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Thanks UV...

I am getting ready to install new stainless rub strip on the original aluminum rub rail base and was going to ask where I could get some TefGel.

IRGuy

Brewster..

Knowing the kind of guy you are (from your offer a couple of years ago to help one of my friends do the Shinnecock Inlet) I am not surprised your friend helped you out. What goes around comes around! I am sure you would have done the same thing for him, and I suspect he knows it.

IRGuy

I knew it wasn't you, but when I saw the name I thought I would yank your chain just a little bit.

I knew a Bubb once, but you are the only Babb I know.

IRGuy

http://news.yahoo.com/4-arrested-allege ... 23884.html

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Many years ago a sailing friend who owned the boat I was foredeckman on, and with whom I sailed over 25,000 miles, gave me a birthday present, which he had labeled "A Foredeck Man's Survival Kit". In it was a roll of duct tape, a nip size bottle of rum, and a pocket size version of the Oxford Book o...

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My experience with Xantrex has been completely opposite from Coolair's and Mike's. About 18 months ago I bought one of their 3 bank 40A Tru Charge chargers and one of their remote panels. The charger worked fine but the lights on the remote panel were set so far back from the face that you couldn't ...

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Being well over 60 I am willing to go! Just let me aim my walker in the right direction and keep me supplied with adult diapers and I will be the best damn soldier you ever saw. Just let me continue taking naps after lunch!

IRGuy

Thanks Bob..

I suspect the captain of the Amberjack V is too smart to get into politics.

IRGuy

There is another video made by the Port Captain of New York in the same section as the video I posted above. He remarked that when the USCG called out to all vessels (you heard the call in the clip above) for assistance boats came out in droves.. and no vessel asked for a purchase order or for compe...

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Russ...

I am interested in your hull color.. is it a diluted Fighting Lady Yellow, or is it a custom mix? Whatever it is, it looks great!

IRGuy

Looks sweet!

BTW... where is PKS, NC?

IRGuy

Onstar plans to sell your travel data to third parties such as police, insurance companies, without your knowledge. Read these two articles... http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/21/gms-onstar-now-spying-on-your-car-for-profit-even-after-you-uns/ http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=1270 Big brother is watc...

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I don't need to say anything.. just watch this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDOrzF7B2Kg

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A friend who is a retired cop started a group several years ago to support our troops who return from the military with injuries and needed wheelchair ramps, doors in their homes widened (for wheelchairs), special handicapped vehicles. etc. His organization has morphed into a general support group f...

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Andre... Thanks for the feedback! I leave the thing on the grill with the top down after I am finished cooking.. when it is cool I usually wipe the cooking surface with paper towels. I never have washed it with soap and water.. afraid it will lose it's "seasoning". Have used it since spring and love...

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When I was a very active sailor I had a powerboat friend tell me "In a sailboat you can't you can't get anywhere!"

My answer was" That might be true, but in a sailboat I can get away from lots of places!"

It is a big ocean.. there is room for everyone out there.

IRGuy

Great job! As someone who has been rebuilding a B33 for the past year (actually 4 years, but the past one has had a much larger time and money committment) I marvel at the work you have done! I know it sounds melodramatic, but you almost have to enter into a love affair with a boat if you are going ...

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Mikey/Andre... I was slightly off on what the thing I use is called.. I thought it was french and was called a "planche".. but it is Hispanic and is called a "La Plancha". It is available from Williams-Sonoma, so you both should be able to find them locally. Here is the W-S web site for it.... http:...

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Drop me an email with a phone number and I will call you and discuss the air boxes I just installed on mmy B33.

Frank B

IRGuy@aol.com

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Tony... The 62' (I believe it was a 62, but it might have been larger) Bertram that sank in SC earlier this summer was supposedly the victim of a collision with a "high flyer" type buoy with a radar reflector on it, but there is a strong argument that there was no collision with anything and she del...

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No paint scuff marks. Not torn or really cut.. mostly "blunt force trama".

The horizontal line makes me think the end of a float or finger pier? A large branch of a tree floating in the water? A partially submerged boat?

IRGuy

I do all the grill cooking in the family! (Man make fire.. cook food.. drink beer!) I have started using what is technically known as a "planche". It is a square heavy cast iron sort of pan, with three sides and handles on the opposing sides, and is open in the front. I have been using it all summer...

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True.. but it was built 28 years ago in the days that American pride in workmanship meant something around the world. And to tell the truth, it was built by mostly Cuban refugees!

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As most of you know I am rebuilding "Phoenix", and while the cockpit sole panel is off the boat I decided this was a good time to see why the generator would not start.. while doing that I found that the little raw water pump was frozen and would not turn. Removed the pump and disassembled it.. need...

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Once the electric cars become accepted by the public you can bet that the EPA or the Natl Highway Transportation Board will make regulations controlling how the batteries must be disposed of, probably adding significant costs to the electric car equation. Then there are the taxes on gasoline.. elect...

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Glad you guys are OK.. the eye passed us about 100 miles out, and all we had was intermittent rain and gusty sub hurricane winds. Lost a few branches and occasionally a tree, but definitely not as serious as forecasted for us here. Thankfully!

IRGuy

Thanks guys! As I said in another post a while ago, we here in SE North Carolina dodged a bullet.. but the Outer Bankers had a much worse time than us.

We do appreciate your thoughts and prayers!

IRGuy

It looks as if we here in Wilmington, NC, dodged a bullet on this one. The eye passed us on it's way north about 2:00AM this morning.. apparently about 80 to 100 miles offshore... now all we have is gusty winds and light rain. I haven't been out yet but will go across town to check on the boat in a ...

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Sitting here in Wilmington, NC looking at the estimated forecast path of Irene 5 days out, and see she is supposed to be coming right down my street. Tomorrow going to check out the generator, get the gerry tanks filled, get the barbecue grille propane tank filled, and buy beer and potato chips. Als...

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Think first about what you will do...

Think again...

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=28443

Cry a lot!

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Kiffa... We delivered a sailboat to St Lucia several years ago.. a beautiful place to be sure. Left her in Rodney Bay. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I do plan to go back one day. I am also nearing the end of a rebuild of my B33.. not down to the bare bones as you are doing, but she needed a...

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Bob...

The calendar got away from me, but I am putting a check for $25 in the mail this weekend. If you can get me into the raffle that would be great.. if not please use the money to defray some of the expenses somewhere.

Hope everyone has a great time!

IRGuy

I believe so. He hasn't come in this week so I will ask him the next time I see him.

IRGuy

Just an update to let you all know what the guy I started this string about did. Seeing his tank on his worktable this afternoon reminded me to close out this string as far as he is concerned. He did as I said he was going to do... He has coated the interior of the tank surface (but not the baffles)...

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Ok.. which one of you guys did this?

http://www.aol.com/2011/08/02/womans-ha ... k3%7C83156

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I am not coming to the event, but is it possible for non-attendees to send in some money and be included in any raffles?

IRGuy

Never saw a fully auto Glock, never saw or heard of 9mm incendiary rounds.. but I am a newbie to this stuff!

I hope you find it interesting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbsgHbXu ... tube_gdata

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The most recent (August 2011) Power & Motoryacht magazine has a last page article written by Senior Editor Bill Pike on his attendance at the recent Bertram 50th anniversary party in Miami. Of the few Bertrams he mentions is Bertram 31 "Zero Cavity", now owned by Gerardo Santiago of Naples, FL.

IRGuy

I just wanted you to know I read all your posts!

IRGuy

OK.. the email is bogus, but the federal gov't number is not.. I am calling that number later to be sure if thjere is a do not call list I am on it. I hate those damn robocalls!

IRGuy

I received the following info in an email today.... Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month REMINDER..... all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. DEPENDING ON YOUR PLAN WITH YOUR PROVIDER.. YOU MAY BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS To ...

IRGuy

Your tag line reads...

Reality tv: Trained moneys who trade integrity and respectability for a few bucks in their pockets.

Is there a freudian slip at work here? Did you mean "monKeys"?

IRGuy

He did turn a nut with the crescent wrench so it must have had some strength to it.

What gets me is how does it make something that turns like the thumbscrew on the wrench? How does it know something it can't see from the outside is a slip fit and not solid?

IRGuy

The possibilities are mind boggleing..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz ... ata_player

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Do any of you guys in the metro NYC area have any more info on this accident reported this AM?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/10/new.yo ... index.html

IRGuy

Just a nice clip of a "flash mob" ..

It is nice to see these things happen once in a while!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lbNXNn ... r_embedded

IRGuy

Sounds as if the local responders did a good job!

But I have a question...

Is having fuel shutoff capabilities on the bridge a normal practice?

IRGuy

I notice an absence of deck hardware! I wonder where it all went?

IRGuy

Gert...

A beautiful picture of a beautiful boat!

And.. thank you for the American flag on the stern!

IRGuy

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Harry Babb... Co-incidence or?????

Do you have Onstar in your vehicle? Read this!

9/11 boatlift from Manhattan... Must watch this!

It really is a small world...

Something to remember when using a crane to launch your boat

More you can't make this stuff up-Yacht sex can be dangerous

9mm Russian incendiary ammo.. and more (video clip)

Bertram 31 "Zero Cavity" mentioned in PMY magazine

Cell phone numbers being published!

Bruce????

For you machine shop guys.. a 3D printer

Boat accident in New York City...

Something nice for a change...

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