It not only the places on the water but the hi-performance boating crowd is getting older and buying cruisers like Craig E. Barry A. just got back into a Formula cruiser. What is the world comming too. I am hooking up the AT on Tuesday and heading to FL for the winter. Will be back around April.

We did have a couple of good runs this year. Rock the Lake was good and so was Ed's.

I guess I'm just old fashioned in that respect. I prefer:

1-beaches to pelican and seagull sheitted pavement

2-waterfront clubs that welcome, not shun the performance engine speedboats

3-low population density vs. traffic jams, freeways, smog, crowded stores and restaurants

4-local folks who grew up together or near each other, with similar values to moneyed retirees from NewYork, Philidelphia, Chicago or the midwest moving to the balmy south with their disdain for southern ways

And I don't like:

5-developers who carefully calculate and do market analysis to see just how tiny they can make a "luxury" waterfront condo with how few square footage to still sell for "the $400's to over $2million..." Making 10-30X their investment capital back selling mom and pop 800-1000 sq. ft. for their life savings

6-developers who buy up all the land with the public boat launches forcing the price to just even launch a boat higher and higher(happening in Conroe right now), Or closing them to the public altogether

7-buying up all the gas stations in a region to price fix gas with no competition(large areas in Florida)

8-conversion of large waterways to no wake or no noise zones(Lake Tahoe, Lake George) BECAUSE OF ALL THE HIGH RISES AND DEVELOPMENT

WELL STATED:: Boating as we know it is in a state of flux,
it will never be what it once was. However, that could be a
good or a bad thing? I do know that it will drive up the cost
of recreational boating. Just look at whats happend over
the past five years. Cost of boats, maint, slippage and insurance have grown more in the last five then in the previous 15 years. Does this mean that only the elitist snobs will be on the water?. \\ God help us, Now I bid you adue
as I partake in my Cuban smoke and indulge in my nightly bottle of Kristal

What happened up in Nassau Bay? It used to be a great place to raft off. Now there are signs up all over saying no rafting off within 300 (?) feet of shore.

what is with the Clear Lake area???

your still gay