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Capt. Mike Holmes

Doug, I got the notice, haven't really looked into it. I check the link later and let you know.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Ricky, I wouldn't go to electric reels unless fishing DEEP water. For snapper, grouper, and such, I use 30# gear in 50 - 100 feet of water, go to 50# line if obstructions or big AJ's might be around. In 50', for anything other than big fish, 20# gear will work, and be more fun. To stay with Shimanos...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Daniel's looks damn good. I'm waitign patiently for it to splash. More patiently than he is, at this point, I'm sure.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Hint, he's amember of a powerful political family from Mass., headed by Fat Teddy!

Capt. Mike Holmes

I'm in for the stainless ones from gameboats.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I got some from Bertram several years ago, but they were the cast pot metal type and need replacing again. I thought Vic and some others had gotten stainless steel versions from somebody in Australia?

Capt. Mike Holmes

Replied to your PM earlier, did you get it?

Capt. Mike Holmes

Harry, I don't have enough running time yet to make a definite ruling, but I think in my case I will be doing better on fuel burn. Because I was having to work the engines harder with the 1.45 gears I started with, and I am turning quite a bit bigger props, I get better performance at lower rpm. Of ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

He's right about that.

Capt. Mike Holmes

A friend has a copy of a poster in his office at work from the Bruce Willis movie with the little kid who talked to dead people. It has been altered to say, "I see stupid people. They are everywhere, and most of them don't even know they are stupid."

Capt. Mike Holmes

Bob, I spent a day in a Scarab with Gus Anastasia at the helm when he was still with Wellcraft. Nothing like your experiences, but it was pretty exciting to me.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Yeah, I just have to keep reminding myself it's probably more boat than I need, or could afford to keep.

Sho' is purty, though.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I've been lusting after a 42 Bert for over a year now, maybe not as bad an infraction?

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, I finished transplanting trees for the morning from one lot to the other, going to listen to it rain while I try to figure out what I did wrong on the maps for my book project.

I'll be home.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Mikey, glad to hear you fired them up. It probably wasn't ever a question of if they would crank, just when. The tranny deal is probably real minor. My only worry would be the electrical system. Anything that looks that good just cannot work as well as wires running willy-nilly with oil and grease a...

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, sorry I didn't stop by, got busy hauling wood and planning dock stuff. I stopped by Noe's yesterday and caught Charlie working on that Bahia Mar half-tower. It looks very good - long like your old one, will make lots of shade. The boat is also coming along, with Pat's air boxes installed as we...

Capt. Mike Holmes

I know a doctor who says he can steer his 46 Bert than way, in an emergency.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Thanks, Bruce, I just bought a new C series!

Capt. Mike Holmes

No problem, glad you could use them.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Pat, did the Morse controls show up? Have you had a chance to investigate whether or not they are going to work? Just curious.

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, I may be hauling lumber from one lot, or trying to get water hooked up at the other. Call me on my cell: 281/814-1464.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Without consulting with him, my center rigger is set up like Vic's, and is a very stout section cut from alonger rigger.

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, if you need a hand this weekend, give me a call.

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, a guy down from me has the mold for the "Classic 31" with the prop pockets, plus a bunch of the molds from Cabrerra for engine boxes, etc. He is restoring an old Bahia Mar and plans to produce the parts for sale. I can get information on this one for you, if it would help.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I have two fiberglass battery boxes that have "Bertram" molded in the top. I know they will hold a 4D each, not sure about an 8D. Cannot get two group 27's in one. If I switch to a single Odessey on each side I'll use them, otherwise, they might be for sale.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I have always kept my batteries between the engines, as Bob does. My genset is on the port side, actually just overcomes the tendacy of 31's to list to starboard at rest. Have a 50 gallon auxillary diesel tank outboard of the starboard engine. I like the batteries where i can get to them easily.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Pretty sure it was gelcoat. My boat was originally a light blue, Jaded Lady is a dark green (I'm assuming it was originally that way), and I saw one 1961 model that was a horrible tan color all over - from the factory. Mine and Jaded Lady are both of 1962 vintage, not sure what other factory colors ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Sounds like the way to go. The web site Mikey posted has a price of $280 each. Have to see if I can get them through Port Supply.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Andre, Bob, so one of these will handle a Cummins, instead of two group 27's? That's two engine batteries, total? Getting ready to consider a change, went to two group 27's on each side from one 4D (which is not THAT much smaller or lighter that an 8D, but the way), want to try something different.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I intended to go by today, go tied up running errands with the wife instead. Noe had told me last week they were going to prime the hull Thursday, put the tower on to check the mounting, then take it back off before painting. I didn't think to ask about color. I'll go by tomorrow.

Capt. Mike Holmes

There was a new 51' Riviera at Bridge Harbor this week with pretty much the same sahde of blue as Trey's boat.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Thanks, Mikey. A friend of mine desctibed it as an "Express" hurricane, didn't fool around. Talked to my son who lives near Scot, he said it wasn't as bad as the news media makes it out to be - surprise!

Capt. Mike Holmes

Like Ian said, the sun can help. I did my helm chair over the winter, had problems with bubbles, did the other one a couple of weeks ago - outside, when we were nudging 100 degrees every day - no bubbles at all - excpet in the beer.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Scot, hang in there. I got several boats ready up to 42' late yesterday, just in case, but the thing decided not to bother us much. It quit raining here before dark, a little sun tried to come out even, Winds picked up for some reason around 10 PM, but it's still here now. Can't reach my son in Nede...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Harry, with the gas engines, my 1962 express had 1:1 gears. Bad, very bad. When I first repowered with the diesels, I used 1.45:1 gears, pulled a 20 x 20 prop. Wanted better performance, went to 1.91:1 gears. Wanted a little better performance, had the injector pumps recalibrated and changed injecto...

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, slight subject change. When I went by Noe's today while taking care of bidness involving my new property in Turtle Cove, he appears to have started on the windshield on that Bahia Mar he's doing. I'll try to stop by tomorrow and check it out closer.

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, have you heard about the custom wrap jobs they do on things like the kingfish tournament boats? It's some sort of plastic wrap like they use to put advertising on a van or race car. You can have wild designs, your picture, or naked women done along the hull.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Garry, what color green is your buddy Gale's Bahia Mar? Is that Sea Foam? Really beautiful.

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, it's "Bullett", although it is a rocket with those 370 hp Cummins. I don't know the trade name of the color, assuming it's Awlgrip, and it;s a dark blue.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I was in Chicago years ago in a training seminar with a bunch of crazy Canadians. Every place they took us to eat had "Butt Steak" on the menu. Finally one of the Candian brothers asked a waitress what exactly it was. When she explained what cut it was, he said he thought they had something like tha...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Randall, the yacht interior designers I've heard about around here were often gay - but there would probably be a need for straight guys in that business. I was watching a CSI rerun the other night about their "minature Killer" who made exhaustive minature models of his crime scenes. I was thinking,...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Scot, actually, if you take the turbo off the 6B, as in industrial applications, it drops to I think 140 hp. I'm sure they run forever at that rating.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I think you nailed it, Andre!

Capt. Mike Holmes

I've been using the Walbros for a few years, and they are very good pumps.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Dave, my boat had very large bronze rudders on it when I became her steward, steers as well on one engine under most conditions as on two - sometimes I think better. I normally run on one in the canal where I keep it, because of neighbors always yelling at me to slow down. About to solve that by sel...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Like the ones who love to fish off the corners, right where the props are? Or keep fishing behind the boat after I point out I need to back down to hold on top of the wreck? Or tear up tackle, or drop pieces of bait in places they can't be found - except much later, by smell? On the other hand, had ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Dave, sounds like we both got lucky, in the long run. My old boat has had some problems over the years, but nearly all were at the dock, and it has never failed to bring me home from offshore. When it was gas I had to come in on one engine once, but we came in. Do boats have attitudes and pride in t...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Scot, the dealer who sold me the electric pumps assured me they were the same ones he uses on big Detroits.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Mikey said I should post this to share with others. Kinda hate to, but here goes. On my last offshore trip, I was running short handed, wore out from busting my ass to get ready, and it was a freebee trip on top of that. Had 6 passengers, three of them large. First thing that happened was they knock...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Al, since I built my engines up from scratch from Dodge truck engines, I was looking for any edge I could to give me a little more "oomp". A mechanic friend told me Cummins admitted to him that in some applications - usually with 300 hp or more on 6BT's - they had to add a boost pump to get enough f...

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