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Capt. Mike Holmes

Capt. Dave, my dad is going through chemo right now, if he can take it, I know you can.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Timmy, GIVE????? Are you outta your mind? Would you GIVE the tubb away? And it don't even run! Would like to have a 35, but I'm still not through playing with the 31. Played with it so much today, think I'll sit in the hot tubb with a strong drink, maybe take one of the pills the doctor gave me for ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Kinda figured that. See, that's why I hardly ever throw anything away.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Andre, that might have made up for no hot water, but we didn't have any women with us, and we never saw the sailbote guy's wife - probably didn't want to.

Capt. Mike Holmes

We don't have wireless internet down here in Freeport, TX. We still have propane fueled TV sets!

Capt. Mike Holmes

When Ernest and I ran "Lil' Bert" to Port Eads the first time, we stopepd in Intracoastal City, LA, to spend a night on the way back. The Shell Morgan fuel dock there has a few transiet spaces, free on a first come, first served basis. A sailbote from Port Aransas, TX was there. Small, shabby sailbo...

Capt. Mike Holmes

I am using the original instrument panel, replaced the gauges with SW Heavy duty units, using Isspro tachs.

Mikey, you can sell your old wire for enough to buy new stuff.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Thinking about it, Tim. Sent it to a buddy of mine who needs it worse than me. He's trying to customize a 36 Trojan, already has two nice Cummins that would drop right in that 35 Bert.

Capt. Mike Holmes

We had a guy paint a pretty picture on the old Parrothead 31 that Brian B bought. It was a parrot holding a speargun on one foot and a bottle of Jamaican rum in the other. He was quite an artist, had painted custom vans back when they were a big deal. Never wore a mask back then. He told us his lung...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Mike, great to hear something from you. Hope things are going well? Do you still have the old 38?

Capt. Mike Holmes

Mickey, if you go 5", remember I have 3 5" rubber exhaust elbows - 90's - just about brand new that I no longer need. Let me know if you want them, I'll probably haul them to the resale shop later this week, otherwisw.

Capt. Mike Holmes

But Mikey, as long as they spend the money, the boat magazines will print the ads, and find somebody to write a glowing "boat test" to go on the facing page!

Capt. Mike Holmes

Hey, I let a 1962 Studebaker Lark Cruiser get away from me!

Capt. Mike Holmes

A lot of this discussion centers on resale value. While some 31 owners will always end up selling to move up - or out of boating, most of us feel we have the boat we want to stick with. I considered moving up recently, but when I look over the pictures of all the work I've done on my boat - most of ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

I didn't know it was that fast? Mike's a great guy, we haven't had a meeting in over a year, so I haven't seen he or Glen.

Capt. Mike Holmes

You couldn't glass a piece of 6" on the one end? Checked my "Stash-o-Trash", found one 4" 45, might have another I could find when it stops raining, but this one is yours if you need it. Also have three 5" rubber exhaust 90's and several short pieces of 4" fiberglass pipe. I went from 4" to 5" in my...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Do you know Glenn Martin? I am on a mackerel advisory panel to the Gulf Council with him, also Mike Nugent, who has a bait camp back towards Conn Brown Harbor and the raggedy old charter boat "Wreckclaimation". I had read somewhere that Island Mooring got dredged, that's good. Scot, do you need my 4...

Capt. Mike Holmes

$9,800 is way too much money, $5,000 might be too much. There is a 1962 express in good conditon - original - down from me that could be probably had for $20,000, maybe less. It floats and everything, probably runs.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Clay, where exactly in Port A are you berthed? I was down there last July, looking at a 38 Bert for sale, and saw at least 2 31's near that boat.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I bet they weigh way more than 1,100 lbs. I looked under the hood of Dr. Brian Jordan's boat at Port Eads, and the 3116's filled up all availabe space, - and that boat originally had 3208's. They've had problesm with the engines with Belgium made heads, serious problems, which is why the engine was ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Clay, thanks, I'll check them out.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Did they get that on film (catching Tred baiting a field) for Tred's TV show? I can see him trying to play it as ademonstration of what NOT to do!

Bruce is right, people need to stop taking this kind of stuff.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Clay, how much are they asking? With my talents, I was hoping to get a pair as "test" products, for promotional consideration. John, are you talking the whiole setup, pump, actuators, controls, etc.? I might be interested. Mine have been disconnected since my repower, not sure if I can get them hook...

Capt. Mike Holmes

You can get a gasoline powered blender for mixing drinks fast from Northern Tool & Supply. Uses a chain saw engine.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Just got a new Southern Boating, had a menion of a new underwater light that mounts on your trim tabs - no holes in the hull, and I would think about the right spot for a transom light. They come in sets of two 75 watt lights on each tab. I think I'll check into these. Called the Hurley, email conta...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Kevin, that's the big fly in the ointment for fisheries laws - enforcement. Down here, the Coast Guard does most of the federal enforcement, as there are only a very few federal fisheries people to cover the whole coast. They do board boats, and do issue fines. Unfortunately, they have other duties,...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Several years ago, we had a pretty hard blow overnight in Freeport, Texas. The next morning I was talking to folks at the fancy marina, and a young guy with an old 53 Hatt he was restoring asked if I slept aboard that night. Said he was tossed every which way all night. I told him I didn't really no...

Capt. Mike Holmes

They're going to give the seas to the environmentalists - and the guys who don't worry about staying legal, or insurance, or maintenance.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Only 41 here now, by what my truck tells me, but supposed to drop below freezing tonight, maybe stay there awhile just off the coast - with freezing rain and sleet probable. Yesterday it was 70. 30's is damn cold for where I live.

Damn that Al Gore and his glowball warming!

Capt. Mike Holmes

Walter, the feds closed our winter snapper fishing down several years ago (and are trying to cut us to a 2 fish per day, per angler, possession limit now), now they are shutting off grouper. The only other thing dependable in winter is tuna, requiring much longer runs offshore, which isn't always wi...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Me, too!

Capt. Mike Holmes

Harry give me your email address (mine is: captain31@peoplepc.com) and I'll send you some pix of the cover boards and the other areas I've put wood on, inside and out. We have a cold spell blowing in, and I just checked on the boat, so I'll be inside looking for pictures for an article most of the d...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Mikey, how can you talk with that stick in your mouth? (Your "avator" picture!).

It's cold and rainy here, supposed to get colder and icey. Stuck inside, looking for pictures for an article. Moderate drinking may follow.

Capt. Mike Holmes

The boat sales folks here in Texas CLAIM they are selling a lot of big boats, but who knows. I can confirm the brokerage market is slow, from the number of friends I have with boats for sale. We actually have more marinas being built down here, instead of converted to condos, but there are a lot of ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Tony probably doesn't make any money off Racors. 500 series are fine for the Steyrs. I use 900's on my Cummins 6's. Didn't get the ones with the leak catcher bowls on the bottom, I usually "drain" mine with a pump. 30 micron elements work best for me in the Racors. Boat Useless in my area only stock...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Randall - looks great, as I knew it would. I did mine with teak. I raised the actual covering board are with a piece of foam board secured with 5200 so the teak would go over the raised lip on the inside edge for a smooth surface across. I found that even with the rod holders bolted through, a gener...

Capt. Mike Holmes

They look like converts to me! Before long, they'll have to change the name of the Shootout to the Bertram-Hatteras/Hatteras Shootout!

Hope the Bertram company guys make note of this.

Capt. Mike Holmes

VERY clean operation, congrats! Most seafood markets down here look like a dirty bait camp, smell no better. And the ones the Vietnamese run are worse than that. We had one locally that was clean and well run, went out of business. I know of one other run by a former shrimper that is clean and healt...

Capt. Mike Holmes

After young Al invented the internet, he quickly made use of it to spread the news about global warming, and his romance with Tipper, on which a certain romance movie was actually based.. Having lived and worked at least on the fringes of industrial areas in the south all my life, I do believe the e...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Mikey, great news! You're recovering faster than I am, but, you're probably a lot tougher. Before long, we might go looking for your grandfather's Wheeler together - I love a quest! Have you told Bruce the mechanic vs heart surgeon story yet? Vic, was it Darryl Pennington down there? Some folks have...

Capt. Mike Holmes

I fished on a friend's 26, and was on a much larger boat in a rough water tournament when his 26 passed us both going out and coming in with no problems. Really rode the seas nicely. Very nice looking boat, and just a bit bigger than the 25. He chartered his for many years.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Wayne, don't know about the wheel, but your boat is looking great! I waffle some on keeping my 31 or moving to a bigger Bertram, now that I'm retired and could run more trips, but seeing what a lot of you guys have done to your boats always brings me back to wanting to make mine "all it could be"! L...

Capt. Mike Holmes

There is a 1962 express in Freeport for sale that could probably be had for $20,000 or less that is WAY ahead of this boat. Pretty much original inside and out, 440 Chryslers, deck in good shape, original icebox, original cabin windows and windshield that still open, etc.

Capt. Mike Holmes

I have seen boats down here with explosion proof fixtures in the engine room wired to a switch and holding a 100 watt light bulb. Works real well for both light and warmth - but a cheap plastic drop light does the same thing for less trouble and cost. Doesn't get that cold down here since Al Gore di...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Bruce, that's a very good point, glad you brought it up - as usual. I have the oversized struts High Tide sells, and after I went to 1.91:1 gears I am running 22 x 24 3 blade Nibrals. I got a deal on them used and reconditioned, or I would have just bought bronze. These wheels fit, but are tight, an...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Randall, especially if you light it!!

Capt. Mike Holmes

Scott, naphtha - and the "extra" h is the correct spelling, as my ex-boss kept impressing on me - is what most charcoal lighter is. Cheaper probably to buy it that way that as a speciality chemical.

Capt. Mike Holmes

Timmy is right on track with his power needs. I've spent some time in the engine room of a 41 Hatt with 8V71's, and getting to the outboard side is a bitch. 12V's or 16V's would not fit, and would probably sink the boat - unless it was converted to a single engine tubb. If it had come to Timmy with ...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Damn, I was going to suggest again that you could use them for work lights in the slip while the boat was hanging in the sling, until JP says don't turn them on out of the water! Since I figure you want them for fishing at night, tied up or on drift, I think Pat's idea of two out the stern is a good...

Capt. Mike Holmes

Mitch, the company I worked with is no longer in business, but contact HS Marine Services - Lee Holt, lholt@hsmarine.com - or call Lee at 979/849-3088 if you are still interested. I think the marinization kit does run $4K or better per side, that includes everything you'll need - bell housing adapto...

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