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Yannis,

You’ll be in my prayers. So sad to lose your mom and have your dad struggling.

My condolences for your mother, and hope for your father.

Best wishes on your Covid recovery.

DanielM

Glad he caught it early. I know it’s brutal, but is seems there is so much more they can do with cancer these days if it’s caught early. Prayers his way.

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Looks great. (And looks like a crazy amount of work) glad it’s going your way. Best of luck with your family members health.

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LOL, Need to keep those cost estimates accurate guys. Amberjack, No I haven’t priced out all the options, just listed them arbitrarily. My sweet bride has put up with my boat silliness for 42 years and counting. Mostly she’s pretty good natured with the broke-azz boats I drag up at my shop out in th...

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There was a free Bertram 42 with no engines listed on The Hull Truth classified last week. Over in Galveston Tx. Once they get past a certain point it gets hard to resurrect them. The fellow that posted it mentioned specifically that he just hated to see another Bertram crushed up in a roll-off box....

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Hate to hear that Bruce. Glad you are on the mend. We just don’t bounce as well as we did when we were young!

Best of luck with the recovery.

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BTW there haven’t been any of those custom parts sold since Capt. Pat passed so I'm pretty sure they’re not for sale anymore. But they’re good visuals for ideas as folks are looking for improvements.

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Seahorse, Welcome to the board. Good luck with the “Reel Cowboy” IIRC I think John told me once that the transom kill box was pulled from a Bertram 42 that had been an insurance salvage. I may be misremembering but that’s the story I recall. I know it was a pretty good sized one as I remember, took ...

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Saltysato,

12016 Colony Avenue
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33410

That's the address I used in Oct last year and it worked.

Bruce will probably come in and let us know for sure, but it was a good address relatively recently.

Thanks for reminding folks to support the sand box and help Bruce out.

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I talked with Greg about 2 years ago and he sent me some pictures. It is astounding how well the lines on his boat turned out as an express. The lines of the tower really complement the way he set it up. It’s a sweet boat. Glad he’s getting close, these things are a labor of love for sure. Tell him ...

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Tony, I think my pushing the envelop days are behind me. If this were to work out it would be a little diving, a little fishing, and mostly cruising/pleasure boating. (Howdy boating) The only heavy seas I would be in would be if I missed the forecast and I was hitting it hard to get back to port. I’...

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Yannis, From what I have read, boat modifications are just an easy equation of time, money, and patience. If you’re short on one better be long on the other two. Go for it! lol. The little port day bed/settee looks pretty handy but on my boat it would wind up being a place for odds and ends to wind ...

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Thanks Tony. That’s what I thought. I was a little worried if they might have made a manufacturing change on either the 35 or 38 in the eighties and started coring on those models but I guess not. I’m looking at a couple eighties model boats (a 35 and a 38) and was wondering if they had any of those...

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Guys, I know this is an old thread but I thought it would be a good place to ask a question and document the responses. I know the B37 was cored below the water line, I’m quite sure the 70-76 wide body B38s were solid fiberglass below the water line. (Please correct me if I’m wrong) What about the B...

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I thought it was just because people wanted to sport one of those cool “Best Boat ever Built” license plate frames…

A well-built, good looking boat, with a heck of a legacy. 50+ year old boats that clean up nice and hold value. Pretty wild.

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Well now that this thread has taken an unexpected turn I guess I’ll weight in. I used to mess with those old Mustangs for years. I love a faithfully restored original car. But I did one for my daughter 20 years ago when she was in high school. I tried to remain faithful to the original…but I did hav...

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As always my thoughts and prayers to any of the B31 fold that are in SW Fl. I don’t know how many folks from the board are down there but keep them in your thoughts.

Have any of you NE guys heard from Brewster? I know he took the Cormorant Princess to Naples a few years back. Hope he’s doing ok.

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This is going to make a tough situation worse in regard to boat insurance. Especially for older boats. I looked at a B38 a couple years ago that was dang near free (~10k) with running 3208s in South Carolina. Insurance and (mostly) transport killed the deal. Boat US and Geico had completely exited t...

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Hueso,

Our thoughts are with you, Mickey and our PR brethren. As any of us who have been through it can attest. It sucks at best. I can’t imagine on an island with the infrastructure issues you have to deal with.

Best of luck sir.

Daniel

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Congratulations. The boat looks great and the family happy. Had to feel great after 5 years.

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10 years. Wow that’s hard to believe. I learned a lot from his comments. Being a southern boy with some acreage out in the county, “Burn at night” was one of my favorites.

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Looking forward to seeing her splash! She looks beautiful.

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Pete, Sorry to hear about your wife’s accident. Just terrible, hope she is doing somewhat better. The boat looks great. The work from Raybo is awesome. With all the pictures you and the other guys put up on the board it sure makes the B31 board the ‘go to’ tutorial on how to redo a boat well. So man...

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Bob,

I tried to send you a PM a couple days ago but it never left my outbox. I must be doing something wrong.

Just wanted to let you know your wife and you are in my thoughts and prayers.

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Bob, The love, respect and support you have shown your wife through her illness the last few years, as well as over your lifetime together has always been evident on this board when you speak of her. A testament to the relationship you two share. As always my thoughts and prayers for you and your wi...

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Bob, Your boat is one of the ones I remember well from when I went to the Greenport rendezvous several years ago. It is certainly a beautiful, purpose built boat that suits your family. On the other end of the spectrum, many, many years ago I was diving on my buddy’s center console out in the GOM. H...

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Geebert, Congratulations on your B31 purchase. You’ve picked up a true classic. Good luck. Now the fun starts! I had to weigh in on the CC30 comments. I’ve had a CC30 tournament sportfish up on blocks in the shop for years. Back when I had it running one of my friends who owns a B31 and runs his B31...

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We ate some on an excursion in Belize. I’m sure the Belizeans(?) were laughing their asses off in the kitchen. “Can you believe the tourists ate that s**t!” (actually it was just another choice on the menu, I think a pretty common one. I figured what the heck) It was kind of scrawny, grilled on a sk...

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Tony, I’ve joked with my daughter for years about that being the plan for me. My shop/man cave has frontage on the creek down here. I told her to pick out any one of those old project boats I keep out there, build a pyre, and shove it down Oyster Creek on an outgoing tide. Lol. Surprising someone ac...

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Mike, that's the picture I remembered. Good looking boats.

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BTW on reread it looked like I might have been talking bad about Brew’s boat. Just the opposite. It was awesome, just not something that would strike anyone as a cocktail cruiser. Lol.

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Nothing wrong with a fishing boat. Used to be a guy named Brewster on here with a Bahia Mar, it was definitely a fish slaying machine, not so much a pretty boat. I was looking at it in Greenport and told him it reminded me of ‘Orca’ from jaws. He said he got that a bunch. The Carolina Reaper is pret...

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Or maybe a 25’ to round out the collection. Reminds me of a photo years ago with UVs 31 and 20 and Trey’s 25 “Bad Habit” tied up all in a row at the dock over in LA.

Rick that first picture of the B31 at the dock is awesome. The B31 is a pretty boat.

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That’s crazy looking. Sorry for the setback.

I remember the worry, we were shooting outside late in the afternoon when we did my boat 15 years ago. Down here it’s mostly humidity and bugs to worry about.

Good luck. The boat looks nice.

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Guys, I just figured I’d drop this in here in case anyone with 210’s are interested. A friend sent it to me as he knew I had been thinking about what to do with the Cummins on my Chris Craft TSF. So I don’t know much about it, but the action is tomorrow. I won’t be bidding on it. I’m covered up with...

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Jason,

Dang! Even the mundane parts of the boat are beautiful.

Awesome work sir.

Danny

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Yannis, it looked like a very good summer. Glad you had a good time.

To be honest, I never new sea urchins could be eaten. I must have led a sheltered life. Learn something new every day.

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So Sad, condolences to his family.

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Doug, I didn’t realize how much of an issue whale watching was in the PNW. We just got lucky in Cabo and saw them as we were fishing. Peter, It looks like Pancho the seal got up close and personal with you. We went out there to Cabo pretty regular for several years but haven’t been in quite some time.

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We had an Orca and her calf come up behind us once while we were trolling in Cabo San Lucas. They are amazing. And for someone that has spent a fair amount of time on the water, seeing them for the first time was awe inspiring…. Not so much for the captain and mate. They pretty quickly said “Have yo...

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Thanks Doug. A visual is always helpful.

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The only rub is there should be quite a bit of room cost wise between ‘better than new’ and ‘usable, non-sinking, fishing cabin boat’. While Todd’s 42 is beautiful, you should see what some folks are living on in Boot Key Florida. It would need to be sea worthy to get to where you want to go, but wo...

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Our thoughts and prayers are with you guys. I love the Gulf Coast but those storms can be devastating. Hoping for the best.

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Thanks for the info guys. I’ll pass it on to John, he’ll appreciate the feedback.

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Rick, You might look at Todd Pearce’s comments on this old string. Todd did an awesome 42 but he doesn’t advocate redoing one. Probably would be good to look through Todd’s other postings. Somewhere there is a link to his rebuild of that 42. It was a pretty awesome slide deck of pictures but I’m not...

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Gents, John Cranston asked me to post a question for him. John recently had a windlass installed on his B31 Bahia Mar and is looking at how much 5/16” chain and 5/8” 8-strand anchor line will fit in a standard(?) Bahia Mar anchor locker. I don’t know if there would be a difference between the Bahia ...

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Yep. Pull the plug. I went outside after a rainstorm years ago and my neighbors stern drive runabout was just about level full. I pulled the plug for him as soon as I saw it but it was too late. He wasn’t much of a boater anyway and that kind of got him out of boating. And the “twig in the rear drai...

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Peter. Good job on the homework on Buddy Boy/Gator Ray. The devil is in the details. I kayaked by that boat a few times when she was kept down in KCB in the middle keys. She was an awesome looking vessel at that time. At least with Eastwind you have many years’ experience with her. And you know your...

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Rick,

Did it look like this one?

http://bertram31.com/newbb/viewtopic.ph ... ilit=wahoo

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Condolences and prayers to Bob’s family. I know he’s has been around this site forever. Maybe from the beginning. Sad to hear.

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