4bus, is that a new avatar pic?

Boat looks KILLER!!!

ya :D Thanks!

my friend took that at his dock in lake of the isles last august, using a smart phone and instagram...pretty slick. I had a hatch up so I had to do a little photo shop, I am not good at photo shop but it was good enough for an avatar and credit card pic!

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Looks pretty good to me for someone who CLAIMS to know nothing about photoshop! LOL

Look forward to meeting up this summer (-:

Michael

Would like it if I was on Facebook. Think I am the slim minority not on there! ha Definately up for a meeting up somewhere.

Lots of non facebook sites on the web, including "here"

I would be up for a meeting too, be cool to get something "informal" organized, hmmmm, is "Informal organized" an oxy moron? LOL

I think 'motor-sailor' is an oxymoron...like a blow boater who's not quite sure if he's gay or not!

Not a fan of the blow boats!!! Cheap snobby bastards!!!

'Liked' the 1000's Island page...spent lots of time in Alex Bay and will plan a trip back at some point.

LOL, I guess you can't tar them all with the same brush, no doubt there are sail boaters out there who have plenty of horror stories about power boaters, some probably true.

BUT, I gotta say the one thing that annoys me about blow boaters (apart from the "Holier than thou attitude) is the fact they don't wave!

2 years ago, wifey and I are anchored at the mouth of our bay, swimming, listening to tunes and enjoying the day. In the distance I see this blow boat, about 18 feet long, about 125 years OLD coming up river (tacking) Now, technically I was anchored in a bay and could have stayed put, instead I decided to be the "polite fellow boater" and haul up the hook and move a couple hundred feet inland to give "Judge Scmalls" room to tack. The arrogant POS sails RIGHT PAST us, maybe 50 feet away, NEVER looks, never waves, doesn't even give a friendly nod.

My wife, who generally wouldn't say crap if she had a mouth full of it, yelled: "YOUR WELCOME A-HOLE!"

About 2 hours later a giant Sunseeker cruised by, no idea how big? But, my boat probably would have fit in the main staterooms closet! Not only did EVERYONE on the flybridge (all 50 of them, lol) wave, but they even came off plane not to swamp us.

Just goes to show, there are good AND bad everywhere

Ps: don't get me started about Jet Ski's!! LOL

Yes, there are good and bad, and don't mean to paint them all with the same brush; just my experiences with blow boaters have been mostly bad. Your story sounds typical! LOL!

crusiers on the saint lawrence are the ones that upset me the most.

It is funny. I was out in the fishing boat one day and it was GLASS not any wind what-so-ever, just one of those super hot calm days. Anyway big group of sail boats came out of Brockville and I kid you not we were drifting right at the same pace as they were going with the sails up. Was calm enough that even talking to ourselves in the boat our voices carried. I looked at the rest of the guys with me and just said "are you kidding me". The crew in the closest sailboat immediately looked at us burst out laughing. We made some cracks about the wind they asked about the fishing and made some cracks but all in all seemed like a good bunch of people. Saw them later that day and wind was up about 5mph and they came close to the house and waived. Now if I was idling in my other boat would they have been so nice...like to think so but who knows. I definately get a lot more glares than thumbs up with thru-hull