I have a neighbor that has a problem with my boat so he thought he would put his boat on the edge of his and my property to make it difficult for me to get the boat on the lift. Its a 29ft boat and i only own 40ft of bulkhead, and is one of these guys that thinks he owns the neighborhood, so now when i know i'm using the boat i get up early and use my leave blower to remove the morning dew. Then there is warm up time about 15-20 minutes while i'm filling the cooler. As for flushing any time before 10:00pm they are getting flushed even if i'm using it the next day.

Go green get a sailboat

im on a small comunity in punta gorda mixed on the noise some people love it some hate it cant win my neighbor luvs it and the guy across the canal hates it i just try to be curtios and not make it exsecive thants punta gorda florida

One of my car customers is in Punta Gorda, he is from Gaylord and usually has either a vintage Buick Woody, Lincoln or Caddy down there for the winter, 40's and older. He may be one of the guys thats not so much into the noise though :D

another OSO member here named "old Navy" had a south wind drag tunnel. It had a 455 Pontiac that I built in it with Basset water injected headers, was fairly loud but NOTHING like a bbc with dry tails by any means. My uncle lives in a small cabin near a little tiny 650 acre lake, there are NO lakefront cabins on the lake, surrounded by state land and private hunting property, you would think you were in northern Canada looking out over it. The lake however is full of bottomless silt and is getting alot of Lily pads growing everywhere but it has no speed or boat size restrictions (other than Michigans un-enforced 55mph inland lake law). I used to run my cobra jet jet boat there years ago right before I would rebuild the jetdrive just to stir up the lake and loosen up the weeds and lily pads. Old Navy brought his Southwind over there one weekend and we had a ball tearing around the lake with no other boats around and we were giving rides to the crowd of hillbilly spectators gathering to watch. After about a hour a old guy that lives 3/4 mile from the lake on the road going out to the highway come tearing up to the launch, tells us BY LAW we can't run the boat there, I ask him what law is that????? He of course can't tell me. I proceed to tell him : listen, we are stirring the weeds up in the lake, giving all the locals rides, not breaking ANY laws, only going to run the boat till dark and probably will be another year before we even come back. Plus I ask him actually how loud is noise at HIS house????? He gets all pizzed off and tells me he's going to go get his deer rifle (I was polite to him) AND that he's going to call the "LAW". I laugh at him, are you going to tell the "LAW" that you are threatening to shoot people with your deer rifle???? 15 minutes later sheriffs dept rolls up, dept checks boat registration and tells us there was a complaint but that we were doing nothing wrong so have fun and leaves. Old Navy being the nice guy he is starts backing his trailer in the water, I'm like-"what the hell are you doing???" We better just go, FUKK that, park your truck, we are going to run the dog pizz out of this boat NOW until we have no gas left:evilb:. The old guy lives on the only road coming back and I am sure he saw the cops drive in then drive out and he probably assumed that the cop told us we had to leave and I had to explain to my bud if we take the boat out now the old man would think we got sent away and that he rules the roost. I beat that boat for next hour like a red headed step child. My family had the first cabin back there 50 years ago and about every 5 years or so someone new moves in this tranquil backwoods area and the first time they hear a snowmobile or boat they freak out so we have to remind them that EVERYONE is there to have fun and it's not always going to be the quietest place to live and we were there before they EVER were. Now, I don't believe in having a insanely loud boat with dry headers and just annoying people because I thinks its cool, I spent the money on GGBS on my 1100 hp motor in my boat and it did not lose 1 mph. The guys that insist on having 125 decibel boats are the cause of noise laws that others have to struggle even with mufflers with passing sound test and it screws all of us, Smitty

There's nothing much worse than having (or being) a bad neighbor. Just remember that.

So where did you get that done, and did hurt performance at all?

Glass Dave,

Does your car customer with the woody always wear a captains hat? No joke, he might be a couple of houses from me. I think he has a clasic car stash out in a hanger at the airport.

Andy

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I had a friend, who is a great fabricator, piece it all together to eliminate the thru-hulls. It worked great, as the exhaust was directed downward and contained between the drives. I do not believe that it hurt the perf. at all, but I do not have any facts to back that up. After I had that on the boat, I was never stopped again for loud exhaust.

The guys that insist on having 125 decibel boats are the cause of noise laws that others have to struggle even with mufflers with passing sound test and it screws all of us, Smitty[/QUOTE]

I completely agree with this.

i used to be right on the "phuck em" bandwagon. Until i had a little incident the end of last year. We caught a real nice day in the middle of october(which is rare around here) so i decided to take the boat out for one last ride, i dropped in at a usual ramp and it was deserted besides a few fisherman. i dumped my boat and tied up just as a fishing boat was coming in so i helped them into the ramp next to me and tied them up. while they were waiting for their truck and trailer i decided to start up and warm my motors i usually leave them at a fast idle to warm up say 1200 rpms. well apparantly i startled a little girl in the fishing boat who was now crying hysterically and her parents were giving me the death stare. i immediately shut my motors off and waited for them to leave before restarting. sorry for the longwinded story but my point is that i had never felt like such an a$$ about how loud my boat is till that day just reminded me that sometimes we kinda deserve a little of that bad rap we get

No sense in being annoying just to be annoying, I try to be considerate when appropriate, but at the same time I'm not gonna do a damn thing different just to please some pain in the ass. I don't care if he likes the sound of my motors, I don't like looking at his stupid looney tunes t-shirt, or his fat wife who left the house squeezed into a purple sweatsuit from Target. If I pull up to a restaurant and people give me the stupid clap routine, or dirty looks, I just politely tell them to F off and mind their own business.

I have to say, overall people seem to enjoy the boat more often times than not. I get way more thumbs up than middle fingers. Who doesn't like a big shiny boat that goes fast? Who doesn't like the sound of twin big blocks warming up? Morons, that's who. They should be thanking me for bringing a little music into their life. if I sent Elton John into their living room to sing his greatest hits, would they b*tch about that too?

This is why I put the Verados on the back of my boat. We come in late at night and we're literally stealth.

Come on over to the east coast...we're a bit more tolerant over here....except for Manatee Zones November through March...and No Wake Zones all the way through Broward County. If you want to stretch out any at all in Broward you have to go out side. I try to stay in Palm Beach County if it's real rough outside....at least we have a few places you can lay it down if no body is looking:evilb::evilb:

Face it man...in the eyes of Joe Public...we roll with a bottle of Black Jack in one hand and a Dube in the other...we're all criminals unless we're at the helm of a layer cake cruiser!!

Same here. I go past peoples homes in the canals and they all comment about whether the engines are running.

The loudest noise is Nick dropping ice into his 12th cocktail.:drink::drink:

My boats are eggbeaters and relatively quiet. I keep a houseboat on a dock with a lot of older folks that enjoy their peace and quiet. When friends that are "*******s with loud boats" come for visits we are as polite and respectful as we can be for our elders. A fast ride in a loud boat goes a long way to appease the haters and they actually appreciate why the boats are loud. Now the "seniors" get excited when the loud boats come to visit as long as we are respectful and they get bragging rights for going fast in one of them dam cigar boats.

I'm with Richanton all the way!Rattle the windows and China Cabinets.......



Jim

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Don't laugh. You arent any better. The beer fridge in your garage is larger than the one at Shooters.:evilb::evilb:

I live a few miles from Buckley AFB in Denver, The F-16s make a little noise when they are flying, I had a GF that asked me if the noise bothered me, I said no it was the sound of freedom. She couldn't comprehend that, she didn't like the exhaust on my 911 either. Had to send her down the road.

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I completely agree with this.[/QUOTE]

+ 1...it's good for their manhood

:Dean Go green GEt a sailboat

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A concept that is all too often lost on some of us.

One afternoon a couple summers ago at the marina, there was an elderly couple (about Alec's age :kiss:) fueling and loading up their cruiser behind me when I started up. This poor little old lady got startled so bad that she literally fell backwards and dumped their cooler all over herself. I felt horrible (although I did chuckle a little to myself). I've never felt a death stare so piercing before that or since. Boy were they pissed.

Though my love for open-piped big block V8's is never-ending, we've got to appreciate that not everyone appreciates it like we do. Music to one's ears is simply noise to some others. For instance, when I hear some punk azz kid ride by in their piece of sht ghetto-thump-boomer car, I get the urge to pull out my shotgun and blow their tires out. There are just as many folks out there who feel the same way about our boats. A little courtesy and consideration isn't too much to ask for, and will often be returned in kind. Those of you that are taking the "fvck-em" stance, don't realize that eventually it's going to ruin it for all of us. Those same people that you're "fvcking" are the ones that get pizzed off enough to show up at your neighborhood association meetings and their city councils and make complaints that eventually turn into legislation - that seemingly for some odd reason, groups like ours are usually too "busy" or too lazy to fight. And then it's over...

Finally, like Nort said, there's nothing worse than an azzhole neighbor that ruins your quality of life. Keep that in mind.

Have you ever tried to confront the complainers in person?

I have found that to work very well. Take them for a ride and then they love it.

I was out in Cali. a bunch of years back and Ron with "Running with the Devil" was at the fuel docks. He had removable "donky dicks" The ladie on the boat behind him asked him what they were. He said it was to kee the boat quite. She said they are not working. He asked her if she wanted him to start the motor with out them. She said yes, he did, she about had a heart attack! :D

The problem is that people use the noise to try and put speed limits in place. While I love the noise as much as the other guy but I also realize that not everyone does. If we don't tone it down a little bit then we are all going to face the same thing. What good is a loud boat if you can only got 45 MPH! I would rather be quite and able to go at WOT then loud and slow......

Also read your condo docs. Reading the laws of the town/city is great, but if you bought into a condo asso that has its own rules regarding noise and boats there may be an issue.

We used to use a smaller whaler to pull out into the bay and put on a morning when there was larger louder boats to run...There are always people to cramp you.

After getting a new 32 single engine race boat running with a fresh motor we arrived into the lagoon later around 7pm and we needed to shut the motor down mid drift to grab lines for the dock. A woman clapped, and stated that "this was a quiet lagoon" (she, a new resident to the community was either not born or did not live on the lagoon in the 30s-90s when the lagoon was home to many large race boats and diesel fishing boats that would leave at all hours) So....a passenger in the race boat whom, at the time was a professor at an ivy league university, who is also 5' tall stood up on the engine hatch, pointed to the suspecting vocal offender and said in a nice polite voice, " well lady, I guess tonight the lagoon is not quiet so shut your mouth and learn to respect your neighbors" At that we all clapped and cheered for our noise loving, speed seeking girl. THe lagoon has houses on either side so the reverb made it sound like a monster truck in a closet, dry ext with a huge cam...

let your wife ask if they want to go for a ride, in some cases its like gun ownership and use, people will go to their deathbed stating that certain things are bad/ evil/ should be outlawed, et al only until they try it. You may have a friend for life and not realize it. Or your neighbor could just be an A hole transplanted from Jersey....

All the best, good to see you still have that awesome boat.

As far as noise and neighbors go, I'll add my story...

About a year ago, a kid bought a house in my subdivision (quiet and kid friendly) during a estate auction (got it way below value). He drives a diesel pickup with a big stack through the bed. After about a month of him tearing up and down the street, I had a not-so-nice talk with him about it. A couple months later on a Saturday afternoon, I pulled my prostreet camaro out to warm it up and take it for a short drive since it sat a lot. He is a car guy and came down with another diesel guy to check out my car.

He said, "Nice car! How come I've never seen it out before?!"

Me, "Because my 8 month old son doesn't appreciate the noise or being woke up from his nap."

Ever since then, the kid babies his truck down the street and I'm very appreciative of it.

Happens in the winter too.... people buy houses on or near a busy snowmobile trail and then complain about the noise. Sometimes nothing happens and other times, if they complain enough, an entire trail has to be routed through the woods or worse if it runs through the complainers property it is closed altogether!

I should also point out the other end of the spectrum.....took my boat up to a friends cottage for a weekend.....they're in a tight little bay with four other cottages all shoulder to shoulder.....when I was mucking around anywhere near the dock I would hit the silent choice to be respectful.....a couple hours in to the first day the owner of one of the other cottages marches out to the dock (I see him coming and think oh oh) and tells me "theres no need to make it quiet around here, let 'er rip buddy!" and gives me a big thumbs up.....so it was open exhaust for the rest of the weekend....made sure everybody in the bay got lots of rides it was a great weekend.

you retirees and you loud boats!!! geesshh! When are you gonna learn! :lolhit:

just kidding! Tell that communist to go stick it!

I was returning to the CT River from the east end of Long Island one day and docked the boat while I ran to get the trailer. While I was doing that a small fishing boat had pulled in right behind me. One of the 'ol timers was hanging at the bow drinking a Coke in a cup when I fired up the engines, it startled him so much he jerked the cup of soda back and drenched himself. He wasn't mad but I made it a point to make sure if there were people around, especially those who I thought had no clue what was going to happen or had small kids I always warned them that it was going to be loud before I fired up the engines. Never had an issue after that.

Also agree with those who said that the loud inconsiderate ones who make it hard for the rest of us when noise laws come down the road. In CT we now have a noise law.

Also agree with those who are puzzled by those who buy homes next to an airport, et al, and complain. I live near Lime Rock, a race track in upper CT. A lawyer bought a house directly across from the track and sued it for noise stating that on Sunday's it interfered with her ability to worship. She won and now the track can't host a race or club event on Sundays.

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I'm lost for words. Oh, well, happens once a year.

So were a lot of people when it happened. And the lawyers on this site wonder why some here are losing respect for their profession.

As a kid growing up on the north shore of Lake Simcoe in Ontario I remember with great fondness the sound of open piped boats ripping down the bay. My brother and I would go running down to the dock anytime something unusual showed up. My parents would roll their eyes and occasionally complain that the noise was unnecessary. We'd explain very carefully to them how impressive some of that machinery was and how much work went into building those pieces of art. The didn't buy it.

One day without telling them we loaded our boat on a trailer and returned with it a week later - motor raised, nose cone and low water pickup added and two big holes drilled in the shaft to relieve the exhaust. They were not happy... :angry-smiley-038:

One summer evening a bright yellow Apache with bright red stand-up bolsters came blasting by, it was unbelievably loud. I loved it and spent the weekend chasing it down just to hear it start up. That was around 88/89, never did find out who owned that boat.

Back then 100MPH was a huge deal. Now when I go and visit I can sit and watch literally dozens of triple digit capable boats go by each day. The rigs running up Kempenfelt seem to stick mostly to the middle of the bay so the noise levels aren't all that loud. 20 years on and my brother and I still jump up from the dinner table to catch a glimpse of what is running by. That'll never get old.

This past summer at the Naples town docks in Maine i started my scarab and a lady standing towards the back of the boat jumped and screamed! When I turned and looked at her she gave me a nasty look and said something but I couldnt hear her anyways:evilb:

I guess now that I think about it I could have yelled "fire in the hole!"

My mistake! :lolhit:

I bought a set of muffs before I came to Florida for the winter. Sux to cave in but... I did and I even like them now:)