That would be the little Bird Man?

Ragged...you need to check this out!!

http://media.putfile.com/35-Fountain-72

Dave

P.S. You are welcome!

Thanks! ...............................Chech your PM file.

Cool Dave!!! Nice of you to post our beaked friend in action.

Pete, looks nice man. Sounds good too.

And a Thank You to you also! Taken on our last outing of the season at the west end or Wolf Island, on our way to the lake and the big water. I love that lake when the wind starts to pick up. The boat looks better running into the wind. We shot some video of the Senator right after, I just need to figure out how how to post it. No mufflers on the beak boat, silent choice for the busy areas, then flip the switch when you are away from the noise police.

HAve SJ send me a disk and I'll edit it like yours and post it on Putfile!

Thanks,
Dave

Working on it !

Was that a halloween trick? I didn't see no one driving the boat in that video............I guess that's what 6 footers look like to you river guys.......

Make that some river guys there 5. My question was upon seeing that video..."Was there even a breeze that day?"

the last crossing I made I was foolish to be out there at all. If I had it to do again I would've turned back into Henderson. I kept thinking "it can't get any bigger"...wrong! Once out from "behind" the little wind break of the Galloos and Main Duck...things got a little "hairy".

I was definitely nervous at first, one bad play, getting stern-to, or loosing a drivetrain...the boat very possibly would have been lost. My thinking actually got to the point where I was much more concerned about not drowning in an event, than loosing the boat. I had the radio on 16 to make a quick "mayday", and my tether...but couldn't get to a vest once I got out there...no way-no how. I will now buckle a vest to the bolster leg (or just put it on ) if I even suspect conditions like that might exist out there.

by the time I got to the head of Grenadier to come around, I was soaking wet, shouting and laughing out loud! The realization of just what a great boat this 353 is when you're just trying to get there alive, had me happier than he!! It was routine to yank the sticks all the back to idle for a couple seconds to await the fall in. The last thing I wanted to do was break a drive!
Only a handful of stiff "hits". Nothing broken, nothing loose. Of couse I could only make ~30 MPH average headway in those conditions. No faster than what it took to stay on plane!
The boat performed flawlessly!

I listened to the NOAA when I took a break at the east end of Carlton...why? because it was still rolling quite nicely into the River to the EAST end of Carlton, I hadn't seen that before that far into the River. I was getting some fine air off that following from just west of the lighthouse all the way to the Featherbeds.
What a great time. That day alone was worth every f'kin penny I spend a year on this sickness.

anyway...it went like this "this afternoon East of Stony Point...winds W-SW at 30-35 knots, wave hieghts 6-8' and building, small craft advisory"
then throw in the confused washing machine effect in the corner I was crossing...anybody who knows that acreage knows that in those conditions there were huge rougue waves, little or no pattern, and holes that took the horizon out for 2-3 seconds!

I gotta tell ya' there were moments out there when it certianly looked out over the deck, like I was in a "small craft"

"I love that Lake when the wind starts to pick up."