Bertram33 User Forum

A couple of years ago I needed a replacement rubber gasket and some new hatch dogs for my fwd hatch on my 1983 33 FBC. I asked around and found that Bomar had made most of the hatches for Bertram 31s and 33s, and I suspect your B35. I called Bomar and they said they had parts for most of their older...

Before I bought "Phoenix" I had an engine survey done on both Cummins 6BT engines. Only minor issues were discovered and repaired. Once I started using her after each use the coolant level of the stbd engine would drop somewhat but if I just ran at idle or low speed there was almost no not...

I think you will find that the sliding door track is the main source of the problem with water getting into the plywood core. The wood base the door track is on traps water between the bulkhead and the back of the wood base, and then the water can wick up into the plywood core, eventually causing th...

I had pretty much the same problems as Al did, but used a different procedure, because I wanted to get rid of the stupid interior wood grain Formica eventually. I peeled off the inner Formica skin and removed the rotted plywood plus about an inch or two above the rot and removed the internal plywood...

Several years ago I prepped my boat and then had it professionally painted. We used Awl Kraft 2000. Now, whenever I make a repair or add or change to anything on the exterior of the boat I don't need to get involved with gel coat color matching, I just slap a coat of Awl Grip 454 primer on it and th...

What I have to say here might not apply to headlights but this past winter one of my console gauges plastic lens developed a heavy haze on the back of the lens, The gauge hasn't been made for several years and finding a replacement was impossible, so I used a trick I learned long ago (when I was in ...

I would have hated it if I had paid $2,000 - $3.000 (or a lot more) for tickets and had been able to see only the 15 minutes of real football that occurred during the last half of the fourth quarter!

Go Patriots!

Hi Al... And the same to you and Callie. How are you doing? Havent heard from you in quite a while.

Rick The flyswatter comment is a serious one. It might have been the perfect season but we were innundated with what resembled the "deer flies" I knew as a kid when I lived in the country on a couple of trips.

I haven't done any part of the ICW in the past 2 years, but even then it was shoaling in parts of Georgia and a lot of other places. IMHO a 50 foot boat might find some places rather tight maneuvering. I would try to find current info and plan accordingly. Army Corps of Engineers budgets have been c...

Buzz... glad you personally are OK, but sorry to hear of your properties. We here in our neighborhood fared much better than others not too far away. No flooding and very little structural damage except for one home which had a tree fall on it. We drove up from the Myrtle Beach area yesterday and we...

I think it is normal that our boats heel to one side or the other at high speeds because when it planes there is so little wetted surface supporting it it can't stay balanced on that small centerline area. Just my opinion... I am not a marine architect. My FBC with Cummins 6B 315 does the same as yo...

We left Kingsland GA at 8:30 this AM and arrived at friends house in Pawleys Island SC (about 20 miles south of Myrtle Beach)at 1:30 this afternoon. Rt 95 had only light traffic which was a surprise. We will stay here until we can get to our home in Wilmington, about 140 miles away. Wilmington is re...

We are staying put tonight in Kingsland GA and will try to drive to friends in Myrtle Beach SC tomorrow (Sun). It seems that 2 of the major highways in eastern NC (Rt I 95 and I 40) are closed in part due to flooding. Neighbors say we don't have power but I do have a generator. Two neighbors are sha...