on another note:drink: fired the engine up today and she purrrrrrrrsssss like a angry tiger looking for something to eat.. Now the drive is off,I forgot how phucking heavy that sumbiatch is:angry-smiley-038:


Tom I will be at the store around 2 to take care of Macnabb.

Besides one of my stocks is really starting to move. May not need to refi anymore. :cool:

your right call him and offer 7:evilb:

hey How the phuck can you make the Toppless run part of Topps?? Doesn't that contradict the whole point:drink:... Your the pres so you better grandfather:ernaehrung004:

What is the so called "TOPPLESS" event. Is that like a run to the Men's Club????

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I thought the TOPPLESS run was on Memorial Day Sunday?

It might be again.

This is not the Toppless run. It is just a copy of the toppless run. The food is allways better at the Toppless run, but the poker hands are way more expensive also.

I do like the way MBA is thinking for once. A run to the Men's club would be a good idea. :ernaehrung004:

Except this is the kind of men's club he is thnking about. :juco:

I will take that BIP.

Now someone explain a Topless Run. Everyone is required to do the poker run toppless, ladies included..?? :drink:

TOPPLESS was created when there was little or no TOPPS activity on the lake and I just did my own thing one afternoon.

Thus

TOPP (S) LESS

Cool boat

http://www.boattrader.com/listing/20...RAGON-94907218

They are cool boats. I believe that one was one of the firsts.

Chad...http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/b...ml#post2839399

Craig Barrie boats correct??

On another note: Accident on the Tickfaw Sunday. Newbie boat owner in 38ft SeaRay is backing into dock. Coming in a bit hot so he decides to put in forward. Pushes up the lever and its the throttle not the shifter. Full blast over an Eliminator and Hustler. Luckily no one was on the boats at the time.

Jeffro, that boat you talked me out of a month ago. Good call, owner has now dropped the price by 10K. I am thinking about it again.

Are they still in production? i thought Barrie went to Donzi?

I thought it was Tres Martin

You made me go do my homework on this. I was second guessing but it is Barrie.

From website: http://www.dragonpowerboats.com/

"The idea came to me. I realized there is a higher level of quality to which performance boats can be manufactured. The customer will realize the difference in performance and will actually be able to see the difference in the end product. After all, customer satisfaction is what its all about."

--Craig Barrie, founder of Dragon Powerboats, Inc., Summer 2001

Marine industry veteran Craig Barrie founded Dragon Powerboats in early 2002 to make this statement a reality. By combining a unique product design, an upscale manufacturing process, and a centralized distribution system, Dragon Powerboats has developed a precise formula to take high- performance boat building and marketing to a new level. A level higher than anything found in performance boating today.

The company will offer three versions of THE DRAGON™: Performance, Factory II and Super Vee. Thus, THE DRAGON™ can be pure pleasure, pure racing or a combination pleasure/race boat. American Power Boat Association class requirements are built in.

Any of the Conroe guys planning on going on Lake Charles casino run April 25? We'll need to know for docking reservations by early next week. And any coming down for Outlaw Challeng next weekend? Tommy

I ran across one the other day that was turn key and set up just like it in the 60's and now I can't find it. It wasn't the one on SOS, but a full cabin etc. &525's.

I was still working on the cruiser at the time, so I didn't save it.:mad:

Did the cruiser not go through?

Bank of America wouldn't take it back. I called yesterday to tell them that I could get it done from my credit union, and he said someone else came and got it. :mad:

He tried to make me feel better by saying the boat wasn't worth the money anyway, blah, blah, blah.

At what point in the last 2 weeks should that comment have come up?

I wonder if spk1 has a new excalibur tied up behind the house?:angry-smiley-038:

Boatman, will Honda finance this?

http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...o28553-en.html

Rig it with a couple of Civic's

Bank of America can eat a Di(k.:angry-smiley-038:

I got a letter in the mail yesterday that was letting me know they doubled my credit card rate. Went from a 5.9 fixed to a 11.65 variable. Needless to say as soon as I can get it together I am pulling all of my savings and checking accounts from them and going to get another card somewhere else.

On another note that is a cool Motion. He was on here the other day talking about selling new boats at very good prices. At least someone is acting like they want to do some business.

Ususally there is a clause somewhere in those things, that says the promotional rate goes up after a year or two.

11.65 isn't that high on a credit card you have had for a whiile.

Best thing to do with those is to go find another card that will let you transfer the balance, and then just cancel out that old one.

Or pay it off at the end of every month. I use mine for the points and then pay it off every month instead of using my debit card which gives me nothing.

It's killing his used market though. I bet it is seriously pissing of the guys that paid 100K for that hull with no rigging last year.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...e/6365427.html

All it took was the gunshot fired outside his Walker County home to trigger training ingrained in former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor of a dramatic battle in Afghanistan in 2005.

He did a sweep through the house. Checked on his mother. And bolted out the door, where he found dead his beloved Labrador retriever, Dasy, a dog given to him to help him recover from his own wounds and the loss of his fellow Navy comrades.

“I could tell she tried to get away because there was a blood trail,” Luttrell recalled in a phone interview Wednesday. “When I saw she was dead, the only thing that popped into my head was, ‘I’ve got to take these guys out.’ ”

Shrouded in darkness, Luttrell, who’d just been released from the hospital after another round of surgery, crawled under a fence, skirted a ditch and sneaked up on four strangers in a sedan who apparently killed the dog on a whim. Luttrell said they were oblivious as he raised a 9 mm pistol from about 25 yards away and had one of them dead to rights.

But as the car pulled away, he didn’t fire.

Instead, he scrambled back to his pickup and launched what became a wild 40-mile chase that reached speeds of over 100 mph and crossed three counties.

“I did everything right; I didn’t do anything wrong,” he told the Houston Chronicle of the April 1 incident. “Make sure everyone knows they cold-bloodily murdered.”

Luttrell stayed on the line with a 911 emergency operator as he tried to catch the car, which was just a bit too fast for his four-door truck to overtake.

“I told them, ‘You need to get somebody out here because if I catch them I’m going to kill them,’ ” Luttrell recalled telling the operator.

Wounds still deep
The nighttime killing of a such a special dog played right into Luttrell’s deep wounds.

The 4-year-old yellow Lab was given to him upon his return from the war to help him heal. He named it Dasy as an acronym for his SEAL team members lost in a mighty fight in which they were isolated and far outnumbered by Taliban fighters.

He wrote a book, The Lone Survivor, about the experience.

Luttrell said he still wrestles with what he went through. He doesn’t sleep at night, usually keeping his guard up until sunrise, just in case.

“I don’t talk about it much. I just don’t sleep at night,” he said. “I am in and out of the house all night, going, moving around.”

Luttrell and the men he was chasing were finally stopped by Onalaska Police Department.

Luttrell said he confronted the men. “I was like, ‘Which one of you guys killed my dog?’ ” he said. “They started talking smack.”

The police sent Luttrell home, and the Texas Rangers have been working with the Walker County Sheriff’s Department.

So far, two men have been charged with felonies that could land them in state jail for at least six months.

Michael John Edmonds II, 21, and Alfonzo Hernandez, 24, both of New Waverly, are charged with cruelty to nonlivestock animals. The driver of the vehicle was arrested on suspicion of not having a license.

Other dog killings linked
There are at least five area dog killings in recent months that could be linked to the case, said Texas Ranger Steven Jeter.

“It could have been worse for both parties involved,” he said. “I wouldn’t advocate to the general public to do what he has done — to follow them at that rate of speed.”

“Marcus is trained to do certain things; he fell back on his training,” Jeter said.

Luttrell said he’s left town for now and wants to stay as far away as he can. Talking from a place he described as “the middle of nowhere,” Luttrell said he knows the attack on Dasy pushed him to a place where he doesn’t want to be.

“I was trying to talk myself out of being who I am,” he said. “Talking to myself about not doing the one thing I am good at.”

I have had this card for at least 10 years and it has always been 5.9fixed. I've bought boats and trucks on it because the rate was so low you couldn't get a loan beter than that. Oh well, I guess that's all over now. Fu(kers.

He should have pulled the trigger. That sucks. Those pieces of $hit will get a few months in jail and then be back in new waverly being thugs again. All four of them should have got a 9mm round behind the ear.:mad:

You gotta hate knowing your getting stalked by the shooter.

Sounds like you been lucky on that issue for a long time. Usually they give you a reason to raise your rate, and it doesn't say "because we can", but I bet yo ucan find something to transfer it off to.

It should not be a problem.....

You see, lettuce is a perishable commodity, kinda like you two monkeys

This looks like a deal until you do the math on putting it together.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...o28555-en.html

But it is a brand new 2010 model boat.

Those are sweet but you are correct on the math. I figure you would have a killer 130MPH cat for another $75K.

$150K is still not bad for a brand new cat that will haul the mail.

I bet that boat would run over 100 with those red engines on the floor of my shop.

The boat isn't on a trailer (10K+-) New gimbles and XR's would be 25-30K, Steering 5K, Exhaust 10K, plus lines and bilge rigging etc.

So you are at 60K without the engines. If you put new blue power in it then you know what those cost.

You can't really justify a brand new boat, and put old parts in it I don't think.

You can if that's all you gots!

Stop the temptation

I still keep leaning towards that one that Tres has for sale.

You already have the mills, you can find a trailer for 6k. 8K for headers

4k for bravo gimbles

5k for drives

i don't have a clue for steering

maybe 110K when your all done....

That boat would shred stock bravo's like paper. You would have to have an ITS XR set up. That would save you on the steering, but new CMI's are 3K a side plus the tails.

It is a very interesting propsition. I am having a hard time working. Quit trying to talk me into it.

Mba,

I know this is really more boat than you can even imagine how to handle, but this is a pretty good deal right here.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...o27526-en.html

wow! that is a nice ride. I know I'll get $hit for saying it but if you want a deal on a great boat right now, Fountain is the way to go. There are tons of deals on Fountains out there.