One of the 2 happiest days in a boaters life...

[Pathfinder]

Not as big as the yatchs twyatch works on but it is mine.

My family and I just took the plunge with a 2004 Crownline 230 BR, Mercruiser 5.7L/350 Mag, Bravo III outdrive with 62 hours.  Drove to the Detroit area last Saturday and picked it up.  As you can see, the wife and kids are pretty excited for summer to come.

I was hoping to get it out for a familiarization run sometime soon but 12-14 hour days at work for the next month aren't letting that happen.  Now it has to sit racked in the marina warehouse until things calm down.  Here's to looking forward to Memorial Day weekend and the start of the season!!

Ah, yes, the joys of a hole-in-the-water-you-throw-money-into possession ownership. And to think you are already enjoying one of the key benefits - letting it sit in some yard while you pay the yard owner, and hoping for an opportunity - and a birth - in which to enjoy the thing for a few hours - after fighting traffic just to get to the water, and then waiting for an opening in the slip traffic to get it wet.

Sorry for the snark, my pickup battery's dead this morning, and i still have to go haul 50 bags (that would be a ton) of decent topsoil for the veggies beds today. So I'm grumpy. sue me!

 

PS: Congrats, maybe it's a tad bit of jealousy as well? ? ? ?

[fightingquaker13]

Look at the glass as half full Path. You could take advatage of Dakota's flat open spaces and frozen weather and buy a horse and sleigh for less money and less maintainence. No ramp lines etc, plus earth frendly.  Winter coyotes?
FQ13

[kilopaparomeo]

Gotta second FQ's recommendation for GPS/Sounder.  
Crusader

Agreed.  It has a Lowrance depth sounder built in.  I'm a pilot and have been flying with a GPS since they first came out so I definitely am a believer...have already been looking into good marine GPSs. 

Ah, yes, the joys of a hole-in-the-water-you-throw-money-into possession ownership. And to think you are already enjoying one of the key benefits - letting it sit in some yard while you pay the yard owner, and hoping for an opportunity - and a birth - in which to enjoy the thing for a few hours - after fighting traffic just to get to the water, and then waiting for an opening in the slip traffic to get it wet.

Yes, the wait is killing me but given that work is horrendous right now...12-14 hour days and weekends -- it is probably better that I don't have the opportunity to go right now.

As for the blistering traffic...one of the good things about living in a po-dunk little town is that there's rarely any traffic here, I live 3 minutes from the marina and the boat is in a call out service.  I call and an hour later it is sitting in the water waiting for me.

Fighting the sailboats through the navigation channel out to the lake is another thing   

[blackwolfe]

Nice rig KPR.  Haven't been boating years.  Did a lot in my teens and 20's with some friends.  One group did the partying, cruising, skiing, and tubing.  The other group did some serious trolling and fishing.  With the first group we were fortunate that no one ended up seriuosly hurt or in jail as we did some pretty stupid things.  Not someone from our group, but did see a boat that ended up parked on top of the south pier one evening after a long party day.  They hit the pier square at high speed from the lake side and some of the occupants landed in the river.  It was a new boat and the kid hadn't even made a payment on it.  They used a crane on a barge to remove it.  The hull was trashed, but the props never hit a thing.

 Lake Michigan is pretty forgiving in our area, but the fog can be tricky and river can be treacherous at times, especially with that first group.

Back in those days we didn't have GPS, but LORAN C whcih I think was recently decommissioned.  It sure helped to find the pier heads coming in in the fog.

[TAB]

I don't know about the 2 happiest days deal, I miss all the boats i've owned, execpt one.  17' TR2 cole(runner bottum flat)  It was a true 100+ mph boat with a blown and injected 517 in it.  I don't miss that boat one bit.  my old 14'6" runabout I bought in HS, I'd give anything to have back, and it was a POS back then.

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