Sydwayz.... (Lake Michigan boating)
 

Brian-

Thanks so much for all the help putting up with emails and phone calls over the past couple years...you are an amazing resource! It was our pleasure having you out on the Big Pond with us yesterday...hope you had a good time. You are a great rope/anchor monkey...hope we can hook up again while you are in town!

mike and michelle

ps- Could you send me that one pic you put up on FB from the river with the bridge reflecting off the deck? That looked AWESOME.

Very nice...

Yesterday could not have been more perfect.

Here is a picture of Mike doing some paperwork with the DHS/USCG.
Dennis aka Obnoxus is on the phone arranging a bail bondsman.
At least it was service with a smile from the Coasties.

That's not as bad as it looks...btw...

And it was generally a GREAT day on the water....with the notable exception of our encounter with the King of all douchebag Chicago boaters. We were anchored just off the city and rafted with a 36 Baja in an area we refer to as "The Playpen"...during a normal weekend, there are ususally a couple hundred boats in there. Its protected by breakwalls, but its a large area, so some larger wakes make it a bit rough at times, but usually its no big deal. Enter Mr. Douchbag. 50 or so foot cruiser with a bunch of people on board, including kids, comes rolling in pushing a 2 or 3 foot wake. He is going directly through the anchored boats, and we know we are going to get rocked and have to work to keep my red boat off the white Baja. On of our buds whistles loudly and gets DB's attention, and when he looks, we all gesture downward with our arms telling him to slow. Well...instead of slowing, he turns 180 degrees back TOWARDS us (again, cutting though anchored boats), and passes us by about 40 feet away. He then flips US off, and yells "If the wake is too big, maybe you should buy a bigger boat!" Well....after delivering a barrage of obscenity, I was EXTREMELY eager to pull anchor and blast past this guy at 80+, but my wife (and the rather conspicuous nature of my boat) won out in arguments to the contrary. We were all so stunned by this move that none of us even got the name of the boat! I remember what the logo looked like, though...and I WILL find him later this summer. Ideally, we will be anchoring within water balloon launcher range...and we will be making it rain on that *****....

Paintball gun.

It is illegal to launch anything from a moving vehicle. At anchor... game on.

Does a rooster tail count as an object launched? lol

Fair question. I can tell you this:

I have seen a driver/operator ticketed for throwing water over a bridge and contacting a car on said bridge; and dousing a tour boat...
... as well as thrown off said body of water (a lake in one instance).

next time get him with a whale wars prop fouler, oops dropped my dock line. hahah:evilb:

I suspect Mike will have one crafted by COB on Thursday of this week.

I hear he has a friend who is a SCUBA diver as well. :D

Someone should take a page from a Whale Wars episode and drop a large rope in the water in his path!

Just noticed I wasn't the only one thinking that.

Mike sure talks a big game !!!!! UNTIL HIS WIFE STEPS IN !!!!!

Its OK Mike,,,,,,we have known for A LONG time she is the boss !!!

I would have said she wears the pants in the family,,,,,,but she couldn't find her pants yesterday either LOL !!!!

Brian,,,,great day,,,,,nice meeting you in person finally

Generally, its a good day for me when Michelle can't find her pants. Why did YOU all have to be there?

As for chasing the guy down...who was the one yelling "PULL THE DAMN ANCHOR RIGHT NOW!!!" Yeah, me. I reserved the "Mike temper" because we had a special guest aboard and the part I did NOT want to show Brian about Chicago was Cook County jail...

WTF....I missed the good $hit. Damn it! Lol

For a proper response...

Mike & Michelle, thanks for having me aboard. The boat really ran well yesterday, especially on that ride back in the afternoon.
It can dodge an errant Baja when needed too--good thing you can turn an AT at speed!

"I can't find my pants!"

I can sum up the day with a few emoticons:
:boat: :party-smiley-020: :stooges: :hitfan: :argue: :violent040: :ernaehrung004: :boat: :Score-101010:




Obnoxus/Dennis, you are not near as obnoxious as a few other members I have met.
I was somewhat disappointed but I'll attribute that to your 'dry' weekend for the time being. :evilb:
Big thanks to you and Cheryl for providing lunch and snacks.

Saving my liver for Key West !!!!

As I said,,,, the boat runs 5 mph slower with Cheryl around,,,,, but no one ever longs for food or drinks or water or clothes or towels,or tan oil,,,or aloe or ,,,,well you get the idea !!!!

Hey,,,,,use any excuse you need to, to get yourslef through the day lil buddy !!!! :evilb:

I keep replaying that whole thing in my mind...and I STILL want to go after that guy. However...the fact that we didn't respond in kind makes me think...that guy REALLY made an a$$ of himself in front of not just US, and the people around us in the Pen, but every single person on his boat. And that kinda makes me feel good.