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

launching off a 3 footer. Lol

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dang, dropped my paid membership. now I cant play

We ran out about a mile or so and turned around(had 4 women on board) and when we were about 1/4 mi outside of the pier there were numerous times that when in the trough of a wave we couldn't see anything but water around us and there were times that you could only see the top of a center console. They were realistic 6+ out in front of Charlevoix. It was big water no doubt...not LOTO water, but it was big.

You can own this one... moving up to a 38 PP

Kemosabe turned around?

Oh wow, I didn't realize this 36 Apache finally sold. It's been for sale locally forever. Looks like it runs nice.

Yes they did. The channel was such a mess that it took some of us including Kemosabe were way behind some of the earlier boats. By the time we got on plane there were no poker run boats in sight. John said the same thing. They couldn't see any others running so they assumed no one was running and they turned back.

They should have turned back around when we went by... they came by myself, Bob and Rob's 36 just south of the cement factory.

Hell ya, price went up after this weekend!

Or down after the beating it took...lol I do miss mine awesome boats to say the least

Thread of the year. Offshore boating...refreshing to see.

Miss mine too. Not at all surprised to see a PP in that stuff. Made strong, classic design, top notch hull.

These two photos need to be edited together for a desktop background, the best of old vs. new v-bottom offshore wave crushers. Love it! :champs:

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Nice work on the four women in the boat, that has to count for something!

No beating... properly trimmed the boat flies level as hell and lands pretty soft. We hit some holes but when don't you? Enjoy the boat for what it was meant for.
Thats like not banging your girlfriend so she's tight for the next guy...

LOL! Yeah, they have no idea...... I wonder if any LOTO folks ever wondered why people don't put floating docks actually on the lake in Lake MI.

It's just a Great Lake we all know LOTO is so much worse...

I went from South Haven to St Joe in 8-10's. Weather radio said 6'ers and the cruiser in the slip next to us had called in to work the next day saying they weren't going to be there, but I went out in my 32 Fountain figuring we'd gone from St Joe to Chicago in 4-5' rollers (spread out nicely). I was thinking they were just larger at the mouth of the port. Nope. I was running with them and didn't want to turn around and head into them. I was running at an RPM that I would run the boat at 50 mph just to get up and down the waves. And my wife and I were soaked on ever single wave. She kissed the ground when we got back. I saw two other boats out period. One a sailboat coming in as we headed out and the large Coast Guard boat. Later that week, I found out someone was watching us from 60' up on the bluff. They said the boat would disappear in the wave troughs even from their angle. I actually turned the boat into the beat 3 times on the way back because of the props cavitating not wanting to grab. If Lake MI is 4-6, there will be an occasional 8'er in there. If it's 8-10, well, you'll have that occasional 12'er tossed in. That was the day I learned to respect the lake the most. The second time was when it went dead calm and us tubing to 3-4'ers in literally 5 minutes. I was joking while running the tube that I looked out in the lake and saw white caps what looked to be a mile out or so. I went to stop the boat to bring the tube in, and by the time we got the rider off, we were taking waves over the open bow of the 18' Powerplay. You gotta respect the power the Lake can generate.

You can't blame anyone for not going on the run. However, I can't blame anyone for going, either. It's a lot of fun if you can get into the right set of water and waves and get the boat set to run in it. As long as you don't break down. A long idle in that water, and nobody will have any food they have eaten in the last week left in their bodies.

Any pics of the 36 Apache with the Indian feathers on bow?

Lake Huron which can hurt you as badly as Lake Michigan scared me to the point where I was praying. It was the biggest water I've ever seen and never want to be in again. The waves crashed over the north wall of the sanilac marina for 48 hours, there were white caps inside the marina! Like idiots we decided it was time to leave and that lake and our bad choice almost killed us. It happens real fast.

Even though boats didn't run, still bummed it's the first Boyne I missed in 5 years. I'm lovin' all the awesome photos Nice work, as always, Pete. And some sweet Go Pro videos.

Sorry if I offended anyone with my posts. Sounds like some guys are taking them seriously.

My apologies to the boyne participants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAzMRKFX3c

I believe the pic of the Outerlimits is of them jumping a cruiser wake inon Lake Charlevoix. Pete could confirm.

Danny made one he!! of a boat that's for sure.

Nah.. I was just messing with ya... I agree completely enjoy it for what it was built for and for the reason you buy it... Trust me if your ride was cost feasible for me it would be sitting in SC this weekend... Super nice boat