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I have a 1979 42 Grand Banks Classic I am thinking of selling. The boat is in Palacios Texas. Send me a private message if you want to discuss. Charlie

Well, spent the last couple of days preparing the Texas Lady in between preparing for Harvey's arrival at our home and lodge on Matagorda Bay. It has been exhausting. You do not realize how many pot plants, benches and chairs until you have to move and store them in a couple of days. We went...

Welcome! Looking forward to hearing which vessel you decide on. Your plans sound great. Charlie

Thank you BruceK. I will follow your lead on the epoxy.

I am in the process of rebedding windows on a 1979 42 Grand Banks. I have searched the site and have seen several comments which are helpful, but would appreciate some helpful hints from those that have tackled this. First, I have started on one small slider window and we were able to remove...

Thanks to all of the recent welcomes. This post started in November 2015, so I was a littles surprised on the recent activity. I will be going into full retirement in March and expect to begin longer trips after a few projects are completed at the home place. Fair winds to all!

Paul, Sounds like a nice relaxing trip. The weather has been nice an calm here. We look forward to doing the same. have a great trip and I hope our paths cross while cruising. Charlie

Hello Jan and Lee, All is well after our purchase. We have not taken some of the longer trips we expected yet, but that is mainly because I am still working full time until this fall. Nice boat!. Thank you for the note. Charlie

I currently live on Carancahua Bay, on the East side of the development you are looking at. This bay is better suited for shallow bay boats. Palacios and Port Lavaca have dock space that will accommodate a trawler. I currently keep our trawler in Palacios. I would not consider taking it into...

It was a great day. We did not make out on Matagorda Bay today, but did over the weekend. We did sit on the deck and watch the sun go down. I wish we were heading to Galveston, we always have fun there. Happy holidays.

Thanks for all of the advice. I agree with Marin; Is big mystery. Even American Diesel had not seen anything like this. I think I can safely say I have a unique set up.........Now I need to fix it.:facepalm: By the way I used the dust pan idea for this oil change and it worked well. Charlie

Here is a picture of the injector pump with the hose connected to the overflow plug(?), and plumbed into the return fuel line.

Thanks to all of you for the comments. I spoke with Bryan at American Diesel. He was as confused about this as the rest of us. I will take a picture and send to him and post here. It sounds like I need to add the plug and drop the hose an ensure the fill cap has a hole drilled in it. The...

Bruce, thank you for responding. My manual also stars 50 hours. I do not know the published date. As to the earlier question, my pump looks the same in the picture, but named minemec - Cav England.

Thank you Marin. I had seen some of your earlier post on this and I could not understand it either. The hose is definitely plumbed into the return fuel line. I do have a small pin hole dilled into the fill plug. I am going to check to see for certain that it is the breather overflow plug...

I have twin FL 120s on a 1979 GB. I purchased the vessel last year. I ran it for about 30 hours with no issue. When starting the engines a couple of weeks ago the starboard enginet missed slightly for 30 seconds or so on start up so I decided to change the injector pump oil. When changing...

I suspect others will have their reasons. For us we have cruised or seen most all of the Texas coast from Galveston to Port Isabel. Cruising the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and the Chesapeake have always interested me. Our roots are in Texas and this will always be home, but for a year or two...

Congrats Beautiful boat. We are just down the coast on Matagorda Bay. We hope to follow your trail in the not to distant future. Fair winds, Charlie

I appreciate the comments. My wife and I were down in Rockport the first of the month. We enjoyed the stay. The trip back to Palcios was about 7 hours. We will be back this Spring. Charlie

I have new electrascan systems that were installed in our boat just before I acquired it. They seem to work fine, but I do get low voltage messages often. So I have some work to do. On the NDZ issue, have any of you had experience with the compost systems? From the reviews I have seen they...

Thanks for the welcome notes. I grew up in Palacios moved away for nearly 40 years and recently returned. So here is my readers digest answer as unbiased as I can be. Great Location on Matagorda bay. Palacios has a nice seawall and bay front reserves making for nice walks and drives around...