353 & 382
 

Are the windshield part #'s the same in the 353's and the 382's? Do these boats have the same windshield?

Boy.....i doubt it, but maybe MagicFloat (Robert Nelms) will chime in here....

No he won't......(or rather can't :angry-smiley-055:).
Robert can be found on Speedwake now or by calling him direct. I agree he is the best around and a Formula man since Moby Dick was a minnow.
You can reach him either way below:
nelems (at) bellsouth (dot) net or at 205-221-3072

He has also been seen on the Formulaboatsforum.com website from time to time.

No they are not the same. The 353 and the 382 have different winsheilds. If you look at a side profile of each you can see the major differences.

What happened? Did he get booted?

[QUOTE=t500hps;2299971]No he won't......(or rather can't :angry-smiley-055:).


t500 what's the deal with Robert? Tell us why we will not see him respond or why he cannot....

The photo issue thread over on Speedwake has Robert posting the info your looking for. Apparently the issue isn't "taboo" over there and it has posts from both sides of the story in it.......

Sorry Mack for the hijack here...
Thanks Russ for letting us know where we could find out what happened. That really sucks. Somebody needs their man-card pulled and a good gut-check for this.

no problem....a dedicated thread was started here but it only lasted a few minutes. Unfortunately a "hi-jack" was the only way to get the info out.

I am so sorry to hear this. Actually I find it hard to believe, but I guess it is true. I hope somehow he comes back to OSO. Robert would have been a perfect candidate to answer the original question of this thread.

Read the "other thread" ....He's NOT comming back...


:( Dave

It's because of Robert (And others like him) that is the primary reason I joined this Forum. Having second thoughts about OSO due to the way he was treated. If I get kicked off for my post, so be it. He's one of the last people in my opinion that should have been treated like that. It's because of people like him that people like me are even a part of OSO. Something just isn't right about what happened here. I don't blame him if he doesn't come back, and from what I know about Robert, he may not be back. More of a loss for OSO than Robert. Sorry, needed to vent and feel bad the way MajicFloat was treated. Totally uncalled for....Don't know what they were thinking.

I am with you Duke.

what is the link to his tread on speedwake? could you post it?

You have to read through alot of the photo "issues" to also see Magicfloats posts....

http://www.speedwake.com/upload/show...threadid=51774

I buy a Formula, and now, the "go to guy" for advice is gone! Thats just great:(

he's not gone......he posts his email and phone number everywhere. I look up nelemsmarine.com when I need to contact him. you can also go to Speedwake and catch him as often as you could here.

Yeah, I guess your right, he's only a phone call away, but it was nice, when he was hanging around here.

with the Formula owner's forum one of the largest, most active here, and Robert being a moderate, always helpful, binding presence ...integritous and an absolute pillar of the boat dealer/boating community...

irreplacable loss here.

Nicely put:drink:

The loss of Robert on this forum is more than just a travesty. Having him around here is like having Steve Spurrier available to help with your little league quarterback or Bill Gates online to help you plug up a PC.

We novices can banter back and forth trying to figure out a particular issue or how to locate a part (like what bracket to use for 1982 temp gauge) and then the next thing you know, Robert would post the original part number as well as a current substitute and the 800 number for the supplier.

The fact that he would take so much time to help out people he does not even know just shows what a great guy he is. Those of us who are lucky enough to know him realize that he is doing this solely out of a true love for the Formula product.

This place will never be the same.

FYI: You can always reach Robert or Karen through www.nelems.com