www.iFourWinns.com

Made the first trip(with the new boat) through Charlevoix and out into lake Michigan today.
The boat ran great. Makes me feel better about my purchase





Surprised there was not a lot of boat traffic today.

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2004 248 Vista "Amante"
MC 5.0MPI/B3

Nice scenery. Nothing like a boat trip to make you feel better.

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2011 SL242 5.7 VP GXi - 320 HP Dual Prop

Looks beautiful. We hope to get up to Lake Charlevoix this August.

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

Love Charlevoix! Great pics thanks for sharing!

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Michael Bova


"Swept Aweigh"
2003 Four Winns 328 Vista

Previous Boat
2003 Crownline 230CCR

Beautiful scenery +1 I almost wanted to jump in the water the pictures are so vivid. Thanks

Almost until you find out the water temp

You have to wait until almost the 4th of July before it's reasonably comfortable to get in.

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'99 Horizon 200

You got that right! I don't have water temp gauge on the boat yet, but I jumped in Lake Charlevoix and my shrinkage gauge would guess it was about 50.

Do you know what the water temp is in west bay is at the moment?

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2004 248 Vista "Amante"
MC 5.0MPI/B3

Mid 50 ish....

http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/michigan/m1.html

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

Here's another good site for wind and water temps

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/glofs.html

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Jeff

'14 Cruisers 380 Express "Simon Sez"
Merc 8.2 Mag MPI 380
DTS B3X, (x2) Axius Premier


(SOLD)
'08 V318
Merc 350 Mag MPI 300
DTS Seacore, B3 (x2)

And yet another I have used for years for various data, such as waves, surface temps, winds etc.

http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

Based on the charts, it looks like right around 60 surface temp. I don't see any recent data from the buoys. My boat is at torch lake and doesn't have a temp gauge, so I usually just do the toe dip. It is very cold though. On the Tuesday night laser racing, one of the kids capsized. My coworker was on one of the safety boats. They got the the kid within 3 minutes. He was already in shock and becoming incoherent. They pulled him in safely and got him into shore to warm up, so all ends well. Needless to say, it's cold enough to get hypothermia quickly still.

I just noticed...is that the Winn house in the middle of this pic?

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'99 Horizon 200

Yes it is.

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2004 248 Vista "Amante"
MC 5.0MPI/B3

Yes...both of them.

Holy Shit !!! My company does work in some very nice homes, one of which recently sold for $10.5 M, and another that was about the same square footage as the two Winn ones put together, but the Winn house is really quite spectacular !!

http://www.winnhouse.com/

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1994 235 Sundowner w/351 Ford