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  1. rolmops

    little tidbit of new knowledge.

    Yesterday as I was listening to Michael Feldman's "What do you know" section of his show on NPR there was a bit of new discovery. As it turns out,the dinosaurs died out about 6000 years ago. This bit of knowledge came from Kentucky from a museum called the Museum of Creation, or some such name...
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    Advertizement???

    I have yet to see a single add on iboats,thanks to my buddies Ad-Aware,Spybot and Spywareblaster.I got all of those for free because they are share ware. Am I missing out on something?
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    70 horse johnny threw a rod.

    I have been offered a late seventies Johnson 70hp outboard that threw a rod right through the crankcase.There is a hole about the size of a quarter in the crankcase. I would have to replace or repair the crankcase,which does not seem to be a real big deal.I know that the engine did not set up...
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    Anzac

    October 31 90 years ago was the last successful cavalry charge in military history. The ANZAC cavalry corps attacked the turkish forces holding the desert city of Beer Sheva. Charging through a storm of cannon fire,suffering heavy losses the down under guys pulled it off for the last time in...
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    "special" tools

    In every manual you will find a list of special tools that the average shade tree mechanic does not buy because they are often expensive and he will probably not use them very often. Most of us make do with what we have in the tool box,or we improvise and come up with very interesting tools...
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    1967? merc 850/950 lower unit.

    Ok, so I could not contain myself and I had to rip into things that I had never seen before. I picked up an 850 lower unit and tried to put it on a 950.It almost fits,just a few adjustments says I to myself. It started with cutting away a bit of aluminum to make room for the exhaust housing that...
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    Lower unit compatability

    Here is another question. I have a possibility to buy a 1964 850 mercury lower unit for my 1967 950 mercury. Do you good people know whether the lower units can be interchanged and is the gear ratio compatible? Thank you for your answers and opinions.
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    lower unit compatability

    Can anybody please tell me whether the 1964 1000 6 cylinder merc has the same lower unit as the 1967/8 950 ?Or at least the same size housing? thank you.
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    Duratech boat

    I will soon be replacing my 1964 duratech orion with a 1981 starcraft,which I will restore during the winter. The duratech is a bit too close to my heart to just scrap.If you know someone who is into duratechs please send me a private message.
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    Duratech boat

    I will soon be replacing my Duratech Orion with a Starcraft. If you are interested in a nice duratech of the type that was used in the bay of pigs incident shoot me a private message
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    just curious

    Lately I have seen threads that date back to 2001 and 2002. I always was under the impression that in 2003 one of the I.T. guys goofed up and lost several thousand threads.Did somebody recover these threads or was the loss limited to the johnson /evinrude forum?
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    Lake Ontario "salmon"

    It had to happen sooner or later. Yesterday afternoon 2 miles out, over 70 feet of water,in the middle of a dispersed group of kings that was anywhere between 10 and 50 feet down. There was the hookup,a huge bang and it was.....a 4 pound largemouth bass. Go figure.
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    Jet blue slashed our ticket price.

    This is really only for those who want to travel between Rochester,NY and NYC. Jet blue dropped the price to $30 +$10=$40. Hurry,there are only a limited amount of tickets available. To take your car from Rochester to NY is roughly 350 miles or 16 gallons of gas +$12 in throughway tolls. You do...
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    To Superduperboatbummer.

    Please forget to put the plug in.
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    dockside chats

    I just hopped on "The Hull Truth" dockside chat. It was a thread about some black kids. The r@c1sm and arguments and flaming were loud. All I can say is that I do not miss the old dockside chat wars at all. Now I really understand what we were getting ourselves into.We made a bloody nuisance of...
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    Centre of gravity.

    I am thinking about taking a 19 foot Renken fishing boat, ripping the Inboard/outboard system out,replace or reinforce the transom and hang an outboard on the boat.This mostly because I really dislike the idea of an inboard/outboard system in salt water. My first concern would be what will...
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    Who do you miss?

    I miss Castawayray in spite of his little red truck. Sometimes I think that technostingray was one of his reincarnations.
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    Flying mattress.

    Did you ever see one?? I did, coming at me while rolling on the NYS Throughway at 75 miles per hour. Saturday night on my way back from our cottage on Owasco Lake around 10 in the evening we were on our way home,when all of a sudden I saw something black in the air coming at me.Next thing I...
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    Is Murky an anarchist???

    Murky in each of your many many threads and comments you call yourself "A Rare and Proud Conservative" and then you usually go on preaching against central and big nanny government which in your eyes seems to be the instigator of most things bad in America. It occurs to me that you pick a bone...
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