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Ugh...a long solid coupling. Almost too long to be standard unless you have a double-tapered shaft...although the set screws would be the oddball. But maybe used to secure the nut. In either case, those screws need to be backed off. Good eye Carl, it is a double tapered shaft. The flange separated ...

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Micky-Very happy for you that the odyssey looks to be coming to a happy end, you deserve a stretch of blue skys and calm seas. Any idea what caused the buildup?

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Thanks for the good advice, especially for the warning about shaft pullers damaging the transmission. I applied Blaster then heat today and plan to do 2-3 more cycles of that for best chance of a smooth extraction. It looks pretty clean for having been living under the cockpit for 20 years. http://i...

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The compression collar on my starboard shaft needs to be replaced when I haul the boat in a couple weeks. It will take about 12" clearance to remove the old collar and slide on the new one. This will be a first time for me. Is there enough clearance between the shaft and the rudder to do this withou...

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But when I started adding up all the costs, engines, paint, divorce, land transport, electronics, etc.. it didn’t look like such a good deal. Very funny Danny. Less expensive than paint or engines, more than land transport or electronics. Have you been through this process before that you know the ...

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Yannis asked "Holding tank Im not familiar with, what is the law up there? I understand that if you are at anchor in a secluded area it shouldn't be a problem, if you're in a marina you can use the bathrooms/showers, no?" I believe US law prohibits pumping raw sewage within 3 miles of shore. Individ...

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Hello TwoCoconuts-I hope you found some of the answers you were looking for when you posted on the forum. Some topics like your engine question take off like a rocket. Try asking for engine oil recommendations if you really want to generate a response. My discussion with Yannis on marine heads and h...

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Yannis 12v refrigerators are out there but I don't think they are efficient enough yet for our needs up here even with a solar panel. We have reasonable sun but not close to yours. I agree, we are always thinking of our ice status which is the crunch point That and the holding tank. We managed to co...

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It is a very nice platform for... day trips. Steve may have more elevated expectations for accommodations than some of the rest of us. Amberjack is a 31FBC and we spent 5 weeks aboard last summer. Four weeks at a stretch in British Columbia and another 3 long weekends around Puget Sound. Sure, it w...

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Tony, he doesn’t sound as though he would have been much support for your boat anyway with what must have been a huge hangover.

I’ve had a few wild nights out myself. Glad those days are behind me except for the scars from a couple of them.

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It’s your boat do it your way. We all use our boats differently. Plumbing in a head means plumbing in a holding tank. Holding tanks need a deck pump out fitting and an on board T-12 bypass. It’s a lot to squeeze under the cabin sole of a Bertram so it’s a commitment. If your wife is OK with a porta...

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Tony- MarineTex will work well on chips, gouges and fastener holes, anything with some dimension. Doubt it would work on crazing or cracks, it’s too thick.

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She will still come up to a great shine with some elbow grease. The issue I have is the crazing on the Fly Bridge. I have a spot or two that have some spots where the chicklets have popped out. Pretty soon that will expand. Tony, I'm with you. I buff out with light rubbing compound and then wax Amb...

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I will second Raleigh's warning and add a note to beware of freezing. The front edge of this thing came through the Pacific NW on Monday night. Two days of snow and freeze in the mid-20"s. Then the bottom dropped out last night. 18F at my house this morning, not much higher now and a steady breeze b...

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I'm not so easily offended Doug. Ah well, Carl you're right of course. Scots ancestory and native New England crustiness briefly broke through my acquired Pacific Northwest geniality. Its hard for me to see someone splash out so much on something with no definable purpose. I agree, it would be fun ...

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This boat offends me in so many ways. its homely it probably handles like a log with a motor stuck on one end only twin beds in a 67' boat? too clumsy to use for "howdy" boating around the marinas too clumsy for any meaningful fishing and oh yes, the fuel consumption The 36 hours the original owner ...

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Amberjack is the last boat just visible to the left during the Seattle Yacht Club fire 21 years ago.

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Are the injectors on that engine good?

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I’m thinking of replacing these strainers with one like the Groco ASC-1250 which has an access door so that I can clean it out. Any thoughts? Peter-I replaced my Groco internal strainers with Groco external strainers in 2017 and they have performed well, i.e. I hardly pay any attention to them. Min...

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Should that happen. I know the paint is not made to be submerged, but should that really cause an issue? Amberjack's cockpit was refinished with Awlgrip paint in 2004. The care and maintenance instructions said to avoid leaving wet items such as lines, fabric, etc. on the paint long term, possibly ...

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finding a one stop shop that wont take 1+ years to complete the boat is going to be tough. Cosmetics, wiring, repower, testing, final fit and finish- these things just consume large amounts of time and effort. At the other end of the spectrum you could do it my way, one project at a time over the c...

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Next week AJ moves into the lake to try the fall Lake Washington Coho run. More on that later. I was walking down the dock at SYC last fall and talked with someone carrying 4 nice Coho salmon, probably 6-8 lbs each. When asked about them he said they came from Lake Washington just around the corner...

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I’ve had ‘’em for 5 years, like ‘em. I especially like being able to see my through hull valves now the old Grocos are gone. Engines run at temp, water flow is not an issue. I did toe mine in per Capt Patrick’s illustration. That guy had an eerie understanding of Bertram 31s. The strainers will not ...

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Appalling images out of Florida, houses gone and lives ruined. Down on the ground the amount of human misery must be unbearable. Looking solely at the marine damage Florida has developed an unsustainable situation. Thousands of boats including many substantial boats were wrecked and will have to be ...

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We have come a long way to just have this discussion. When I was a child my parents took me to a shoe store which was showing off its new foot sizing machine. The salesman turned it on and had me place my foot in the slot. Looking on the screen we could see the bones in my foot. It was an early prim...

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Over the years more and more boats, fewer marine haul out facilities. Some may have been ignorance or attempted insurance fraud but I bet most couldn't get a haul scheduled, just put the family in the car and drove away.

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Clarence-How long have you had the boat? If it’s fairly new to you I’d recommend tuning it up and using it for a while before taking on any major changes. Perceptions change after living the life of a B31 for a season or two. I’m a big fan of ice boxes. We have a diesel range where most have refrige...

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if you 31 plows water like that at any speed bring it back to the shop and start all over!!!! the money is in the iron so they used a Chinese knock off diesel they were better off with modern mercruiser gas engines for a day boat. Bob, I agree that boat is plowing (what a great descriptor, I'll hav...

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I'm looking at the boat and thinking "Wait a minute, my wife and I just spent a month living in a boat that size. How the heck did we do that?"

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I thought this thread had drifted a bit off topic and was probably over and done but .... Randy and I took Amberjack over to Port Madison for three days last week for an end of the season, get the cruising bug out of our systems. It was enjoyable but I'm happy to get back to an adult size bed and ou...

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Ah well, that's NY (and NJ) for you......

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We have the best country in spite of our government. Carl, I'll second that. We have a wonderful country especially when you look around the rest of the world. My younger son spent 4 years in the Middle East with the USMC. He says most Americans don't know how good we have it: the Post Office works...

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This was not the easiest job for sure. I bought it from Danny at high tide and had the corners and bow pre bent. The bow fit ok but corners were unusable i had to cut and miter them thankfully i had enough material to do it. The rail didn’t fit to the boat it wasn’t deep enough i had to grind the w...

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Stephan-What brand are your rod holders?

Stephan wrote: ↑Aug 11th, '22, 09:53

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Rawleigh-I probably have the same seats. Mine have worn some but the structural metal parts don't look as though they would either wear enough or bend to affect seat back angle. Take a look at the wood underside and back to be sure they haven't deteriorated and make sure the fasteners holding the me...

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PRICE RELIEF! We paid $5.04/gal at Friday Harbor Tuesday on the way back down. Interesting boating patterns. The US San Juan and southern BC docks had more mid-sized boats, maybe owned by people who paid attention to fuel costs. Further north in BC the boats were larger and newer. My theory is that...

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Cam you are correct, it is a 74. It hasn't changed my feelings about it. Carl you should do a web search about NW logging if you really want your knees to wobble. Those guys took incredible risks. I lived among loggers in the early 70's when logging was booming in the Washington Cascade mountains. L...

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And also explain springboards for them.

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Not fair Rocket! That question was for East Coast (and Med guys). Any kid growing up in BC would have had a dozen of these first growth logging stumped in their backyard. Now you should explain “Swedish misery whip”.

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We crossed back into the US this morning after two weeks in British Columbia. It was a beautiful calm sunny morning in the middle of Boundary Pass while we conducted our business, including large commercial Ming Yang container vessel, USCG helicopter overflight while I was online with USCBP Roam, an...

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Jack-If you decide to stick with incandescent bulbs be careful about sizing. Years ago when replacing mine I decided more was better and installed higher wattage bulbs. Turned them on and left them for a systems check. About 30 minutes later I happened to put my hand on the bow chock and it was HOT ...

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Yes, sweet lines that make you pause when walking away to look back and admire your boat.

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Carl wrote: ↑Jul 21st, '22, 11:06
Luckily most places bugs are not an issue...but when they are it can make for a miserable experience.

Carl, out here once you get north of the border they are blood thirsty. Probably used to dealing with bears and elk

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Return to an old thread. I think I’ve figured out my mosquito netting. The foredeck hatch has been in place for a few years and is working as intended. The images show the hatch partially raised. And the net will allow it to be fully raised. http://i.imgur.com/0W7goDYh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/PDVGzjc...

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Who knows?

And at the moment I really don’t care….

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Sticker shock when I fueled up in Seattle, $7.10 gal at the Marina. He has a monopoly on the Seattle salt waterfront. Relief at Friday Harbor in the San Juan’s where it was $5.60 gal even though they have to truck it in on the ferries. That place still has vestiges of a working waterfront and has al...

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Rick, I thought she was angry with you! Very funny.

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At least you have clarity. This wasn't a well intentioned but incompetent mechanic, this guy was a crook who intended to defraud you from the get go.

I am impressed the engines ran at all! Yanmar 315's are tougher than I thought.

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It is common for us to have people from larger boats walk by Amberjack at the dock and comment "if they had it to do all over again they would go our way". Big boat regret. Of course they're not sleeping on a Bertram 31. The picture is a Seattle Yacht Club dock in British Columbia. It has become an ...

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