Crazy Tom's question about performance boating
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Re: Crazy Tom's question about performance boating
Originally Posted by f311fr1
I'd say I am a #6. Joe Murray
I think the bipolar scale just about covers my boat rides too. I am a nine while driving until something inevitably breaks and then I am a 2 or a 3 until I get the boat back on the trailer and then strangly enough I am a 7 just from looking at it on the trailer and remembering how much fun it is to drive.
I would like to say I am a six on Chris' great scale, but some people who see me running think I am crazy, which just happens to be true! I would like to think that those who have been out with me who know performance boats think I am a six, but part of my mental illness is delusions of grandeur after all :-) At least I don't jsut run WOT in any condition...
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Originally Posted by PhantomChaos
#5 has me written all over it.........
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Originally Posted by ratman
is this the pansies thread? shouldn't you log on to cruisers.com? suck it up boys...get bigger drives, get spare engines, get a second job for gas money...f the jet skiers
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Originally Posted by formula31
Yea, if Im not blowing engines or drives, I m not trying hard enough. Thats where the fun is, pushing it till they break.
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Originally Posted by CAP071
Just go buy an Apache
Owning an Apache is cheating, plain and simple. It lets you do things others can only fantasize about while watching Ben's old race videos and crying unconsolably. Nothing like catching a couple hundred feet of air off a rogue 12 footer at 90 mph.
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Originally Posted by formula31
Yea, if Im not blowing engines or drives, I m not trying hard enough. Thats where the fun is, pushing it till they break.
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Re: Crazy Tom's question about performance boating
Tom, 1st lets clarify what the average boat cruises at... 23mph?
When I go out w/ friends, I cruise at 50, which is 4000rpm, which is 75% of wot 5500rpm. So I don't run at speeds which the average boater runs.
On the other hand... 50 is screaming fast for a non boater. Especially w/o a canopy, which your boat seems to have.
I won't run wide open all the time, that irresponsible to my engine and equipment.
BTW, do only run your boat during your manic swings? JK.
When I go out w/ friends, I cruise at 50, which is 4000rpm, which is 75% of wot 5500rpm. So I don't run at speeds which the average boater runs.
On the other hand... 50 is screaming fast for a non boater. Especially w/o a canopy, which your boat seems to have.
I won't run wide open all the time, that irresponsible to my engine and equipment.
BTW, do only run your boat during your manic swings? JK.
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Originally Posted by Stormrider
BTW, do only run your boat during your manic swings? JK.
Real depression is not something you can "snap out of" or "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" or "have a cup of coffee and get on with life" as so many people try to advise me of. Methamphetamine or lack of sleep for several days (actually sleep deprivation therapy is being researched as effective) might work, but the risk of going too manic is very high. Too manic is worse than depressed. Not only am I at risk of my own life, everybody around me wants to kill themself too just from putting up with me. www.bipolarinorder.org might help explain it more if you are interested.
Manic Depression has given me the ability to do great things in my life, or at least the delusion to think they were!
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Re: Crazy Tom's question about performance boating
Tom to help me understand BP disorder better, I'll need pics of your boat.
Last edited by Stormrider; 11-15-2005 at 12:45 PM.