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by the way is the river no wake? or what is?

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river is no wake the whole way.

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My boat looks like a large pile of Apache parts right now!

I may fly up with a buddy on saturday though.

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It's supposed to be very nice this weekend so it may be a bit thicker than you'd expect. I doubt you'd get shut out though.

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We prefer Kelley's over PIB. NYE weekend at PIB will be wild if it's a nice weekend. The only thing with the public docks is they can party out there all night long until the break of dawn.

If that's not a chance you want to take stay at Kelley's.

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Not that I think anyone on this board would do this.....

The PIB police walk the docks frequently with their dope-sniffing dogs and they do board and search unoccupied boats. Tourism is their biggest (only) revenue generator and the PD is one of their largest. Open containers, peeing on bushes, public intox are all expensive mistakes.

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And you know this why??? :eek: :D :evilb:

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Have you ever stayed at the state dock on Middle Bass and used the ferry? Ian is leaning toward Kelly's but I did want to
check out PIB but don't want to be rafted way out there, I have a habit of falling off boats :eek: Where is your group going to be this weekend

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No Donna we haven't stayed at the state docks, however we know people who have and like it there. You can always run over to PIB for the afternoon, that's an option. They'll charge you but it's an option. And you're right, they will raft you 4 out.

We haven't decided if we're actually heading to the islands or not this weekend. If we do not sure where we're staying. We have some friends at Marina Del Rey (I think that's what it's called) and we like Portside at Kelley's.

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Uhhh....

OK. First-hand experience. Hit the trifecta, as a matter of fact.

Some years back, though. Youthful indiscretion.

It's actually quite amusing to sit out front of the PIB jail on a warm summer evening. Kind of like going to a a lve filming of COPS.

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I think the ferry stops at 10 after Labor Day. Check the Miller Ferry website.

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Saturday night the wife and I will be either at PNB or Kelly's overnight (still have not decided which one) so if any of you happen to be there look us up. We would love to meet some you! (See pics for boat and couple recognition)

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we are in the same boat can't decide where to stay, I think we will try to get to PIB by 1, check it out and depending on dock space stay or head to Kelly's. Either way will definately be at the Casino Sunday at noon for a Bloody Mary :drink: or two

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If only I had more time this weekend, I would head to the Islands...make sure you take lots of pics. I will me taking my digital camera with me on Sat at shooters hehe. Anyone know where I can find a portable stripper pole for the boat LOL that would be awwwesome!!!! ROFL

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I will be at the Casino Sat for sure,prob over night to Sunday.
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We will look for you guys...I have never spent the night at Kelly's...we have always stayed at PNB. What is the night life at Kelly's like?
Is there a boat show on Sunday? If so, who is putting it on?

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My wife and I and another couple are going to Sanduskey for the weekend and last I heard was we are thinking about taking the ferry to PIB for the day on Saturday and on Sunday we are going to the boat show. I"ll look to see if I can recognize any ones boats and maybe meet some of you.

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we have pretty much set our plans, On Saturday we will put in at Lake Erie Metro Park in Gibraltar and head to Middle Bass Island, we plan to dock overnight at their yacht club, Sonny's water taxi runs between PIB and MB until 1:00 AM ($5.00 each way) which leaves plenty of time for partying plus we might check out St Hazzards http://www.sthazards.com/ Sunday around 11 we will head for Kelly's Island to the Casino and all the other:drink: attractions. If you want to try to catch up with us PM me your cell number and I will send you mine back. Looks like it is going to be one of the last nice weekends so hopefully everyone enjoys it.

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Kelly's for sure saturday night, Whats thrillseeker and Donzi girl up too?
jr.

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Looks like Ill be runnin over with Roger and Steph :drink: See ya Sunday! :cool:

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I have not talked to Tony or Elizabeth yet,I will be there Sat afternoon,Lake effect will be there Sat too,we are going to the boat show then Kelleys.

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We ended up at PIB Yacht club on our friends boat with a last minute spur of the moment decision to go. We had an awesome time.

Sorry we didn't have your number 245Limited. We made it to Kelley's on Saturday and had a great time. Saturday night at PIB was fun. We did see a few friends there and it was a great time.

Donna/Ian, sorry we missed you guys. We had to get back to Mentor in order for our friends to attend a wake Sunday afternoon. It was a great way to celebrate the last weekend of Summer 2006. :evilb: :drink: :D

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We had a good but stressful weekend. Just when we were about to pull out of the driveway on Saturday, Ian discovered a problem with the ignition, all which seemed to indicate a bad fuel pump. Of course no one around here stocks the one we needed, after a zillion calls he finally jumped in the car and drove all the way to Columbus, OH to Jeggs. The trip was about 3.5 hrs each way and he wound up driving through the middle of an Ohio State Game :D It was to late to install on Saturday so he was up bright and early Sunday morning. Unfortunately after all that it was not the fuel pump :eek: More investigation led to a crossed wire in the main dash panel. That fixed we proceeded on our 1.5 hr journey to the boat launch, well we had problems there as well, no fuel going to the starter, so after some panic and investigation it turns out he had left the cap on. Now we finally start out for the 40 mile trek to Kelly's for the worlds best Bloody Mary. The waves are pretty big at first so the rest of the LEOPA crew that were going to run with us decided to head in the other direction. Now on our own, we head towards the islands, we decide to take the route on the south side of PIB in quest of calmer water, we are not that familiar with that route and our GPS screen was all most impossible to read in the glare. Excited that we finally arrived we made our approach looking for the Casino, only to find out we were at Cataba Island :D After regrouping Ian figured out where we were and shortly after that we arrived at our destination and saw the smiling face of Race Girl and Roger waving to us from the Tiki Bar, finally at last I had what I will from now refer to as my $500.00 Bloody Mary. I also found out what Mr P is willing to go through for what was probably our last day on the lake this year.

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Next time call me. I stock MSD marine ignition

Dean Gellner

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We will keep that in mind if we need one. Our problem however was just a simple case of some old wires that caused a shot, a problem that could have cost no money. So now we have a new fuel pump and the old, which was pretty old anyway as a spare.

Dean where are you located it does not show under you user name

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Gellner Engineering
2827 Brookpark Rd
Cleveland, OH 44134-1308
(216) 398-8500

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Open on saturdays till Noon, Dean and his parents helped us out many of times..................Thanks Dean.

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Kellys was great saturday night. Best line i heard was "meatball" trying to pick up these two girls.................."If you have to the bathrooom, You can go.........." They replied "Why do you.................", " Yeah", " Well go Then"

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Ms P,
We just missed you guys. You were just arriving when we were leaving. You had to back out for one boat leaving and we were the second one that came out. Very nice boat...sorry to hear about the problems...we would love to have met you guys and RG as well. We did end up staying at PIB Saturday night and headed to Kelly's about noon on Sunday. It was a great last weekend!
We headed to the boat show when we left Kelly's but no one could tell us where we could slip the boat so after about 25 minutes we just pulled out.
Maybe we can get together next year!

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You boat looked real nice, I was wondering if that was you, too bad your did not stay a little longer I would have introduced you to RG and Roger and a few others. I think we hung out until around 5:00 the ride home was awesome the lake had laid down quite a bit so we were able to really run it, I still can't belive it was probably our last time out :(

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Your right...the lake was pretty nice for our last run. I am pretty bummed out that the boating season is over. There is probably a couple more weeks around here for some, but we are leaving this weekend for vacation in Italy, so we are pretty much done. It was a great weekend to go out on though. I will try to hook up with you guys in the spring!

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Ditto. I had engine problems Sat afternoon. Dean took a quick look and I was on my way. Dean treats every customer’s engines as if it was his own. Gellner is always there for me as well, simply the best!!! :cool:

PS: OSO Safe clean pics of this weekend coming soon...... :D

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You guys looked great when we saw ya running in the bay..................... The Apache was on the lose..........
Jr.

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We got some good air on the way over to Kelleys ... nothin like flyin! :drink:

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I must have forgot to post it,I was there after 5:00 I went on my friends 311 Formnula,we were there all night till Sunday.

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I was dead all day yesterday,I had to drink alot to feel as bad as I did!!
Scott missed us Sat night,I called to tell him we were on his boat drinking and he was not!!
Ohh.... you were there when I called!!

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did the pib thing sat night... stayed til 3pm on sun and headed back to shooters.... shoulda stopped at the casino :( ... met up with loepajm at shooters then put her to bed

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hey you bunch of thread steal'in hyjackers this was supposed to be a Cleveland thread not a Islands thread! :drink: :drink: . . .oh who the heck am i kid'n, man you guys werent kid'n. the flats are frikn dead! i was beside my self when i saw the place on saturday. we put in over at the ramp public ramp an docked at Whiskey Island Marina, nice place and good people there. went out an ran the B'jeezsus out of the batboat for a little while than poped down the river. i havent been there in about 10 years or so and i just couldnt believe all those places were boarded up. we did go back to shooters later on that night an it seemed to be hopp'in but not real packed though. ran into pkspx (paul) there but we had to go shortly after that, my crew was get'n . . . uhh . . . tired :drink: . well i guess i ended up jump'in ship on this thread to cuz we ended up going to sandusky sunday an took the boat over to the boat show and hit TGI Fridays on the Cedar Point causway. wish i could have hit shooters on sunday but i really wanted to hit the islands.

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Now you know why we all boat at the islands!!! :drink:

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the flats are dead by design... they were killed.... a very wealthy local is now trying to use eminent domain to steal all the land for a multi billion resurection paid for by taxes, grants, loans that will never be repaid.... the american way