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When I went to the west coast Clearwater area for my first Yanmar service school over 20 years ago and saw a sign on a resturant that advertised fried mullet on a stick, I quickly realized that was not the place to be for good seafood.

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Don't know where your staying but Florida abounds with fresh fish.

Yesterday i had venus clams and tile fish for dinner. Fresh as could be.

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Pete, Fire and rednecks go together like carver and howdy boating. If rednecks had an official crest, it would have a blazing inferno as part of it. I believe after our first snow, the state would be burnt to a crisp. But I do believe there would be those who would shoot at it hoping the friction of...

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Fargo, ND – Local resident Todd Fox has been detained for “reckless endangerment” and “illegal use of high-powered fire-breathing weaponry” for attacking snow with his flamethrower. Fox reportedly became so fed up with the week-long blowing snow epidemic in his area that he decided to KILL IT WITH F...

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I'll post something up sometime Sat. on the meter.

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Joe, Unless you rip out everything and start over(sometimes easier) your going to want to get to know a multi meter. The ohm or continuity portion is a must when finding what one end of a wire belongs to what other end to indentify circuits. If you not sure or familiar with using the ohm portion of ...

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http://www.instructables.com/id/Athena-The-Global-Car-Tracking-System/?ALLSTEPS http://mad-science.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-these-sonic-distance-sensors-for-bad-driver-your-life-0135194/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Here you go, for those of us that have time on our hands. You ...

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John, You have it correct. I've seen numerous times where a ignition loop was run to the dc panel and connected to the panel and tied in. Without isolating the port and stb circuits, the house, port and stb are all connected creating numerous situations where if one is anchored on house power it wil...

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I could fall asleep with the flat screen in my v-berth on while my refrigerator and bait pump hummed all night long and not wake up paranoid about how much juice I had left. That is as simple as having a dedicated house system and not combining it with engine functions and controlling any combining...

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John,
I believe that statement was for creating 24 or 32 volt systems series paralleling 12v batteries. Your not doing that.
If your putting two 31's together for each engine, go for it.

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John, You have to be careful with the panel wiring if your using 3 separate circuits, house, port eng and stb eng. If you run a circuit off each engine up to the panel don't take the feed off the panel itself otherwise you will combine the three circuits and will cause issues. Run the ignition/on fo...

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Any advantage to going slightly oversized? Groco part # APHS-2000 specs for a max thru hull of 2". That unit is 10.25" long x 4.38" wide. APHS-3000 specs for a max of 3" and is 15.38 long x 6" wide. In looking at pictures of Bob Higgins' boat, it appears he has the APHS-3000's, but it's hard to get...

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Brewster,
Why don't you ditch the cold and come down to the keys and teach your class.

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Now there's two things that are not used in the same sentence.

Boat broker and well respected for honesty.

About as rare as a one eyed purple unicorn. Although I hear there are much more sightings as of late in Colorado and Washington state.

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John, You will have to throw everything out from the hull up on those intakes. Gas was 1-1/4. Those Cummins will be 1.75" and up depending on hp and how you route and length of hose. Thru hull valves need to be full flow which just means the ball part of the valve does not reduce the flow size insid...

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If you stop in the Palm Beach area on the way back, drop me a pm. Would be glad to come out and help with any questions you may have about anything boat related.

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Mark, As men we never admit we are over our head and we always have everything covered and figured out. But we are allowed to share ideas to save beer money and expedite repairs to be able to watch sports. If we have no ideas of our own we are allowed to solicite others for theirs not because we lac...

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Rules of B-31.

1st rule .........There are no rules, but that can change at any time depending on Pat's, Mike's and my mood.
2nd rule ........Any talk of feelings results in a lifetime ban and a visit from Hillary's "cleaner" to your home.
3rd rule ........Refer to rule number 1.

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Been there, done that Tom. And guess what to the surprise of many owners, warrantee doesn't cover lightning strikes. While insurance does, many have high deductibles to afford the premiums. Last electronic lightning strike I did the owner had a 30k deductible on a 600k boat. The bad computers, contr...

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Mark,
Welcome. I edited your title to catch one of the keys guys to post a reply.

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Peter, Any of the new computer diesels are costly which is why the reman mechanical program is still a good deal. Frankly unless your living on the boat running it daily and keeping track of exact fuel usage to the drop a casual user will never realize the difference between the electronic and mecha...

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Thanks Jimmy looks like the gopro3+ with the high speed memory cards is the way to go.

It seems the majority of GoPro issues come from using low speed camera cards.

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If they can get by the dog, Shepard/Pit mix, they can stay for free.

I have a sign on my fence,

Beware of dog, owns gun and hasn't taken her meds.

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Air, its a beautiful thing.

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Those engels are the same as norcold using the same swing type compressor. I have one. There is no hold over capability other than the food itself the evaporator is just wrap around aluminum plate extruded where the coolant charge runs. Hold over plates are going to give you the absolute least run t...

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Top loading boxes and cold plates, either glycol or salt water is a great way to go. If you have to buy all the components or have them made, it will be the most expensive of several ways to go. Cold plates aren't cheap, but with a little skill one can make the boxes. I have a bunch of technical dat...

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Legal mumbo jumbo fine print.
My house is always open to the Bertram brethren in times of temperature distress.

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Mark, No share heat. Supposed to be in the 50's Tuesday. PS: Bob's right !! Two meters of snow and freezing cold is always better than hot and humid. Cold you can fight, the other thing is intolerable; sometimes I think that if I had no choice but to live in Florida type climate, I would enlist to t...

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Thanks, that will probably be more important than I realized. By the time I make a choice I probably won't get much time to experiment with it to develop technique and control before it will be used for its primary purpose.

After the fact processing will be welcome.

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If you don't house your vehicles inside or plug in block heaters make sure you check your anti freeze for temp tolerance to prevent freeze plug blowouts or cracked blocks.

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Kevin,
How do you find the stability of the video in a small housing?

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Anybody try or use the liquid image dive mask? Or use go pro under water camera?

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Blessings to all my comrade citizens in the new year.

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What's winter?

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Most of the gas powered frig units left boating in the 80's. They are widely used in the RV industry though. They will have to be properly vented to the outside for the burner exhaust and if installed correctly should be no problem. One of the reasons for them disappearing was insurance companies dr...

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cracker boy in riviera beach and the ways in pbg are owner diy yards. outside contractors will need to have insurance.
chris at the ways is nice and laid back.

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I seem to get the same malfunction on my cell phone when the wife calls.
Always seem to be driving into a tunnel.....in Florida where tunnels are called swimming pools.

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Frankly one can come up with deadly Bertram boat accidents also. Without the boat, what happened is only speculation that any good lawyer with a cause can collect money for. We see it everyday in the courts. I'm not sticking up for one company over another but based on my hands on experience of over...

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One problem with cash Pat, they want to eliminate it. The printing costs are prohibitive but the biggest is the ability to hide taxable revenue for states and the feds. What's holding the final death song of cash? Poor folks who don't use bank accounts. But that has been changing starting when the t...

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Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and safe new year. Great family you have there.

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To bad there hasn't been comedy around worth listening too since the 80's.

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Never trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and won't die.................................

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Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Mark,
Better watch it, the PETA people will be protesting nude in front of your house for this.

(*note: think leftist woman. you know non shaving, non washing, pelosi, reno, feinstein, clinton types just back from occupy protests)

Yikes.......scared myself there.

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After feeding some kittens to a pack of pit bulls, I went over to the school for the deaf and signed to them, "did you hear its mike Ohlstein day?".

Now I have to go flatten some tires on an ambulance and replace polydent with quick set epoxy at the old folks home.
America needs a Guy Ohlstein day.

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Craig, When I went to Spartan, I worked the grave yard shift as a janitor at Tulsa airport to help pay my living expenses. Back then the airport shut down at 8pm and when I got there it was deserted. There was no security and the ramp doors into the terminal were unlocked and many times there was eq...

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All hail his meaness!
Think I'll go out today and kill some kittens to celebrate.

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Bob, On many an old engine I've worked on where warpage or corrosion has caused non gasketed surfaces to leak, I found taking thin sheets of copper and making my own gaskets worked most of the time. I would check the surfaces with a known true straight edge and feeler stock to check for warpage for ...

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Charlie J wrote:think the goats are with timmy

I can see it now, goats that will retrieve ducks............................I miss Tim.

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