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- Gorson
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There were a bunch of companies making trihull runabouts in the 70's that look almost exactly alike. I think it's a Tristar, but could be a Starcraft, Crestliner, etc. There should be a VIN plate on it somewhere that will clear it up.
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Feb 12, 2015 03:22
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- Scrodes
- Oct 18, 2003
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LOL RACISM!
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Cool thanks. Off to autotrader to look at....boats?
I need a hobby other than collecting new hobbies.
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Feb 12, 2015 04:09
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- awesome-express
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That brand pissed me off so much when I was 12 and trying to look up Brood War tips.
"alright let's try starcraft.com... why are there boats what"
E ahaha I guess Blizzard's bought the domain since then.
i was in for a surprise when i had a similar thought process and went to xmen.com with my dad sitting behind me
it was a porn site
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Feb 12, 2015 11:40
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- n0tqu1tesane
- May 7, 2003
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She was rubbing her ass all over my hands. They don't just do that for everyone.
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There were a bunch of companies making trihull runabouts in the 70's that look almost exactly alike. I think it's a Tristar, but could be a Starcraft, Crestliner, etc. There should be a VIN plate on it somewhere that will clear it up.
I doubt you'll find an actual plate, and it's not a VIN, it's a HIN. On a lot of boats, especially small fiberglass ones like that, the HIN is just electropenciled or stamped on the transom, and usually somewhere near the helm as well.
EDIT: If you do locate the HIN, you can use this site to verify the manufacturer: http://www.myboatpro.com/Boat_Vin_Check.htm
n0tqu1tesane fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Feb 13, 2015
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- Gay Nudist Dad
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asshole on a scooter
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My family has an old 1972 Cobalt tri-hull with an open bow like that.
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Feb 13, 2015 03:43
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- Scrodes
- Oct 18, 2003
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LOL RACISM!
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Thanks guys, it will narrow my search. Of course I didn't plan on no one selling boats when it's minus forty out. I figured everyone offloaded their boats in the winter because in the summer you'd be more inclined to use the drat things.
I'm trying to relive my childhood so I want to find one with a hunter green hull and white topside. Should be a cinch to find.
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Feb 13, 2015 22:28
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- Black88GTA
- Oct 8, 2009
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I'm constantly trolling (  ) my local CL for boats, even though I don't have the money or storage space to keep one. There's always a handful of boats in the free section. Some of them actually look relatively decent for someone who's handy and doesn't mind putting in some work...
http://longisland.craigslist.org/zip/4873787557.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/zip/4888587487.html
http://jerseyshore.craigslist.org/zip/4837532241.html
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple boats just like that pop up in the free section over the last year or so, if you were looking for restoration candidates. I don't know where you are located though, so YMMV. I happen to be surrounded by water and lots of old money, so boats are everywhere you look.
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Feb 14, 2015 03:10
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- Chillbro Baggins
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 Bad Angus! Bad!
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A free boat is like a free hotel room in Vegas. At least in Vegas you can get some blackjack and hookers while pissing away your life savings.
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Feb 14, 2015 09:13
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- Chinatown
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by Fluffdaddy
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Fun Shoe
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get same experience taking a cold shower ripping apart $100 bills
old chinese saying
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Feb 14, 2015 15:24
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- BrokenKnucklez
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For people who get all lovely about boat ownership really don't know much about them or are not willing to put in the work. The cost of ownership on mine was pretty cheap. 1 alternator, 1 belt and some relays is all the work I ever put into mine (grand total of 150 bucks). The problem is they just don't get looked after like a car. Plus anything with an outboard motor is going to be more specialized vs a stern drive that uses a common engine.
Granted I covered it, cleaned it and was super anal about fluids more than the average owner though because OCD.
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- atomicthumbs
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We're in the business of extending man's senses.
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i feel obliged to repost something i found on a message board from 2004
quote:Navy, eh? Longing for the peace and tranquility of life asea? Imagining the long swells rocking you to sleep? Well, here's some things you can do at home to tide you over until you reach your goal:
1. When commencing this simulation, remember to lock all friends and family outside, communicating only with A) letters that your neighbors will hold for two weeks before delivering; losing one in five; or B) E-mail that is held for three weeks before you get a "Dump" after you call your family.
2. Surround yourself with people you don't like; people who chain smoke, fart obnoxiously, snore like a Mack Truck on an uphill grade, complain to excess about everything from the weather to the amount of work "someone else" wants them to do and who use expletives like kids put sugar on cold cereal.
3. Unplug all radios and TV's. Cut yourself off from the outside world. Have the neighbors bring over a month old magazine or two every couple of weeks.
4. Monitor closely all home appliances hourly. Record all vital parameters (plugged in, light goes on when door opens, bell goes ‘ding' when cycle is complete, etc.). If not in use, log as SECURED.
5. Do not flush the toilet to simulate the smell of 21 men sharing one commode. After that flush once daily.
6. Wear only approved coveralls or the proper Navy uniforms. No special T-shirts, no shorts. Even though nobody really cares, once a week clean and press one uniform and wear it for twenty minutes, after which you must change back into your coveralls.
7. Have the paper boy (no older than 10) cut your hair weekly, making it shorter each time until you are bald or look as though you have
tangled with a demented sheep shearer.
8. Work 18 hour cycles, sleeping only four hours at a time to ensure your body neither know, nor cares if its day or night.
9. Listen to your favorite CD six times a day for two weeks. Then play music that causes your ears to bleed or acute nausea until you are glad to get back to your "favorite CD".
10. Cut a twin mattress in half, lengthwise. Either place it on the top shelf in a closet with the doors removed or enclose three sides with a roof. Either way, ensure that you cannot sit up in any position (approx. 18 inches is good) Place a dead animal under the sheets to simulate the smell of the berthing area.
11. Two to three hours after you go to sleep, have your wife or roommate whip back the curtain of the sleeping area, shine a flashlight in your face and say "Oops, wrong rack."
12. Set your alarm clock for a snooze interval for the first hour of your sleep to simulate various alarms of watchstanders and night crew going off at odd times and waking you up.
13. If you are unable to place your bed on a platform, put it on a rocking table to ensure that you're tossed from side to side for the "sleep period."
14. Prepare a custom alarm clock that randomly sounds like a fire alarm, police whistle and a new wave rock band to simulate the various drill alarms on board the ship. Place an amplified speaker every 5 feet along the hall way and two in each room. Hide the On/Off switch.
15. Prepare all food blindfolded, using all the spices that you can grope for (or use none at all). Serve the food in prison trays with not enough silver for everyone to eat at once. Remove the blindfold, eat as fast as humanly possible. Make more than can possibly be eaten at one meal, serve the leftovers as mid-rats two days in a row.
16. Periodically secure power to the main breaker and run around the house screaming "FIRE IN THE MAIN SPACE, FIRE IN THE MAIN SPACE". Do this until you are sweating profusely or you loose your voice, then restore power.
17. Buy a gas mask, smear the inside with rancid animal fat and scrub the face piece with steel wool until you can no longer see. Wear this for two hours every fifth day, even to the bathroom to simulate CBR Training.
18. Study the owners manual for all appliances in the dwelling. At regular intervals, take one apart, put it back together (ensure that you have extra parts) and test it at the extremes of its tolerance to simulate PMS.
19. Remove all plants, pictures and decorations, replace them all with
"inspirational" or "nautical" posters.
20. Repaint the interior of the dwelling every month, whether it needs it or not. Use only white, gray or shades of hospital smocks.
21. To assure that you are living in a clean and happy environment, every week clean from to top to bottom, whenever and as often as possible, repeating your efforts. Work all day even though it is a three hour job. When complete, inspect your work, criticizing as much as possible. Never be satisfied with a good effort.
22. Only plug in the TV once a day for four hours. Have your family vote on which two movies to watch then show different ones. Make sure the movies shown were ones that you walked out of in the theater.
23. Every three weeks, to simulate liberty in a foreign port, go outside directly to the city slums while in your best clothes. Enter the raunchiest bar you can find, drink as many of the most expensive imported beers as you can in four hours. Hire a cab to take you home by the longest route possible, then over tip the driver after he charges you double because you were dressed funny. Lock yourself back in the dwelling for another three weeks.
24. Repeat everything everyone says to you.
25. Renovate your bathroom, build a wall across the middle of our bathtub and move the shower head down to chest level. Limit the flow to .5 Gal per min. Limit showers to 3 minutes and one per day.
26. Buy a trash compactor, use it once a week. Store the garbage in the other side of your bathtub.
27. Sit in your car for 8 hours a day in two 4 hour shifts with your hands on the wheel and the motor running but don't go any where. Install 200 extra oil gauges, take readings on them every 30 minutes and log them correctly.
28. Put a several complicated locks on the basement door, wear the key for one on a lanyard around your neck forget how to open the others and only use the key lock.
29. Every so often Yell "MAN OVERBOARD PORT / STARBOARD SIDE" followed by RIGHT/LEFT HARD RUDDER! Sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off the counter onto the floor then, yell at your wife for not being "secure for sea."
30. Nail a 2" X 4" 12 inches up from the floor and 12 inches down from the ceiling across every door so that you have to step up AND duck to go through them.
31. Put the headphones from your stereo on (don't plug them in), stand in front of the stove tell no one in particular "stove manned and ready" stand there for three hours, announce "stove secured".
32. When the mailman arrives, step onto your porch, yell as loud as you can, "POSTMASTER GENERAL, ARRIVING" so that everyone in the house can hear you.
33. Refer to everyone by a nick name or their initials I.E., WIFE, CHILD, JR.
34. Mount sharp cornered lockers in the most traveled hallways in the house, leave just enough room for the children to squeeze by.
35. Write a procedure in triplicate for task in the home. Have a friend check your work and make a minimum of 5 changes. When the new forms are ready, have your wife check the work and verify that the procedure is correct but make 10 changes anyway. Store them in binders on the opposite end of the house from where the task is performed.
36. Install the furnace and A/C ducts to blow directly on your bed, set the controls so that they will cycle from hot to cold in a mater of seconds.
37. Buy 50 cases of toilet paper, lock up all but two rolls. Ensure that one of these two rolls is wet at all times.
38. Tell your kids to "go get you a can of relative bearing grease."
39. Paint the right half of the windshield of your car black, make your wife give you directions from the passenger seat and chart your position every 15 minutes.
40. Ask for "Permission to Enter" when you go in the kitchen.
41. Give everything an acronym.
42. Collect and tell as many "off color" jokes as possible.
43. Make plans with your wife in secret. Gather the family together to tell them what you plan to do. Do something else.
44. Plan to get a whole bunch of work done around the house. Then announce surprise training on how to work the appliances.
45. Study first aid until you can quote the book verbatim.
46. This simulation needs to run 7 weeks to be effective. The exact date of the end of the simulation must be changed no fewer than 7 times, without your knowledge. This is done to keep you guessing as to when you can expect to get back to a semi-normal life. It is also done in hopes of screwing up any plans you have made or would like to make.
47. Hide all the toothpaste and toothbrushes so when you wake your kids for the "next watch" you will get bowled over by their breath.
48. Get up at 3 a.m., get in your car, drive around the block with the lights off for 6 hours. This will prepare you for late night small boat ops.
49. Turn the heat up to 120 deg F. Try to wash the ceiling and walls while bouncing on a trampoline. This will prepare you for trying to clean up the paint locker on most ships.
50. Place an open can of tuna in every pocket, inventory your freezer, triple count it. Fisheries boarding. Nuff said.
51. Place a label or ID tag on every minuscule item (you know "Door", "Door Knob", "Window", "Lightbulb", etc.
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