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DQ...

With all the traveling I have done in the US, Canada and even Europe I have never seen the Gulf OF Mexico.

Gotta get there one day! It is on my bucket list!

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Bruce...

I make it a point to never use a tool near my nipples!

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Damn... until I read the follow on posts above I thought the buck was laying in the snow on a beach in one of the northern states!

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Tony... :-) I think it is a given that those of us who use power tools a lot are going to have accidents.. even when we are aware of the risks. Over the years I have cut off the end of a finger, cut a knee open, had several major cuts on my left hand, all of which caused some nerve damage, and from ...

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Now cops can track you with your cell phone data! Big brother is getting bigger every day!

I found this article this morning...

http://translogic.aolautos.com/photos/c ... 2/#4099121

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UV...

My son in law flys 777s.. I will ask him the same question.

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UV... The same thing happened to me several months ago.. had a 4" wire wheel in my side grinder.. it caught in the fabric of my tee shirt about 1" above my belly button, and before I knew what was happening it had wound up all the fabric and wire brushed an 8" long 3/4" wide strip across my belly. I...

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More news from the lack of privacy department...

Your cell phone data, INCLUDING KEYSTROKES, is being recorded!

http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-spying-204933867.html

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I was at the helm of a 44' sailboat en route from Bermuda to MA at 05:30 hrs when we lost our mast overboard about 185 miles south of Nantucket. We activated our 406 EPIRB and as far as we can tell the USCG (God bless them!) was on the phone with the owner's wife about 5 minutes after we flipped the...

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I am a retired engineer and certainly believe in science, but I am always amazed that Al Gore and his lunatic global warming friends can scream dire warnings about how the oceans will rise and the polar bears won't have any ice to live on, when professional weather forecasters can't predict next wee...

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I was taught that every time I start a boat's engine(s) to look over the transom to be sure cooling raw water is coming out of the exhaust ports. If I ever build a stern platform I will somehow build in openings so I could still do this.

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A couple of years ago I bought a couple of Walter's cookbooks for gifts to my wife and daughter. Walter's illustrations are excellent and several of the recipes are now standard fare in both kitchens.

A great cookbook and a great way to support this site!

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Bruce...

Thanks for the heads up.. I never heard of that before.

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Dug... First.. let me apologize for this late response to your question. Between the Thanksgiving confusion and a miserable cold and almost constant cough I have been laid pretty low the past week or so. I am almost at the point where I can understand what an old timer told me years ago.. "If you co...

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Bruce...

It was a pleasure meeting you this past summer, and happy to see you are back!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

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I think he and Thudd are starting a boatbuilding business!

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Think about where this technology can lead in the near future!

Can you say "Big brother is watching you?"

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/22/technol ... /index.htm

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UV... Happy Thanksgiving! Just an FYI for you when you consider new 8D batteries. When I rebuilt my 12 volt system (documented in my writeup on the B33 forum) I found that 3 Group 34 batteries will fit in one 8D box. I was able to go from 2 8Ds to 6 Group 34s and owing to the fact that 2 Optima Grou...

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Wow.. beautiful boat. It is a good thing nobody cluttered up the boat's lines with something as mundane as outriggers!

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Markâ€¦ It has been my experience that over time our minds seem to push the sad and difficult memories back and let the pleasant memories come forward. Reality can never truly go away, but things do get easier with time. You and Lehann did all you could, and nobody can fault anyone for that.. some t...

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Good looking boat.. nice lines! I have been rebuilding my Bertram 33 for almost 4 years.. am now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! Don't lose the drive to completion.. About a year ago, after doing a whole lot of big tasks (for example: rewiring the whole 12 volt system between the batterie...

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Words can't express the sadness we all feel. Sometimes we just have to accept the fact that certain things were never meant to be, even cruel things like the loss of a child. As I try to type through tears Mark I wish you and your wife the strength to deal with your loss, and please know your grief ...

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A couple of years ago a friend started a group called "Step Up For Soldiers".. it's main mission was to build access ramps for doors of houses occupied by servicemen and women whose injuries confine them to wheelchairs. Today the organization does lots of different things for servicepeople and their...

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Thank you to our men and women in uniform, one and all.. vets, those on active duty, and a special mention and profound unending respect for those who gave their all! As Randall says.. we owe them all we have!

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Dick... I am not familiar with the B31 cockpit sole so I can't comment on if it is possible to do the piping with it in place.. but I suspect it is nearly impossible, or at least a lot of work. I was simply going to run hose from each hatch gutter to a sump/pump until I decided to repair all the sof...

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Dick... I built my gutter drain system from 1/2" and 3/4" Sched 40 PVC pipe and fittings and a couple of 1/2" hoses with threaded fittings on each end. For a sump I used a 2 gallon plastic pail, and a small bilge pump with an integral float switch. My discharge comes up through the cockpit deck and ...

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I know the coal/gas fired power plant across the harbor from where I used to keep my boat cleaned their boiler tubes generating lots of soot.. but only at night!

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Harry... Thanks for the kind words! This is a very special place! Another Frank... Yes.. "Phoenix" is about 90% ready to paint. I have removed all the rot in the cockpit sole and replaced it with rigid foam with a fiberglas skin, redid the engine room and generator space vent system, done a bunch of...

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I noticed that the last post I made a few minutes ago was my 1,200th here.. a milestone for me. I think with this in mind it is a good time for me to pause for a bit and thank you all. Your assistance, tolerance, answers to my (sometimes dumb) questions, recommendations, personal comments (mostly po...

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Russ... The location of the Cummins raw water pumps on the 6B engines is, as Tony Athens of the Boatdiesel forum says, a good example of "couch engineering". I keep several blocks of wood and a small hydraulic jack on board so I can remove the port forward support arm to change a water pump on my 6B...

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Not to take away from the seriousness of a boat sinking, but after reading the above I am left wondering about the potential fine of $40K per day for gasoline pollution from a single pleasure boat which most likely will not contribute much pollution to the overall gulf with whatever the fines were t...

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As part of my rebuild of "Phoenix" I ran new 120 volt circuits in the cabin. To be a good doobie I used GFCIs for each circuit. Later I ran a seperate circuit for an electric cooktop. It tripped the GFCI whenever I turned the stove on. I spoke with several supposedly knowledgeable marine electrician...

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UV...

I have always used handheld spotlights.. faster to use and way cheaper.

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Kevin... I have been told that the Cummins 6B 315 HP and 330 HP engines are the same.. the lower HP is measured at the transmission output and the 330 HP is measured at the flywheel.. the change in where measured was supposedly made by Cummins because Yanmar had a 330 HP engine come on the market an...

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Das linkin bin fubar!

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Mike..
Thanks for the tip. I have been told that I could disconnect the air preheaters if I start using the block heaters I had installed, but I never heard about using WD-40 until about a year ago. These are my first diesels. I might give it a try just to see. Winter is coming! Even to NC.

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UV...

Not sure what engines jrshazard has but with my 6Bs with electric air preheaters I have been warned to never use ether! They may set off the ether before it has a chance to get into the cylinders.

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Brewster...

It looks as if you will build your model at the same speed as Bob H will take to rebuild his full sized boat!

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Steve... I assume you are the one with the Bertram shirt? Pete... Lee moved a couple of years ago.. they are now about 20 miles from my house in Wilmington NC.. Raymarine was bought also a couple of years ago by Flir Systems.. who are in the infrared night vision business.. unless Flir sold them rec...

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You gotta love a guy with a hat that big!

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Present company excepted, of course!

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SPEAKING GERMAN IN TEXAS Here in Texas , where I live, there is a town called New Braunfels , where there is a large German-speaking population. One day, a local rancher driving down a country road noticed a man using his right hand to drink water from the rancher's stock pond. The rancher rolled do...

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Question about block heaters... As part of some overall engine/running gear work I had done when I first bought "Phoenix" I had the diesel shop install block heaters in my 315 HP 6Bs. I left the decision about thyeir ratings up to them, and they installed 1,000 watt in each engine. I have not yet us...

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This month's (November) issue of Soundings has a two page article (pgs 58 and 59) on a guy who rebuilt a Bertram 31.. his name is Bob Levesque, out of Madeira Beach, FL. The boat was originally a Virginia Beach patrol boat he bought in 2003 for $30,000. He says he probably has $250,000 in it now. Th...

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Heck...
The above all sound normal to me!

After all.. You have to remove the port fwd engine mount bracket to change out the raw water pump on my Cummins 6Bs!

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Good one Harry! Thanks!

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Kevin... The Cat 3116 engines had some serious block QC problems when I believe Cat contracted out their fab to a French company. These blocks are known as "French blocks" or "Soft blocks", and Cat suffered a lot of failures and "bad press" after their response to worried owners was in the line of "...

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One of my best friends is the owner of a boat I sailed on for many miles.. we usually had a crew of 5 or 6 for an open ocean long distance race. One of the crew members was a young guy who was head over heels in love with a girl most of us knew. One day at sea the owner (who had just gone through a ...

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There is a beautifully restored Bertram 31 in the Inlet Watch Marina in Wilmington, NC. The name is "Moppie".. has a door in the transom, has aluminum dorade boxes on the hull sides, looks very clean and well cared for.

Does anyone here know anything about her?

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Thank you Captain!

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Cops can get your cell phone data.. and there is lots of it!

Big brother watching you! Your cell phone usage recorded

Cell phone tracking in shopping malls... Where next?

A milestone and a BIG thank you!

Capt Patrick... Is this true?

Bertram 31 article in Soundings magazine...

Bertram 31 in Wilmington NC