Cool photo from back in the day!
 

When we were kids we had Checkmates and all we did was jump wakes all day! That's where my sickness started. This photo was sent to me today from a childhood friend i haven't spoken to in 30 years. (did I just say 30 years? i can't believe it, i'm ficken old!!) This picture will be either 29 or 30 years old this summer.

Sweet!

Still diggin' my Checkmate. :drink:

Rut Roe, better prepare for a beatin' :)

Ya'll watched too many James Bond movies!!

Gino, i have no idea what you are talking about.

My first boat that I drove was a 21 ft Checkmate that I would borrow from my dad. Didn't handle the chop of LI Sound too well though, so you would end up getting pretty beat up, but still tons of fun!!

Cool pic Gino. It's kind of funny to look at that pic and have it next to the avatar of the MTI. Knowing the road you've taken to get to where you are today. You've come a long way and deserve everything you have!:cool: Maybe that checkmate is why you still love the little DONZI

12yrs old 13' Boston Whaler
18yrs 18 Switzer 135 Merc inline six
19yrs 18' Hydrostream
All of them were fun at the time.

Loved to take my little whaler out into the gulf when the waves were big, when i was in my young teens. Though we were safe...we did wear vest and the kill switch.

my first boat was a 18 foot switzer with a 150 hp merc outboard.think i gave 2500. for it,but it sure was fun.:evilb:

cool....is that a tower of power out back.....???

Funny stuff Gino, I had the identical boat except with the open bow as a 16 year old kid. We had a ski boom on the back and burned gas 7 days a week on a small ski lake in Illinois. Fun times. It had an 18 gallon tank so a little easier to fill up as well (about $20 bucks back then to fill it up)!!!!! As you said, that was exactly 30 years ago too!!!!!!

Cool pic!

Gino too funny... in High School my good friend had a 16' Checkmate with a 90 Merc and we ran around the river wave jumping for many of summers having a blast... following graduaton from high school I bought a 18' Checkmate with a 235 Evinrude, thought I was on top of the world!!!! :evilb: :eek: :ernaehrung004:

Looks like it. I had one in the 80's - they ran strong.