This is a 1967, I bought out of St. Pete last summer. She will be my third chater vessel out of Ft Lauderdale. My family and I would like to thank everyone on this forum that helped me get to this point; this site has been great!
Well this is it till the final completion.
The next photos the NV will be all decked out with a Swordish or Sail in the cockpit.
I fished a lot on one (then the Boomer, now the Centurion) out of Venice, LA with 3208 naturals, 210 hp. She was a SF that they had put a rear bulkhead in so she had downstairs steering too. Easy 21-22 kt cruise and with the 2400# engines was like a battering ram, without a doubt the best riding B31 in a head sea I've ever been on. Don't remember the prop set up, but would guess something like 20x22 three blades thru 1.5 gears. My buddy's capt. broke a crankshaft on one of the 3208s reving it up in the slip, go figure.
My buddy sold it, bought the one I have now and I got her from him. The Centurion was eventually sold to Dr. Jordan who repowered her from the 3208s to 3116 300 Cats. Centurion got a pretty good whack in Katrina, but survived very well.
Good engines, just keep paint and a lot of Corrosion X on them, rust is a big issue, especially on the oil pans.
Nice looking family, your little boy will be running that B31 when you in a rocking chair. And that's what makes them so much fun, just knowing they are 'forever' boats.
I'm impressed with the freeboard, 4,500-5,000lbs of engines/gears, etc and the boats chines are not under. Nice. Plenty of surplus bouyancy in these hulls.
Scot
1969 Bertram 25 "Roly Poly"
she'll float one of these days.. no really it will :-0
Given the name of the boat, my guess is it is a little girl named Victoria or Nicole that he is holding. Funny, My wife's name is Nicole and I have a daughter named Victoria. I am indeed NVious of your fine looking 31