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I can't say if it is a good sign for the stripers, I didn't catch a slot fish this year, all were 30# or bigger or sub 24". It seems like there is a gap in the year classes.

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Earlier this spring one of my co-workers got into going to a bunch of doctors and they had him on all types of pills, his solution was to dedicate time to daily exercise and he has been able to reduce and or drop off all of them. It took him 3-4 months to get himself cleared up and he is doing a lot...

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Cam,

I hope that you get back into good condition soon. Lack of mobility is no fun. I've had a bunch of problems with my knees and multiple surgeries per knee. Do your rehab work......

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Hi All, Around Labor day I did something dumb to myself and went in to have a Dr check it out and when I was there my blood pressure was pretty high. Being stuck in the house working for well over a year plus the stress from some major projects in work plus all the garbage going on in this world is ...

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Carl, Rock Harbor seems to me to be a misnomer. It is on the inside of the elbow of the cape and is an expanse of sand. At low tide there is a massive sand flat which goes for miles on either side of the harbor channel. The harbor channel is very shallow and the use cut down old trees as channel mar...

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one of my other passions is photography - here's some shots How about before Sunrise? not my B28 in the foreground https://photos.app.goo.gl/Cr1pgtfReWC4gqzn8 Another first light - Rounding Monomoy Island at 4:40am at 25kts https://photos.app.goo.gl/vfMAariZcpATg4NC8 east of Boston Harbor - sunrise ...

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Nice Shots - I'm glad you are getting good use out of your rig!

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if you are interested in twins, please consider the Merc 150 four strokes that is based upon the 3.0L block. My uncle and one of my Buddies both have one and have had great luck with the motors. I've fished quite a bit on my buddy's 20' Seacraft and the 150 pushes it quite nicely and it sips fuel at...

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Great point about the deck being higher.. Cutting down the transom on a B25 Bahia Mar is more complex because of the height of the cockpit deck. This is what mine looked like before I fabricated the transom module and notched the transom. As far as I can tell a 30 shaft outboard motor needs to be se...

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Cam, Don't second guess the livewell I used a cut down plastic 55 gallon drum with a hose that went overboard for years, I hated it, It needed to be in a stern corner and would tilt the boat under way. Sometimes it would shift and the outflow hose would end up in the boat and I'd be pumping 1100GPH ...

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I guess I am a K.I.S.S. person, It definitely seems nice but it seems like it could be the source of more headaches and you would be locked into a proprietary system. I can't clearly identify how you would manually switch something if the electronic interface failed and that is souring my view of th...

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Cam's post about prop depth is fairly important to me - when I install my bracket, I need to figure out the correct height then make the final marks lower so I have the option to raise or lower the motor by at least 2 if not 3 bolt holes on the outboard in order to be able to have some room to tune.

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Peter,

Here's a top down view when I was putting the motorwell together
https://photos.app.goo.gl/28CRQuqebb1NBFcc9

Here's the overall profile view
https://photos.app.goo.gl/B7LcJNJ5v8PtW6Wy9

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Hi Greg, I'll tell you my story but it isn't worth much since my sorry A$$ can't find a motor to hang on the back of my B25 and tell you how it all turned out. I had twin I/Os and they were long in the tooth and I decided to remodel. I went back and forth about a full bracket vs hung on the transom ...

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I think posts like yours and my gripes about gelcoat not fully curing late in the season should be a lesson to folks about how hard it is to do a project on a boat yourself if you are missing what I believe is the biggest ingredient - a good place out of the weather to do work. In the NE the weather...

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WOW !!! really nice work

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After given about a week for the top cap gelcoat to cure I did 2hrs of sanding last night to start to get rid of the orange peel surface. I used a light sander with 220 grit paper and went at it. There were a 3 spots no larger than a 1/2 dollar coin where the gelcoat on the surface did not cure well...

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I'm looking for some suggestions... I enclosed an area under both sides of the gunnels where the fuel line comes up from under the deck. So far I purchased 2 of the same hatches that I've used elsewhere on the boat and have set them up the same using the same distance off the deck and same distance ...

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my experience tells me that our hulls are more efficient than we give them credit for. I did a test when I had I/Os and shut down one engine and lifted the drive then tried to plane on one motor, I was able to get the boat up on plane doing 17kts on 135hp, I had more to push out of the motor and pro...

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This whole gelcoat the top cap has been a comedy of errors..... last weekend I checked the weather on Friday and the weathermen said Sat would be mid 60s and sunny and Sunday would be 70 and partially cloudy with rain moving in at midnight. Since Sat was our wedding anniversary and I know what is go...

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I heard a couple of orcas were around the Cape this year, I've never seen one and would love to do so if I ever get a chance. In our area we get a whale show most every Tuna trip, standard operating procedures is to find the whales an get in with them to find the tuna. Minkes and Humpbacks are the m...

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My project at work took way more time and attention than I thought it would, on top of that it has been raining quite frequently. In watching the weather forecast it looked like it wasn't going to rain Sunday into Monday so I took Monday off from work thinking I would finish the preparations of the ...

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Carl, I did similar to what you recommended to make some side plates out of 1/4" lexan for a friend who was making a Rasberry PI server. He did the case itself on a 3d printer then He got a file for the sides of the cases and I used multiple tool passes to cut it out. I used double sided tape to hol...

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I've heard of the uniflite making boats for the military in Vietnam before - not a Deep v per say, friends Dad has one, sides are almost 1" thick, he thinks it would stop most small arms

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Thanks for the complement, I'm not sure as I deserve it as others on this site really do amazing work. I consider myself to be a journeyman and put in lots of effort to get my results. if one were contemplating a project on a shoestring budget, this thread should give them an idea of what they are i...

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I am assuming that the motor mount is now bad and needs to be replaced all the solutions above are probably the right way to go about it but there is another shade-tree less elegant method, take some pressure off the 1/4 of the engine with the bad mount by jamming a piece of wood to support the moto...

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I did the 1st pass of fairing compound on the bow section last night. I was at the bottom of a 5 gallon pail of fairing and it was a little stiff so I didn't want to chance it not curing properly so I mixed the filler with more resin prior to adding catalyst so the whole process took me a bit more t...

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Hi Peter, I am a highly visual thinker - I personally need to see things in order to logically analyze where they need to go. My go to is to do a very crude drawing of the stuff that has to be where it is (ie engines and bulkheads) in something like MSpaint, then print off a bunch of copies and manu...

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Operation - hide gelcoat crazing

Last night I got a layer of 1708 over the bow section and used 1.50oz mat to go into the curves of the outside lip.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ycamtR5pSmy8bDW68

I will cleanup the excess mat with a grinder and do some fairing tonight

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on a similar note, within the last couple of years my parents picked up a Grand Banks 36' with single yanmar and setup for cruising for way less than your $200k budget, it is essentially 2 bedrooms and 2 baths on the water. It isn't going to win any races nor would it be fun to fish from but is damn...

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I've called or left email inquiries at a bunch of places. The guy at American stated that he doesn't do the small boat parts anymore.

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Did you figure out how to make that gutter that you have pics from Captain Pat? It looks a lot like a combination of fiberglass angle iron -- https://www.lbifiberglass.com/product/fiberglass-angle/ and a custom molding. to get some radius parts on my boat I took a 12" diameter sonotube and wrapped i...

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Hi All, since I am re-gelcoating my top cap I have taken off all the chrome parts, for the most part all my lees rod holders are in good shape, so is the hawse pipe for the anchor rode and bow lights. The stern hawse pipes are in reasonable condition and the front vents are in poor condition. Here's...

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nevermind - I looked at your pics again and see the 2nd layer of hose over the primary hose at all bulkhead locations.

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I have a question about where your fuel lines ran through the bulkheads. Did you put some type of chaffing protection there? the reason I ask is that I have 2 spots where I need to pass my fuel lines 1st through an under deck bulkhead and 2nd through my deck running up towards fuel filter. I was con...

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with some fairly serious pressure from my Better 1/2 to not work on the boat over labor day weekend, I ordered more resin to be delivered next tuesday.

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all I've got to say about painting yourself is go to the gym and get yourself in shape specifically your shoulders.... I've done this on small boats, my understanding every additional 3' of length is a doubling of volume. think of the process - - 1. sand the hull - this could be nasty if the gelcoat...

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another item - I want to give a BIG thanks to Scott who advised me to get the Makita 1.5" belt sander https://www.makitatools.com/products/details/9031 expensive - yes but soooooo worth it Getting the inside corners as well as the outside lip it was invaluable as it tore off the old paint and gelcoa...

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I keep telling myself the enemy of good enough is better, then promptly choose better. Maybe some day I will learn but I did a topcap paint job on the boat in 2007 and while I have things apart I mind as well get it done well so I don't have to do it again. I've sanded all the flat parts of the top ...

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Curiosity is getting the better of me, I've got no interest in a larger boat as my little Bertram project is getting the better of me but I'm trying to follow along and figure out where the major issues are and did a search on this site and found Captain Pat's page which he put together. Buddy Boy P...

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I ran out and took a couple of pics to give folks a better idea of what the cracks are that I am dealing with close up view of blisters and fine cracks - this particular area had been under fairing compound and was sealed up and didn't print through but I sanded all the fairing off to make sure I di...

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I took Friday off to work on the boat but it was way too hot and humid so we went to the beach and I switched my day of work to Sunday with the prospects of the weather being cool and in the mid 70s. Sunday morning was cool but in the low 60s and humid as all heck so I didn't trust fairing and gelco...

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https://www.perfprotech.com/blog/articles/mercruiser-engine-timing V6 and V8 Carbureted Models (Thunderbolt V Ignition) 1. Connect timing light (91-99379 or similar) to No. 1 spark plug wire. Connect power supply leads, if applicable, on light to 12 volt battery. Refer to Specifications – “Engine Ro...

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While I agree with Cam that your boat seems like it is on the heavier side, I do not agree with the concept that weight is the limiting factor on speed. my rig which was definitely less weight with I/Os had 270hp and could easily hit 33kts and with that I was under propped and probably could have hi...

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I am not really in a high impact area of tropical storm Henri coming through, even still I didn't want to listen to the shrink-wrap cover rustle in the wind so I uncovered it this morning. This is the first time I've had it fully uncovered in quite some time. https://photos.app.goo.gl/nc5QYpC8VBPJTG...

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Hi All, It looks like Henri is going to hit New England Sunday into Monday, I just got a call from my parents who are away on vacation asking if I can prep their Grand Banks which is docked in Onset. Based upon the NOAA charts, it doesn't seem like it will be a hurricane when it hits but it won't be...

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after work I did a quick sand of the system 3 tie coat and did a 2 coats of gelcoat to cover up all the repairs which I did with epoxy. This is not the final coat as I got frustrated using epoxy for fairing, I'd mix it up and add cabosil and micro-balloons to get to a peanut butter consistency, spre...

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I made up my mind on my stern rod-holders and they showed up today

lees - HD - zero degree swivels - these suckers are beefy

https://photos.app.goo.gl/CrPSLV2w2qaQUyip8

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I've had the best luck posting links to my google photos

in google, click sharing icon on the top area on the photo, it creates a link for anyone to access then come into this site and share as an insert url

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Snipe,

I added them soon after I bought my boat, I think that they are accon marine pop ups

https://www.acconmarine.com/collections ... -up-cleats

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