Just got home after over 9 hours driving. I lost, but my wife won enough money to buy the sweat shirt, and the gifts she wanted.
It IS that time of year to pay Go Daddy? I guess we should find out?
Joe, please get photos of everything installed, and the new curtains are in the mix!

XT:cool:

Heck Dave the only reason i go to the casinos is so they can pay their electric bill been a long time well at least a year since i have made any money gambling i dont have to go to AC to get my boat out of hock do i :lolhit:

Glad you made it back home safely with a little money left. I will definately take some pictures of the interior installed. As soon as the weather gets better I plan to do a full detail on the boat and then install the interior so I don't get buffing dust all over it. I'm sure I'll be hitting you up for some additional things in the future. Sure glad I found XT on this site. :drink:

Ed,

Check-out your LED lights in the side compartments.

Also, check-out the modified garage door, so that I had room to walk around the back of your boat in my building.

XT :party-smiley-020:

Did you guys modify the side compartments on Ed's 272? I don't recall mine being setup like that in my 95 272...Hmmmm if you did....

What are you guys using for LED lights? Strips or Individual lights?

Irish thatt is the way i bought my boat with those side compartments

those are some strip leds i bought off ebay they are about 3 foot long i think and have 96 or 97 leds per strip and you can cut them and make them shorter if need be the guy has different colors also and they are only around $20 per strip and they look pretty dang bright LOL

Dave nice work on the door i am trying to buy a house next door to mine and it has a smaller garage with it that is not real nice and i was just going to cut the door to make my boat fit but i dont think you would want to go to my extreme on your door WOW on the lights those are going to look good when it is all done with the carpet and the rest of the interior i think i might have went a little overboard with them though they will be able to see my boat from the space station :lolhit: i can see it now NASA will be scrambling FA 22 Raptors to find out what the blue glow is coming off Lake Erie this summer

Don't worry that is a temporary deal that I may use again sometime?

you might want to hang on it though might come in handy again good thing i didnt have a 302 though would have been real tight then

Dont worry Ed, if you show up next year with a 302 or bigger, I'll be there to take out the back wall!:party-smiley-004:

dont think that is going to happen the 272 fits me just fine and it is paid for but XT needs a bigger building just as bad if not worse than i do for all of my ebay stuff that i am selling and the stuff i have to store while i am working on my containers for overseas

The 272 is the perfect boat for me. Id even be happy with a 252. All I want is a single engine (less maintenance), something in the mid 20' range (24' to 27') for easy towing with my Yukon, and still be able to get it in the driveway. I just need a cuddy big enough for overnighting at the islands for me and 2 girls!:drink:

i really like how the 272 rides on lake erie which is where i will be 99% of the time single engine less gas cost also my H2 pulls it and you dont even know it is back there and the cuddy is big enough that if i get drinking where ever it is anchored or docked it is home so i dont have to worry about getting back to the trailer and 2 girls 1 is fine for me i am to old and bruised for 2 :eek:

If ?? :confused:

TB is right about the maintence costs of twins, but gas mileage is about the same (as long as you're not beating the hell out of them). Crusing wise, twins can get better gas mileage than single engine boats. Running to Put-in-Bay from Lk. St. Clair at around 40mph a single engine 21' Liberator with a 460 used MORE fuel than our 26' Nova with twin 350's....

I'm not tryin' to change your mind about what you want, I'm just clearing up a misconception...

i dont drink like i used to 20 years ago hurts to much in the morning but i know when not to be driving the boat and will leave it sit to many things can happen out on the water and here is the funny part i cant swim so i would be fish food :lolhit:

you mean you dont have to run WOT all the time :party-smiley-004:

WJB how long did it take you to get to PIB from Lake St Clair about how many miles is it

Ed,

Some updated photos.

Still waiting on a power lift bracket to set your motorlid in place?

Dave :drink:

Dave should be able to answer this. I remember the trip up but cant remember how much time we spent in the river. When I went up in my buddy 25 Outlaw we didnt have a GPS or anything, just pointed that direction and crossed the lake. Coming back was one of the toughest trips ever when the weather took a major change for the worse!

From Jefferson Beach Marina (9 Mile and Jefferson) to PIB it took about an hour or so running 40-45ish (we'd hit 50 at times, but get lazy and mess around with charts and what not... no GPS... and do 30-35 for a few while a girl drove and the guys played navigator). I don't remember if we stopped in Lake Erie to get gas or not? I know there is a Shell station (or use to be a Shell...) not long after you get out of the Det. River that we stop at occasionally.

I know we can make it all the way to Cedar Point in about an hour and 1/2 if we push a little harder.

Depending on where you're coming from and how fast you're running it should take about 45 min. to an hour and 1/2 to get to PIB from Lake St. Clair.

I don't know the exact miles, we never had a GPS when we made the trip. Given that it takes about an hour to get there going 40 miles per hour...

That's no joke! I've been stuck in Lake Erie in 6 - 8' waves coming over the bow of our 26' Nova... That was a long day...

now that is wierd i posted about how nice the interior looked just after Dave posted the pictures and it didnt show up any way i said that it looks really nice and i cannot wait to see it in person huh i think maybe my computer might be on drugs

when i was younger i was with my mom and dad just off Port Clinton when PC got hit by a tornado we would go down in the bottom of a wave and all we could see was water and we were sitting there fishing the whole time but that was my dad he lived to fish and he didnt care what the weather was like

The interior is really sharp Ed. Nice work

Stupid question I'm sure but how do you transition from one lake to the next in the great lakes chain?

I have had the pleasure now to see both the calm and the rough sides of Erie.

they are all tied together by rivers some of them have locks on them like going thru the Panama Canal that you would have to pass thru but you should be able to go from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Chicago. Dock thanks for the compliments on the interior but that is all Dave, Lane and the rest at XT i just dropped my boat off and told them the 2 colors i wanted and they did the rest i wish i could take the credit for it but i cant Ed

Dock maybe this will help answer your question.

The Atlantic connects to Lake Ontario via the St. Lawrence River

Lake Ontario connects to Lake Erie via the Niagra River (including Niagra falls)

Lake Erie Connects to Lake St. Clair (Sister lake to great lakes) Via Detroit River

Lake St. Clair connects to Lake Huron Via the St. Clair River

Lake Huron and Lake Michigan connect together at the top of the Lower Peninsula at the Mackinaw Bridge. That is where the name change takes over.

Lake Huron Connects to Lake Superior via St. Mary's River.

That is geographically how they are connected. I believe the route to take from the Atlantic to get to the great lakes via boat would be the Erie Canal.

I personally have never boated them before, I am sure someone can correct me if I am wrong.

None of the Great Lakes are something to take lightly when the weather changes. I've been caught in 4 out of the 5 in the roughest water you can imagine. We left Port Huron in a 24' Sea Ray Sundancer and headed for Tawas City by the time we got out around the thumb it was 10-12' waves and they where coming over the bow. WFO we where only running 10mph it was the worst day of my life until I got caught in the Straits of Mackinaw in 8-10' waves and could see the bottom through the port windows. Lets just say when they are calling for small craft advisories I stay at the dock. Thats the problem with running from Detroit River to PIB is that you never know what the weather is going to be like on the return trip so I always say plan to have to stay another day if weather is bad. I've come from St.Clair marina down the St.Clair River in 3-4' waves and hit LSC and been in 4-5' waves seems everytime the wind is blowing out of the south it kicks up St.Clair and the St.Clair River...

Ed just curious are you thinking about a trip to PIB the weekend of the run? Or are you thinking about putting your boat in at Sandusky and coming across? Thats too far to take a large group you'd be looking at a 200 mile day on the water.

Dock you'll have to let me know the next time your in the Great Lakes area in advance and I'll come and meet you. PIB or Sandusky is only 200 miles from me and as you can see Detroit is only about a hour the way your boat runs..:lolhit:

Hey Irish,

Next time you are in St Clair, look me up.

Guss

I'm there every summer...Especially 3rd weekend in June

Irish i was just looking at the map and thought maybe some weekend if it looked like it was going to be nice all weekend if i didnt have anything else going on i might make the run from Port Clinton to LSC but i dont want to even think about something like that if the weather can go to hell while i am doing it because like you said the Great Lakes can get real mean real fast Ed

Sounds like we need a Baja OSO meet up in this area. I'm here in Toledo. Jobbienooner is always a must for me, and quite a few trips to PIB as well. I want to check out the sandusky bay barge party as well this yr.

As long as you can make it to LSC you're fine... Once you're on LSC the waves rarely get larger than 5'... I love that lake!

Well let me know sometime maybe I"ll do it with you. I wanna get out on PIB sometime this summer...Yea might not be one you wanna make a run by yourself

Irish you didnt happen to be in Indy sat night were you i saw a guy with 2 blondes that looked at lot like you three from your pictures last night

Like me and 2 blondes? Nah I was in Atlantic City last night.

You'll have to catch up with us...There will be around 20-25 of us at Jobbienooner on the northside of the island around 8:30am on June 25th