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Pete Fallon

Steve,
You might not have to climb steps in the Bahia Mar but the head is the V-berth, can you say EXPRESS.
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Pete Fallon

Carl,
Is the boat in the picture your boat? Looks like a clone of mine, only difference is I've got a blue bottom, red boot stripe and a black window and rub rail trim. Nice looking boat.
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Pete Fallon

Guy's, The hell with the sedan the Express is the only way to go for a 6'3", one legged Irishman, full stand up enclosed head, Same boat as a FBC without having to climb a ladder. Cockpit is huge and the boat is fast 40 miles an hour with 454 7.4 L Mercruiser FWC TBFI with Hurth 8 degree down angle ...

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Kevin, It was good to see you at the Marathon Boat Yard on Wed afternoon, like you said 6 years is way too long. I know your looking for hatch hinges maybe these will work for you. Do they have to be flat(almost flush mounted ) or can the be raised up a bit?. I have 4 sets of old bronze hinges with ...

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Dug,
I am going to pass at this time. thanks anyway.
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IRGuy, My father told me that when he was about 9 years old he drove to Misery Island with my great uncle who was a Salem firefighter, he had a model t. That would have been around 1919, I have seen those pictures of Salem harbor completely frozen over, since they built the power plant I have seen i...

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Bob Lico, I remember when I was looking for a 31 Express, I ran across a sedan with the open back and the head in the V-berth, I wanted an express because of the enclosed head, no climbing bridge ladders, I had a bad knee way back then in 1978. The sedan was on Cape Cod at Onset Bay Marina they were...

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Bruce,
The rednecks down here would have never thought of doing something like that, they would rather shoot it away and the ex Northerners would go into a complete panic mode. I can just see the Palm Beachers stocking up on snow blowers and rock salt. Ovay.

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Dug,
Okay, thanks for the info on hole sizes, I think it was Jerry Santiago's Zero Gravity that had the internal transformers for the underwater lighting.
I will be in contact.
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Pete Fallon

Dug, How large of a hole do your need to drill in the transom for the 6" also is there any big black boxes that need to be installed along with the lights themselves. I surveyed a 31 that had huge black connector boxes that took up more room than necessary. Those units are reasonably priced I will l...

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JohnV8r,
I sent you a PM about the batteries, if you don't get it send me your e-mail address and I will resend.
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Dug,
I am selling my boat but the underwater lights might be a good selling extra, how much for a pair of white/blue lights. Please e-mail e at fal4artbts@aol.com
Thanks, Pete Fallon

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Faithful,
I will be doing the survey on the weekend of the 8th/9th of February.
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Pete Fallon

msteimer, I have a few questions for you, 1 What year is the boat? 2, What CAT's 3208, 3126,? 3. Which model- 35 Wide Body, Caribe,Express or standard Fly Bridge? 4. Does the owner have a log book or recent upgrades, engine hours? I don't know when the next time I will be in the Keys after this next...

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Kevin,
I thank you for your offer, I will let you know when I am going to be in your area.
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msteimer,
I am going to be in Marathon sometime next week I have to do a survey for a Bahamas client. I will not know what day until after next Monday. Call me at 561-310-7179 or e-mail me at fal4artbts@aol.com to see if we can get together and look at your new boat.
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Faithful, A 1/2 million for an outboard powered Bahia Mar turned into a sport fish doesn't make much sense to me but everyone has their own way of spending their money. Engine box areas would make a nice hot tub/whirlpool and a huge BBQ grill pit on the other side. Good luck getting that price, pain...

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Jimmy G,
Try either Perko or Wilcox Critten(spelling) I replaced mine 20 years ago, the hinges and operators were from Perko, I'm almost positive. They were chrome on bronze units with the black knobs.
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Pete Fallon

Bob, JimmyG&Whaler177, Years ago I was fishing a tournament out of Hillsbrough Inlet in my 31 Jupiter, wind blowing 20 out of the NE temp about 60 degrees, seas nasty 10 to 12 in the mouth of the inlet. Bimini start as usual for the SKA circuit back in the mid 90's. I am just slow idle going thru th...

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The Ways in Palm Beach Gardens, Chris Hodge is who you want to talk to. That's where I had my boat shipped to from Salem Ma 16 years ago, Duchess was repowered there also.
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KenM, How old is the boat?, after 20 years it's time to strip the bottom, soda blasting is the only way to go, have the yard do it, it takes just under a gallon per coat of bottom paint. If you soda blast the bottom your going to have to barrier coat the entire bottom and fill all the pin holes and ...

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JimmyG &Whaler1777,
Time to take the engines out and put the rest into a dumpster. How long do the passengers have to go to the chiropractor.
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Steve, Merry Christmas to you and your family. I just got back from the frozen North, never got above 32 except for 3 hours Sunday morning when the heavy snow turned to rain then it dropped from 36 to 22 in an hour. I was there from Wed to Sun morning, 25 degrees was the normal daytime high with a l...

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Navatech, That has to be the worst conversion I have ever seen, I wouldn't even know where to start surveying that so called vessel. I like the two different vintage model Merc outboards, a late 60's and a early 80's outboards. I will donate a 1/2 block of C4 to dispose of that POS. I like the batte...

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Todd & Tony M, The original bronze sea cocks were made by Wilcox Crittenden, heavy duty bronze cone valves, OEM Bertram in the early 60's . The cone valves were done away with per ABYC regulations. The problem was that you needed to have the correct size wrench to loosen the retaining nut so that yo...

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Steve, On my express the helm and companion seats are hung from 2 u shaped aluminum brackets that are screwed into the side wings, with a 1" stainless steel leg that supports the outer side of the seat over the engine box. I had the guy's at Pompanette make me 2 new seats that resembled the old ones...

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Oliver, Almost all the 31's have had some degree of springy forward decks, some have no coring just 3/8" of solid fiberglass, others have a grid like rib system. You can drop the forward V berth headliner, sand down the old green glass and add 1/2" marine plywood or Coosa board with a layer or two o...

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Harry,
The sports casters are trying to call that play one of the best ever plays in sports history. Granted it was exciting but not a world class play. I've seen faster running in Riveria Beach away from the Walgreens liquor store with blue lights chasing them.
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JimmyG,
Great job on both the paint jobs looks sweet, now get some iron and wiring and you will be ready for the early summer bite.
Nice job all round.
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Pete Fallon

BOb H, Dennis Leary is something else, he actually donated a couple of fire trucks to the City of Boston during his show Resuce Me. How true that commercial is I actually lost 5K back in 1986 when the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs, with 2 outs left in the game, the Sox lost that series in 7 ...

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BobH, I talked to the Devcon people today, they said that Plexus is not approved by the FDA for medical use, so it can't used in the human body. I told them that I've used it in boat applications for years with out a failure. The engineer that I talked to said it would be very expensive to make in a...

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Kevin. They never did the one that they were going to do in the summer they kept postponing the operation trying to figure out what to put in, something that wasn't going to let go. I've been suffering since April with the same bad knee, keeps getting worse everyday. I had to quit drinking because o...

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Harry, Truer words were never spoke so well. As a product of the 60's I went through much of the same things. The 63 Sting Ray split rear window, my first car was a used 1965 Mustang Convertible with a six cylinder with a four speed on the floo, my second car was 1968 Plymouth Road Runner with a 426...

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Tailhook Tom, I am 6'3'' and weigh 215 which is not overweight, every time I go to the ortho doc I see a lot of over weight men and mostly women who are at least 100 pounds over what they should be. My injury was caused by an impact to the side of my knee at the fire house, tearing out all the carti...

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JimmyG,
I felt like I was watching an old Charlie Chapman movie, lot's of hard work. The boat looks great.
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Faithful, I know it's going to be a bad winter up North, I found out that I need to have my right knee replaced for the 4th time. I have to go to Mass General in Boston to have it done. The doctors down here won't do it, they say it is too complicated of a surgery. I think they are just covering the...

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Navatech, Most of the 42-46 Bertram's in the late 70's & early 80's had Hynautic steering with separate pressure gauge reservoirs, either RO 6 or RO 7 models. I don't remember what model the rams were, but they were beefy bronze units. The Hynautic systems had copper pipe for all the lines, the Hyna...

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Gert,
The Long Island boats are really nice looking craft, your flotilla looks like the Dutch Navy in miniature attacking the local pubs. Keep up the beautiful workmanship. Do you want to buy a 1961 express cruiser she'd look great along side the 31 FB and the 25. Nice web pages.
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Dug, If you go with the fiber glassed outlets you don't need the black rubber flappers, but I would add( if you don't already have them) surge tubes into the exhaust system. The flappers are there to prevent water from entering the exhaust tubes when backing down hard on a big fish. I am a tradition...

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Craig Mac, Interesting article about Tommy Gifford and the 31 Bertram. The writer says that the rakish hard top has been lowered and had helm and tower controls with 2 padded cells. Sounds like it was an express boat with a tower. Also on the same page was a box score for the Indians vs Red Sox Indi...

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SC31, I have had pretty good luck with using automotive trim paint in the rattle can. I sanded down the rub rail to bare metal, filled the scratches and dings with epoxy, two coats of grey auto primer and two coats of black automotive trim paint(flat Black). It was on the boat for 15 years with only...

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jspiezio,
I agree with you the NYC thugs would not have wasted that much time turning it over, they would have stripped it down right on the spot.
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John S, Give Barney at Skipper Shipper in Jensen Beach a call 772-225-1279. He has moved my boat(1961 31 express) a bunch of times. He goes up and down the east coast all the time, you might catch him delivering a boat to the Eastern Shore with nothing booked for the return. He's fully insured and h...

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Peter P. I beg to differ with you on blowers blowing air in. If you read the ABYC standards (AVAILIBLE ON LINE) H-2 Ventilation of boats using gasoline (section 2.6.3.2.4) ,"As installed the blower system shall EXHAUST air from the boat at a rate in accordance with the blowers system performance cur...

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Joe E, Nice looking work, I do see one problem, that water heater is going to turn into a giant pile of rust in a very short time. Even if you have sealed off the area. no matter what it going to get wet in that space. I was looking around the interior and it looks like you have gutted everything ou...

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Guy's, The car that was flipped over after the RED SOX won the series was done by a group of teenagers. The driver came out in the morning to go work and the car was gone, It was a lease car. A fund was started by some of the neighbors and by that night he had the $2,500 needed to release another ca...

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Bruce, Thanks for the offer to help, I have been connected with the top doc in Boston for revision surgery. Bruce, Do you need a good table saw it's free just come and pick it up. Dug and the rest of the Sox fans it was a good year especially after last years disaster 93 losses and a lot of dissenti...

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Bruce, I agree with your analogy, you can fall asleep and not miss much. Looks like they are going to win it tonight 6 to 0 in the 6th inning. Looks like I am going to have to move back to Boston area to have the 4th knee installed nobody here in South Florida is up for doing it. House, boat and eve...

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Steve, I used Attwood 4" blowers that are mounted under the side deck near the stainless steel scoops (one facing forward and one facing aft). Used 4" plastic and wire flex hose I got at Chapman's Marine Supply here in Stuart. Forward facing scoop is for fresh air that leads all the way down under t...

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