Clapping and Cheering
 

I was reminded today of something funny. Who out there has pulled into a waterfront restaurant and upon shutting down you are met with claps and cheers by the patrons sitting on the deck eating dinner? Where were you?

Happened to me in Hilton Head at harbor town. I was pulling in to pick up my mother and shut down as quickly as possible and coasted into the dock. They clapped and one lady made a rude remark. There were some older gents on the patio also that gave me a big thumbs up, they were laughing at the rude old ladys...

I re-started the boat and let it idle at the dock while I went inside to pee. I always try to be as considerate as possible, but people that act like that don't get any sympathy from me.

happens pretty often here but we usually know half of the people out there anyway. Usually jump on the deck take a bow and shout something like "dont forget to tip you wait staff . . . . appearing daily . . . . . two shows on sundays!!" :D

It's different with us outboard (2 stroke) guys. They usually applaude when we leave them running - because it kills all the bugs.

Ha funny story. I was actually leaving a resturant/bar..... it was a saturday night and the whole bar was pretty much a 80 foot long deck. As I start up the motor to leave everyone looks to check it out what the noise was. It was a little bit of a chilly night and I hadn't warmed up the motor too much. I put the boat into gear.... make it maybe 20 feet and the boat misfires and shut off. The ENTIRE BAR of maybe 100 or so people start "awwwwingggg and boooooooing" me. I look at my buddy and he goes "START ER UP!!!" I started her up and gave it a rev or two and everyone went ape sh1t clapping and yeahhing..... funny as hell. Actually happened a month later but on my friends boat too.

Pulled into marina last summer, strong wind, landed the boat ok with silent choice on. Wife grabbed dock,azz hole blow boater setting there clapping hands when shut off. Next morning I started the boat and let it idle just to piss the blo boater off!!! My PQ is not that bad with silent choice off, but it got the message thru!

Brian,

When my father had this boat people always b*tched about the noise. Cry-babies. They would cover their ears as if the noise was deafening. And they clapped on occasion when he shut it down.

The Magnum was the inspiration for the Silent Choice in the Phantom. I do like the sound of a loud engine.

I get that all the time......mostly people are just having a laugh...... All good. But I do have to admit, at one regular spot I go to there are tables 10' from your transom while backing in to the slips........especially at high tide. When we are leaving everyone in my boat makes me wait till there in my boat so when I start my 575's they can watch the people who jump 10' out of there seats.......it is funny to watch, especially if they were the ones clapping when I came in........

Happens a lot. I tell them- if its to loud, you are to old.

I was loading my boat, on the trailer, at the marina, to go get gas a couplemiles away. On mornings like that I'll put the trailer in then I will jump in the boat and just take it immediately to the trailer as fast as possible. I won't even drive it all the way on the trailer, so I don't have to rev it. Well as soon as I sut it off come the hoots and the hollers and some over the top cheering.
Sad thing I only had to go get a few hundred gallons of gas a couple miles up the road.
So when I returned to the marina less than an hour later, with a little encouragement from the marina manager, I decided not to go straight to the dock from the ramp - I decided to idle in front of their covered dock while waiting on the marina hands to take my truck and put the trailer away.

The only time that it's ever happened to me was when I made a complete mess of my docking job in front of a large group of my go-fast "friends"... :picard1:

Used to get good laugh when people on dock would stand behind my triple outboard Sonic with the exhaust towers drilled out and I fired it up. I also premixed the fuel at 35/1. Quite a cloud of blue smoke.:evilb:

Braccos? Same spot my clapping incident happened :lolhit:

Yep......Bracco's :evilb::evilb:

When I start my engines I have to open the silent choice or it tends to blow the metal valve plates out of the solent choice. I do warn people before I turn the key. They still jump.

I actually do warn them too......ALWAYS if there are children or elderly.......and yes they usually do still jump.......

Happened to me once. Thought about confronting some of the people and watch them squirm, but thank goodness I calmed myself. I'm at a point now that I really don't care what people think. My boat is loud and I take care to minimize the noise in marinas. If anyones got a problem with it so be it. I think people will complain about anything. Boating used to be a release from uptight rude people, but thats the way it is now. I say just enjoy your boat and forget about them.
Years ago my Dad had a Sanger drag boat, in our community there was an abrasive attorney that went around our community talking bad about the boat and that it should be banned. One evening my Dad went right up to him and asked him if he wanted a ride. The attorney surprisingly agreed to take a ride. He never complained again.

They used to point and make comments about my twin outboards all the time . Thats how I came up with the name for my boat "Stilsmokin". With offshore exhaust they are music to my ears, but, to everyone else, not so much. Had an old german couple living in my friends neighborhood. They *****ed and complained constantly about everyones boat. One afternoon they were headed down to the dock to go out in their canoe when I was visiting. The cloud of smoke from twin my 260s' covered the entire dock. We laughed until we almost cried.
Then you moved to town schmidthead. I still remember that crusty old biotch on the pontoon making comments when you pulled into the hole with your 540s' idling. I have to say your motors do sound slightly better than my outboards. The lake won't be the same without you and Janelle this summer. Turtle out.

I wish. My single 502 doesn't draw too much attention except that one time I was climbing over the starboard gunwale with the line in may hand and it got wrapped around the throttle lever and revved the motor to about 5K. Scrared the crap out of everyone including me.

You guys need to find establishments that are more friendly to the go-fast crowd. Then the cheering will be more based on your docking skills and all will love the sound. Like Brown's Bar on Lake St. Clair:
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The old crow Saugutuck Mi Turned off an old boat of mine and had a whole sailboat full of people start clappinng. Turned em back on and gave them a few raps of the throttle. They called the police as 10 harleys drove by. Cops came over and said nice boat

NK

Once had two guys at a bar at my way mumbling crap and giving me dirty looks on my 36 with dry tails. I couldn't help but notice that their girls were smiling. The next weekend I was back at the same bar with my friend, same girls were there less the guys. She stayed on the boat that night, and went home to her fiance in the morning :) Two weekends later she was back with him, he gave me a dirty look again so I hung her bra on my light pole.

CLASSIC! I love it!!!!!:evilb:

Ron that's classic :lolhit:

Sorry big cat.....I gotta call bs on that one!!!!:bsflag:

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Really bro, happens more than you know :coolcowboy:

Girls and boats, it's just to easy, sadly now I am retired

See the purple and yellow baja? Notice the sundeck? That is me in the shades......new recruits in the water asking how to get on.....you have to beat them off :) If you're boat isn't catching tail you must be one ugly mofo

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This part I believe. The rest.....not so much. :drink::drink::drink:

hahaha nice, I'll try anything once.....its only skin right? :lolhit:

Yup! Doesn't seem to be a problem around here. :evilb:

I've had it happen one time years ago at Beach Grill on Sun morning. Surprisingly last year I had a few blow boaters compliment the boat and how it sounds, didn't expect that...

Been cheered for good docking and jeered for being too loud.

I find it funny though that the same azzes who complain about us would never have the ballz to say the same thing to a Harley guy.

The shorts and flip-flops must not look as tough! :grinser010:

There is a 35' FasTech Formula with 525's that comes to the yacht club...he makes alot of noise, but thankfully, no one complains :)

Dont get any comments, but get dirty looks occasionally. My 598 with full dry exhaust is pretty deafening from behind. Most of the bars we go to cater to a go fast crowd so it isnt out of the ordinary.

I did have a couple dock hands give me a hard time about a docking job the first weekend i owned the boat, little punks.:lolhit:

Happens all the time, especially on Holiday Weekends in Havasu.. People just chill at the ramp, and most of the larger cheers are for those who have no idea what they are doing on the ramp...

Dude, You crack me up!!!!! :D

I can't decide whether its the time at The Rudder in Gloucester, where they have the biggest shimp cocktail in the northeast, when , from what my ex-girlfriend said, the the applause for shutting down was louder than the boat or after drinking too much the night before, I decided to stay over at the town dock In Marblehead Ma and sneak out at sun rise. While leaving a little after 6 a colossal water balloon exploded on my dash, shot from a condo porch 100 feet away. Some race crew on a large sailboat started clapping. To see what the mayhem was about the girl I was with came out of down below with no top on. All the clapping stopped. I thought everyone was jealous. Turns out one of the crew was the girls ex. "Well that explains the bird I just got." Still have not left my boat unattended there.

Great story. -Been years since we've been to the Rudder. I remember Granny rocking the house! Good times.

Perfect come back.....love it!

In 15 yrs of having loud boats its only happened two or three times but I do have si choice in this one.....it's usually the opposite.....one time at a dockside rest we go to we were getting in the boat and some guy yells "Let 'er rip buddy" so I start it up with the si choice on and pull away, its pretty quiet, then another 20ft out I open the pipes for a 10sec prelude then hammer it.....Susi said half the people at the rest were standing and giving thumbs up.

do you have a vid of your dad's boat in the water?