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    Prop' set suggestions for Bravo 3x coupled to 250hp Vetus diesel 4,200 rpm max. (UK based)

    Boat is a Reinell V-204, Displacement around 7,000lbs, Reduction ratio 2.2:1. I just need a starting point to get me somewhere near the right prop' set. I've not found any guidance or charts to help so far. Thanks, Peter
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    Installing imitation teak decking on a 1978 V-204

    You can see what an untidy worker I am, but it's getting done despite the low temperatures in Devon, England at the moment.
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    Surprising what you can do with a bit of practice

    Currently rebuilding a Reinell V-204 1978. Here's the helm before and after. Remodelled using 3/4 ply, then skinned and faired with GRP and finally sprayed with Jotun two-pack. Cheers, UK Peter.
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    Hurray, we're back!

    After a fairly long period of being barred from the forum due to EU (spit!) rules it seems that us UK folk are back! Always enjoy seeing what you lot are up to. In some respects US boating is quite different to here in the UK apart from the fact that boats break down and fall apart wherever they...
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    Bravo 3x power trim wiring harness diagram

    I'm currently installing a new (2014 model) Bravo 3x and the one thing I can't source here in the UK is the power trim harness from the switch to the pump to the trim limit switch and I don't really want to have to buy a manual just for this diagram. Can any one point me in the direction of the...
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    1978 Reinell V-204 rebuild in the UK

    Having seen Crazy Finn's thread I thought you boys (and girls) might like to see what I'm doing here in the UK with this old Reinell. I needed to down size from a 40 foot steel flybridge cruiser, (you'd probably call it a trawler). Anyway the gallon a mile running costs was getting prohibitive...
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    I'm looking for a pair of side lights like these.

    I believe they were Aqua Signal, but are long out of production. I've had no luck in the UK so wondered if anyone sees a set for sale anywhere (new or secondhand) in the USA they could let me know. Thanks, Peter
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    Sea of Cortez and Hetta Coffey

    Been reading the Hetta Coffey series from Jinx Schwartz. Great books, very entertaining with enough factual boat knowledge to make them even more interesting. Makes me wonder if the Sea of Cortez is packed with murderous drug smugglers though. (Probably not I guess! but makes for exciting...
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    GM 6.5 V8 diesel water injection riser/bend/elbow?

    Further to the other thread on this engine. We have the water-cooled manifolds, a two into one dry riser which has water passages at the top to inject water from the manifolds into the exhaust pipe-work. The only thing we are missing is a riser or elbow to connect the dry riser to the exhaust...
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    GM 6.5 V8 diesel

    In the UK these engines have a terrible reputation thanks to a company buying ex-military engines, fitting marinising equipment and selling them on. There must be millions of them in trucks and military vehicles so they can't all be bad. I'm about to fit one which we've rebuilt into a sport...
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    1978 Reinell V-204 - Is this the only one left?

    I think I posted about this boat previously. So apologies if I'm repeating myself. I picked this boat up from a marina who had taken it in lieu of mooring fees. Paid over the odds for it to help the owner who had been ill but still got a bargain. It's now having a nuts and bolts rebuild although...
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    Aqua-Signal Side lights

    I'm looking for a pair of these. Can't get them anywhere in the UK, new or secondhand. Thanks, Peter
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    Just bought a Reinell

    Greetings from the UK. I've just bought a late 70s Reinell V-204 for a top to bottom refit (picture below). This will be my fourth project boat. I'm now downsizing from a 40 foot steel/aluminium flybridge cruiser. (you lot might call it a trawler!)(Second pic). Can no longer afford the gallon a...
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