rumour has it they finished the race six spots behind the girl

It is if you're all thumbs

Would the "key" word here be "finished"? Maybe Cooter done good!:cool:

"Finished" is good!!! That's a nice step forward. Can't win if you don't finish.

Good Job Axa!!!!

I think Cooter installed a 60mph governor on the motor, or welded a hard stop on the throttles, Axa thought he was at full throttle till the chick lapped him .................................................. ........ twice. :D

Lame sentiment. no one remembers finishers. Run it hard, if it breaks ya got all season to fix it or get a new one.

My last conversation with the "racers" was interesting to say the least. Axa was in favor of an all out "win or bust" attempt while Dougs approach was to attempt to cross the finish line "intact". It appears that Doug has achieved his goal, and congrats are in order. In their defense here, they were not the only ones unable to run down the young lady in the black boat. It would appear that for a new upstart she has her chit in order.

FYI............Cooter must have had her set @ 65.64 mph based on the stats.

Not so lame when you're footing the bill!!!

Must be he liked it so much the first time..You know he was holding back just to get spanked by her twice.Not that bad of a thing.:drink:

Yea...The only support we gave them was 18 votes.They did come in first with that race..I wonder how that worked out for them.. :ernaehrung004:

I'm sure the cost of getting the entourage to LOTO far outweighed anything they could have broke. Broke boats tow the same as working ones........

Yea...........All that effort on our part and not even a word from the Senator to tell the tale of the mid-west adventure. He must be back by now, probaby tied up with all the nervous nellies with the stock market chit.

He's not the only nervous nellie. My 42' Grand Banks retirement home is in severe jeopardy!!!!!

What about all the poor Wall Street execs that might have their pay checks cut from 50-70 mil down to 500K :eek:. Poor bastiges, how will they ever make it? We should all have jobs that would pay us multi millions just so they can fire our a$$ for screwing the whole deal up. I bet I could F'up an investment bank for a lot less than that.

Don't feel like the lone ranger here, I lost that bigger Fountain in this market chit hole as well. :( But after the bail out everything will be just peachie again. People who live above their means should be able to get right back out there and start spending money they don't have and the economy will be up and running again. :rolleyes:

Wall Street baby! Gotta love Americas biggest casino!

Figured I'd move this over here for comment

http://www.youtube.com/v/RyFSYHNQUqY

My question is who did the spin?

Watched a couple times and it looks like a lime green boat. Someone must know, try placing on the OSS forum and ask there. Axa might know, looked like they were watching the world unfold in front of them.


My dumb, already there. But I did ask the who done it question, should get an answer from someone over there.

That was Wild Ride, The National Points Champion!

Happened right in front of us. Had to back down real quick. It was a great save. Not even sure if he came off plane!

Been real busy, I'll be around soon! Boats still in the water, haven't had time to go get it.

Dave

You're alive? And well? Assumption was that it was "in front" of you. :rolleyes: Congrats on the finish!

So.................where does the smart money go these days? In that the bail out is working magic on the market.

Yes...thank you alive!!

Start looking at Big Blue chip stocks or growth funds. Keep diversified and stay in the market. Now’s the time to think of the future. It will recover and the smart people are buying now. Watch the financials closely, there are many bargains out there, but beware of cash poor companies! Do the research before you buy and as always: Consult your financial advisor and understand the risks involved with your purchase/investment!


Dave

Written like a true professional.

He took that directly from Jim Cramers apologetic blog this morning
:evilb:

Written like a guy who makes his money either way as long as you're in....:rolleyes:

I wrote that last night....Looks like Cramer's the thief!!

Dave

Earlier in the thread there was talk about pulling the boats for the winter:eek: well to those of you who did nananana yesterday 81 degrees - made a nice 100-120 mile run from lexington down to the north channel and back to port huron didn't even need to bundle up.:evilb: Put on the lab finished prop and hit 68mph :drink: The weather should be there today and tomorrow if your lucky enough to still be afloat :ernaehrung004:.

81 is too warm......I'm going to wait till it gets down around 30 and spits some snow to put it back in for a last blast. Should be good to go around the end of November.

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So I guess those new high tech gizzmos make it so easy to rewinterize ehh so much for the previous post

You're just hoping for that cold air induced extra one mph!

Nope, lookin' for 3-4! :D

I see you sniffin' around that 31 PC, that going anywhere?

Winterizing the closed cooling set up is all of 15 minutes for the pair, if you take your time.

Is that the one where you have a sharder valve that you attach a hand pump too and fill it with air? Mine has this set up, but looking at all the lines and the routing I question the ability to get all of the water out so I opt for the antifreeze treatment. Although if I were to trust it I could save about 80 bucks.

Nope, don't even know WTF a "sharder valve" is. The 525s are closed cooling and external water is only in the seawater pump, coolers and exhaust. All you need to do is drain the majority of the water out of all of the above, put a 5 gallon pail with about 3 gallons of anti-freeze on the platform with a hose and muffs to the drive, start engine and run it thru. The anti-freeze pushes any remaining water out and fills the entire system in a couple minutes, some don't even drain first but it saves on anti-freeze if you do. If you use the pink stuff you can just launch in the spring and be on your way, with the real stuff you should drain first but you can catch it and use it again the following year. Simple deal.

A shrader valve is basically the same thing as a valve stem it has a little check ball that allows you to push air or liquid through it in one direction. As for the closed cooling system yes I have that as well. Based on the manual you only need to pump out the water (via the valve) and remove all of the plugs incase you don't know what a plug is its those little blue things on the sea pump and a few other places. Sounds like you can get away with out the anti-freeze - like I said I don't think I'll take that chance and stick to the anti-freeze. I'll bet if you look a little closer you have a similar set up. Here's a link to a picture/parts lay out of the water drain system that mine is equiped with.

http://www.mercruiserparts.com/Show_...R+DRAIN+SYSTEM

Anyone else have one of these and do you trust it or use it or just do the anti-freeze like I've been doin?

Ok, but I thought they only used that system on the 4 bangers, never noticed it on the 496s.

I said drain the majority of the water out, via the little blue plugs was assumed to be the way. :rolleyes:

And......................then you start the engine and run the anti-freeze thru, via the bucket and muff deal on the drive. Would never just trust draining the system and calling that good. Before the closed cooling I would drain the blocks then pull the T-stat housing and fill the blocks with the good green stuff, then flush it thru all the coolers and exhaust as well. Anti-freeze is cheap, parts ain't.

When you get a chance PM me your address, I have some assorted Velocity chit, no offense, that I'll send you.

Ragged look what you made me do. I got that cool little spinny thing under my name on the posts:drink: What ever Velocity Chit you got better be good or I'm sickin mom on you :) Ooops Chery said I better be nice....... sorry.

whatever happened to twins? seems to have fallen off the map

Ye of little faith, you think I would have half a$$ed chit?

Maybe old Twins fell into a crack and can't get out ?:eek:

Likely overwhelmed by the world of ever changing high finance. Seems all the "Financial Guys" are bummed out lately. A little infusion of cash would cure all that ails them, no doubt. Went up to HBW last weekend to grab the refer and dock box and went in to the showroom to BS, asked about the marine finance rates,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 8.99% with a real 20% down was the best deal, up a point from two weeks before. I do believe the days of easy credit for toys have come and gone. Go figure! But then you and I have had that conversation before.

Nope not half a$$ed chit just Velociy Chit :drink: Thanks in advance. I guess I'll owe you a cocktail or two or three next time we're out your way. Earlier you mentioned going for a run at the end of Nov. Cheryl and I have been discussing coming out there for Thanksgiving (don't tell Mom or my Sister - we haven't talked to them about it yet) If you don't think the extra weight will keep you from getting that extra 1 , 3 or 4 mph we'll tag along that way you can have third paqrty confirmation on the speeds :-)

I'm still here ..... just lying a little low getting ready for the snowmobile season ..... just put "got twins ?" in storage for the winter.
With regards to Ragged's comment ..... my dealings in the financial business is a little different ...... our customers our feeling the crunch no different then anyone else but with the "Saved by Zero" program offered by Toyota it has certainly helped ......
We are fortunate to have a very diverse line of vehicles to offer .... like Toyota ..... they are still strong as ever with regards to current sales.

Jeff

The sleeping bear is out of hibernation! :cool: How are things Twins?

You may have been somewhat "Saved by Zero", but stats say Toyota is in the chitter same as the rest, somewhere around 30% off, so they say. Little different than the old days when they could add the "Additional Dealer Profit" tag under the MSRP and get it.