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I don't have any high quality pic right now, but I'll see what I can do shortly.

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Timmy: If you are going to do that maybe you need to keep the Detroits!!

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I've heard that some tanks had riveted in baffles. The rivets were covered with fiberglass and need to be ground out. The only one i have cut into has fiberglass baffles that are glassed in and bedded in putty at the top. You will need some sort of wire rope saw to cut through the baffles.

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Jp: I made mine out of 1x4 fir epoxied to the bottom of the deck so that it extended about 2" under the hatch. I used a bowl routing bit which has a flat bottom with radiused edges and a top bearing to rout the gutter using the inside of the hatch cutout as a guide. I epoxied and faired 3/4" pvc pip...

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Or threaten to go to whatever Bureaucracy regulates the insurance industry in your state and file a claim for bad faith refusal to settle a claim. Clearly there was evidence of impact and reason to look at the transmission!!

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If it makes you feel better you could glass in some plywood. just make sure it is fully encapulated! probably unnecessary though.

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Sounds like there was plenty of evidence of impact, just no damage as a result of it!!!

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That makes me embarassed of mine!! Absolutely beautiful!

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I use my docking lights while running at night all the time. They show up crab pot bouys and floating debris and don't hurt your night vision. Also they make you very easy to see, which is important with some of the yahoos on the water now!!

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And be careful of falsely listed parts on Ebay. They claim a lot of things are B31 parts that aren't, especially bow chocks.

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Sweet!!!

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JC: You shouldn't have to rely on the key for anything but rotational torque. The propeller should fully engage the taper and be pressed on by the nut even without the key in place! A properly fitted taper can produce enough friction, even with lubrication, that it actually absorbs some of the rotat...

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Scot makes a good point about whether the taper is correct or not. If it is just a little off the prop will move under power and destroy itself over time.

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I have mine outboard in the port engine box. I know its not waterproof, but 5 years ago when I bought it it was the best going. I hit it with CX occasioanlly and it seems just fine. I don't need to wash my engine boxes much, and when i do I'm just careful with the hose. I have had it charging the sa...

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I mounted my monitor on the back of the lower helm station seat. You can see it everytime you walk into the cabin. They also make a battery temp. monitor that automatically compensates for the battery temp.

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Yep, that was an ugly one!! Third bad storm of the Fall here! Beats a Hurricane though. Glad you are home safely.

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From memory, on my B31 they seem more like 12 x 14 or 15. They aren't that big!

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Congratulations! I caught my first Sail this year as well in Panama!

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Walter, its a Private message

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Good to hear from you Roland!!

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True, thanks Scot. My grandfather built wooden boat and I love the idea of them, but I can't live with them.

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They have seams between them like a conventional teak deck has, and the hull is plywood.

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I was going to do Mussell Buster last year but ran out of time. Maybe next year!! I'm all for this type of treatment. So far nothing else works. I haven't tried UV's Max wax yet, but I will put that on the rest of my running gear.

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Scot: You really cn't put that much solid wood together without it selfdestructing. Too much expansion and contraction.

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Those are short hoses that run to the blige water pickup (intake) screens, for running the engines off of bilge water in the event of a big leak, and are not plumbed to the outside of the hull. There is something missing though, that got finished after the pictures were taken- was wondering if anyo...

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Glad to hear it Terry!!!

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I emailed some pics to you scot.

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Scot: I used 3/4" plywood. The drip gutters are 3/4" fir epoxied to the main deck and then routed with a bowl router bit which had a 3/4" flat bottom profile with a 1/4" radius on the edge and a top guide bearing. It followed the profile of the hatch exactly and worked very well. The only change I w...

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Here comes da' Judge (again)!!! Congratulations!!!

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Blue Seas makes great products! I use their battery switches and bus bars all the time.

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I did my own because Cabrerra hadn't come out with (or I didn't know about) their big hatch decks at the time. I built it out of marine fir plywood epoxied on all 6 sides. I used a template and 1/4" carbide spiral router bits to cut out the hatches. That way I was able to use the cutout as the hatch...

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I hear it shrinks and cracks open when it dries!!!

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I've thought about closing off my cabin bilge, but I agree with Mike about the water concentration. If anything happened to the bilge pump between the engines, or if you take a lot of water over the transom, it will tend to lower the stern instead of running amidship. That can lower the scuppers to ...

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Thanks! How are you terminating it? Do you make copper solder on connecters to bolt to the strip or are you somehow soldering the mesh directly to the strap?

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I also have a similar setup to what Scot has. I use a Groco ball valve Safety seacock with the port built in. It is also downstream of the strainer. It is one of the best built pieces of boating equipment I have seen!! It even makes Apollo call valves seem cheesy!!! Smooth and easy to operate! I am ...

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Dave: Where did you get the braided copper and fittings for it?

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Kevin: Gravity doesn't break or run the batteries down!! I have two Rule 2000's - one front and one rear, and a Rule 3700 up front with the switch set higher that the switch for the 2000. I don't know of any way to automatically dry out the bilge. You can use a small shopvac to dry it out when you l...

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And no pics of the engines!!

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I was able to carefully port all of mine together and dump them through a thru hull in the transom.

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If you split it at the transom it shouldn't be that hot.

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I'll fetch beers!!!

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Congratulations on you acceptance. I'm not an expert, but I don't see why you couldn't split the exhaust. Two 3" would be too small, but I would think two 4" would work. The experts will be along soon to give you some meaningful advice though!!

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Marine clean from POR15.com is the best cleaner I have found. It leaves no petroleum residue and leaves it squeky clean!! A 5 to 1 mix of water to cleaner works well. It is better if the water is hot. I was thinking about using their POR15 primer followed by their tank sealer. Their products are ver...

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Usually a good machinist can straighten it , but you want someone who has the right equipment and experience.

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I don't know them, but their prices sure look good!!

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It hought you could get those rebuilt a lot of different places! I know mine were rebuilt by Hale Marine in Warsaw, Virginia.

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Those are the cutlass bearings. There should be no side to side or up and down play in them. Depending on the shaft size you are going to, you may be able to use thin wall bearings.

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Dang, even the sharks are doing it!!!!

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