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This guy sounds as if he works for NOAA and is trying to explain the 2013 "South Atlantic Snapper Grouper Complex Recreational Regulations" I picked up at a local fishing seminar last weekend!

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Not to mention that when you hang 1,600 HP on the transom of any boat, the boat has to be designed around the engines .. not the other way around. I suspect the owner got a deal and didn't really pay list price on the engines.. these are so new I am sure Seven Marine would jump over backwards to get...

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A while ago there was some talk here about a new outboard mfg announcing a 550+ HP outboard... listing at around $75,000 each.

I found this on THT.. Anyone want to repower a B31?

On a 42' Invincible!

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You don't know any women with bikinis?

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Looks great! In fact.. beautiful! Clean and well done!

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Whatever you decide to do.. DON'T apply any wax to AwlGrip or AwlCraft 2000. Not ever! Never!

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Good one!

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Again.. thanks to all who posted additional info since my last thank you. You guys are the best.. I got lots of good info. I am looking at two options for my design of a swim platform.. one with a stainless tubing frame and one built completely of teak. I will let everybody here know how this projec...

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Be careful out there!

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This sounds sort of funny until you think about how lucky everybody was.. but there is a serious safety warning here!

http://news.yahoo.com/video/bizarre-car ... 13113.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Be careful what you keep in your trunk!

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Thanks everyone for all the additional information.. I take seriously Bob's comments about the stern lifting and the bow digging in when a following sea catches under a swim platform. It is my plan to build the platform with minimal area exposed to a lifting following sea by making the platform as s...

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To add to my post above, in the Dec issue of Southern Boating magazine (page 32) there is an article about ethanol.. mainly E15.. two things I had not realized before are that it "dilutes" the gasoline, making the fuel mixture more lean, which in turn makes the engine run hotter, and it is suspected...

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I found this on THT this evening. Amazing!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=92b_1358811980" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Best part starts about 3 minutes in.

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Thanks everyone for your answers.. it unanimous.. everyone here and on the B33 forum says go with the swim platform, so I will design and build one over the winter.

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I read somewhere that fuel is still leaking from the hull today.

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For some time I have been thinking about putting a swim platform of my boat's transom. My concern is that I don't see swim platforms on the true sportfish boats around here. I can see that they might get in the way when a fish is behind the boat being brought aboard, or that they can abrade lines wh...

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While I haven't followed the ethanol/fiberglas gas tank issue as closely as a lot of B33 owners have, I believe the word on the B33 forum is that Bertram made some formulation changes in "the mid 1980's" that supposedly made their tanks more ethanol resistant. I don't believed Bertram has provided a...

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Sorry guys, I screwed up.. I was in such a hurry I didn't read the whole thing that I typed!

So, being creative, I changed the original post to what it should be!

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This will make a lot of people happy... especially corn farmers.

http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/home/5235 ... e15-appeal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Some of the best of the best!

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Interment of USS Arizona survivors who requested burial with their shipmates who were lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor I never knew about this service.. I suspect many of you did not either... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgE2KiPd3xg&feature=youtube_gdata_player" onclick="window.open(this.href);...

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I really had not foreseen that the conversation here would go in this direction!

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It is cold December morning...

Wife texts husband at his office.
"Windows frozen."

Husband texts back:
"Pour some lukewarm water over it."

Wife texts back 5 mins later:
"Computer completely screwed up now."

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Joe...

Now where in my past did I hear that?

Hmmmm.

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Some people just can't do anything correctly!

Failed Darwin award candidate?

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/20541 ... efore-work" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Maybe fun to drive but a bitch to park....

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/01/07/jeep ... d%3D254491" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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I never met him, never spoke with him on the phone, never exchanged emails with him.. yet I also miss him and his wisdom and advice. Fair seas Uncle Vic!

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I hope everyone here has a healthy and prosperous 2013!

Happy New Year!

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Just sent the pics you requested via regular email.

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Joe...

Apparently the message I sent several days ago did not go through.. I think the copy I just sent did.

Please send me a note at "IRGuy@aol.com" and let me know if you got it today, if not pls send me your email address and we can communicate that way.

Sorry for the confusion

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I sent you an internal private message last week.. Did you get it?

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Charlie... It was our pleasure meeting you.. I hope you weren't too late getting back to your daughter's house. Our only regret is that you couldn't stay longer. Hopefully you can on your next visit. The door is always open for anyone here.. all it takes is an email notice and we will be happy to we...

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The same from us here! I hope you all enjoy the holidays, and that 2013 is a little less troubled than 2012 was.

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Thanks to all of you for the kind words! It has been a two year ordeal indoors doing lots of things to "Phoenix".. When I first approached the boatyard about renting space the owner asked me how long I planned to stay there.. I said about 4-6 months.. he said when people tell him that they usually s...

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I believe I read here somewhere that you should allow at least 2" clearance between the tip of the prop blades and the hull. I am not 100% sure of this.. I expect Capt Patrick will post the correct answer.

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Instagram (owned by Facebook) has backtracked big time from it's announcement a few days ago that it was claiming the rights to use customers photos as if they owned them... http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/facebook-instagram-backtracks-not-intention-sell-photos-says-153656165.html" oncli...

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If any of you are using Instagram as a photo sharing site you should be aware that they are claiming the rights to sell your photos to third parties without compensation to you.. in fact without even notifying you they are doing so. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now...

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Here are some pics of the launch of my 1983 B33 FBC "Phoenix" on Thursday, Dec 13, 2012, after undergoing a two year rebuild in a building of the Smith Creek Boatyard in northern Wilmington, NC. On Saturday, the 15th, she was brought about 15 miles down the Cape Fear River and then two miles north u...

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I think John shows he is a very brave man when he posts a list of "The 50 Best Boats".. knowing that virtually no one in the boating community will ever agree even close to 100% with him. It is sort of like posting a list of the 50 best automobiles.. and including Dodge Vipers along with Yugos. What...

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We brought "Phoenix" home from the boatyard today.. a leisureley 15-20 mile cruise down the Cape Fear River and north about two miles up the ICW to my community's basin to my slip. The only problem I had was backing into my slip.. it wasn't pretty.. but she is safe at home now, thankfully. My crew s...

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I am truly sorry for posting this link.. but it is something you all need to know about! Just when I begin to have some confidence that we aren't as bad as I once thought... this pops up! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4696926/justin-bieber-kidnap-plot-gang-wanted-to-castrate-star.html...

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I lifted the text below from two posts I just made in the B33 forum.. the same thanks goes out to all you guys for your nice comments! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We launched "Phoenix" this after...

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BB... As I said above I changed from single function two lever controls to the dual function single lever controls on my B33 FBC. The original setup had the two transmission shift levers to port and the throttle controls to stbd. The new setup has both new levers to stbd of the wheel. This meant tha...

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I installed dual single lever controls on "Phoenix" before I brought her to the boatyard two years ago, so I haven't used them much, but the little I have used them I was very pleased with them, For the previous 15 or so years I ran a Grady 24 with dual outboards, which naturally had two single leve...

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I am psyched to tell you all that my 1983 B33 FBC "Phoenix" will be launched in two days after two years in a boatyard building undergoing a major rebuild/refit. She has been painted, had my own design air boxes installed, had a major electrical system (12 and 120 volt) rebuild, had all new stainles...

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Not sure if this guy could be a Darwin award candidate or maybe this belongs in the "You can't make this stuff up" category...

But than again.. this did happen in Texas!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/bu ... 18126.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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With the present engines one has 3,500 hrs and one has 12 hours.. I assume someone recently rebuilt the 12 hour one, so somehow they found parts. I wonder if the best thing to consider would be to have the same people rebuild the 3,500 hour engine as well, then you would have two out of date but fre...

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Walter..

The ones I got are for the Sherwood 17000 series pumps.. which I believe were original equipment on my 1998 engines.

If you take another size I would assume Sherwood makes them in this same configuration

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I hesitate to post any comments here because there are plenty of regulars here who have done orders of magnitude more work with vinylester and epoxy resins than I have.. but I did recently complete a rebuild of my B33 in which I used almost 3 gallons of epoxy. Three things I did learn though during ...

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On the Cummins 6B engines the original Sherwood raw water pumps had impellors that were a serious pain in the ass to remove.. there is limited room to work, and trying to pry them out of the pump casing and off the shafts with two screwdrivers or two needle nose pliers is damn near impossible, unles...

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