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Beautiful paint job CP. How do you avoid wind blown FOD?

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Charlie- there are four large hatches for quick access to the engines, fuel filters, etc. But the entire platform raises like a modern express does. I put pics up here at one time of the platform up, but I can't find them any longer.

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Thanks all you guys. Dad went out today with a group of paratroopers back from Iraq that he met down there. They had a blast.

Carl is now building a house for the life raft, I don't know where he is putting it.

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Well, Carl at Elite is an incredible craftsman, designer, and boatwright. The guy is truly incredible. We went to Elite and got Dad's boat, which Carl had completely rebuilt and customized from literally a stripped out, destroyed shell of a hull. A complete derelict bound for the trash heap when he ...

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He bought the boat from Oakdale Yacht "The Gambler", im pretty sure I used to see that boat docked at the town docks on Fire Island Ave in Babylon but I could be wrong. its a great complete boat, still have not poked around below decks too much but its super clean. Is that the "new" 31 at the Babyl...

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8" in the crawl space here. No basement because of the water table. GOt way too close to the hot water and the furnace for comfort.

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Now I see. For some reason I thought that the boat was in Montauk already. My bad.

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BOb- don't think that I am stupid for asking this, but you say that you want to avoid a beam see in the boat? Do you mean a beam see entering and leaving the Montauk Getty? Which I understand. Else couldn't you adjust course to whatever you wanted?

Again don't think I am stupid if this is obvious.

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Ray I was there last year. It is by far the biggest event in the music industry. They also have a film festival and a software event that week. Tell him to wear comfortable shoes because he will walk a lot. Tell him not to drink too much, because he will be offered lots of free booze, and tell him t...

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pics of Pooka for Adams

Sorry guys they are in no particular order. Adams- I PMed you with some details, call me or PM back when you get a chance.

http://img705.imageshack.us/g/picture039wr.jpg/

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Hueso- Your pics got me trying to convince the Boss that we should fly down to PR next weekend with the kids. There are some super fares out of NY right now. It was a go, until the kids said they want to go skining instead, because their friends will be there. I need a respite from all this snow.

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i would take a 289 over a 427 any day. the 427 like a viper is a car......toon but then again my dream car is a C-type jaguar. http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/17/phil-hills-race-winning-jaguar-c-type-on-the-block-at-pebble-be/ Just stunning, nothing I could say could improve on that beautiful image...

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I have never purchased a boat from Whitewater. However I do know one of the owners and several of the sales people. I have steered a few folks there and I have never heard a bad report. I personally can recommend Andrew Dean as a sales contact at White Water. Andrew is a good kid who loves boats and...

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on my should woulda coulda list. drove one of the original 260 cobras all day . for sale $4000. not a rocket like a 427 or even a 289...but beautiful and real . so what did i do.........of course, I BOUGHT A BOAT!!! 260 started it all. A beautiful car, wire wheels with knock off hubs like the 289. ...

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John- A FBC is what I want. I will not count out a SF. I just like the closed cabin and no contros down there. http://bertram31.com/img/Otter_beardslee.jpg Man I just love the open sportfisherman. There is something super retro and iconic about that boat and aestetichally the lines of the boat are ...

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I can't afford an original Cobra, but I could afford a kit Cobra. Why bother?

I feel exactly the same way. I would love a 289 Cobra, I don't even need a 427 Side Oiler.

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jspiezio I said that on The Hull Truth and you think I committed a murder. A BlackFin owner jumped all over me telling me no way the Bert had a better finish. I remember getting on a BF at the NY Show and it was really nice. Had some features I wish my 31 had, but when I looked at some of the finis...

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When they were new the finish on the 31 Bert was much better than on the Blackfin. I know that Bertram and Blackfin used the same gelcoat back then. There is a 32 in the yard I am in and mine is a 75 his was built in the 80's. Mine still comes up much better. I keep getting asked if it was just pai...

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Adams- JP and Tony are more knowledgeable than I am on this. So I differ to their expertise. I could have sworn that there was a difference on the size of the combing outboard of the bridge sides between our 31 SF and the later 31 FBC. But that could just be due to the perceptions of a kid.

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Adams- they did change the bridge configuration. I think it was in 73(?) Capt P or one of the more knowledgable guys will give you the accurate details. You can tell by the length of exposed roof top outboard of the bridge superstructure on either the port or starboard.

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I keep trying to post them here, but I can't get it to work. I will try again. I do have Blackfin access, they are a great boat. I will go so far as to say that one member on here, whose name will never be divulged, has told me that he would actually prefer a BF 32 or 33 over his B31. Now, don't sho...

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Andre- When I was young I was told that the knife used to hunt them was known as an Arkansas toothpick.

That is too hardcore for a fat old man like me.

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Congrats, you deserve it after that game.

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I may need you and your wife to talk the place up this summer at the rendezvous Walter. Like I said, she didn't say no. She's done Alaska with me one time, so this has to be a very big step up in the comfort arena to say the least.

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Hueso- I was just starting to think things weren't that bad here, and then you pull this. Thanks for rubbing it in.

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The last trip I took with my dad and Dick Dean was 2 1/2 years ago in the Hudson Angler's Tournament. I boated a 104 pound blue dog for my dad that he told me beat the crap out of him, but later I had fought a much larger fish that we lost in the running gear. However, while the fish was running, a...

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I don't think so

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3' to 4' wake?

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THe family of one of my employees owns the Silver Sands Motel, not right there but not too far away. If rooms are hard to come by let me know and I will ask him to set some aside.

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pacific marlin wrote:Bruce,

Could you please be more direct,

No good beatin' round the bush, say what you mean,

Rick , welcome.

Ian.

I'm just glad to see Bruce posting. I thought that maybe all that Florida cold had frozen his electricity, a la UV's water pipes.

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great game, congrats

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Harry- if you land at Islip, you will already be 1/2 of the way out on Long Island. No bridges, no going near NYC. Islip is about 45 miles east of NYC. You will get in a car, or get picked up, and you will drive east for about 1 hour 15 minutes. You will drive through the Pine Barrens, through lots ...

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Bob, are you doing that in your kitchen?! Nect thing you'll be buying a B54 and not telling your wife!

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Tom: It depends on where you are coming from. If from NJ, you wouldn't get as far East as Plum Island since you would probably go through the canal and the Peconic Bays to Greenport rather than making the transit around Montauk Point. If you are coming from the North, you could pass Plum Island on ...

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Best miniseries HBO ever did. The young jarheads who work for me say it is about as close to having been in Desert Starm as you could get without actually doing it.

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Wow, I don't blame you for contacting the police. THis could get very ugly for Elite Marine. Have you contaced your insurance?

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Enjoy her she is really beautiful.

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At 1:16 that close up shot looks a lot like photos of a 63 bertram that we've all been looking at.

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I've traded my '77 Triumph Bonneville 750 off with a friend's Sportster several times. I'll keep the Bonneville.

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This is where i am at with the whole deal, the 25+ pages on yachforums is filled with enough BS and speculation and letters from bertram presidents, and hate mail etc. The only ones that really know what happened are the ones on board, and davey jones... and if it really came apart instantly, well ...

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Here is a closer look at the photo of the struts. It almost looks like there is just paint gone from the leading edge and the result is an optical illusion that looks like damage from this angle. Did the divers report that the struts were damaged? IIRC the divers had reported that the visible (starb...

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I am in shock that the buoy is still in question. The radar reflector is not even bent. Their is no real damage below the waterline on the hull. Not a chain rub, not a dent, nothing to the bottom. The rudder post and strut damage l ooks exactly like damage sustained from impact with the bottom. The...

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Boats just don't come apart like that. Has to have a good reason. From the description it almost sounds like someone had fun destroying it. Heck, even if Bertram was building half the boat they used to build it's built better than a lot of boats out there. They just don't come apart like that. Woul...

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Solid glass bottom is fine, but cored upper sections are gone or damaged. HHHMMMM.... is this going to start a cored vs non-cored debate again?

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I do not know if that is the buoy or not, but if it is then shame on Bertram for claiming it took down a 63B. When I was a freshman in high school we used to run around in the 25B we had at the time. I ran fairly hard into the #2 buoy in Fire Island inlet with that boat one day while fishing with 2 ...

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My wife had some prototypes made on one here at SUNY Farmingdale. Really a cool thing to see.

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Back in the 70's when Stone Harbor Yacht sales was in business and selling the heck out the 31, they used to attach a piece leaning out like that, to the top of the windishield. Made it a bit higher which would probably make it knock down a little more spray. That is exactly what I am talking about...

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I cant comment! I am still in! But I can tell you I sure do love HELICOPTERS and hunting terrorist! My brother in law was a battalion commander flying Blackhawks in Iraq and in Afghanistan. He is still in, but back state side after several tours. We got him a tour of the Sikorsky factory so he coul...

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Now that's what I'm talking about, nice setups. In the good old days (the 60s and 70s) we didn't have all those fancy, new fangled gadgets. But I remember that even the simple old style really worked well for dryness.

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That is hot.

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