FishBones No More

willy

willy

God
A great boat has flown to another owner, back to the town actually I bought her in (Cape May)
Good Bye Senor FishBones

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Congrats willy.
Look through the modification posts Blue Runner has started.
Yours looks a little more apt for the situation.
 
1971 Bertram B28 Fly Bridge

28 long, 11 wide

Repowered 2003 with PCM 350 300 hp fuel injected (throttle body)
with 258 hours.

At same time new transmissions Borg Warner Velvet Drives - new 1 1/4 stainless shafts.

At same time new epoxied aluminum 165 gallon main tank and two epoxied aluminum 40 gallon saddle tanks for extended range.

Lee Senior Out Riggers

New this year complete fresh water system, tank plumbing and hoses and pump.

New this year, 16000 BTU air and heating system.

And according to a very popular and much appreciated Marine Surveyor here in the Jersey Area, known as Dunk on the Bass Barn and the Hull Truth That I hired. Don't run into any oil tankers on the water you might sink them and cause a catastrophe.
Solid across the board, minor moisture in the fly bridge deck about 18" square, likely been that way for 20 years and is hard as a rock. Floors, cockpit, fore deck, cabin walls, and around windows dry as a bone and solid. Hull bottom solid no blisters, all bulk heads solid and dry and still tabbed to the hull as the factory did it.
 
And Blue Man, I was reading your Mod post and I think you have the numbers askew, you want a two man crew and four petite super models.
The second man is really only there to take the helm for your long breaks.

And forget the heater what you need is a set of good quality fishing bibs and boots, in a size xxxxl.
Then you get into them, you take one petite, facing whichever way you are in the mood for and slide her in too.
What other heat would you need brother, I'm just saying!
 
Willy i am very impressed! :clap:

We need a "bow on" shot. That way we can judge if we can even pretend its a gigantic V20, :bat:.
 
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Congrats!!!

I was going to say check the gas tanks cause there was a guy that had one and they used fiberglass tanks in them, New gas eat them to hell, so he had to pay something like $10K to remove his teak deck and replace tanks then rebuild the deck!

Good luck with her!
 
And to Dave (Spare) and Ozzie (Old Coot) thanks for the advise and support.

Now get your dead arse's up here and go fishing!
 
You going to love that 10" screen on the GPS, I love mine!! I have the newer 4210 in mine and its great!! I have the radar and sounder built all in to mine as well.
 
Willy, my dad and my brother went to Venezuela back in 1989. And they fished a bertram identical to yours. They fished there for 14 days,diesel fuel on the water there was .04 cents a gallon, and they had and average 40 shots a day on white marlin and caught an average of 30 whites a day. Almost 75% of there charter fleet were bertrams. Very nice boat my man. She is beautiful!!! I've always had a soft spot for bertrams.
 
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Went to Mexico with my Wife and Brother and Sister in law this past March.
In the marinas ther there were multiple's of two different boats being used by the charter Captains. Phoenix 29's and Bertram 28's.
They run some tough sea's there, went out on a charter and saw first hand, the Captains said these boats were tougher than nails and held up.
I tried to find a good Phoenix here, had a survey done on one in Mass. and checked out four here in Jersey.
All five were rotted to death. Such a shame.
Bertrams I checked, and there were a few, had occasional issues here and there. None, even a decade or more older had anywhere near the rot or delamination problems the Phoenix's all had.
 
Looks like you came to your senses and forgot about the chris craft, and stepped up to the big leagues. That's ALOT of boat for a 28 footer. Hate to hear you got rid of fishbones after all of the work you had just done to it, but your in another class of vessel now.
 
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