I have that soundtrack.

I know all about lake michigan. Ive been on it boating for over 15 years. Ive been out in that water in everything from a 23ft single stuffing the bow so hard , bilge pumps ran for 15 minutes , blew the microwave out of the cabinet, cracking ac freon lines, cabin doors falling off and what not in my 40 formula. Took waves over the deck exiting diversey harbor in my 40 excalibur heading out for the day. Lost factory sunpad cushions that were glued and lag bolted down, hitting so hard coming back from sbi races after a storm. Its all part of boating on the great lakes.

All of my boats were pleasure budget boats, that couldnt hold a candle to most of that hardware in that run. My point regarding the wave heights, was that I know from experience, 3-4's are rough! 4-6's even more so. But when i see guys claiming the lake was 10's , I call bs. I also call bs when i hear guys say how they run 80mph in 4 footers like nothin in their 32 .

Did they play "Steel Magnolias " for a warm up video before leaving the docks? I think i heard someones JL audio speakers cranking "wind beneath my wings " by bette midler in that video of them idling out the channel :champs:

Not their fault, there's only 3 radio channels up there. 9-10 boats made it out of the channel before the easy listening channel started playing Elton John and Bette Midler tunes causing everybody else to turn around for champagne brunch.

I should say I am just breakin balls a little bit. Theres a good chance I would have turned back myself, esp if the mrs. Was on board. She doesnt like that water.

Just a little teasing. Dont need the poker run circuit putting a hit out on me! Looked like a great event as always , with awesome hardware.

I am betting that is why A LOT of them turned around!

I always like the effect that bumpy waters had on the former & current blowers... former had 38D, current has 36C....:lolhit:

The funny thing is that I bought my 36 from a guy up in East Jordan. Test run it out thru that very same channel on a VERY windy September day that was as bad or worse than Saturday by the looks of it. I can tell you by past experience, had I been there, I would have been forced to turn back also...:( She didn't like it one bit...

So out of that 23 minute parade of boats in that Youtube vid only those boats listed above left that channel and ran to the first stop?

Forgive me if I'm wrong as I don't know that run, so don't know if that vid was the start or not, but assuming it was as I saw many boats twice in the vid, once heading out and once returning.


Wow.............

This makes me regret selling the 33