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Harry Your lucky you have the ability to handle that kind of work. They look really great. I just priced out two new bronze struts. The are going for go close to $1600 for the pair. I am trying to find someone in NJ who I can trust to bore out the old ones. The price of metal is getting crazy. Tony

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John Watch out for S&P. I believe Frank Fiamano and Bill G. had a lot of issues with them. I also met a couple of others that had issues with them. I believe they have new owners for about the last 3 years or so. Patriot in Forked River did a tank for one of the 31's in my marina last year. Did a ni...

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Walter & Harv I know the feeling. Had 4 old, old friends pop back up into my life in the last 3 days. Really strange since one I haven't seen since High School and weirdly enough his wife who I knew before him, but haven't seen in about 25 years, just before they got married. Walter is right, as you...

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Walter

If that is your boat, then between you and Harv, I would start to get worried. Its like your life is flashing before you. Tony

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Harv

Consider your self lucky, if your mom was like mine, god rest her soul, all my pictures and magazines would have been long gone. Tony

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Capt. Pat

Maybe next year. With this repower, the money is just flying out the door. Ouch. Tony

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UV

I have two old 50 and two old 30's that I have debated about having him do. I was talked out of it by a friend who said, if something goes wrong, who is going to work on them for you. So I never did it. Maybe one diay I will give him a call. Really cool I like them. Tony

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I have to say, now that is a cool reel. Who did the work on those reels? Tony

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Huesso

Really nice. Family, that's what it is all about. Best memories I have is growing up and gowing fishing with my father. Enjoy Huesso.

Tony

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Randall

Great Work.

I bet Bear Sterns would love to make use of that box of money. Tony

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Ok, now you guys see the confusion. If you do some searching on the NY DOT site, the regs say nothing about covers. Its confusing. I will go with Harv and Randall and just gamble. Hey, I live in NJ what do I know about NY Regs. Some SU&V's weigh more empty, than my Ranger weighs with the bed loaded....

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Harv & Randall Thanks. I was on the NY DOT website and the wording was not really clear. It kept bringing up trucks with two axels, unless they mean two rear axels. Well, I have never seen a truck or a car with less than two axels but then again, lets think about who writes these regs. I have a tono...

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Harv Giving your background with trucking I am hoping you can answer a question about NY laws regarding trucks. I have a Ford Ranger Pick Up with non commercial plates. I was trying to figure out if I fall into the truck catagory when driving in New York. I am looking to go on the Henry Hudson & Mos...

Tony Meola

Welcome to the board. I am sure Dave would be happy to know that an old friend of his is taking care of his boat. Good luck and I know everyone here will be ready to provide you with all of the information you will need to keep her in good running condition.

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Capt. Pat & Brewster

Thanks. I will take a good look at running the hose aft and then possibly midship. Tony

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Capt. Pat

If you move the seacock aft of the bulkhead, for the crash pump, do you just T off the intake hose or just run another long hose either aft or forward off of a T in the seacock? Something I will be looking at in a couple weeks as I move the repower forward. Tony

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[If you get stopped just tell the cop it was from a passing truck. I think they would be hard pressed to find my horn if they looked for it.]

Harv

They don't need to look for it, they just need to tell you to blow the horn

Tony Meola

Harv I think one of the manufactures still has a combo unit. I haven't seen it advertised, but I bet they start showing up again. Ed C: Back in the day, all the lightship buoys had RF signals you could home in on. Those days are long gone. In fact I think I threw our old RDF out about 6 years ago wh...

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Ed C. Actually, my friend who showed me how to use a loran A on his 31 bought the loran, after trying to come home from the canyon in a bad storm with the RDF. Missed the inlet by 20 miles. When he realized were he was he made a line for home. He ran out of gas just as he cleared the jetty's at Barn...

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I found this on Mad Mariner: eLoran, Game On! Submitted by BenE on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 12:00. Remember all the hand wringing about shutting down the Loran system? Well, the inimitable Langhorne Bond was right again; the USCGâ€™s threat was in fact just smart politics. President Bushâ€™s 2009 budget â€...

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Jsezpizio By the way I remember using an old loran A on a friends 31. Looking in the old scope to line up the lines. That was back before loran C. When we got our 31 back in 75 we had a simrad loran c put on the boat. The damn thing was huge by today's standards. The thing would first flash one line...

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Here is one more tip for those of you who have an autopilot. Years ago before chart plotters, an old friend of my fathers compass died on him out in the Hudson Canyon. All of the oil leaked out of it. He just pulled out the paper charts, used the loran to find his spot and dieled the heading home in...

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I still have an old micrologic. It served me well for many years. I hope it never dies as it is a great fall back. I also have paper charts and hopefully if I had to, between the depth finder and compass find my way at least close to home. Learned that trick from an old friend who is now long gone. ...

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Huesso

You are the man. Great Pictures. Its now snowing up here in NJ. Are we jealous, you bet. Enjoy it. Tony

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Harv Good luck. In a couple of weeks I will uncover a move more of the work forward. Engine beds then shaft logs struts and new rudders. I am sure no matter what you will be happy with the performance over the gas engines. Hueso Keep us posted on your progress. Plus its gotten cold up here. How abou...

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Harv I have the 270 Cummins remans due in about 2 weeks. The pricing I have on the engines, transmissions and gauges without install and other work I have to do is $36 and change. I don't have to redo the dash since the cummins gauges fit in the old panel. I picked the 270 over the 315 because there...

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I hope the write up on ebay for the fuel is wrong. Reading that it looks like it is carrying way too much fuel. Tony

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Terry

The 270 before the January price increase were about 18,000 with Transmissions. Tony

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Huesso

If you can get the cummins remans you can't beat the price. Tony

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Great Story, really makes you laugh. When I was a teenager I worked for my father at his gas station. I got zapped by many a spark plug wire. It hurts more when its cold out. My fathers favorite was when someone hooked the timing light up wrong it would deliver a jolt to whomever tried to pick it up...

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My current one is through the hull with a fairing block, but since I am closing up holes, and need to put a new transducer in with whatever machine I get, I thought an airmar flush mount might be nice to reduce drag. I will take a look at the 1kw airmar with the high speed mount and keep the transdu...

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I have seen a couple of posts about the Airmar transducers. Since I am in the middle of my repower and will be getting a new depth finder, I was wondering if those of you who have the airmar know believe it is worth changing over to the flush mount airmar, or even move up to their new 1KW twin trans...

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John The new rudder shelf is done and the bulkhead is in. When I was at the AC show, the Cummins guy said my engines would coming in two weeks. I asked them to push them off a couple of weeks as I am not quite ready for them yet. So I think the ones meant for me are heading to Carvers for a job they...

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John,

Fish box's look pretty nice. What did you use for a mold? Tony

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Wayne

If the mahogony deck stringers are in good shape, you can always epoxy them and sitck them back in. Otherwise you can order the fiberglass structural support material from McMaster Carr. Probably way lighter than aluminum and will give you plenty of strength. Tony

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Timmy I tell you to be carefull and really check this out, because I know people who have had issues. I have seen this with the employees for the last two company's I have worked for. I handle the benefits for over 7000 US employees of a large Global Company and I have seen and heard all the stories...

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Timmy Be really carefull. I have seen the best screw up someone's eye. To tell you the truth, if it were me I would pass on it. Use contacts. Check with people who have had it done. Check those that have recently had it done and find some that had it done a couple of years ago. Some people have an i...

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Harry

Tough decision but I don't think you can go wrong with either of the 3. Tony

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Harry I am still torn between the Garmin and Furuno with the Raymarine right up there. I am going to pull the trigger this week as Consumer Marine is only holding their show prices until the 20th. They quoted me $650 for a SeaStar hydrolic steering set up. I thought that was pretty competative. Woul...

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Dan

Engines look great. Let us know how she performs. I am sure everyone on the board would love to see how she does compared to our 31's. Tony

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Looks like I can't really go too wrong with either one, however, the Furuno might have a leg up due the better radar capabilities and cleaner depth finder, but from what I could tell the Garmin is more user friendly. I know Raymarine has had a good reputation. Gerry, that is a clean bridge. But one ...

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Harry

No problem. I'd love to know what everyone thinks. I could be convinced to go Raymarine also. Tony

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Since it is getting closer to spring up here in NJ, and that means closer to getting the new engines in the boat and the boat in the water, I need to decide on a new GPS/Sounder. I am torn between the Garmin and the Furuno combination units that will give me depth, GPS and in a year or two I can add...

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Dan

Congratulations. Nice job, great looking boat. What engines did you put into it? I have always heard great things about these old Chris's. Tony

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We can all give you ideas, but if you click on the Bertram 31 link above it will take you to the main board. Capt. Pat has posted a ton of information on how to handle a lot of the fiberglass work in the Building Tips section.

Tony

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Walter It was Hevard Smith. He owned the Caymen Sunset. It was a 38 Bert. He was a real gentleman. Was great to fish with. Always treated me well. I sent a bunch of Cedar Plugs one time. He loved them. Had never seen them before. He said the only problem he had with them is that the Marlin kept tryi...

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Frank

On my 75 the teak trim was screwed in from the bottom. A real pain to get out. As they said, the rear pannel shoudl just lift out after you get all the screws out from under the gunnel. You should be able to sneak it past the cleats without the pry bar. Tony

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Walter It was a Captain in the Caymen Islands that told me the same story but I guess I will have to see it to believe it. I can believe that about the cat. Animals have a great sense of smell. We think something is oderless but they can pick it up. If I ever make to Grand Caymen again I will have t...

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I think Brewster and Walter are pulling our leg. Tony

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Brewster & Walter I thought that was an old wives tail. Used to charter a boat down on Grand Caymen. We had a couple of Barracuda one day and the Capt. was going to give them to some folks he knew. When I questioned about their taking a chance he said just set some out on an ant hill and wait and se...

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