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Yeah, they are pretty strong from top to bottom. Guess they were sandbagging in the first half, not a single first down, then reel off 42 unanswered points and could have scored more. Tommy, I've been a wannabe bookie all my life. At the office we used to bet on which phone line would light up next....

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Walter, in a word, yes.....a possibility....but at the rate the Parish leaders are being indicted, who knows? The reconstruction is underway - the old concrete dock that flooded has been removed, a new dock is partially built last pix I saw.....they are building two large elevated buildings out on t...

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Happy birthday, Harry. Get off your butt and get your boat running....I smell the UVI being back at Port Eads this June?

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No extra charge for the leaking front windows. Dumb.

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Watching ESPN's Game Day show featuring The Weasel, Lil' Nikky Sabin pontificating on how good his Ala. team is and how unfair it is that they might not get to play LSU for the BCS champ game on Jan. 9th. Talk aboiut grovelling, he's as bad as Nancy Pelosi trying to sell a tax increase. The show is ...

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Ditto Tony on Bolt Depot, I've been buying from them for years and zero issues, good prices, fast & cheap shipping. Box lots save you big.

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The prices are not much different than a full 6 days of fishing at TSL during the off season when they are always covered up with huge tuna. We have seen schools of YF tuna there in June that will scare ya.....plus you get the marlin, sails, and inshore stuff too. I've never been on one of the long ...

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I use the aviation raft from Survival Technologies in Fla...its mylar and won't rot...I had a Winslow years ago that was rubber and checked it one day and had a valise full of dust. The aviation mylar one is rated for 9 to 13 people (not a clue why the spread?) and is in a valise that is about the s...

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Managed to recently ruin one of my prize TSL t-shirts by getting a 4" side grinder tangled in it with me inside. Minor injury to me but major to the shirt. The good news is TSL just came out with a new line of t-shirts with some for $15 and I've ordered some new ones. http://www.tropicstar.com/onlin...

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Or, if you plan to use the brush again within a few weeks with the same or similar paint, just put it in a zip lock and stick it in your freezer. I'm a convert to the foam brushes tho. I'm a terrible painter and hate doing it. When I needed to paint my 1962 Whaler 13 last year, the Faithful here gui...

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Capt. Jack - what kind of locator stuff do y'all have on board them big triple 7s when y'all fly the big pond?

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Get the little Icom hand held that's waterproof, first class little radio and pretty inexpensive. Its rechargable batteries are AAs so throw a couple of spare alkaline AAs in your bag.

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I'm with Tony, we had an ice age not too long ago, in geoloic time. Climate change is a natural process, while weather is a short term reaction to various enviromental condtions such as sea water temps. The press is full right now of the global warming love-fest in South Africa that has, as usual, d...

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3 miles or 300 miles is the same if the water is over your head and its too far to swim to the bank, so all this talk about "offshore" vs. "inshore" survival gear is garbage to me. If the boat sinks you need to (a) not drown, and (b) be found before you expire. Good life jackets, life rings, and a r...

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Marshall - you must save the bass pix to give her friends on her wedding day - talk about funny! Congrats, a Coonass Double Royal Grand Slam. Me & the Bride took our middle grandson, Hunter Roy (just turned 12) to the camp on the Tickfaw River with us Thursday afternoon. He had killed a huge 8 point...

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I have two 8-D batteries in my B31 - twin 6BTA 250 Cummins and a 6.5 KW Phasor genset plus about every gadget you can stuff into a B31. I keep the two batteries in parallel all the time since I have reliable shore power and an on-board charger. The 8-Ds last about 4 years with good maintaince. About...

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Fish at night......

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Harry, I knew you could do it.....must be the supernatural vibes from the U of Ala. hat?

I agree that a couple of Luis' boats are pretty nice looking. But Luis, you usually have knock-out gals on the bow, what happened?

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Tom - that one ain't near as ugly as the Silverton to my eye. Harry, guess in Alabammy y'all sorta get attached to them ugly boats like a floating double wide?

yo Fren'

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My initial entry, the Silverton 35 Motor Yacht:

http://www.silverton.com/models/35MY08/35MY08.html

After sinking all of them, we need to find the plans and burn them.....I promise its uglier in person that the pix.

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I'm fixin' to start a "World's Ugliest Boat" contest here. During my sabbatical last week at the camp I was forced to pass by a moored Silverton "35 Motor Yacht" every morning on the way to the marina to get my paper. Damn thing is so ugly its impossible anyone designed it by accident that way.

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Mark - been away. You are not alone, we are all here for you. God, please be gentle toward our friend......

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Got the 3 million CP spots today and they are BRIGHT...amazing for $19.99....and the curly cord with the lighter pug on the end unplugs from the bottom of the light and stows inside the light if you like. But mostly bright....I just spotted two coons in my nighbor's trees...first you make a roux.......

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Sink at night.

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Harry, appreciate the quick heads up on the sinking, gave me a window to sell most of my oil company stocks what with those 4 gas hogs out of action.......

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Thanks, Bobby....Vic Roy, 3131 Murphy Dr. Baton Rouge, LA 70809....see, I even have TWO 31s in my address....make sure you include a return address so I can recipricate. Me & Andre' had lunch today with Lyman the G-Man who's son is a place kicker in high school here and looks like he may be pretty g...

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Four 250s? Glad they are okay. Suggest he replace it with a B31.

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Mine came with a tractor muffler that sticks vertically out the top with a rain flap on it that was not too effective, so I had an elbow bent and added a Toyota muffler with a 45 downspout off its end so the two mufflers keep it to a low hum....but I bet you could get one of them JC Whitney cable op...

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Actually, Next Gen and Phasor both offer a 21 KW 4 cyl Kubota driven industrial radiator cooled set for about 7.5K without the enclosure.

Air cooled engines are hell on oil, not sure a cooler would work since most of them use splash lube vs. an oil pump.

Hope the check's in the mail....

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Tom - glad they are getting close to you with the juice. Even with a genset its no fun. This is the link in our local paper yesterday to find alky free gas: http://pure-gas.org/ I'm kinda a beleiver that buying the best is cheapest in the long run, and buying cheap crap that breaks down at the drop ...

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Yeah, that punter is from Australia and used to play their brand of football. He's been dropping punts dead inside the 10 all season and is a secret weapon. And how come Nikky let the clcok run out in regulation vs. throwing a hail mary? Like his much more competent predecessor, The Bear once siad, ...

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Our local paper here had an article this morning about where to buy alky-free gas in our area and had a couple of websites listed. I'll dig it out and see if any of them are national sites....paper said there were several hundred local alky-free outlets. Issue presented in the article was the alky e...

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Congrats, Joe...now I gotta ask: how do you tell a "resident" fish from a migratory one? Tatoos?, license plates?

yo Fren'

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Tommy - that white LSU ball cap he always wears is sorta custom, taller than most......think one of the local sportswriters gave him the nickname and it stuck. He's a class guy that does not take all this too seriously....of course, at a base paycheck of $3.8 million I'd be damn jolly too. Glad to s...

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10-4, supposed to pick up the precious liquid today or tomorrow. I'll give you a shout shortly.

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And....my kinda solution. Defender Marine has a 3,000,000 DP hand held for $19.99....minimum order is 25 bucks so got two, and with shipping the whole damn problem is solved - actually solved twice - for under 50 bucks, including shipping. http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|65136|8049|32040...

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I just took the plastic Beamer apart here in the shop - all the little plastic tits where the screws hold stuff in it are busted and/or cracked. Flimsy is an understatement.....and they want $400 for one. I have a battery powered (the kind with the lead/acid battery) hand held that works fine, guess...

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Thanks......the outlet is inside the stb. motor box - aluminum box screwed to bulkhead in front of engine with weather tight "flaps" over duplex outlet when nothing is plugged in, wire is in plastic conduit, so its all out of the weather. One of our camp neighbors is in the electrical contracting bu...

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Thanks, Ole Fart, never thought of that. Might even be able to salvage the old one with some paint.

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I hooked up my block heaters yesterday and they kept tripping the GFCI on the 120 volt circuit on board they are wired into. This is the only circuit on board with a GFCI, the other 3 are old fsshioned three wire (black load, white neutral, and green ground). I've had problems with the GFCI tripping...

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Faithful - I have a Guest "Beamer" Model 291A wired remote control spotlight mounted on top of my half tower that's been up there for about 12 years or so. It's all plastic and the sun has pretty much turned it to dust - cracks, screws stripped, the reflector don't do no mo' reflecting, etc. It's be...

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Thanks Harry. Y'all missed one helluva party at the camp last night. Ray, you nailed it. Care package from HI? Let's trade 'em, Coonass Care Packages I can do. The teams were well matched up eccept for one area. If I were in the Alabama administration, I'd demand Little Nikky give most of his outrag...

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All diesels are hard to start in cold weather. Some - Volvo for example -have glow plugs that help. The newer Cummins 6Bs have air box pre-heaters that run for a few seconds off the batteries as you are starting that help, but are mostly to cut down on start-up smoking. The electronic engines, Cummi...

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My recollection of the Auburn campus is any discarded LSU building would improve the place.

Gone to the camp - having a football party there tomorrow night, anyone in the neighborhood stop by - garlic stuffed boston butt pork roast.

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The low pressure bleed screw is on the boss the spin on fuel filter is on....as I recall, just above the spin on...a tiny hex head screw, maybe 6 or 8 mm. To check the water flow, get a infrared temp gun with a laser pointer and just shoot the raw water pump - if no water is being pumped it will hea...

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I do remember the fire, seem like it was the basketball gym and remember the tv announcers having to move 'cause the heat was so bad. Made for a nice backdrop. Don't remember who won. To show how big a deal the game is here, Baton Rouge's Catholic High moved its Homecoming Dance from 7 pm to 3 pm so...

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Hey Harry - you are on, let's make it lunch AND mint juleps. Ernest, your learned analysis is slightly off the mark. We be'z sendin' two extra busses, one with ho's and the other with dope. LSU is gonna wear them down in the 4th quarter and take it by two scores. And Harry, I thought you went to Aub...

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Well, Faithful, the #1 LSU Tigers visit the #2 Alabama Dickweeds this weekend in what should prove to be an epic showdown of Souhern powerhouse football. The bookies have established the 'Weeds as a 5 pt. favorite, apparently based on rumors that Nikky "The Traitor" Sabin, the highly paid, but dumb ...

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Block heaters are the cat's meow, even in relaively mild climates. Mine are some old finned strip heaters that test about 125 watts each that I hang off the heat exchangers with some aluminum ground wire. One per engnie box. I originally wired them through a line voltage thermostat but it crapped ou...

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