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LOL nice post BMW, I would've liked to have been there to see that!

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

"My boat runs on gas....not thanks"

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Matt-

2007 Four Winns H190
Earth First, We'll Mine the Other Planets Later

Wow, a blackmagicweekends sighting! LOL to that post. Nothing more fun than seeing someone come hauling balls toward you on a jet ski with an ignorant look on their face. Got one to add from the holiday weekend, but it involves someone who was *almost* in my boat. Chalk it up to "amateur weekend" and laugh because nothing bad happened.

Sitting in a cove with about 5 boats in it. Cove is large enough for 20-30 boats. About a 10-15 MPH wind is blowing into the mouth of the cove. Guy comes in with a pontoon boat and a mushroom anchor, drops anchor about 75 yards out from my bow. This is the direction the wind is coming from. After 5 minutes, he is 50 yards away. In less than 5 more minutes, he is 25 yards away. He recognizes that his mushroom anchor isn't holding anything. So, he fires up his motor and moves the boat- TO THE EXACT SAME SPOT WHERE HE STARTED. We got an instant replay! Repeat.

The second time, he was about 25 FEET from us when he finally got moved. Now he's got blackmagicweekends pulling up MY anchor because we were going to move and just get the hell away from this guy. Right or wrong, that is too close for comfort unless you are are coming to tie up with me. All I could think about was his metal pontoons and deck v. my gel coat. As he's pulling away again, his wife looks right at me while we're re-tying the anchor rode. I point to the side of the cove where there are no boats tied up, trying to indicate that maybe they should move out of the line of any boats already anchored before they attempt to drag their mushroom again. Completely blank looks on their faces-no understanding of the wind or the direction it was blowing.

I don't usually have much to complain about when it comes to OTHER boaters because our lake really isn't all that crowded most weekends. But, they were ALMOST in my boat once (maybe twice) so I figured I could post this here. Good times. Luckily, someone he knew (who also had a real anchor) showed up and told them to move away from everyone and tie up with him.

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Paul
2007 Four Winns Horizon 220
Mercruiser 350 Mag MPI w/ Bravo III Drive
2004 Ford Explorer Limited (V8-AWD)
Pomme de Terre Lake (Southwest Missouri)

Welcome BlackMagic!

Surely you can tell a few on pet575?

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H210SS 6.2
F150 Platinum

Welcome BMW. We're a friendly bunch around here.

I had a lake lice run infront of me this weekend. He was running ballz out and then just bailed off, skipping like a stone across the water. I came off plane and idled up next to him to see if he was alright. He was all happy and lauging to his buddy who came up next to him to see if he was ok too. He said he saw me comming and instead of trying to powerslide out of the way, he just bailed. Funny part was I was at least 500 yards away from him and actually steering to the left of him as not to get in HIS way. At least he was laughing and having fun. We were worried he was hurt from bailing off at that speed.

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2001 Horizon 260 - 7.4 Volvo GSI DP

thanks for the welcome St. Louis. I was going to use the acronym for your online name in my greeting but I thought that I might become a little more of a regular before I refer to you that way (his acronym would be STD, for the slow ones reading along) You all certainly are a friendly bunch, and I will not be so quick to condemn others on the water to death in the future. Nice of you to stop and check on lice boy to see if he was OK. I really do not understand how smacking the water at high speed and the word fun EVER intersect, strange creatures.
I have really enjoyed the info that is available from all of the members in the short time that I have been reading. PET575 turned me on to the forum. He is a sharp man. I gotta go man, headin for the oasis this weekend and I have to get my you know what together.
-punch it, and trim it

hey PET, LOL at that fine memory! Not a single FourWinns in that pack, we should have known. May they run out of beer and use 30 yr old rope on the mushroom...........

you can call me anything you want if you bring the beer.

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2001 Horizon 260 - 7.4 Volvo GSI DP

Well, this is more of a "People doing things you HATE while on the way to go boating." The Wifey insists on being on the water at 1100 every weekend. Guess how many weekends we've actually made 1100??? Well today was no different and I can't figure out why she insists on having people meet us at 1100 instead of calling when we leave our house around...well after 1100. Long story short, with today's "rush to get there by 1100" which was about 30 minutes before the time I even hooked onto the trailer, I managed to put myself into the Horizon thread about skeg dragging.

I had trimmed it all the way down to wash off some Alabama clay yesterday and never put it back up. Then running late (according to the wife...I'm on time when I get there) I was rushed to hook up this morning and pull out the driveway. The driveway angles downhill and wasn't an issue until the Tahoe started to level out. You know that point where your hitch is really low then raises back up while the tow vehicle levels out but the boat and trailer are still going downhill? Man I hate that sound. The Wifey just looks at me like, "why are you stopping", completly oblivious to what the noise could have been. Worst part was me ego to a huge hit as another car had to wait while I put it in park and ran back to raise it up.

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Nubby


Living the DREAM

One thing that I haven't seen mentioned and that I absolutely cannot stand is damage to the boat by a guest, and then not mentioning it when it happens. There is nothing worse than getting the boat home and cleaning it up only to find something broken that nobody said anything about. I realize things are going to happen, and I realize sometimes things are going to get broken, but at least have the common courtesy to tell me about it. It will go over much better if you tell me about it when it happens instead of me finding it later. Obviously I am not going to be happy that something got broken, but hey, it happens and I will get it fixed. For example, last year we had some friends down to go out on the boat for a day. At the end of the day after we had loaded the boat back on the trailor and I had stopped to put all the straps back on, everybody else was getting off the boat. I am ready to leave and I go to fold the ladder back up. When I put the ladder hatch down to cover the ladder, it won't close properly. The hinges had been all bent out of shape by somebody using the ladder hatch as a crutch to guide them down off of the boat. Common sense tells you that it not what it is designed to do. When I asked everybody about it, nobody to this day has ever admitted to doing it. It wasn't a lot of money or anything to fix it since I only had to buy two new hinges, but it was just the idea that nobody would tell me. Be adults and respectful, that is all that I ask.

Do have a pic of the "Naked Feet Only" sticker? I have seen a few on line, LMGraphix, Craigslist, and Bajajunky. What sizes is offered?

I hate people who buy shirts at the dollar store then go swimming with them on because they are too hung up over their imperfect body......and the freaken dye runs all over your seat!!!! I also hate people pulling on the windsheild at the dock.

Lee

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2006 F150 FX4
2008 H210 SS
5.7 GXI SX
Compass
Ratchet cover
Bow and cockpit covers
Bow cushions
Q&Q

My list of bitches:

1. Boat was on its 3 trip out. We took some friends. Friends wife opened the boarding ladder door and proceeded to put weight on it to the point it bent the hinges. No big deal, closes fine and I got my dealer to warranty them for me. Note to self, I AM IN CONTROL OF THE BOARDING LADDER - ALWAYS.

2. Shoes - I have a small list of people that we even invite on the boat. Prior to them coming, I always tell them to wear sandals, because we do not allow shoes on our boat. They must be able to put them on and take them off in a quick second, as we board and dock.

3. Alcohol - damn it, bring cans or plastic bottles, not glass. Along these lines, if you intend to drink, you need to bring some with you.

4. Offer to help or pay - I have yet to take a penny from a buddy that I have taken out on the lake. My take on it is that this boat is going out on the water, regardless if they are coming with us or not and some gas is about to get burned. I do however appreciate the offer. Same with cleaning the boat. We keep our boat at home in the garage. As such, we wash her everytime we put her away. Offer to help when we get home. Help get the trash off the boat when we get back to the dock and back on the trailer.

5. Smoking - Nope, not on my boat.

6. Strippers - Nope, my wife wont have that either. If we want strippers, we have to track down Txjole.


One thing I think some of us forget is that non-boater friends do not always even know what is good and bad boat etiquete. Unless we tell them about shoes, glass, helping at the dock, etc...I truly think they just dont know to help. Some people are afraid of helping secure or hold the boat because they assume you have it under control and dont want to do something wrong, so they just sit there. Typically when I take first timers out, I tell them about the shoes and the beer bottles etc...I have to sometimes realize that although we see it as common sense, its something that may not have occured to them at all. It doesnt make it ok, but we have to remember we are the ones invested here. We are the ones with the payment, gas, insurance, tow vehicle and we are the ones who REALLY care about our toys. Dont get me wrong, common sense "should" override most of this, but I try to not get very upset when I remember that I never said anything about it.

More times than not, we hang out with the same "crew" at the lake and tie up with them. We are all respectful of each others boats and have pretty much the same rules.

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

Wow.......look at the hits this thread generated......we are an anal bunch....and I am ANAL.

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2006 F150 FX4
2008 H210 SS
5.7 GXI SX
Compass
Ratchet cover
Bow and cockpit covers
Bow cushions
Q&Q

I have a few major ones...

1. Please have FUN...
2. Nothing orange...Doritoes, Cheetoes, etc
3. No wine unless in slip
4. When I am docking the boat...KEEP your hands inside. Do not try to grab the piling to fend off. That is why we throw lines to people on the dock and have fenders on there as well.

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2005 Silverton 50C
2009 Four Winns 200SS