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Greetings,
Welcome aboard if I've missed you. Can't help with your question but did you buy that boat in Camden, NC?
Welcome aboard if I've missed you. Can't help with your question but did you buy that boat in Camden, NC?
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Florida fisherman
Member
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2021
- Messages
- 6
- Vessel Name
- REFUGE II
- Vessel Make
- 44 1978 Thompson trawler
Refugeii
Home Port Grove City FL picked her up in Englewood FL Home Port is Hernando Beach it had been let sitting for years .according to log book .after spending about month in Englewood Fl making repairs getting the engine started Ford Layman. Jan 15 last year cast lines and spent a week bringing her home engine never skipped a beat 110 mile slow trip to say the bottom was dirty would be a under statement. Had a bad vibration in shaft log so pretty much ide all the way home .stopped in Sarasota to grab 50 gallons
of fuel had plenty on board need gas for the Gen. According to log first time since 2008 .had fuel added .out in to the open water at the mouth of tampa Bay and the Guff of Mexico .free at last.until we got home and sitting at the dock got slammed into by a shimp boat that's another story
Home Port Grove City FL picked her up in Englewood FL Home Port is Hernando Beach it had been let sitting for years .according to log book .after spending about month in Englewood Fl making repairs getting the engine started Ford Layman. Jan 15 last year cast lines and spent a week bringing her home engine never skipped a beat 110 mile slow trip to say the bottom was dirty would be a under statement. Had a bad vibration in shaft log so pretty much ide all the way home .stopped in Sarasota to grab 50 gallons
of fuel had plenty on board need gas for the Gen. According to log first time since 2008 .had fuel added .out in to the open water at the mouth of tampa Bay and the Guff of Mexico .free at last.until we got home and sitting at the dock got slammed into by a shimp boat that's another story
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Florida fisherman
Member
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2021
- Messages
- 6
- Vessel Name
- REFUGE II
- Vessel Make
- 44 1978 Thompson trawler
Refugeii
Home Port Grove City FL picked her up in Englewood FL Home Port is Hernando Beach it had been let sitting for years .according to the log book .after spending about a month in Englewood Fl making repairs getting the engine started Ford Layman. Jan 15 last year cast lines and spent a week bringing her home engine never skipped a beat 110 mile slow trip to say the bottom was dirty would be a under statement. Had a bad vibration in shaft log so pretty much ide all the way home .stopped in Sarasota to grab 50 gallon of fuel had plenty on board need gas for the Gen. According to log first time since 2008 .had fuel added .out in to the open water at the mouth of tampa Bay and the Guff of Mexico .free at last.until we got home and sitting at the dock got slammed into by a shimp boat that's another story
Home Port Grove City FL picked her up in Englewood FL Home Port is Hernando Beach it had been let sitting for years .according to the log book .after spending about a month in Englewood Fl making repairs getting the engine started Ford Layman. Jan 15 last year cast lines and spent a week bringing her home engine never skipped a beat 110 mile slow trip to say the bottom was dirty would be a under statement. Had a bad vibration in shaft log so pretty much ide all the way home .stopped in Sarasota to grab 50 gallon of fuel had plenty on board need gas for the Gen. According to log first time since 2008 .had fuel added .out in to the open water at the mouth of tampa Bay and the Guff of Mexico .free at last.until we got home and sitting at the dock got slammed into by a shimp boat that's another story
