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bob man if a potential yammie 350 customers of Oakdale stumble upon your posts............. as Ricky used to say "you have some splainen' to do"

Raybo Marine NY

I have a customer I joke around with that we should build him a center console 31 and put 3 outboards on it, we joke how all the faithful would go nuts and want to burn the boat, now I get a taste of the reaction it would get Tough crowd man, tough crowd I can bet part of the power choice has to dea...

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[, does not look much worse then any other 31 with diesel power i beg to differ. i respect anyones right to do what they want and i think you can make a great CC out of any small bertram hull............but that just dosent look right to me. just my opinion. the WATERLINE does not look any worse, m...

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you get an idea of how it sits in the water by that waterline, does not look much worse then any other 31 with diesel power, generator, etc

Raybo Marine NY

if every boat on the water was a diesel 31 what would we all talk about?

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bob- the water usually gets in from the inside, a bilge pump, or sometimes just standing water, boat does not have to be left in the water for core to go bad. Poorly sealed hardware, etc etc etc Joey is still rigging boats Again if anyone is serious I have a customer selling a very very nice 21 SB, ...

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I just sold a 21 Shadow for my customer, you have to be careful buying one, they are balsa cored, even the transom. You can end up with a real turd In that field of players the original Challengers are move coveted then the team shadows built later I still cant see a guy considering a 25-27 Formula ...

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Well said Dug,

They age well and are over built, top quality hardware. You can call them and get paint codes for a 15 year old Formula and it will actually be CORRECT! ( unlike Donzi )

Obviously it is not the choice of most of the board, but different strokes for different folks.

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if he wants a little creature comforts and nicer cabin and other hardware he wont be happy with the super. They are nice boats, but meant more to go fast and not make a big deal doing so skater- zero cabin If he wants a really nicely sorted single outboard 21 I have 2 friends selling but again you w...

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sneaky little bastards huh?

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if its temporary screen why not consider a sunbrella cover of some sort, that will really keep them out

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Speed Cost...that much I do know. Right know he's looking at Checkmates, Fountains and Donzi's with single I/O's in the 25' range. Most seem to have a 502 and owners state will cruise 50 topping out around 70. Nothing radical or worked... fountain and donzi would be the better coices if he would co...

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as far as new clorox bottles go Formula are one of the best, very well made and nicely finished.

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I still think they mean the people at Bertram killed the boat meaning they stopped making them?

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maybe they meant it was a great boat and the committee killed it?

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Bob, Gambler was purchased by a good friend of Craig Mac's He actually had a Henriques and was at the cross road of either doing a few things to the boat or selling it, he obviously chose to sell it and was already on the phone with me before purchasing the boat with plans of doing a few things to i...

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thanks guys, its a group effort. Bob- not the same color blue. The factory exhaust and scuppers were so far off from each other I decided to stop the stripe at the exhaust so it would not look so out of wack, I guess straight edges and tape measures were not used back then. its a gas boat, 270 gallo...

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still have more work to do but finally it seems to be coming to a end

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on the topic- for others looking for all kinds of screen I have ordered from this company a few times

http://www.twpinc.com/twp/jsp/product.jsp?type=12

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Pretty neat, I know some people play with the adjustments on their fuel senders to get them right, this is a nice thing that they came out with. Craig Mac- this one is for you! Autocal Fuel Level Senders Livorsi Marineâ€™s new microcontroller-based senders can be distinguished from our older analog ...

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I dont know if you have priced those bladders but they aint cheap, more expensive then aluminum last I checked the bladder also needs a friendly environment to live in, meaning you have to get the inside of the tank smooth, you will regret this when you are trying to grind the 300+ rivets that hold ...

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Imron 3.5 HG, ST, FT ( high gloss, semi, flat ) white color choices are funky, I order the rail car white but ask for it with no tints this way it comes pure white otherwise it has that blue refrigerator look I then tint it using standard imron tints or I have some off white and black 3.5s that I us...

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the paint I am talking about can be had in high gloss, semi, or flat, no need for texture we used it on the interior of a Bruckman because the formica in it must have been from different vendors or batches because over time none of it matched each other, we sanded it with 180-220, red scuff pads, ac...

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a good car service will check for delays and still be there with the little sign with your name when you come outside

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I had one boat receive custom cabinets, the cabinet guy did not know what to do with himself or the boat so we had to make all the templates for him, he then made the cabinets . We also made the plywood template and backing for the corian. You get a regular cabinet guy in a boat and his head spins. ...

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Bob, I have fixed more then my share of corian tops in boats, all of them cracked for the same reason- the corian must be fully supported from underneath. Is there anything supporting that from the backside? One or two from screws being put into the corian, and a mystery crack on a 50 bert, it never...

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I can send you a 16 grit disk if you want to see how it works

All this talk is making me hungry

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my solution is to let someone else do the egg flipping

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you had better patent that idea real quick, very unwise of you to post such a idea publicly before securing patent protection

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man that has to feel good

so when does the next one start

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some of those trailers are such a work of art its a shame to put them in salt this trailer never sees the salt, slings/hooks only ( I had to fix both sides where it says SKATER 50SS, 10 colors with 4 of them originally mixed with "a little of this and a little of that" http://robx-7.nopistons.com/d/...

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coolair wrote:robbie
that 21 whaler for sale?
there was a beautiful 31 called bullet in freeport tx with no bottom paint, kept in a cradle in a warehoouse. idk where any pictures are maybe cranston knows

the price tag would be astronomical, he has a ton of money into that boat

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I could not afford a large boat even if someone gave it to me for free

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robbie i agree,agree agree BUT life and the marina business being what it is, first you pay up front for the slip at the lenth of the lift . then you pay for the lift at list price plus 40% then you pay the yard electrician at 150.00 a hour to bring in a service to the lift plus electric at 20% mar...

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the Bertram that sank had no pulpit, not even a anchor roller, windless, nothing

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sean on the dramatic side we have a 32' skater cat at the marina that i test drove 104mph in rolling swells .the first year the guy paid to take it out every week and acid wash. got to be expensive so he bottom painted with a ablative bottom coat .the boat slowed to 97mph quite a differants .he end...

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most of those LED lights while having low power consumption and a nice white light are usually not very bright, as one person described it : "Abe Lincoln would have a hard time reading by that light"

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robbie to be perfectly honest i have never seen that in my life. were would you by it? that is a great advantage both sides being rigid . you can make all kinds of fabric covered molding out of simple 1/4" wood strips (left over mahogony) use it vertical or horizontal . i have to get some. get it a...

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Bob, I believe the 3M stuff you want is not the standard hook and look like velcro, you want the dual lock, that stuff holds like iron, instead of having a fuzzy side and a rigid side both sides are rigid it is what they send you with your EZ-Pass, the adhesive is also very strong remember Bob- ever...

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Craig's are easily removed, this eliminates the hatches or figuring access. he actually removes his every winter, we did that like 10 years ago and we just used screw caps and put plugs on the lights- because the intention was to make it removable I have no pictures- because he removes them when the...

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i have an isspro per recommendations on the board but seem to have a problem calibrating it----there are two adjustment screws one for empty and one for full---but still can't get it right. if it was installed with the tank it comes set for empty, you then fill the boat and set the full setting wit...

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Raybo, It sounds like you have done a few tank replacements. The brackets you mentioned, do they attach to tank and the stringers? Are they used to prevent movement of the tank? I had pictured the foam more or less, locking the tank in place. Perhaps you don't use the foam but use the neoprene. Sin...

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geography plays a role in the cost of the tank, and how you have it made such as how many brackets A 230 gallon tank on average is about $2300-$2400. I PAY $2400 and do not mark it up to my customers because I am coating the tank and installing it, I have it made with 7 large braced brackets on it. ...

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the MS600 is FAR better for a boat then the 5000, mainly because of its ability to be sanded and polished and blended for repairs

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Trust me the low man on the totem pole is not taking it upon himself to change out the frames, he probably has orders from management to do so. Someone calls and complains they just point the finger at the guy and pretend to be upset about it. I give you one better- I went into a dealership just to ...

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all yards are in the same situation, you have people who have ready boats not wanting to use them, no rush at all to go in.

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check in and around the vehicle, whenever my dealer has taken my frames off and swapped them they left the old ones somewhere in the car

I always see someone with one of those frames in the Copiague-Lindy area driving down Montauk Highway and wondered who it was

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Maybe I'm just lazy...but for me the days of sanding the bottom for hours and hours is over. Usually due to the Yards mandatory pressure washing...even though my bottom is clean. My .02 the smell is usually why, it can be rancid I never suggest pushing more then a extra season from bottom paint. If...

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Sea Hawk sells a shaft and prop system

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