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Many fishing trips I took with my father growing up on our 17' Mitchell skiff would qualify as a bad day on the water. The Mississippi Sound gets pretty choppy and that POS would beat your guts out and soak you to the bone. He would cuss all the way in as wave after wave would pound and soak the two of us. We would trawl for bait before the sun came up and head to the Louisiana marsh with all the big, new, deep v boats. Man I was envious of them, but some of the best memories from my childhood are of those trips with him on that skiff. He's 83 now and too old to get out there, and I've never had, nor probably never will have another fishing partner like him. We talk about those trips all the time and he always says what a great little boat that was. Time has a way of erasing the pain.

I'll take a sample.

I've been affected by the spill in that I, too, am unable to fish the areas I have fished my whole life-the east side of the Biloxi marsh all the way to Southwest Pass and around to West Bay west of the MS River. I've seen "tarballs" by the thousands and small areas oil-soaked sand along the east side of Southwest Pass as well as emulsified or dispersed oil in the surf along this beach. Nothing is being done down there to clean it up, at least as of a week ago, and I can't imagine they would be able to stop this emulsified slop from coming ashore due to the fact that it is suspended in the water column. There are thousands of feet of boom along that area and oil still gets ashore, so I have no confidence in the effectiveness of this line of defense to protect our coastline. My biggest pet peeve in all of this is the ridiculous estimate of oil leaked in the beginning. While they were claiming one to five thousand barrels of oil were leaking per day and that the environmental impact would be modest, they are now claiming the containment cap is capturing eleven thousand barrels a day and that this could be a third to half the volume flowing from the BOP. I realize the flow increased after cutting away the riser, but it still reflects BPs failure to give accurate information, i.e. downplaying the significance of the spill. I don't trust much that comes from Tony Hayward's mouth. I can't believe he hasn't been replaced. Then again, doing so would be an admission of BPs mistakes. I believe drilling should continue, but I believe Louisiana should quit being the whipping boy for the oil companies, as Louisiana has the commodity everyone wants and, to a certain extent, they hold the cards. I am not talking about over-taxing the industry, but I do believe LA could do a much better job of forcing oil companies to be better stewards of the land and environment. Louisiana is disappearing quickly due to oil exploration and, although they are supposed to mitigate their damage, take a look at a satellite picture of south Louisiana sometime and look at the endless miles of canals dug for the purpose of oil and gas exploration. What this has done is destabilize the marsh, allowing erosion and more and more salt water intrusion, as well as the removal of coastal buffers of storm surge. It would take trillions, not billions, of dollars to reclaim this land and protect what is still there. Cutting a couple of holes in the bank of the MS River and opening a few of the diversion canals will never keep up, especially considering the fact that the river carries only a fraction of the land-building sediment it did when these areas were created, due to flood control and bank stabilization revetments.

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Please pick me. My T shirt collection is looking a little shabby.

Cruisair 6k BTU mounted under V berth and Honda eu2000 genset on 2870. There are a couple of 2870s that have been for sale in the Orange Beach area for a while now. They are overpriced. Maybe they are ready to consider a lowball offer. My opinion is an 03 with 4 stroke power should go in the 65-80k range, depending on obvious reasons. This is a perfect family boat. Plenty of comfortable seating and easy for one man to handle himself while the young family enjoys the trip. I believe Legendary is the broker for one of those boats. They are pretty popular, so I would think a few of the brokers around there would have a listing or two. By the way, these boats have plenty of freeboard. Must have been a funny camera angle or something.

Pursuit 2870 Walkaround. Plenty for sale at that price with twin four stroke power. You'll love this boat.

I already got my answer from Dancecoach over there. Thanks for the reply.

Can anyone tell me where the sea strainer for the A/C is located on the newer Pursuit 2870 WAs or 280 OSs? Is it under the midberth near the macerator discharge or farther aft? Thanks.

Tomorrow, working. Tomorrow night, working. Sunday, you guessed it, working. Enjoy the weekend, boys.

Coat them with CRC Corrosion Inhibitor to extend their lives.

Thanks for the replies. Menzies is probably right. If I haven't been able to get them clean with what I've tried, I guess I'll have to get used to looking at mildewed cushions.

I've done the searches and tried it all. I've tried Starbrite, mineral spirits, soft scrub with bleach, and plain old soap. Nothing is removing the bolster mildew from this past winter. Any other suggestions. I found a concoction from a web search that had a fairly weak solution of ammonia and hydrogen peroxide, but I haven't tried that yet. Has anyone tried that or are there any other suggestions on getting rid of this stuff? Removing the bolster cushions is not easy on my boat, but next year they're coming off.