I WAS outta bed before 8:30...but didn't get there until closer to 10am. I was stuck in a crappy meeting in the park. I can't believe they made me stay. Something about getting the event planning finished was more important then gettin my boat detailed.....so THEY said!
The run was great! everyone seemed to have a good time, i know i sure did. thanks to all who attended and helped out!

Posted some pics from Saturday HERE: (post #144+)

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...=181107&page=8

The guys who made this run have balls of steel! :D :cool-smiley-027:

That is a 53 foot Airborne! Preston has 1075's in that. Mild power 4 a huge beast but it goes thru anything! He calls it the motorhome!!!!!:ernaehrung004:

First things first, a huge thanks to the red white & blue Top Gun, out of Grand Haven, for the initial tow out in the big water. He towed me as far as he could until he was loading up so bad he couldnt idle. He got a hold of the Formula cruiser marshal boat that towed me the rest of the way into round lake. Everyone was more that willing to help and it was probably the roughest tow i have ever had (had a rad time keepin my lunch down rockin in those waves). It was a blast but did get a little old. I do have to say, if i had to run that water and a boat under 30' i wouldnt pick anything other than the Saber! Ran it hard, mostly to keep it up on plane, but spent most of the day in the air! Hit one big one coming back from Bay Harbor runnin 60 or so that launched me completely verticle and probably had the bottom of the prop 5' above the crest of the wave:D:D! What a rush! Anyways, havent had a chance to completely diagnose what happened but im 90% sure the pick-up in the distributer went. Too bad i couldnt have run a little longer coming back from Bay Harbor, was the best waves/run all day!

Another big thanks for the tow and everyone had a great time!

Dry Harbor got started on the PQ.Number 7 cyl. is dead,so out it comes.Might see the water yet this year,if not I have a beat up BAJA in the side yard I can use.Hey Bill did you check to see if it had any gas in it?I put my old boat cover over it so my neighbors won't know I have a sick boat.I also did'nt want the owners x to find it.

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Great turn out for the boats and cars for the Friday night kick of.

It was very cool downtown! Everybody seemed 2 B hav'n a great X!!!

I wish i coulda gotten down town to see the set up down there but i just couldn't get a free minute over at the docks! I ran myself ragged this weekend.
Bob- i didn't check for gas but i'm sure we could scrounge some up if you wanna finish the last hour's worth of wrenchin on that thing! i know exactly what needs to be done, and i know where the owner hid the parts!!! Let me know and we'll take that thing out and REALLY "drive it like we stole it!"

We had a great time as well! The weather on land was a nice change from the typical humidity at home. Thumbs up on everything except the Alltel Cell service.

Sorry we missed yall on Saturday night. The message didn't come through until Sunday morn. :(

well i have to say another great show jb & wrink. the view crew got off to a late start. could not get the girls moving when it was rainy and cloudy. so i just sat at the condo in round lake and watched you guys go.we got out just b4 noon and ran up to bay harbor for lunch as the lead boats got in. then we left with the lead boats back to charlevoix mike in the 28 saber was right behind us coming out. it was great watching him. ran with the concept from the whalf rooks i think, and dan adams, until dan had his problem.(Sorry to hear). kurt and kemosobie went by us like the house on the side of the road. man we were catching big air. boat was riding great then i lost fuel presure to the starbroad motor at the turn out of the bay heading south. thanks ilmor for slowing down and checking on us. long 4 or 5 mile idle back to the channel. it was great to see parn out again. again great show guys. best place to boat in michigan.
todd

JB did it all! I just hauled him around so he could keep an eye on all the growlers!!!! I think he should have just super glued his phone 2 his ear as he was keep'n things pulled together! Great job/ event Buddy!!:ernaehrung004:

I didn't do it all...I was just one of over 100 volunteers that it takes to pull this thing off.
I just pretended like i knew what was going on and did the best I could at directing all of you, that were doing all the work.
Wrink is right about my phone and I apologize to anyone that I didn't get back to. I would get 3-4 calls while I was talking to someone else and they would go to my voicemail, when I would try and listen to them I would get more calls. My phone only holds 35 messages at a time so I would have to empty it out every 1/2 hour and only got a chance to reply to the ones that pertained to the run. I keep telling myself the somewhere in there I deleted a message from some really beautiful lady asking me out:D

I can never thank you guys enough that were the pace, rescue. card and marshal boats that made it safe and towed broke boats in.:ernaehrung004:

Donnie, thanks for making the 1000 mile drive up here.
Your work and products are incredible.
If you ever need any references just have them call me.

[QUOTE=Freeryd;2623067]I wish i coulda gotten down town to see the set up down there but i just couldn't get a free minute over at the docks! I ran myself ragged this weekend.
Bob- i didn't check for gas but i'm sure we could scrounge some up if you wanna finish the last hour's worth of wrenchin on that thing! i know exactly what needs to be done, and i know where the owner hid the parts!!! Let me know and we'll take that thing out and REALLY "drive it like we stole it!"[/QUOTE]

Bill, you know U were my right hand man and U were the one that enabled me to get done whatever needed to be and kept me focused.

U need 2 stop talking like this. People will start thinking U R BGCubby's stepchild.

Bob, your welcome to use it when ever you want. It might not be as nice as the Sunseeker though:p

Blue Oval is the one responsible for the cool boat/car show on the main streets. I bet not to many poker runs are allowed to block off the streets in the middle of July and have a giant street party.
Your Dad would be proud of you Bob

Thanks JB.If Freeryd gives me a call I'll see what I can do to get that back together.My phone is back and so far that is working.I burned the lucky hat up last night.Two boats,two engines,It was time for that hat to be gone.The black cload has been lifted from the BAJA and the Powerquest!

I'll give ya a call one of these days and we'll knock that thing out for him. You can deal with the gasket and filters...i'm the exhaust specialist on that thing. I found out the trick to assembling it, BRUTE FORCE! HA we'll get ya on the water asap buddy!

Thanks guys, but I have all the parts in my jeep 2 finish it:p
I'll be back tomorrow night so I can finish it on Thursday:ernaehrung004:

Hey Bubba, who's the chick???????????????????????:party-smiley-004:

The Chick????
Does someone have me lined up with one that I'm not aware of???:confused:
U guys really are good friends :party-smiley-048:

Sorry I could'nt find one under 275 at the bar for you Sat. night.If you would have took a couple drinks I could have got them down to 175.

Yip, a shy 1 that got the big D the same day as C!!!!:party-smiley-004::eek:

Sweet!!! We NEED to find him a piece, cuz if he keeps callin my house at 3am to talk dirty with jes I'm gonna lose it! It makes it really hard to concentrate on the TV when she's sittin next to me talkin like that. The nerve of some ppl....

yeh tell me about it he called me one night and asked me to put mel and i on speaker phone. kinda hard to finish with him breathing so hard in the phone.

LOL. It's been awhile...I just hope you all don't find where I have the webcams hid:evilb:
How else do U think I'm going to pay 4 gas:eek:

HAHA i found your webcams...and you just wait till the next time you log onto one of them. Boy do i got a "treat" for you! You'll be taking those cams home before the weekend i'm sure!

opps #7 valve seat went thru piston.

When Heidi was showing me that pic. on her phone, I thought it was the top of the valve. Damn camera phones, or should I say old eyes.

So is the bottom end OK then? I thought I heard it was a Spun Main bearing. Hard see but looks like it tore the cylinder wall up pretty good too. Dam.
So what's next? Long block or a bunch of machine work?:mad::(

TWIN 700's!!!!!!!!!!!!

New long block with two new blowers!

Been selling some F-250's have you? First part sounds right I can't wait to see the latter.

Bob,
Thanks for letting me use your place to work on my boat.:cool:
You might want to stop on your way home tomorrow and buy some more beer and chips. The twins and I drink all yours. :ernaehrung004:

Heidi said no blowers,she wants the money to rebuild her top end.

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Any dates yet for next year? I'm in for sure!

providing no more broken s&%t we will be there also. Missed this past years because the boat would float, but not move.

Date for '09 - Saturday, July 11th.
Mark your calendars!!