Thanks guy, I really appreciate the info. My truck had some issues so if I can get it fixed in time I will still be going out! Look for the 30ft all yellow Scarab, black windshield with no name and a bunch of dudes :) Should be one cool diaper party for my buddy!

Last night - I was followed the entire trip from the mouth of the Grand Haven channel to Municipal Boat Launch - he ranged from 20 feet back to 50 feet the whole time. We were basically the only 2 boats in the channel. I have CMI tail pipes that are dry to the tip, but then I have muffllers that divert water down into the water (similar to a J-tube). It's the quietest system I've found after testing several mufflers with a decibel meter. My exhaust exits very high (above swim platform level) - a bit of a disadvantage, and he never seemed to mind. I did idle on one engine most of the time.

My take is that they are being more reasonable about performance boats in GH. That said, if a few guys run dry pipes straight out the back in front of the wrong condo or sail boat - we could have an increase in decibel testing by next week. I love the sound of going loud (without mufflers), but I would hate to be one of the reasons or THE reason everyone starts getting checked like we had a few years ago. It wasn't that long ago and Grand Haven was not worth the trip if you had a boat anything near the legal decibel limit.

I have read this entire thread....

I guess I won't be so quickly and easily convinced,,,,,I will never go back there....not with all that has happened in the past. It will take a while for all of this to play out for me. I really like the setting there in Grand Haven----beautiful set-up there for boaters, but the Sheriff's Dept Marine Patrol has pretty much killed it for performance boaters....and now it sounds as if the community mechants are suffering a little now too. If I lived on or near a body of water, I would always expect to hear some kind of racket---that's just America.

South Haven and Saugatuck and most other places along Michigan's west shoreline are fun little communities----as long as you use a little wisdom and are a cool customer with your boat.

Anyway, I hope you and your friends have fun wherever you decide to go.

I'll affirm what most guys are saying here - I've been in Grand Haven (at the Wharf) for the last couple of years and I know my boat is way over the limit. I put almost 100 hours on it last year and about 25 so far this year, and I've never once had a problem. I've been stopped probably eight or ten times by the Sheriff and Coast Guard, but all for safety checks. I don't even shut down to one motor when they pull up, and they've always been fine. I wasn't boating there when they were cracking down, but that seems to be completely gone now.

I would be careful. They have no issues on pulling over anyone at any time. No issues for many years. It only takes once.
We now run down tubes out there.

Or we just don't go there