2017 Boating Season Pics

Toddely · **Posted:** Tue May 23, 2017 7:44 pm

bhubrt wrote:

Got our boat out 2 weeks ago and have simply been cleaning. Illinois river is extremely high and our boat ramp will probably be under water through most of June. We will be heading to a lake before the river is ready to go.

What year and model is your boat. It looks exactly like ours. Color and all. We have a 1997 Horizon180 RS with the 5.7gl

chris268 · **Posted:** Tue May 23, 2017 8:01 pm

bhubrt wrote:

Got our boat out 2 weeks ago and have simply been cleaning. Illinois river is extremely high and our boat ramp will probably be under water through most of June. We will be heading to a lake before the river is ready to go.

Where are located? We go to Shelbyville, I have a friend that comes over from Peoria

bhubrt · **Joined:** Fri May 12, 2017 11:41 am **Posts:** 8

Toddely wrote:

bhubrt wrote:

Got our boat out 2 weeks ago and have simply been cleaning. Illinois river is extremely high and our boat ramp will probably be under water through most of June. We will be heading to a lake before the river is ready to go.

What year and model is your boat. It looks exactly like ours. Color and all. We have a 1997 Horizon180 RS with the 5.7gl

2002 Horizon 180. It has the 4.3l merc.

We live about 3 miles from the Illinois river so we figured it was now or never on buying a boat.

bhubrt · **Joined:** Fri May 12, 2017 11:41 am **Posts:** 8

chris268 wrote:

bhubrt wrote:

Got our boat out 2 weeks ago and have simply been cleaning. Illinois river is extremely high and our boat ramp will probably be under water through most of June. We will be heading to a lake before the river is ready to go.

Where are located? We go to Shelbyville, I have a friend that comes over from Peoria

West of Jacksonville just off I-72. I will be headed to Shelbyville in July with friends but we will likely just rent a pontoon as there will be 12 of us and it will save me the trouble of hauling over there.

The lakes we will hit will likely be Jacksonville, Springfield, and Mark Twain.

chris268 · **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2017 7:30 pm

bhubrt wrote:

chris268 wrote:

bhubrt wrote:

Got our boat out 2 weeks ago and have simply been cleaning. Illinois river is extremely high and our boat ramp will probably be under water through most of June. We will be heading to a lake before the river is ready to go.

Where are located? We go to Shelbyville, I have a friend that comes over from Peoria

West of Jacksonville just off I-72. I will be headed to Shelbyville in July with friends but we will likely just rent a pontoon as there will be 12 of us and it will save me the trouble of hauling over there.

The lakes we will hit will likely be Jacksonville, Springfield, and Mark Twain.

Nice! We usually hang out in scull cove or cove 5

captkevin · **Posted:** Fri May 26, 2017 11:13 am

We hang out in Skull cove quite a bit.

Ran into this guy one day.

TFD2001 · **Posted:** Tue May 30, 2017 6:24 am

captkevin wrote:

We hang out in Skull cove quite a bit.

Ran into this guy one day.

Should have been able to see us this past weekend too. Thursday through Monday, only one night in the slip. We ran back to the covered slip Saturday night because is looked like it was going rain like all hell and I was too lazy to put up the camper .. :mrgreen:

Of course, what was showing on Radar, quickly fizzled out, and I don't think we even got a drop... :roll:

Jdpber · **Posted:** Thu Jun 01, 2017 3:17 pm

chris268 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:25 pm

TFD2001 wrote:

captkevin wrote:

We hang out in Skull cove quite a bit.

Ran into this guy one day.

Should have been able to see us this past weekend too. Thursday through Monday, only one night in the slip. We ran back to the covered slip Saturday night because is looked like it was going rain like all hell and I was too lazy to put up the camper .. :mrgreen:

Of course, what was showing on Radar, quickly fizzled out, and I don't think we even got a drop... :roll:

Really thought it was gonna come down Saturday. We were in skull Saturday, cove 5 Sunday during the day, them set the hook for the night at Skull, it was empty, only boat there Sunday night. Turned out to be one of the better Memorial Day weekends, weather wise I have had up there

1baddoggy · **Posted:** Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:38 am

rpengr · **Posted:** Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:22 am

Jdpber wrote:

Glad your out on the water, but that is Not Not Penny's Boat!

I have to laugh at Tinted Windshields with Black Painted frames. You could definitely cook an egg on that here in Florida. Probably in SC too.

ThaScoobs · **Posted:** Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:43 am

I had my annual family boating weekend over the holiday at my uncle's place on Lake Butte De Morts. Decent weather except for some heavy winds on sunday and monday. Put about 70 miles of cruising in. Saw some new sights and a lot of cool boats. Looking forward to the rest of summer out on the water. I hope everyone else got their boat out for the holiday last weekend.

IMG_5079 by Steven Kowalchuk, on Flickr
That is our friends 28' Formula coming up behind me.

IMG_5078 by Steven Kowalchuk, on Flickr

Untitled by Steven Kowalchuk, on Flickr
Tons of boats out on saturday. The most I have seen on a memorial day weekend.

Untitled by Steven Kowalchuk, on Flickr
Light house on Lake Winnebago

Jdpber · **Posted:** Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:27 am

rpengr wrote:

Glad your out on the water, but that is Not Not Penny's Boat!

I have to laugh at Tinted Windshields with Black Painted frames. You could definitely cook an egg on that here in Florida. Probably in SC too.

yea not Penny. It was just the kid and me last weekend and we drove down to My buddies house on Lake Lanier. I felt like it would be too much hassle to tow my boat and deal with boat and an active 2.5yo kid solo. So we rod on buddies boat.

YES the frame gets stupid hot. He also has black in many locations on the boat. His choice not mine. As you have seen i and about 98% white, got to keep surfaces as cool as possible. I am not a fan of cooking my skin if i touch a surface.

this weekend the wife is in town so we will be in the water. Checking out a new beach on the lake, Satellite shows very nice sand so hopefully it pans out.

BrentC5Z · **Posted:** Mon Jun 05, 2017 8:53 am

Finally made the first trip out to our flooded lake. One ramp open. Mostly went to get the bunk rails replaced, then a quick ride around. Here's the one pic taken. Love the new sun pad now that the walk through is gone. No more painful encounters with the hinges.

Jdpber · **Posted:** Mon Jun 05, 2017 12:31 pm

We Cruised about 37 miles.

WaterFall Party Cove on Lake Keowee, SC

our lunch time friends (lots of the red clay sand stirred up in the water)

post boat day Hawaiian chicken!

www.iFourWinns.com

2017 Boating Season Pics

Who is online