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In Memory of Vicroy

My 1972 B31 came with B28 rudders and one engine operation was impossible without dragging a bucket off one side. I was one of the first to go with Patrick's oversize rudders and was able to eliminate a lot of the "toe in" which gave me some extra cruise speed. I can now run either Cummins 250 wide ...

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Having been to your little Fish River paradise Harry, I can visualize it too. Its been a very, very warm winter and spring here in the Deep South. Me & the Bride did about the same thing Sat. nite on our deck over the boathouse at the camp....sipping martinis and eating chips & dip, just watching th...

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The Gore Tex thread is Tenara.

http://www.gore.com/en_xx/products/fibe ... tdoor.html

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Sorry, the link did not work. Just type in the item #, 735613 in the search box and hit "go" and you will find it.

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I've always wanted one of these but they have always been too expensive for the big 150 watt ones. Hamilton Marine has them on sale this week only - I just ordered one. They have the 100 watt one for about 22 bucks too. http://store.hamiltonmarine.com/search.htm Hint: the Po Boy's version is an old ...

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Ed - that's pretty amazing, never even thought about stuff like that. My half tower top - which is laced on - has a couple of pin holes in it which are probably fron pine cones & sticks hitting it during hurricanes, but other than that, zero stiffness or delamination. A drop of 4200 has fixed the li...

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Well Faithful, yesterday I gave my 1972 B31 FBC Another Joy a deep spring cleaning. She stays in the water all year at my private dock, outdoors. She's partially shaded by a big short leaf pine tree, but she gets pretty dirty from lawn mowing dust and the ever-present mildew. AJ has a Pipewelder's h...

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Shoot, Rick, I got stories on top of stories, just have to put some effort into remembering them.

We usually go to the camp on Friday mornings and come back Sundy noon or so and that has the effect of wiping my mind clean as a whistle. Duhhhhh.....

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I remember boudin rouge day at one of the UVIs......it was about Wednesday, daylight....we'd been hard at it, drinkin', eatin', & fishing in rough offshore conditions since Sunday.....the fleet is very slow to get going. I'm at the helm of AJ, Mike Ohlstein is on the FB with me as we idle out of Por...

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I had some in the freezer. Don't see a website on the package, but the address is:

Richard's Cajun Foods Corp.
P.O. Drawer 414
Church Point, LA 70525

Phone: 337.684.6309

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Gosh, Rickey, every grocery store here sells two dozen brands of boudin. My favorite is Richard's (pro: Ree-CHARD's"). I like their boudin blanc mild, its real good. The two bouts of chemo I've had in the past 4 years have left me unable to tolerate any red pepper at all so I have to struggle to fin...

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Ricky, something is very wrong with the engine...its rusty, which means it has not leaked & slung sufficient oil to properly coat it.

Agree the governor appears to be a Woodward and agree on the solenoid wire to it. I had a 2-71 railroad generator with a similar governor.

yo Fren'

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And the originals are faired to a knife edge on the leading edge My originals were cracked during Katrina and I got new ones from Hi Tide that are massive - the leading edge is rounded and very thick. Capt. Patrick warned me to have the leading edge ground down or I'd lose some speed. I instructed t...

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Or you could step up like our buddy Daryl P. did with the Mary P......a new article on her. The dock shots were taken at her berth in Biloxi, Miss.

http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/trini ... ary-p.html

And she catches the woo-woo outta fish.

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Tom, you should seek immediate medical attention.

yo Fren'

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I had a freind in law school in the 60s who's Dad's friend had one he'd converted to a sportsfishermn. They kept it in southwest Louisiana - Intracoastal City - where the 100 fathom curve is 100 miles offshore. I was invited for a three day trip on it to a coral reef called the Flower Gardens. As I ...

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Shoot, bet that boat can be repaired. Look what Marshall did with the Susie's Pissed after Katrina. All it takes is time, patience, & money.

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I agree with Sim. Maybe years ago their stuff was 99% crap but not now. I bought a pnumatic framing nail gun from Northern Tool for $99 that is their "quality" chinese brand and Its better than any $500 American or German one I've seen. Ditto on other stuff. It probaly won't last much longer. I've n...

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Its all true Faithful. I have a cute little Capri 14.2 sailboat I keep in the water at my camp & sail away the lazy days. One of my elderly camp neighbors, who ain't all there no mo', saw me going down the canal in the blowboat with the sail up and told another neighbor I'd put a sheet on my bass bo...

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Look in Boats & Harbors - there are a number of places that sell new, complete heads for 4Bs as well as rebuilt ones. Not very expensive at all from the aftermarket guys vs. Cummins. The 7 mm injectors are the ones you want. Walter, the Bosch injectors that dropped tips were only used on the hopped-...

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I think you should be fine with the 155 hp and the small-ish diameter props, assuming your shafts are in good shape, no cracks, etc. - spend a few bucks having them magna-fluxed and checked for straightness. I had an inch & a half AQ22 shalft snap off behind the strut on my B31 with the 250 6BTAs & ...

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Ditto that John - very well deserved. Now how about letting some of us write an article on the B31 for SWS?

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I've got several Calcutta 700s and have caught tons of tuna up to 100# on them. I loaned a couple to my son who put Power Pro on them and tried to horse in 200# Tarpon....reels didn't like that,had to get them rebuilt. I tried to tell the boy the drag is for slipping, but shoot, it ain't his reels.....

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Roger that, Pete....you have strugged with that for way too long. Good luck.

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Ditto what Bruce says. I kept boats at the mouth of the Mississippi River for years with a hurricane bulls eye right on them. Its a 5 hour trip by car and boat from here to there, an hour by seaplane. I'd always watch the projected storm tracks (they are damn good at it nowdays) and assess the risks...

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All of them are two cycle so they fire twice as often as 4 stroke motors....like Bruce says, you can i.d. them 10 miles away. The 71 series is renowned for long life and reliability; the 92 series on the other hand, is a short-fuzed time bomb. Avoid at all costs.

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I use the Camp zincs from Hamilton Marine in Maine...they have the copper buttons in them to make good shaft contact. I bought the do-nut style shaft zincs last time by mistake and they cost me a knot.

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I had a pair of 6-71Ns - straight 6s - once. Think they were about 225 hp and ran real good. Changed their own oil too.

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DD 8V71 weighs in at 2,310# and the 8V92 at a staggering 3,230. The 71 is 51 inches high so you'd need some rather tall motor boxes.

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Frank - that would be a DD 16 cylinder V engine, which is two V8s end to end. Either a 16V71 or a 16V92 series (cubic inches per cylinder). Pretty common in big sportfishermen and commercial vessels. I've seen some with a common oil pan and some with spearate ones. Don't know where the name plate wo...

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6-71 ain't gonna fit in no B31 Bobby......too tall, too long, too wide, and did I mention too heavy?

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I'm pretty sure I have the manual at the boat and it has the schematic. As I recall you will need an all-plastic screwdriver to turn the pot, and it may be a square screw head like a deck screw, but you would have to look. It will be a couple of weeks before I get back over to the camp. You might lo...

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I'd have to get the schmatic out, but its a variable pot in the output stage that "throttles" the output power. You need to have a wattmeter in the antenna circuit to do it right.

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Heathkits did more for me learning elecronics than anything else, and especially good soldering techniques. Do you know if they still make them? Most of the VHF radios made today are so flimsy its a miracle they work for a week offshore. The older Icom 125, 126, & 127s are built like a brick s**thou...

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I built my first crystal radio receiver when I was 6. I entered my home made spark gap transmitter in a jr. hi science fair the year Sputnick was launched and got disqualified because my transmitter had such a wide bandwitch (like it took up the entire radio sprctrum) it jammed some fat kid's Sputni...

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It was a AM marine band (2182 KHz) transceiver. I had a similar one on my 1947 45' Hickock. The high voltage to run the transmiter tubes was generated by a dynamotor - which is a motor driven generator. Mine used 24 volts to drive the motor which in turn spun a high voltage generator. Back then, bef...

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Hey Charlie - why stop half way? I have some lots on the water across from my camp (next door to Andre's camp) that I'll make you a deal on.....low taxes, great fishing & hunting, lots of breaks for seniors, like a $5 annual hunt/fish license, all our state officials are Republicans, etc. C'on down!...

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Well, the net result is the prop will turn slower with the 2:1 than the 1.5 (obvious) meaning you will need more diameter on the prop and/or more pitch to accomplish the same as the 1.5. I have 1.5s with the same motors in my B31 FBC and turn 21 x 22 three blades. 21 inch diamter props are about as ...

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When I was learning to fly many years ago I was on a solo training cross-country in a Cessna 150 from BR to Gulfport, Mississippi airport. Its an old military base and one of the runways - closed for many years - was a carrier landing training strip with slots in the concrete for the arrestor cables...

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I like it too. This PC has run amok.

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Guy musta found the left over stuff I wuz drinkin' in 1984. Awful nice Howdy Boat tho.

Brew, bet it will do 60, once.

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Damn - that's the first marlin I ever heard caught off one of them tender ridin' 33s.

yo Fren'

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And I heard a despicable rumor he owns a CAT!

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This big sucker is why oil is $100 a barrel. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked.

Wonder how much it cost to build?

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Good going Brew. How did you cook him? They look like my favorite fish, the pompano. Thin sliced filets dusted in a little flour then browned in butter with a touch of garlic?

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Ya know, some might view us a scoff-laws due to our antics, but I'd rather compare us to those who are glorified for civil refusal like the "Occupy" people. Idiotic laws don't need respect. Stop and think about it.....what is the real public value to licensing small boat trailers? None. Its just a w...

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Roger that. I served for many years on various Supreme Court panels that handled lawyer disbarment. I got to see the bad & the ugly. I quit when the bad & the ugly outnumbered the rest of us. Our profession went to s**t with the advent of unlimited advertising. It has largely become a money-grubbing...

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Shoot Randy, you may have missed your calling.....there is a helluva market for Green Cards around here. One of my sisters is an artist and she did a great forgery of an LSU student ID for my girlfriend so we could go to the football games free. Black & white photo with the LSW law school in the bac...

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Randy - I had one boat trailer plate and it was many years expired.....so I'd sold my daughter's Corolla to some out of state guy so kept its plate....and carefully cut out the expiration date from the Corolla plate - using my finest tin snips - and epoxied it over the expired date of the boat trail...

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Thanks Prof.....warning - don't use CX on ammo....it is so creepy it will get in the powder....I took some boxes of .22 LR my dad had given me that were sort of corroded but shot okay and cleaned them up with CX....every damn one turned into a click, click dud. We shoot Glazier "safety bullets" in o...

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