I think his reference to "Bird" is the old floating one. Well I guess that could go either way as well, so lets say it's the boat.

Might be his own Bird he's referring to.

A real happy camper, boat ran like a champ. Made a little token rip going past Singer Castle on the way up to the Bay and raised the GPS recall number by 2 mph over last falls test run peak :D . Have a video of that but can't get it to load. Anyone know how to do that?

Thanks to Axa for the custom embroidered Fountain hat, naturally done by his "Hat Guy", I wore it just for you!

Good for you Pete!! Glad you're liking the new ride. It IS one nice looking Fountain.

Remember though, you've got to put in much earlier to beat us real boaters down on the Pond. :p

Thanks, it is one sweeeeeeet ride :D, everything worked perfectly, no issues to deal with at all, solid as a rock at speed. Passed a couple freighters and the thing barely twitched crossing the wakes.

Well I've beat myself by better than two months this year. You only got me by a week! 5PM and Rippem are still in a barn, and Axa has a boat with no motors, one motor that runs, and another motor in pieces. I definitely qualify for the most improved launch date award.

Hey Pete,

Your new ride looks great !!!!
Looks like you're definiatley the first on the River .....

Now I have a question ..... was it the freighters barely twitched going over the waves passing you or was it you twiching while the boat barely twitched over the waves.

LOL ..... LOL .....

Just kidd'in ......

Glad to see everything worked out for you .....

Jeff

Ragged....Boat looks great! I see that you launched up in my neck of the woods. How was the ramp? When I took out last year it was a 2-3 foot jump down to the boat right where your is tied up

Pete,

Excellent! Looks great on the water! Appears Heaters issues weren't totally with his throttle "GUY" after all, number 55 didn't make the Havasu results page on OSS. The Girl smoked all of them, Jenni I believe.

Yo Mike,
You need to quit squeezing your grips and cleaning your golf balls and get that boat in the water!!! :D

Jeff,
Did you fix up your platform yet?

Dave

Hadn't thought of it that way, Bird was first in the Pond, I was first in the River. I like the way you think! :D

I didn't notice if the freighters twitched, but we didn't. Met the freighters head on, didn't get to pass anyone all afternoon :(. Not a single Formula on the River.

Thanks, now quit playing with your little white balls and get that boat in the water. I'll even come help you launch, Axa needs to be the last one in this year, don't let me down. I stepped up my program by 2 months, do your part here.

I did notice the results seemed to be non-existant. Entered in a few classes, but no laps recorded at all, what is the deal here? Thing just spent time at Mercs X Site being all pimped up for this race, anyone talk to Doug? And that would be "You Go Girl", she does have her chit together.

I am ready to puke ..... I just got off the phone with the "guy"
who is fixing the platform ..... it went from approx $1500.00 to $2500.00 and counting .... apparently there was some rot in the "silent thunder swim platform" what a freak'in pain in the azz .....

So when somebody says ... "I am just going to hook on these lifting eyes and lift your boat...." "you need to say Fukk you and use the straps like I asked you to orginally....."

Anyway how is your day going ????

Jeff

backstory please?

correct.

Much too nice a boat to be running over trees, timbers, and all the other chit that's reported to be making it's way downriver.





wholly appropriate location and content for my 4000th post. :D

Apparently much better than yours. WTF is this deal all about? I assume some bone head tried to lift the boat by the rings on the silent thunder box, so why isn't He paying to fix it? Aren't there a set of lifting rings thru the transom just under the box?

Well if you are sharp and in a nimble craft you can easily dodge all the chit.:p Honestly it was fine from Morristown up to about Iornside, then the chit started showing up. Not really all that bad now, Rich has been out a lot and he was saying thursday it was real bad a week or so ago. We basically cruised and puttered, didn't see anything real big. When you see pine branches that are still green you have to wonder who the butthole was that tossed that in the creek. Water is about the highest I've seen it this time of year in quite a few years, and folks are biotchin' about this, some of the same ones that were biotchin' last fall about the low water, makes you wonder.

Sorry for your problems. Unfortunately, the rot in platform is fairly common. I had to rebuild mine the first year I bought it. It was leaking exhaust all around. Took it off to replace the gaskets and seals and found a mess. So, my winter project was the rebuild. Came out very nice, and better than stock. More reinforcement by way of more wood, laminated nicely, and reglassed. Reinforced the U-bolts too with large stainless backers fitted to the molded shape of the recess for the bolts. But, I would still never allow the boat to picked by those bolts.

Hope your glass guy is doing a good job, you only want to go there once. I think if done right, it'll last as long as the boat.

Pete - the upper u-bolts are the ones that you could lift with. The lower u-bolts are too far under the platform to lift by.

Sorry guys...the internet connection aboard the little boat isn't very good, and I can't let the Corona's get warm.

Congrats Pete! Looks Great!

Jeff...WTF??

Rip... See you Friday, Ihope!

Mike, striaght and long...

Bird and the Pond Crew...Great Job!

Hope to join you all very soon!

Dave and Gail

many numbskulls along the Lake who trotted down to "clean up the cottage" in last 2 weeks. Mistook the Lake for a green goods recycling center

well regulation would be nice, considering we have the control devices to regulate it (the water levels)
though more regular water levels (not screaming damaging high the 1st of May and then so low so many have to give up the boating season just 120 days later)
will never happen so long as there's big $$$ interest in Montreal...
it's all about keeping that flooded field navigable without flooding the streets.

That looks a little bigger than a 400ss ..... will that fit in the boathouse.

LOL .... LOL ......

and as far as the other ....... call me when you get back .....

Jeff

Just closing the monthend here ..... I will call you ....

Jeff

Pete,

I will call you after monthend .... a little busy here .....


Jeff

I think he's using a pair of Corona bottles duck taped together to spy on that one from the beach. The brown paper bag money from Guido wouldn't even begin to scratch the down money on that one.

Busy figuring all those F&I perks you fleeced out of John Q. Public? :D

Thanks! Oh, and did I tell you the GPS recall number was upped by 2 MPH on Saturday as well. That's up 2 running up river from the salt water number from last fall. And by some coincidence it just happened to be right in front of Singer, about where 5PM is to set up shop. :D

You better hope Guido drops that cash bag off before the face-off 'cause 2 mph ain't gonna do the trick!!! :boat:

Listen to Bird...He knows something....I don't think it'll cover me yet.

Better get in touch with BBlades....You might need it!

Is your boat in the slip, or did you pull it?

Dave

PS: Sunny and 88* in Cancun...Off tomorrow morning for the US. Got to rig the bird!

Well now you don't know where we started, so plus two might not mean anything, the old high was in salt, this was fresh water. And that's without changing props or anything, just triming the thing right. I want a few more here, and I'm sure I can find them. :D And if not, so be it. The thing is rock solid at speed, more so than the last one even, I'm already a very happy camper. Stock, turn key, reliable ?X? MPH is hard to beat with a stick. Always something faster, but can they do it every day, all day, all season long??? We shall see!;)

Been there, done that. Needed that saturday data.

In for the afternoon, then back to the shop. Needs more wax!:p Going to be a trailer boater till Memorial WE. Trailer may be fugly, but loads like a dream. I like this bring it home and tuck it away deal, stays soooo clean. :D Went out sunday after my nieces first communion party and gave her a bath and chamois job, needed to remove the bugs that we impaled with the Beak.


Whatever happened to your race boat in Havasu? Looked like it was entered in several classes, but didn't finish any laps in any of them? Did the pit monkeys get lost and end up in the wrong state?

just to fill you guys in on Havasu.X-Site didnt have time to fix the gas leak.So we decided to leave early and fix it out there.The first day we found our first leak.The squirrel that we bought the boat from had drilled a hole in the top of the tank when mounting the seat.We repaired it fiberglassed it back and put it back together.only to find it leaking the next morning from somewhere else.Back at it we went,found the leak and repaired another.Later that day it was still leaking from yet another spot.Finally we decided to pull the tank out and put in a bladder.Busted our azzes till saturday night and finally gave up.But the trip wasnt a total loss,I got to race with Randy Schluess of Typhoon racing on saturday,We took a 4th but the 1st place boat was 500lbs under weight so call it what you want.On friday I pulled the guys off the boat to go take a couple of bat boats on the poker run for a couple of hours.Helped keep there spirits up.210 boats entered,wow I never seen nothing like it.More bling than you could ever imagine.lots of silicone too! 98 degrees each day and not even sweating.Dont worry guys we will get this boat performing before too long.Cause ya know! Dave's gotta guy!!!!!

Man that sucks. Frickin knob drilling holes through the tank!! Too bad you hauled it all the way out there just to wrench on it. Glad you were able to make some fun out of the trip though. How did the haul go, everything run ok?
Dave

Pics are good. Just a few of the rig before the award winning earliest launch date on April 19th.:p

Well that kinda sucks. You really can't trust a DIYer with power tools. You do deserve credit for grit and perseverance.

Looking good Bird, got a few of them myself. Saturday putting her back on the trailer, and getting her all secured for the trip home. Earliest River launch, and maiden voyage, April 26th, 2008. :ernaehrung004:

What kind mileage ya get with that rig?

We don't think about such things. :(

I'm thinking the new 525 EFIs are pretty good on fuel. Topped the tanks off in Morristown ran to the Bay and back and the gauges didn't move off full yet. Took 25-26 gals per side to top off from about the 3/4 mark to start with. The trip by water is about 30 miles each way, or 60 total, if I got 2 mpg I should have used 30 gals total. I would think I would see that on the gauge. I would have see a drop off full with the 500s in the last boat. Granted we mostly cruised around 3500 @ 55 mph, but did a couple blasts @ WOT for a few miles each. So far I'm pleased with what I'm seeing.

Well another day on the St. Lawrence River. Looked like the rain was going to hold off and the sun came out so we hitched her up and headed for the river. Waddington, N.Y. today, my old stomping grounds.

And my baby likes it rough!!! :D We had 2-3 footers today vs last saturdays 6-8 inch chop. Put another 2 mph on the GPS recall this afternoon. The chitt eatin' grin is getting bigger. And I've got two sets of test props comming this week from BBlades.