Do you have to?

Ha, I feel like thats the only way it's going to get done.

what ya doing to it?

just freshing up the engines and transmissions. kinda lost interest and started buying impalas and biscaynes to fool with, but i am shooting to get out there this year.

Hey Rob, when do we leave? At least your boat runs

Yup, Mark built the motors that are it in right now and cared for the boat for probably the better part of the last 7 years until we purchased it. Mark is a great guy and has been a big help through all of this. He will be one of the first to know once we get it splashed next spring.

Brad, Your Apache is my favorite. When the wife and I went to Florida to pick our boat up in '99 we passed Ghost Runner on I95. I almost rear ended the car in front of me!. We keep our boat at Tomes just up the street from you (been there since '01). See you in the spring. We have a 25 Active Thunder. Big brother Ike has Indian Outlaw 41 Apache. Heres a video of us in Key West running with Bob Oliver and Firewater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqpu...9&feature=plcp

Hey Everyone,

Yes we are still alive and trying to get Ghost Runner in the water. We were planning to have it in this weekend for Memorial Day, and were going to have our local Hi and Dry handle the boat. Took it down there yesterday to lift it off the trailer and get it set up. Apparantly our Apache is the fat kid on the see saw at the playground. The 20K fork truck could not safely handle the boat!!! We got it off the trailer with a pair of trucks and slings and on to a bunk. When we tested with the forklift to see how it would go, the ass end of the lift was barely still on the ground with the max counterweights they have. There was no way they could safely move the boat. The 6's and the stagger really move the center of gravity forward and even though they lift other similar size boats, this one proved stubborn with the focal point of the weight so far in front of the fork lift mast.

Soooo... the saga continues, really wanted to rack store the boat but the other marina close by is full and has a waiting list. We may have a line on a wet slip here in town that has a 15K hydro lift in it. Boat would be up out of the water, but the slip isnt covered. Its better than nothing at this point. If I can find a place to wet launch the monster now to get in the water we still might make it in later this weekend. I will keep you all posted on the maiden voyage, been looking forward to this for awhile, yesterday totally bummed us out, but nothing about these boats is normal so why should that be any different!

Brad

Well, that sucks! Good luck on finding a place. Looking forward to seeing that beast on the bay. Check out CBPBA.com, we would love to have you join us on a poker run!

Craig

Hey Brad, why not launch it at anchor marina in north east? i have launched both my 41's there for years, no problem, plenty of room and there fork lift handled them fine when i used to rack it. Ike