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05-15-2013, 03:39 PM
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Member
City: Orange Beach, AL
Vessel Name: Sauvignon Blanc
Vessel Model: 1984 Marine Trader 36DC
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 7
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Hey there!
After years of racing sailboats, speedboats, sport fish, etc. we have finally settled down and bought a trawler- something we should have done a few years back. I realized that I am turning 40 next year and need to slow down a bit, because I've been missing too much.  We are the proud new owners of a 1984 Marine Trader 36DC with T/ 90 Lehmans. We picked her up yesterday and she's now behind my office at the Wharf Marina in Orange Beach, AL. We look forward to learning more on this forum and meeting different people soon. Looks like a great forum and I look forward to learning more about our boat and what folks have done with them!
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Ben and Carrie Montgomery
1984 Marine Trader 36 "Sauvignon Blanc"
Orange Beach, AL
www.benmontgomerygys.com
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05-15-2013, 04:36 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Welcome Ben and Carrie,
Great area with a lot of good fishing. Is the Wharf Marina on Cotton Bayou? I'm not familiar with it. I kept a boat at Sportsman Marina for about 10 years. Let's see some pictures of your boat.
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05-15-2013, 05:04 PM
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Member
City: Orange Beach, AL
Vessel Name: Sauvignon Blanc
Vessel Model: 1984 Marine Trader 36DC
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 7
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Hey Don,
We kept our Bertram at Sportsman- she's actually still there. The Wharf is on the ICW at the end of the Foley Beach Express bridge. May not have been the during your tenure. Let me see if I can attach pics...
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Ben and Carrie Montgomery
1984 Marine Trader 36 "Sauvignon Blanc"
Orange Beach, AL
www.benmontgomerygys.com
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05-15-2013, 05:14 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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The bridge was completed only a short time before we pulled the boat out of there. Is Chuck Thames still the manager at Sportsman? He's a really nice guy. I miss the great seafood.
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05-15-2013, 05:55 PM
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Member
City: Orange Beach, AL
Vessel Name: Sauvignon Blanc
Vessel Model: 1984 Marine Trader 36DC
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonstruck
The bridge was completed only a short time before we pulled the boat out of there. Is Chuck Thames still the manager at Sportsman? He's a really nice guy. I miss the great seafood.
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Big Chuck, yes. He and I are very good friends. Small world.
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Ben and Carrie Montgomery
1984 Marine Trader 36 "Sauvignon Blanc"
Orange Beach, AL
www.benmontgomerygys.com
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05-15-2013, 06:32 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BamaTrader36
Big Chuck, yes. He and I are very good friends. Small world.
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Chuck was a very young man working up in dry storage when we put our Blackfin in there. He grew into the job by taking good care of customers. My wife and I really liked him. By the way, if he remembers us, tell him my wife Anne passed away about 7 years ago.
When they fired up the wood grill at the restaurant every evening it would drive me crazy. Can't forget that.
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05-15-2013, 06:49 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: San Jose, CA
Vessel Name: Pineapple Girl 3
Vessel Model: Silverton 38c
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 2,171
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What a small world Don! Welcome Ben and Carrie! Nice ride(s).
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-Jennifer
2003 Silverton 38c (not a trawler)
Marina Village, Alameda
San Francisco Bay Area
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05-15-2013, 08:15 PM
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Guru
City: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Vessel Name: Gumbo
Vessel Model: 2003 Monk 36
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,882
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Welcome, we spent 4 days at the Wharf a couple of weeks ago it is a very nice marina especially now with good baths and laundry facility. I have stopped there almost every year since 2005.
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05-16-2013, 04:36 PM
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Guru
City: New England
Vessel Name: Culmination
Vessel Model: Helmsman 38 Sedan
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 678
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"Slowing down" at 40?!? Does that ever make me feel old!
Welcome aboard (from a really old time boater but new member here).
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Nick
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05-16-2013, 05:30 PM
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Senior Member
City: Silverado, CA
Vessel Name: Osprey
Vessel Model: Nimble Wanderer
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 193
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Welcome!
What part of your boat runs on 36 VDC? I remember years ago someone was having trouble servicing something in a 36 VDC systems (an inverter or a charger or ...) and he had to change everything to 24 VDC. Do you think you might have to convert someday?
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05-16-2013, 06:18 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: St. Marks, Florida
Vessel Name: Morgan
Vessel Model: Gulfstar 36
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 3,673
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Welcome aboard. Although I have to echo Endurance and say "slowing down at 40???" Slow down at 60 perhaps, but 40?
John
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