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    photographs......film vs digital.

    https://web.archive.org/ I was just there last week, my father, brother & sister still live there (just down rt9 from Seaview).
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    Starting to feel like August

    Ha! Took me 10 years to get north of I-10 and back to actual seasons lol.
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    1972 Mercruiser 165.

    For example:
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    1972 Mercruiser 165.

    My old Crestliner came with a completely seized 165 (250). Like my sig says, never accept a free boat. It was my uncle's, I remembered taking it out a few times in my late teens. I found a Merc 292 to drop in it's place, just needed to fab a taller cover since the 292 is a raised block...
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    Private Boaters Vs Navy Ship

    You mean the museum that has been a museum for a number of years now lol......? Exactly. Active ship? That boat would've gotten M240 or M2 size holes in it long before bouncing off 60,000+ tons.
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    Infected Molar Tooth suffering needlessly.

    My uncle had the worst oral hygiene in existence his entire life. It caught up to him in his 50's when all the bacteria on his teeth migrated around his body and first gave him walking pneumonia then settled in his vena cava and caused an aneurysm that was likely months (at most) from bursting...
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    Are there any Xenforo Web App Experts Among Us?

    It isn't bad, I prefer the fora software setup better (been a mod on both). I have noticed most forums setup like this one have generally migrated to the xenforo.
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    S A F E T Y B R I E F I N G

    When I was in, our port and weekend safety briefings usually consisted of: "Don't add to or subtract from the local population and if you end up in jail, establish dominance early"
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    Tonneau Cover

    My latest truck came with a BAKflip hard tri-fold. I'm usually partial to soft covers but this one does the job.
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    lots of 502 504 bad gateway and timeouts ???

    Why'd you put this in J & E outboards.....?
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    What Brand of Brake pads are best quality? What do you guys use for quality?

    The combo I've used for over a decade now on all mine are Power Stop slotted rotors (not drilled, not dimpled, only slots) with their Z23 pads. Performance/non- performance, car & truck alike. The only vehicle I have that doesn't have the PS rotors is the SRT because it it still has the...
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    Random

    Who knew one little meme would touch such nerves LMAO My first exposure to one was in Florala, FL/AL line......and I'll leave it at that.
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    Random

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    daily music fix

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    Random

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    NYC Accident

    Sal's latest take: I didn't think it would have one (EAGLE doesn't) but I have seen CPP failures happen just like this, specifically the Rolls-Royce units. Happened to a 225' large buoy tender out of Alaska some years back. They were setting a sea buoy, normally the DPS (dynamic...
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    Mercruiser 470 timing - service manual?

    http://www.mercurypartsonline.net/database/DATA/001/04/1987/EN_17.PDF
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    Mercruiser 470 timing - service manual?

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    NYC Accident

    Wouldn't have grabbed fast enough. Think DALI. Yeah for the US, maybe most western countries. I dunno how many other foreign entities you ever got to work with during your career, but the Central & South American ones are quite a bit more fast & loose, less regimented (though this may change...
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    NYC Accident

    She was heading backwards. I couldn't really tell from the video I saw, but either she lost propulsion control & the lovely East river current carried her in or propulsion failed in reverse (I've seen this happen on newer variable pitch prop ships but never on anything this old) and she...
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