Bertram 28

hi, looking for one to repower before you spend time and money,please get in touch tried to email you thru this site ,failed

walt

chis

i tried emailing you and private messaging,(site won't let you post phone #)but would not connect,i think i'm set up so i can recieve email thru site.if you could try to message me or email phone number i'd like to talk,

walt

Sounds great. Sounds like you probably need to have your carbs cleaned though. Gas that old turns to like varnish. You could also be dealing with condensation in the tanks. No big deal. DK about that 'old style' fuel. I'm skeptical. You should look into changing that main fuel tank over the winter (that too could explain the carb problems). Glad to hear you decided to keep her. She sounds like a good boat. Good luck and have fun.

Ed,

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I usually try to cut it down to specifics, but am doing 20 things at once today. Will try to be more succinct and bandwidth conscious. Thanks for the heads up.

28 Bertram

On the Judson when the orange light quits flickering or flickers slowly it's supposed to be sync'd. Listen to the motors at cruising speed. Set one throttle at cruise speed and get the other engine close with the tach. When they're sync'd it will make a long droning sound. It's kind of hard to explain but pretty east to do if you listen to the engines.

The GPS is real easy to use, but way too much info to adequately describe here. Best to get a manual. Most operate very similarly, but may use different terms and differnt ways to get to the same operations. In the simplest form you can watch your boat as you move across the chart. (white-deep, lgt blue more shallow, dark blue shallow, brown or green trade the props for tires ) Initially, go into the menu and scroll down to track. Turn the track feature on and mark "wrap". That will leave a continuous breadcrumb trail behind the boat. With that you can follow it back home in the dark or fog. You can also "save" tracks and have them show on the chart, so you can mark regularly traveled areas. You'll also want to learn to put in "Routes". On most of the Garmins you can program the Data field, a great feature. I like to have: heading, course correction, name of next waypoint, distance to & time to next waypoint, 2nd waypoint name, ETA at destination and current time, but the choices are near infinite. As I said before the GPS is easy to use, but the key is to play with it, play with it, play with it. On a day when you're just hanging on the boat think of a place you'd like to go to and put in a "Route", then another, etc. Garmins hold a ton of Routes. Mine holds 50 and umpteen waypoints. (a waypoint is simply a point where you'll want to adjust course and a Route is series of waypoints making up the trip which you'll follow point to point. You also can't put anything on the screen (waypoints, etc.) that you can't take off, so don't worry about that. Also, you can't screw it up so play & enjoy. 1st time I used GPS back in '91 I fell instantly in love. Best thing since sliced bread.

A lot of newer boats have so much structure and sound dampening that it gets hard to hear, but that Bertram is great for it. Out of sync the sound hits me like fingernails on a chaulk board. In sync it's almost like a soft song. You'll be syncing those motors without even looking at the tachs in no time.