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Pete Fallon

Bob, I am giong to the wood working shop this afternoon, I will check on their shipping policy. When you measure the transom board make sure you take into consideration the radius curve of the transom, allow for a wider board if your going to do it in one single board or are you going to have a scar...

Pete Fallon

To the faithful, One of the wood working companies that I deal with in Stuart, Florida has a bunch of teak covering boards that are for sale. They range from 14" to 17" wide and 14' to 19' long some are 5/4 thick, some are 4/4 thick. Nice material, Burmese teak, no plantation crap. Prices run from $...

Pete Fallon

To the Faithfull, After talking to a couple of old time Bertram employees about who made the original aluminum side window frames, they told me that a company called Bonnell made them. I found that Bonnell is still in business in Georgia, I called and talked to one of the sales reps. They told me th...

Pete Fallon

Patrick, The new owners are really enjoying the boat, they have made a few minor changes, the single helm chair on the FB has been replaced with a bench seat, a fold up bridge ladder over the starboard engine box, and a plastic pod of 4 rod holders on the aft rail of the bridge rail, the owner told ...

Pete Fallon

Bruce, The questions about the power were from keel kickers that didn't know the bow from the stern. One guy asked why they put the noisey Yanmars in, another asked why they didn't put QSB series in(maybe because they were not availible in 2004) another asked genuis asked why it had 2 chairs in the ...

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Steve,
I got your PM, Very interesting. Talk soon.

Pete Fallon

Steve, I didn't see anyone else from the board, just alot of Bertram people and brokers that I've known for over 30 years. You didn't miss a thing in respect to the traffic. I had to go to Ft Lauderdale for a doctors appointment, but it took me close to 2 hours to get to the show from Commercial Blv...

Pete Fallon

To the Faithful, I went to the kick off party for the 50th anniversary of Bertram Yachts last night. The old Buddy Boy now owned by Mr. Bibbo( I met him and his wife, they are really enjoying the boat) was displayed very prominently across the entire aft end of Bertram floating display barge. I talk...

Pete Fallon

Gerry,
I will be at the show on Friday afternoon, I plan on going to the Bertram party Friday night if my knee holds up. Cell 561-310-7179 Pete Fallon

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Glenn,
I am running 17x19 3 blades on my 1961 31 express with 310 7.4 L with 1:5:1 8 degree down angle hurth trannies, cruise high 20's Wot 41.8@4400 on GPS they work for me. Most of the fly bridge gas boats I surveyed have 17x19 3 blades, the diesel boats are running 20x23 or 20-24 4 blades.
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Mike,
I like the redneck in the trailer handling blooper at the bottom of the list, Panga launching operator video has been around for a while. Sail surfing to the highest extent or the best ad for anal puckering I've ever seen.

Pete Fallon

Guy's, The bright white paint in the engine room and other below decks areas is Sherwin Williams Diamond White, supposed to be better than Bilge Coat according to the guys at L&H. Sea trialed the boat over the weekend, 30 knots WOT, mid 20's cruise, prop is not right, needs to be fiddled with. Nice ...

Pete Fallon

Guy's, I don't know where the 50K price came from but it's valued at way more than that. I love surveying a boat that's had a lot of thought and time invested in it, I watched this boat being done over for 4 months at L&H, they do high quality work and put a lot of thier input along with what the ow...

Pete Fallon

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Pete Fallon

To the faithful, I just finished doing a survey on a 1965 25 Bert that was originally an open Mark II now an express bridge, with a single 315 Yanmar with aprop pocket. Beautiful job, aqua mist green hull, white express bridge and custom hard t-top, helm pod and custom console. The entire bridge dec...

Pete Fallon

Ray,
The brokerage show along Collins Ave is separate (free) from the show at convention center, they had shuttle buses running from center to Collins Ave when I was there 2 years ago. The parking along Collins Ave is limited to 3 or 4 muni lots along the beach side that fill up very early.

Pete Fallon

Ray,
Have your friend call Mike Bass At South Florida Yachts in West Palm Beach, e-mail m.bass@southfloridayachts.com I have worked with him on a couple of that type of boats. He is based in WPB but spends alot of time in Ft. Lauderdale.

Pete Fallon

Coolair, Liberty was sold a few years ago, Joe C and his dad ran the business from start up to 2 years ago. I don't know how bought the company and I haven't been in that area of Riveria Beach for a couple of months. Any boat with alot of raduis curves is going to crack from the motion of the ocean,...

Pete Fallon

Guy's, I am in the process of replacing the original 1961 1-1/4" cone valve thru-hull fittings in my31' express. I went with Groco 1-1/2" full flow ball valve thru-hull fittings with screened external pick-ups on each of the engine intakes. The original glass is 5/8" thick of solid laminate and is i...

Pete Fallon

Craig Mac, I am in and out of L&H all the time, Glen and his guys do excellent work. Right now there is a 25 Bertram Bahia Mar that is almost finished, light green hull with a single 315 Yanmar with a tunnel/ prop pocket. Nicely thought out with a huge cockpit and built-in transom livewell. They als...

Pete Fallon

Steve, Xantrex is the most common sniffer/detector that I see when surveying, FireBoy and Guest also make detectors. While your doing things over or upgrading don't forget to put in battery operated smoke/CO detectors. They had them on sale at Home Depot this week for $29.00, both battery operated s...

Pete Fallon

Guy's, Talk about inflation, when I first started fishing for Gaint Blue Fins back in 1973 we were lucky to get between 3 and 5 cents a pound, and we didn't keep any fish unless they were over 700 pounds. Sometimes the buyers would tell us to go away and tow the fish out to sea and dump the catch, n...

Pete Fallon

Bertramp, Merc/Mariner have had this problem since the late 1980's, Don't hold me to it but I remember either a service bulliten or a recall concerning the trim motor seals. It's not a real hard repair, however if there is any corrosion on the top of the barrels it turns ugly very quick. You might e...

Pete Fallon

Wlbsr, In my previous post I said that the sole between the V berths was raised, I take that back after looking at the pictures again you do have a step down. The long crack is the very top of the partial bulkhead that runs across the boat, tabbed into the bottom and hull sides. A quick fix for that...

Pete Fallon

Wlbsr, I have never been a fan of opening up the forward FRP dash/hanging locker area, like Walter, UV & JD said these boats were originally designed to flex.The area was intended to be a partial floating bulkhead. This area was originally part of the molded cap that is part of the entire forward de...

Pete Fallon

Jay,
Try Art Whiting at Harden Marine Services in Tampa he is a SAMS AMS Tel 813-248-3505 Office or 813-361-8126 Cell. A good engine surveyor is Dan Mattos AMS SAMS Tel 239-461-0366 office or 239-461-9086 cell.
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Pete Fallon

Guy's As a former professional fire fighter- EMT I would rather have the engines shut down than burn to death or burn up the boat. I have had many burns over the years and it is the most painful injury going. The discussion on which type of unit to buy is like a rectum, everyone has got at least one...

Pete Fallon

Marlin, I would go with the small Halon FE 241 bottles, one for each engine box. You can get a remote operation head control for up on the fly bridge and wire it to each bottle. The units have a fusable link head, rate of rise, I think their set to go off around 170-190 degrees. The old Halon 1301 u...

Pete Fallon

Jonathan,
It is the same guy, I sent you a PM on this site. Good to hear from you.

Pete Fallon

Boatdective, Is it the old gray bulb seal on the opening windows, it fits into the groove in the aluminum frame?. It is availible, I got mine at the local Window Doctor Store here in Stuart Florida. Mine is black to match the painted windows on my boat,(31 Express) I don't think it is availible in g...

Pete Fallon

Bertramp,
I might have transposed the Bahia Mar, Sedan and the Express models. Old timers disease or too many drugs and trying to type late at night. Anyway cleared up the M discussion.
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Wlbsr, So from your HIN # BERG1474M74J315. Your boat is a Bertram hull number 1474 M- Model year format 1974 J- Month of May 315 Fly Bridge Cruiser. I've seen both BER and BERG as manufacturers id code on different boats that I have surveyed. 312 is A convertible (Open Boat) 313 Bahia Mar (No Bridge...

Pete Fallon

Guy's, There were 3 different HIN # formats. The HIN# was required after November 1, 1972. It had to be embossed or on a plate on the starboard transom area. A combination of 12 letters and numbers were used. In 1972 there were 2 formats in use, Straight Year and Model Year . Straight Year would be ...

Pete Fallon

James,
The original instrument panels were painted matt black, all the guages were Stewart Warner with chrome bezels.

Pete Fallon

Steve, Mix up some teak dust and clear silicon into a stiff paste, fill in the holes, wipe with alcohol, you might have to do it twice to fill the hole completely. Works pretty good, the Formica is made by Wilson Art, there is a company in Riveira Beach at the intersection of Austrailian and Blue He...

Pete Fallon

Guy's, I spotted a 25 Bertram express ( Twin I/O) no engines and a 20 Open (not a Center Console) single I/O, they are located off of State Rd 76 (Kanner Highway) about 8 miles west of my house. If anyone is interested I can get the info and prices, it's on the way to where my boat is stored in Indi...

Pete Fallon

Steve, Congradulations on the boat, I'm progressing with knee rehab, I'll be in Lake Worth tomorrow afternoon, dentist at 1 PM at Congress & 10 th Ave. I have to get a hold of Marlin in the AM , I should be around Murrell's between 2:30 and 3:00 if your around. If not I'll make a point of getting wi...

Pete Fallon

Harv,
Get well soon, better living thru chemistry, no sneezing.

Pete Fallon

Harry, Looks like your rudders are the orginal 28 style. Like John said the larger rudders are definitly the way to go, they can be changed out latter. The first thing I would do is to install a garboard drain plug in the transom or make sure that the boat is angled to the forward drain plug if ther...

Pete Fallon

Harry, Welcome to the sandbox, that's only the 2nd convertible I've seen, nice ride. When you get ready to clean up the brown Formica try Scotts Liquid Gold it works great for bringing back the shine, I've been using it on my 1961 express for 32 years, some of the guys use Penatrol, but Liquid Gold ...

Pete Fallon

The Danvers Harbormaster had one of these back in the late 1980's
it was a Coast Guard surplus, single 6-53 inboard it was made by Uniflite, fire resistant glass and bullet proof, like the river patrol boats used in Viet Nam, I think they still have it.

Pete Fallon

Tommy, Bertramp, DQ and the rest of the faithful, My knee is doing better, still going to PT and doctor, Capt Pat measured my leg for a real teak peg leg last weekend. If this knee don't work it's going to a epoxy teak unit. Bertramp it was real nice to meet you last weekend, I hope that the numbers...

Pete Fallon

Correction on Kahuna it is a sport fish not an express.

Pete Fallon

Guy's here are some hull numbers from my records doing surveys on 31 Bertrams. 1961 Sport Fish Capy 5-10-1961 Hull 135 34 th hull 1961 Sport Fish ForTuna /Iasgar Hull 161 60 th hull 1961 Express Vizcaya 12-13-9161 Hull 186 85 th hull 1962 Express Caracoastal Hull 242 141th hull 1963 Express Finest K...

Pete Fallon

If you want a keel boat buy an old stub keel Hatt or a sail boat, just think of all the rolling as automatic jigging. Don't start the flopper stopper discussion again, I think I'm going to puke.

Pete Fallon

Capt.Pat,
I'll see you at Marlin's boat on Saturday morning. Don't think I will be going to the boat show, knee is still not quite ready for a long walk.
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Brewster,
Wicked Pisser

Pete Fallon

Harv, Good luck with your surgery, I don't care if it's elective or not, anytime you go under the knife it's dangerous. Keep your spirits up and you will be back on the boat sooner than you think. Congrats on the weight loss, I am gettting the stitches out on Wensday and hope to see the guys at the ...

Pete Fallon

Ray, My shafts are 1-1/4" not the 1-1/8" I posted earlier, Aquamet has been around for quite a while, yours are probably are Aquamet, too many pain killers since knee operation. On prop sizing make sure you have atleast 1-1/2" of clearance between blade tips and the hull bottom, you don't need to ha...

Pete Fallon

Guy's,
I will be at the show sometime during the weekend, get the stiches out of my knee on the 27 in the afternoon in FT. Laderdale, 1-1/2 hour drive from Stuart my cell is 561-310-7179. Loooking forward to seeing you old fart.

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