I'm sory, but I can only see one picture in
alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean ... Am I missing
something?
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Flemming Torp
"Larry W4CSC" skrev i en meddelelse
...
"Roger Long" wrote in
:
Gee, isn't this kind of "niggling and perfectionist", to
quote a well
respected rec.boats contributor?
Oh, you'd have a fit if you looked into that bilge.
There's dishwater,
some oil, some rust, a few tools too deep to reach even
with the magnet,
how awful! It's a boat....not house beautiful.
Everything from the sinks,
shower, everything but the head, dumps in her bilge to be
pumped overboard
WITHOUT those nasty thru-hull fittings rotting away...(c;
Look at the next picture. This is the NEW engine Cap
bought from a guy in
NC I met on this newsgroup. It's a pullout. See? We
didn't even paint
it! Looks awful...runs fantastic. The original looked
worse. It had over
8000 hours on it. This "new" one is only up to 900 hours,
now. Cap'n
Geoffrey couldn't even destroy it trying to start it full
of seawater when
that stupid water injection line to the dripless packing
he had a shipyard
install BACKED UP seawater into the exhaust ports. Try
sailing up Ponce
Inlet S of Daytona Beach in the rush of an outgoing tide
past the
lighthouse and seawall so the tow operator can drag you
all the way to
Daytona Marina. Scary stuff that day. Cutter Doc did a
great job pickling
the engine. It looked like we pumped the Exxon Valdez oil
slick out of the
crankcase...(c;
These pictures are old. I need to carry my camera down,
now that she's
been fitted out, and take some new pictures in her. I'm
usually too busy
when Geoffrey is around working on his to-do list...(c;
He finally gave up
trying to pay me. He asked what I wanted for all my work.
I told him,
"That's easy. Just take me with you." It's worked out
great for both of
us....(c;
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