Bertram33 User Forum

This sounds like it might be worth taking the trip to join in a fun one time celebration. Count me in!

It's been a while since I've been here, but I wanted to let you know about how I have saved BIG on my insurance. Last year with my annual premium exceeding $5000, I went shopping and saved 50% !!! BoatUS is now $2480, but I'm upping my deductable to 4% and it will be down to $2000. Remember guys thi...

Hi 33 friends, I wanted to report that I was able to get better coverage from BoatUS at half the price I was paying to Markel on my '84 33SF. From $5100 to $2490 is a huge difference. I don't know what changed with BoatUS as I had never gotten a resonable quote from them in previous trys. I was read...

I have 2 sets of the Perko lockset and send them back to Perko every time they break (annual event) and they fix it as it has a "Lifetime warrenty". I have to have done this about 10 times now. It is just so stupid that the little piece that always breaks inside the lock set is of a poorer...

Congratualtions Marissa on becoming a Bertram 33 addict! When y'all make your trip to bring "her" home, let me know so we can offer you a cocktail and toast stop in Venice! Just give me a heads-up and we'll meet-up. Have safe & fun trip! Chris

Hey Gene....your trip sounds great and the engines sound like they are great as well. I wish I was able to do 10% of the things to the boat your able to do yourself! Having to find people that one can trust is hard and they all have to make a living too I suppose. If you have any pics of the things ...

The lag for me is very slight. Mine are ZF/Mathers and I noticed it more at first, but not enough to be bothered. I have heard from my installer that the earlier controls were somewhat more delayed. Now if I had a Sea Ray with these controls, I too would move up to a Bertram. [;)].

Well Frank .... Here is another option. When I repowered from gas to Yanmars I, well, went a little overboard by changing to ZF/Mathers single lever electronic. (This is likley to futher an ongoing discussion about "fly-by-wire" pros and cons..) 3 words. I Love them. 1000 hrs = 1 small adj...

Hi John, If you look at the "Events" section, Kiwi Too was at the Captiva Island "Bertram Pride" gathering (which was a wonderful time...) but in some of the pics you can see the side exhaust and how I get a little soot area that I mentioned before. More soot in the high temps an...

John, One item I wish I had done different, concerns the gen exhaust. I ran it out the Stb transom.... I wished I had combined it out the stb main port (like Viking,etc as a tube within a tube) as I have a swim platform that gets too much exhaust.

Hi John, I repowered from gas to Yanmar 6LP UTE 315 hp 3 years ago on my 33SF and also did the 6" side exhausts. We positioned them about 5" forward of the transom and about 3/4 the way above the waterline. I used Tiara's deflector which keeps the water from covering the outlets at slower ...

When I repowered to diesel (Yanmar 315 6LYUTE) in 2003, I also choose a 5OZ Kohler 5kw (Yanmar engine)in the lazzerete and it serves me as well as the old 6.5kw gasser did. I run it with AC almost all the time I'm away from the dock. With 1100 hrs on it it has been enough kw for all my needs and it ...

Bertram Pride was tooooo fun! What a great time meeting everyone. Having nice soft drinks and lite food was ...... yea, right. Tim those photos are really nice. I love looking at the boats "up-n-runnin". I'm getting Carmen to put our pics on CD and will send them to Dave.... or should they...

Hi Mike, I'm going to try to post a image (1st attempt). I think the props were made by Federated/Michigan Wheel as they say "FED/MI" on them.

Geeezzzz Doug...why must you be so cruel.[;)] Look forward to seeing you in FL.