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Capt. Mike Holmes

Scot, They literally burn all waste, electrically. The only "discharge" is ash, which is collected in a liner that can be taken out once a week - with heavy use - and dumped in the regular garbage. I don't know what it smells like while processing waste, but if it works as advertised - approved by t...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Wayne, They make them in Fort Worth, Texas, and I've been in contact with the company (trying to get a discount). They send me flyers when they have a promotional sale, seems like it would be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than a septic system - which you can't use in most coastal situati...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Brewster, I've been considering Incinolet for a shore side toilet where sewage restrictions are tight. Have you been satisfied with yours? Waht are the power requirements?

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, I think most of the high rpm diesels like the ones you listed use 2:1 gears in a 31 Bert application. I've mentioned I'm happy with the 1.91:1 Twin Disc 5011A gears I have now, although I had troubles with the 1.45:1 ratio in the same gear. I'm sure either a ZF or TD will work for you, the 501...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Depends on how hard it is to get your cabin sole out for access, first. Mine is a bit difficult. Wouldn't want to need to get in there offshore with a boatload of people. Also, there are ventillation considerations, and potential height of water in the bilge to ponder. When mine was gas, I had the b...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Mikey, donkeys are bad asses. Around here, farmers run them with their cows and sheep to chase away coyotes and dogs. They hate anything that looks like a dog, evidently.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Doug, although it usually wouldn't hold you back quite that much, exhaust restriction will also keep you from turning full rpm. I found out the hard way on my repower that if the exhaust can't get out as it should, fuel won't go in as it should. This is sort of an oversimplification, but you need go...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Tim-m-m-m-m-y, I have the cabin roof off a 31 express (not mine) that would make a nice hardtop for a Tubb Express. Then you'd be a part Bertram owner (or a Bertram part owner?), and Dick could give you the "Secret Woid". It's roughly 6 feet long and something over eight feet wide.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Noe Martinez at Dos Amigos Boatworks, 202 Marine Way, Freeport, TX, - 979/239-2940 - has started producing mostly Bahia Mar parts from the molds he obtained from Cabrerra's. I've seen the helm pods, and they look very good. He is working on a deck mold, and has the engine box/bench seat molds. He ha...

Capt. Mike Holmes

The August issue of Sportfishing has a nice article on chumming techniques (by yours truely) that has a nice mention of Capt. Randle Hall of Port Mansfield - Geaux Deep Charters. There is also an editorial by Doug Olander, editor in chief, about the big mako snagged off Pensacola a while back. Doug ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Where in Port Arthur? next time I'm up that way I miht give it a look?

Capt. Mike Holmes

They look somewhat like a big speckled trout. Are they in the corvina family? Vey nice catch, and I'll bet that 90 lber was an impressive sight.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Scot, Timmy wanted to stir stuff up. I have run 671's, 8V71's, 6V92's, and 8V92's, ridden on Hats with 12V's, almost ridden on a Cheoy Lee with 16V's. Good old engines. all - just not real fuel efficient by modern standards.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I think it is Japanese humor. Much like the term Karioake originally meant "Car full of drunk tourists from Oklahoma", these engines were so named that when their owners passed slower boats - usually Detroit diesel powered - they could yell back in their wake, "Nanni, nanni, nanni!"

Capt. Mike Holmes

Wayne, those are beautiful fish! I didn't realize they got that big, having little experiance with California species. Good to eat?

Capt. Mike Holmes

The 31 Bahia Mar hardtop is pretty common on the Texas coast, more common that the open Bahia Mar, for some reason - probably because it's drier to steer. Like Bruce said, the bridge is almost certainly an add-on.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Good for your son, glad he's doing well - BUT, he'd never cut it at Port Eads, where Palmetto bugs share the bathroom and sand crabs get in Rick's hair.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Or MAKE yurself a clear!!

Capt. Mike Holmes

There ya go!

Capt. Mike Holmes

Ernest, I knew you were, just jerking back. As I remember, although we didn't catch any billfish, we did really well in the dolphin/wahoo division, and also lost far fewer lures in the kingfish mini-tourney than did our only competitor. It was a great, great trip, regardless. No breakdowns, either. ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Damn! help a guy on his boat, flatter him, put his picture in a magazine - with his name - and get trash talk in return. I honestly though we were given second place that year, but I was cleaning fish when the awards ceremony took place.

Capt. Mike Holmes

The new (July) issue of Southern Boating has a picture of hyena boat captain Ernest with one of his winning dolphin in the UVII a few years ago off Port Eads. - page 109.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Harry, we had a Hispanic kid drown at San Luis Pass last week. Walking in the water with his family, supposedly fell into a hole, never came out - at least, not alive. This is a very dangerous area, strong tidal currents in and out, claims several lives every year. They were walking in front of sign...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Harry, send me your email address and I'll send engine box pictures. Did you get rid of the tower? I've been hunting for one to fit an express. The ones I find for flybridge 31's are too tall, as was the one that was on my boat when I bought it. Sim, I've been toying with the idea of building a brid...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Harry, are those the original engine boxes in your boat? My 1962 express has the big, heavy boxes with two hinged lids on each, fore and aft. To get the entire box out means unscrewing the sides from the supports and sliding the heavy suckers (with 2" Soundown) out. Originally, the floor between the...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Beautiful!

Capt. Mike Holmes

The Southern flounder in Texas have teeth alright - fangs like a wolf! The same if not very similar fish. Ours probably don't make 22#, but they do top at least 13. I love flounder, very small internal cavity, not much to have to throw away and easy to clean. Made for comsumption, just like those bi...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Pat, just got a reply from the "new" company's owner, named Karl Dyes. Said he has known Bob for 15 years, just bought the company last year from whoever bought it from Bob. He says he hasn't talked to Bob, but Bob is aware he bought the company, and he thinks he is doing well and still living in th...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Was in a discussion with Capt. Peter Tyson about marlin lures, specifically the Yaps and Magnums made by Bob Schneider. He said Bob sold the comapny in 1999, and he hasn't heard from him since. Would like to get in touch with him. The new "Bob Schneider" lures, in his opinion, are not as good in fin...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Sounds like Dug may have been on a boat with 453 Detroits. The 504 Cummins is a V8, heavy and big. I fished for years on an old wooden Post powered with 504 naturals - slow boat, but much more dependable than gas. Parts are expenisve, but used engines are fairly cheap. Ernest and I followed Fuzzy Sn...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Got a notice from the National Association of Charterboat Operators that the gov'ment backed off on the requirement for circle hooks for billfish for the rest of 2007. For the guys in the Gulf, they also seem to have backed off on tightening restrictions on vermillion snapper, and in fact, might be ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

John Brownlee's new magazine, Center Console Angler, has an article about fishing on a new Sea Vee cc - 39'11" LOA, 11' beam, powered by FOUR 300 hp Mercury Verado outboards. 67 mph, and they said at 45 mph cruise it burns 46 gph - a little less than 1mpg. That has to be around $100,000 worth of eng...

Capt. Mike Holmes

There were some interior shots on Yachtworld awhile back. Randy bought a 42 Bertram, is running charters on it, - or his captain is.

Capt. Mike Holmes

On page 62 of the new issue of Marlin magazine, bottom half page in with John Brownlee's excellent fighting chair article, is a fancy ad for Randy Moffat's pristine 31 - "Bullet", with pretty good pictures of the boat. Last I heard his asking price was "down" to $225,000. There are new center consol...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Doug, forgot to mention I have the Walbro pumps between my Racors and the mechanical lift pumps (Algae-x units are in front of the Racors).

Sorry you couldn't use the elbows.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Doug, when I had the 500 series Racors, I had problems with fuel going back to the tanks. I had ball valves on both sides of the Racors, but if I let the engines sit very long without closing those valves, I had to bleed the system again to start them. I tried additional check valves, but they were ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

This one had the marinized GM pickup diesels, and it very very quiet.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Yeah, doesn't look doable. I saw a 33 once that had just been repowered gas to diesel, and I remarked at how small the exhausts out the transom were. My old timer buddy who knows everything boating told me some Bertrams had a split exhaust, with the largest portion going out under the hull, and just...

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, I might be heading down that way soon, gonna call about a pile driving barge I might want to go look at.

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, glad to hear you are looking for one. I saw Lisa the other day, and she was still asking, "Where's the windshield for that damn boat?"

Capt. Mike Holmes

I saw this done on several other boats first, I think at least one was a factory job, maybe an Orca? Also an old timer I respect very much told me he used to do it a lot on boats he worked on. I'm not sure how you'd attach the extensions to a factory exhaust flange, I ran fiberglass pipe through the...

Capt. Mike Holmes

I have a transom platform, and ran extensions on the exhaust (rubber hose, wire reinforced, with flaps on the ends) to the back of the platform. Keeps the exhaust from blowing water into the cockpit when I crank up the Cummins, helps keep the smell out of the cockpit, and I can see the water coming ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

I remember Ernest, when one engine sputtered to a stop off Port Eads (Rawleigh was there as a witness, probably Randall), and we determined it was a clogged fuel filter, saying, "No problem - I brought A spare." One spare, for a trip from Galveston to the wilds of the Louisiana delta, buying gas fro...

Capt. Mike Holmes

I think it will be fun. I'm planning to be there, with or without my boat. The run across the bay to Port A isn't bad - all deep water, few chances to run aground. Some good "inshore" placs to fish for bluewater stuff, like hospital Rock. Also got invited to cover the Rockport Offshore Challenge in ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, tried to call you a little while ago. Wanted to insult Ernest, or Timmy, or somebody.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I'm glad you reminded me about that, Ernest. I need to change my ad to mention they are very lightly used. Of course, they are kinda old, since I had the first Federal Charter Permit issued in Freeport. I'm starting at $10,000, and I'll even autograph them. I read a post on that other board this mor...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Good for them. I'm probably done with the snaps. Putting an ad in Boats & Harbors for my permits, called the guy in Port A and had him list them, and put them on Sportfishing.com's for sale forum. Tried to put them on 2coolfishing.com, but that isn't a real user friendly format. Plus, most of the pe...

Capt. Mike Holmes

John, saw your boat heading down the road Saturday. Looked like it tried to fall off the trailer about across from Kirby, the wetbacks were pulled over and putting ropes on it there.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Or wouldn't admit it.

Heard Rosie got fired from her TV job today, hope our making fun of her didn't have anythign to do with it.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Hell, I'm retired, we'll load the sutff up in my truck, and I'll deliver it. For an appropriate fee, of course.

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