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John F.

Good friend has a Valhalla 33 with a seakeeper. I'm a KISS guy, especially on boats, and to me it's one of the greatest boat inventions of all time. Just incredible. Works great on the drift and underway. And his is quiet. If I had the $ for a 35 (don't and never will), it'd be the first thing I'd g...

John F.

I had carb'd 454s in my old B31 the Anna E. I replaced both of the old and problematic (mine were) Mercruiser Thunderbolt Ignitions with electronic ignition systems from EBasic Power They were a lot cheaper then, and used a basic coil, Except for one coil going bad after a few years--motor wouldn't ...

John F.

Beautiful work

John F.

Now I’m totally lost is “cero”, zero in Spanish or a Chesapeake naval term. I thought they were those sugary things you get at a carvinal. I thought cero were mackerel. Patnovic at Whorton Creek did a B31 with prop tunnels, big Yanmars, and a full tower. It was supposed to be pretty fast. I saw the...

John F.

Outstanding

John F.

ktm_2000 wrote: ↑Apr 23rd, '21, 07:12 Snipe's work is amazing, I'd love to get to that level but I don't think it is in the cards any time soon.

Same. Beautiful work.

John F.

Beautiful. You clearly have a lot of talent. Congratulations

John F.

There's a decent B31 with Yanmar 240s on THT. Lots of recent work at Worton Creek--they do good work. The boat is listed at $75K as I remember. I have no interest in the boat at all--either as a buyer or seller, and know nothing about it except the ad. And I went to the KI Boat Show this weekend. I ...

John F.

I assumed that the fuel burn was per motor. Is it combined? It its combined and the speed is on knts, then your 25 knt example is 2.7 nmpg. That's incredible. If it is per motor, still good

John F.

I'd really like side scan. I just couldn't find a place to mount the transom mount where it held bottom at anything above planing speed. The B20 has lots of strakes that are close together. The shoot thru holds up to 30 knts consistently. I'm going to see if I can get a shoot thru/thu hull and side ...

John F.

The screen on my old Garmin on my B20 is unreadable. I wanted to get a new FF last spring, but COVID, and when I could go to stores to try them out I found that almost nothing was in stock. The Annapolis/KI boat show is this weekend, and I'm planning on getting a new FF for the B20. I fish in the Ch...

John F.

Looks nasty. Get well soon.

John F.

We ran a boat from Nanaimo to Seattle. What an incredible place to run a boat. Enjoy the season, and your B31 looks great

John F.

Airmar makes a mushroom style transducer. It sits flush to the hull. No need to build a box. https://www.airmar.com/productdescription.html?id=11 All you need is a hole saw. The one I have in I used a 4 inch hole saw. A little nerve wracking, but easy. For our boats you need the one that is on a 20...

John F.

The FB stanchions are 39 1/2” apart (far port to port ladder) and the port stanchion is 8 1/2” in...not 4”

John F.

The ladder is about 14 1/4" wide, measurement from tubes on center. The ladder tubes are about 7/8" OD stainless. From the inside edge of the starboard edge thing (the gunnel part that's part of the hull that the wing panel bolts up to) to the outside outside edge of the starboard ladder tube is 17"...

John F.

Do you want dimensions for the rails that came with a B31?

John F.

Crows Nest has DD 8.2s, and to get them to fit the engine boxes were lengthened about 11" and the bulkhead was mostly cut away. She's been that way for way more than 20 years and is fine so I don't know how much that bulkhead does structurally. The part in front of the tank is intact. I replaced tha...

John F.

Pretty boat. Bring a boat to a yard and have a top-notch refit done on a B31 and I'm pretty sure that you'll be close to that number and waiting a year or two for it to be completed. Good luck to the seller and way out of my league, but yeah, that's a lot.

John F.

Looks great to me.

John F.

Nice work and your boat looks great.

John F.

My DD 8.2s are over the road motors marinized by J&T--referred to by Capt. Pat as "junk and trash." They have dry turbos and exhaust blankets. The turbos are mounted high on the motors (like most) and are thus right under the engine box. The turbos get pretty hot, but you can put your hand on the bl...

John F.

They make nice stuff:

http://www.ssicustomplastics.com/servic ... k-holders/

John F.

I'm generally not a fan of B31s with outboards, but that boat looked pretty great scooting through the inlet. My first ride on a B31 was out of Barnegat inlet around 1982 on my friend's dad's B31. It blew up while we were out, and according to the radio the inlet was 10-12s or something like that. H...

John F.

Looks great. Beautiful work

John F.

Todd

Wow. Your B42 looks amazing and it looks like you a as bd yours are really enjoying her. That’s great

John

John F.

Tony Meola wrote: ↑Feb 10th, '21, 21:24 That is amazing.

Sure is. Looks perfect on a B31. Wow.

John F.

Doug had new shafts made, maybe out of A22 or something. As I remember, prop/shaft guy told him that the 1 3/8s were right on the edge, but on the right side of the edge. Again, I run the boat easy, and her offshore days are over. When Doug had her, she fished some offshore including tourneys (SJ Sh...

John F.

When Doug got Crows Nest about 20 years ago, she had freshly rebuilt 8.2s at 300 hp and what he thought were 1 1/2” shafts. He bought a set of 4-blades from UV (I still have them) that are for 1 1/2” shafts. As I remember, he found that Crows Nest has 1 3/8s at that time. She’ll run up to 3150 plus ...

John F.

my 210s after a boat diet and some prop play cruise at 23kts at 2200 rpm 25 at 2400 its doable for sure Great numbers. Crows Nest has 300 hp DDs 8.2s with 5" exhaust and 1 3/8" A22 shafts (yeah, I know. She came that way and has been like that for more than 20 years). The 210/220 cummins sound grea...

John F.

I just fished on a friend's Valhalla 33 (awesome boat) that has a faux teak toe rail. It looked perfect. I have no idea how it's made, but it looked great.

John F.

Really nice work. Congratulations

John F.

Nicely done. Very, very nice

John F.

Just an idea:

http://bertram31.com/newbb/viewtopic.ph ... ck#p100169

John F.

Everything on your list, except the wiring, is optional. I'd take care of the wiring first. I took out a 5 gallon bucket of wiring to nowhere out of both my 31s when I got them. Once the old dead wiring was out, I just needed to replace some and fix others to make the boats safe. So, I'd take care o...

John F.

I used mahogany that's bigger dimensionally than what was in there, saturated with West and through bolted with stainless and nylon lock nuts. It looks like new after 7 years or so. There's a place about 20 minutes from where I live where I can get virtually any type of hardwood, and get it cut. Its...

John F.

I'd like 2 also. Thanks

John F.

Carl/Tony-

After reading your posts, I figured that since I've f'glassed up a few thru-hulls, I could do this. I'm just about done. Saved me some $$.

Thanks-

John

John F.

Very cool. I've repurposed some of the old mahogany to new boat parts, but nothing that cool. Awesome.

John F.

I'm doing a little work on the starboard exhaust of Crows Nest. Its 5' exhaust with a Centek muffler, and the way it was done a few decades ago one, the hose coming off the motor is a little long and creates a dip in the exhaust at the front of the 90 that goes to a hose that goes to the muffler. It...

John F.

I'm with Carl. Just take it to a local radiator shop. If they're near the water, they've done marine heat exchangers. That way you know where you are on descaling and pressure testing.

John F.

Congratulations.

John F.

Really nice work on the exhaust, deck and rudder shelf. Looks great and built to last

John F.

Congratulations

John F.

Brain fart. It was Friday Harbor. Neat place. I'd really like to get back there.

John F.

I helped a friend move a boat from Nanaimo to Seattle, where the boat got loaded on a barge to Hawaii. We spent the night in St Johns Harbor. What an incredibly beautiful place to boat. Must be fantastic. Enjoy, thanks for the pics, and for jarring a nice memory.

John

John F.

I used a local company in Annapolis. Maritime Plastics. Hopefully there's a local or semi local place that fabricates plastic stuff by you. Try calling a local boat builder like Northcoast. Maybe they'll know

John F.

I agree with Bruce that your better off with composite. That said, I built the center console for my 20 out of marine ply. Saturated inside and out with epoxy (2 thinned costs and 2 full strength), glasses seams inside and out, and a layer of cloth on the outside. Then, fair over the cloth and paint...

John F.

Paint in place. Removing may involve cutting the shaft and new shafts and couplings. Or not, but why get into it

John F.

Matt

Thanks so much for your work here. And Tony, well said.

John

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