Congrats! I love that boat. Where will you be boating?

CoBarry,
Southern part of Lake Michigan from St. Joseph to Chicago, Put In Bay area, and hopefully, if I can pull it off, Florida coast somewhere. I see you live in the LOTO area. I've been down there a couple of times with my 19' Mastercraft. My wife has a lot of family in MO. Should be a stop this year. easy drive from Indiana. I'm also looking at going to 1000 Island this summer. I've been there with the Mastercraft before and it was awesome. There's a guy on this forum that lives out there and I'll probably try to hook up with him. Hopefully I'll put a few hours on the boat this year!

Where is 1000 Island? Any good for skiing? We also have a 21' Malibu that we're keeping for skiing/boarding.

If you do bring the boat to LOTO drop me a line and maybe we can hook up. Our place is near the 7 MM across the lake from the Horny Toad.

"where is the 1000 Islands"




That would be where the most beautiful freshwater boating on the planet is....
...the St. Lawrence River, about the same 20 minutes away from my house as Lake Ontario.

my new avatar is last year leaving Henderson Harbor, looking NNE out on Lake Ontario, for the 18 mile run back to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River at Cape Vincent.

I snapped that pic 'cause the Lake was layed down good that evening...waterskiing water...rare.

prevailing wind is SW to NE. If there's any wind at all, after it blows across a couple hundred miles of open lake, it piles up the junk pretty good in the NE end...trying to stuff that water into the mouth of the St. Lawrence.
I've been out there many times when you had to run "in the ditch" quite a ways to get on plane...and get enough speed and setup to stay that way, at times even that was difficult.

I'll run out there when others turn tail, as long as it's past the end of July and the water temp is survivable.

Haven't run into that with the Formula yet.

Of course it doesn't have the high "X" and/or blowers of past craft.

Coulda' stayed out there runnin' forever on that evening.

Rippem,
Need to get a few of us out there. I'm willing to make a trip if you feel like putting something together. If we could get the LOTO boys and the Put In Bay boys out there, we should return the favor and make a trip out to their lakes too! Running out of days fast!

We ran Kevin's new 382 today,got some nice Alabama weather.Ran better than expected,everything is dialed in just right with the 26" P-5's,jumped on plane easily.This is one strong 382. We left it on my lift to check out a few things before the rain hits again. Everything should be perfect before it is picked up,checking out trailer brakes and other stuff today,should be ready to pick up and enjoy shortly. Robert

Robert,
Thanks for the updates! Did you get my reply about the showers? Go ahead and put them on if you have them. Gotta ask....How fast? (Not that I care ; ) )

Simrek Halo showers installed. 79.5 GPS,82 Speedo. This is one dialed in 382. But we think Alabama water is faster

That works for me!

(All except the 20 degree weather here)