Boyne Thunder 2012
11-27-2011 | 07:40 PM
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I think Elk Rapids would not have a problem participating....
I remember checking out the marina at Elk Rapids before bringing my boat up there to launch in 2005 or so.
And while I was there checking it out, I approached the personel (city employees) who were running the operations there and asked who was in charge. I was directed to a woman who is the Manager of the marina and I specificly remember asking her about boaters wanting to launch loud, offshore boats there. I also explained that my boat may be a little louder than some of the others.
She was very nice and polite and she told me that many of the yearly slip renters (mostly sailboaters) in the marina do not like the offshore boats coming there to launch or being there, and I remember her saying they (the sailboaters) have bent her ear about it at times, but she said they don't manage the marina...she does, and she said she welcomes offshore boaters and has NO PROBLEMS with the offshore boats coming there as long as they were as respectful as possible with the noise.
That was several years ago-----then I approached her again within the last year or so, and she basically said the same thing as she did the first time and she has always been very polite and proffessional.
I remember checking out the marina at Elk Rapids before bringing my boat up there to launch in 2005 or so.
And while I was there checking it out, I approached the personel (city employees) who were running the operations there and asked who was in charge. I was directed to a woman who is the Manager of the marina and I specificly remember asking her about boaters wanting to launch loud, offshore boats there. I also explained that my boat may be a little louder than some of the others.
She was very nice and polite and she told me that many of the yearly slip renters (mostly sailboaters) in the marina do not like the offshore boats coming there to launch or being there, and I remember her saying they (the sailboaters) have bent her ear about it at times, but she said they don't manage the marina...she does, and she said she welcomes offshore boaters and has NO PROBLEMS with the offshore boats coming there as long as they were as respectful as possible with the noise.
That was several years ago-----then I approached her again within the last year or so, and she basically said the same thing as she did the first time and she has always been very polite and proffessional.
11-27-2011 | 08:46 PM
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Hey Mark, all I keep hear'n is how they hate our boats there!! C Jasons post a couple pages back!!! not say'n the harbor master gal but the boaters/bloboaters there! Apparently they think their chit doesn't stink!!! we don't want that in our program!! so when we say card stop at Elk it will most likely B a boat outside the marina area!!! FK'm!!!
11-28-2011 | 07:46 AM
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Hey Mark, all I keep hear'n is how they hate our boats there!! C Jasons post a couple pages back!!! not say'n the harbor master gal but the boaters/bloboaters there! Apparently they think their chit doesn't stink!!! we don't want that in our program!! so when we say card stop at Elk it will most likely B a boat outside the marina area!!! FK'm!!!
Hiya Trace! Yeah, already been reading this whole thread. I have heard that too about many or most of the boaters there at Elk.
I'm not really out trying to annoy anyone, but I guess I have always expected and accepted the fact that I am always going to hear some sort of racket whenever I am around the water.
I am going to see if perhaps I can make BT for 2012---we will see.
Anyway, a card stop just outside of Elk sounds like a great idea.
11-28-2011 | 09:19 AM
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11-29-2011 | 06:14 AM
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11-29-2011 | 08:29 AM
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