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In Memory of Vicroy

Sorta like some folks arond here do, have 6 boat trailers and one license plate? Works for me.

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Ditto the pump shotgun, the sound of chambering a round is well know to the Home Invasion Union members. Personally, in addition to the pump loaded with 00 Buckshot, I carry a Ruger Redhawk .44 magnum stainless revolver with an 8" barrel. It is a very BIG gun, so big & shiny that the dumbest dopehea...

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Bob - Try Midnight Auto Supply.....they may need a night or two lead time.

yo' Fren'

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The hoses are the perfect example. Also use of banjo fittings and rigid hi carbon steel tubing for low pressure fuel lines instead of flex lines - they cracked all the time. And did I mention stuff fell off the motors like a long-haried dog getting out of the water? Mine slung parts all over the pla...

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The weight of the Volvo diesels (something like 1,100# a side) put the scuppers about 5" underwater at rest. I had to repaint the waterline to match. It was self-sinking. Squatted pretty badly even with large trim tabs so I added the plastic Doel-Fins to the outdrives and that made a huge improvment...

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Roger that on the 25s....I had a 1972 that I ran for 17 years. Came with 165 Mercruisers which, other than they were sea water cooled and rusted away pretty quickly, were fine engines. In 1984 I took drunk and spent a huge sum and installed Volvo TAMD 30 diesels with duo prop outdrives. A total dias...

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than feed it melted butter......

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Sometime in the 70s I was towing mine on the trailer behind my metal flake green Lincoln Mark IV down the newly opened Interstate 12 east of here doing a steady 95....when the winch rope broke and it launched a huge back flip about 50 fee in the air...came down on its side and bounced about 25 feet ...

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Stick with the Whaler Bruce. The Carolinas tend to de-laminate if you beat them around. There are two in my camp neighborhood that have done that. And they have next to zero resale value. The little Whaler rides just like an ironing board. The trick is to get the water out of the foam core. You can ...

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First you make a roux.....

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Cam, she's a "modern" version. Mine had the blue interior, since painted white, and years ago I ditched the old vinyl rub rail and installed the "new" two pc. one. I paid $600 for her new in 1962 with no motor. The 30 Nissan (probably the 5 th motor on her) was manual start and did fine for years......

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Harry - the ZF IRM 220As are one of the few gears that have exactly the same ratio in both forward & reverse so no need to have the props different.

We know some s**t, huh?

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I average 1.3 nautical mpg in my 31 FBC with 250 6BTA Cummins cruising 24 kts at 2400 rpm.

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For all y'all that pitched in to help me through the intermittent misfiring, it turned out to be a bad "power pack", i.e. the $290 electronic ignition module. Rather than blindly start changing expensive parts, I found a Nissan dealer not too far away and they had the right tools & meters to test pr...

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Like Walter I had the Judson flasher on my B25 when it had gas motors and it worked great. I'm assuming the one Capt. Patrcik shows works on the same principle. As I recall it is counting the ignition pulses. Judson used to make one for diesels that needed a separate sender on the engine to create t...

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In the dim past me & the Bride took our two kids to DC for the 4th of July week, one of the highlights of which was to watch the Beach Boys perform at the Washington Monument on the night of the 4th with the fireworks......we y'all may remember Nancy Regan hated the Beach Boys and made the park serv...

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Thanks, I'll take a look. Sounds like what I need. Sorry for the hijack, back to the gauges......

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Thankis Mikey. To confirm, they are single lever, right, both shift & throttle in one lever? And how do you disengage the shifts to run the motors up in neutral? Pull the lever out? Push a button?

Got a model # for them so I can look 'em up? I plan to go with the super duper cables too.

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And remembrer, one gear is always running in reverse. On my Cummins 6BTAs, the port ZF is running in reverse to acheive the counter rotating we want. Some gas motors actually run "backwards" so one gear doesn't have to run in reverse. I'm told ZFs have the same gear ratio (mine are 1.53:1) in both f...

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Every marine gear I've ever owned made some sort of noise sooner or later. My B31 has ZF IRM 220As behind the 6BTA Cummins and one rattles like hell at idle but it goes away at 800 rpm....its the clutch plates and on the ZFs its just one of those "live with it" deals. I know zilch about the velvet d...

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Mikey - slick. Are those single lever controls? If so, what brand & how do you like them? I have the double lever and one side works pretty good but the other is jerky. As you may recall, both of my controls (one for gears and the other for the throttles) are mounted on the stb. side of the wheel an...

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The original plastic Cummins panels that came with my engines in 1991 got eaten up by the sun and one of the Faithful gave me a pair he had taken the gauges out of to mount them individually, so I just took the gauges out of the old crappy ones and re mounted. Big job tho, not near as easy as it sou...

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Indeed you do Prof....and to show how mean we are, me & the Bride are heading to South Beach tomorrow for a week at an anti-Q show. I had to promise her I would not wear a TSL or UVI t-shirt in public for a whole week. I lied tho, have a couple of them stuffed away in my carry-on. A fella can't sit ...

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Patrick is gonna kill me for saying this.....but when I got my rudders from him they were so pretty I decided to polish them vs. painting them. I took a 4" side grinder with some 120 grit and put a helluva shine on 'em, then used steel wool to get 'em even slicker. Patrick told me I was nuts, he had...

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I owned a 40 foot Concorde FBC with 454s (which at the time I think was made by Owens?) that was without a doubt the worst glass boat ever built. Total garbage from stem to stern. Workmanship of 4 year olds. I traded some swamp property for it then sold it to some guys who allegedly used it to run d...

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Remind me to tell you guys the famous Port Eads 10 ton bottle jack story about my late friend Calhoun The Coonass.

Gotta run to a grandkid's birthday deal.

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Ouch, Randy.......were you on a ladder? Yo Fren' Sim - no question Paul's house on Staten Island was bugged, the discrepency between the book by the two agents and Sammy's account of it was how it was done. The Agents' book said one of Paul's relatives inadvertently let the agents into the house and...

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He was right Randy, never seen anyone better with a sharp object than you. I will track down the book, thanks. I'd aleady read the one by the two former FBI agents who claim to have planted the bug in Paul Castallano's kitchen table lamp, but "The Underboss", which is mostly Sammy The Bull's own wor...

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Perfectly put. Can't remember if it was on this site years ago or somewhere else, but there was a guy in Kona who had a B31 with 6B Cummins that was a fish catchin' monster. All of a sudden it quit raising fish. Long story short, turns out one of the engines had something loose in it, a sleeve maybe...

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Its pretty hard to argue with the B31 as one of the top fish raising boats ever produced....in fact, probably THE top production fish raiser. There are some obvious reasons starting with the sheer simplicity of the boat and the fact its easy to keep running with no gimmick crap. And the hull is seaw...

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"The Underboss" about Sammy The Bull and his life in the mob is really a helluva read. I never realized that it was against the "rules" to kill each other with bombs. No car bombs allowed. Also, for many years no dope dealing allowed, penalty for dope dealing was death. Guess they got greedy. Where ...

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Our Dear Leader has doubled down on Green Energy, no fuel stops.

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Pete - I'm almost thru reading "The Underboss" so I've learned some of this mob-ese already.....but remind me if we ever meet to keep my back to the wall.......and never speaka into da table lamp......

yo Fren'

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Well, being easily entertained, I just pried out the rubber plug, filled up an old syringe with power steering fluid and filled the jack to the top of the hole where the plug was. Popped the plug back in and the damn thing works like new. I'll be sure to sore it upright tho.....maybe laying on its s...

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Who got the turtle? I know a recipe for turtle soup that uses 40 different ingreients. It's from Tommy's restaurant in New Orleans and worth the trip. I've spent more than my share of time pushing stuck flat boats thru gummy mud chasin' fish & ducks. Y'all can take over my turn now. Fathoms, not inc...

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I've had the best luck with strataglass, but be sure to use their lube & polish, and never roll it up when its real cold.....and I had my canvas guy made the "hngner straps" out of solf lined fleece lined stuf to keep from scratching the rolled up vinyl. Part of my hi dollar suite of the Swiss fabri...

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We all learned about it from da Judge - Judge Trey Dibrell, one of the original Faithful who's also an aviation A&P. The stuff was originally developed for the aviation industry and in wide use there before it became available to the general public. I did send Tony a few cans and he seems to like it...

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Well, glory be....the offending jack does in fact have a black rubber plug pressed into the side of the barrel that I guess can be easily pried out and since I have a box of old syringes (one of the few advantages of spending a lot of time in the hospital, you get to steal shit right & left) I'll tr...

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Roger that Faithful, its gonna find a new life as a blowboat anchor.....or a door stop?

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I've got a couple of old hyd. bottle jacks and one appears out of oil and won't pump up. Where do you put in the oil? Unscrew the little valve you turn to raise & lower it, or try to unscrew the large hex nut at the top around the piston? And I assume any sort of ATF oil would do okay? We are talkin...

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Steve - sorta like jaywalking and getting hit by an ambulance a block from the hospital?

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All too flat chested for my eye....must be a yankee thing.

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Lots of interesting features. Very pretty boat. Would probably sell for a litle over half the asking price. Now why would anyone buy a center console with 2/3/4 gas guzzling oubtoards when for shorter money you could buy this bueaty? Assuming of course the iron is good and you have a half dozen ille...

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The Glass Tech hatch openings have molded in gutters with holes in each corner and it would be a snap to plumb the two rear ones by just threading in a plastic fitting from underneath and attaching your half inch hose.....plug the two front corners with rubber plugs or such. My neoprene gaskets do a...

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My Galss Tech deck hatches came with some flimsy cork gaskets underneath which went to pot pretty quick, and the vibration from the Cummins at idle and the hatch rattle eventually wore holes in the underside of the hatches, letting water in that rotted a lof of the balsa core. With the expert help o...

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All B31s should be painted white, period. A little teak trim in the cockpit or on the covering boards is fine to beak up the all-white, but let's face it, these are not "trick boats".

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I'm probably good for either place. I can assure y'all that putting one of these on is a little more complicated in time & $ than meets the eye unless its done at one place where everyone just hieres a pro organizer....but then you get into the NOAA tourney regs crap. I'm planning to fish the gulf a...

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Hey Harry - I'm back. Guess this season's LSU-Ala. series is 1&1 now, maybe the rubber game is Nov. 2012 in Baton Rouge.

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A bunch of us when at the FLL show years ago went out west of WPB with Patrick and looked at a B31 that two guys (one a dot com money man?) were planning to put into production that had 350 3116s in it and a lot of custom stuff, including prop pockets. As I recall the prototype was the only one they...

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My HR dept. always had instructions to handicap typing skills with cup size.

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