View Poll Results: IF YOU BBC WAS SILENT WOULD BOATING BE THE SAME FOR YOU
YES
26
19.40%
NO
88
65.67%
I JUST WANT TO LOOK AT THE LADIES AND DRINK BEER
20
14.93%
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If Your Engine Was Silent
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Re: If Your Engine Was Silent
Originally Posted by Reed Jensen
I don't know if you have checked the sale prices of blowboats lately... but they are just as expensive as powerboats. I like to see you power across the pacific to Hawaii sometime. It's all a matter of choice for the moment.
#32
Re: If Your Engine Was Silent
Originally Posted by wiggler4490
really not that bad, custom turndowns have silenced my 2700hp nortech. Its either quiet them or not boat at LOTO.
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Re: If Your Engine Was Silent
Originally Posted by offshoredrillin
hee hee, as soon as they have the gas island halfway I'm there. I wouldn't have any problem taking a sailing cruise in the Mediterranean or Caribbean.
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Re: If Your Engine Was Silent
Originally Posted by Beak42
And there you have it. The 78 y.o. waterfront resident having tea on Sunday afterenoon can't hear what Cousin Hilda just said so with a certain amount of disdain they complain to the authorities who see a new opportunity to pull us over so they're for it, then a lawyer checks it out and realizes that most of us live above the poverty level so he gets interested, "I'm just standing up for the rights of my clients" yeah right, then the powerboat shops see the $$$ it takes for conversion work so they get interested, then the new boat manufacturers see the 30% mark up on anything they add to a boat so they get interested...etc etc
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Originally Posted by Beak42
And there you have it. The 78 y.o. waterfront resident having tea on Sunday afterenoon can't hear what Cousin Hilda just said so with a certain amount of disdain they complain to the authorities who see a new opportunity to pull us over so they're for it, then a lawyer checks it out and realizes that most of us live above the poverty level so he gets interested, "I'm just standing up for the rights of my clients" yeah right, then the powerboat shops see the $$$ it takes for conversion work so they get interested, then the new boat manufacturers see the 30% mark up on anything they add to a boat so they get interested...etc etc
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