where you could put a respectable catch...

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Al sometimes views this board and maybe will chime in. John Vieter handled the shootout on the west coast and might chime in as well. I will also email them and see if they still have anything stored that they can help us out with. Short of that, I say let's just fish for fishing's sake, and procla...

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Capt. Patrick - you're right, of course, on the brokerage that has that boat. While I don't have time to jog back to the marina before I fly out early a.m., I visited the Web site and saw the same boats that I walked past -and shoot, and I got half of 'em wrong... that was a 28 Moppie and a 26 hardt...

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Here in Stockholm for business... had a one hour window between meetings and took advantage of that to go for a 3 mile run along the water (and no, it didn't take me 60 minutes to run 3 miles). Of course, had to stop and walk the dock of a boat brokerage I passed... there are four Bertrams for sale ...

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Just curious, why do you guys insert an electric fuel pump into the system at all? Far as I know, the 6Bs don't require it. (And I, too, have the Nippondenso pumps, realize Bosch pumps will likely be different.)

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Not clear where your electric pumps are, presumably you are using them as a lift pump to get the fuel from the tank to the on-motor pump. I doubt that you can just turn them on and expect them to push air out of the fuel injection pumps. For that matter, not sure they will even push the fuel past th...

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I might add that once you have the filters filled up, you can crack the relief valve on the fuel injection pump (on my 6Bs, on the front half of the inboard side of the pump), then you should be able to work the manual pump lever (on the side of the motor sorta in front of, but also somewhat under t...

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Salt water on a generator usually leads to subsequent problems that don't immediately show themselves. Your best bet is to clean it up, test it out, and if it looks OK, you can install with the understanding that if it fails, you may have to haul it back out again and make repairs. Really hard to gu...

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Bruce - completely agree with you... for the next guy, a survey is a must. Those particular motors are still in my boat, am kicking around the idea of replacing with Cummins (new) remans.

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Dug, congrats on the man in the blue suit! Nice job indeed! Definitely post some pics when you can.

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Guys,

Thanks, this is really helpful info!

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I know a bunch of you guys have purchased 6BTA RTOs.... can you give me any idea for what kind of price range you paid, and what was included in the price (ie., bobtail or with gears)?

Thanks!

algillen

Another way to reduce odor.... plumb your toilet to pull its water from the FW tank, rather than use the sea water pickup. Can't give a chemical engineer's explanation for why it is better, but know for a fact it helped my boat a whole lot.

algillen

The Ridgeway looks a lot like a Strike 29. Earlier Strike 29s were dual console.

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You may be psyching yourself out and making this out to be more than it really is ... NY Harbor is a big, deepwater port, and boats a whole lot bigger than a 30' Bertram transit through the East River out through LI sound every day. Well marked, easily navigated, etc. In fact, the hardest part of th...

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You guys forgot the venerable "bubble boat." UV's favorite term for Bayliners, and, well, just anything else that is not a Bertram. I should know, mine has been called a bubble boat, a blackandbluefin, who knows what else (but, NEVER, EVER, a RLDT). I'm surprised that Capt. Patrick even let me onto ...

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Agree that the green one is a little peculiar. From the transom you didn't get that feeling of it being cut-off they way the side view does. The other one I saw actually looked pretty good, because they had put a Bahia Mar-like structure up on the deck surrounding the helm, and elevated the helm are...

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Was in Morehead City a couple weeks ago taking a boat to SC, and stumbled across the green Hatteras below. Stopped me in my tracks for a few seconds as I tried to figure out what it used to be before it was an express... then realized it as a Hatt hull. There was another one in the same marina that ...

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