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Best boating day?
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bajabob 718
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best day for me is when me and my son race a fountain said he does 90mph and we beat him!:seeya: just redid my motor with more power .cant wait for summer:cheers2:
I bought a Fountain used in Florida from a dealer. Test drove it once prior to purchase in November and then had them winterize and shrik wrap it. Picked it up in December and towed it home to Michigan and put it in storage until early April.
The day the shrinkwrap came off and launched the boat I was really nervous thinking what could go wrong. The boat ran great and put a huge smile on my face.
Actually the same smile reappears each spring.
ed
The day the shrinkwrap came off and launched the boat I was really nervous thinking what could go wrong. The boat ran great and put a huge smile on my face.
Actually the same smile reappears each spring.
ed
LIVE WIRE
New member
My first ride
After being on boats since birth and borrowing the family boat for MANY years. Joining the Coast Guard ,Getting Married , building a house , starting a buisness , having kids ,etc... Then finally buying my first boat a brand new 08' 288 Sunsation . And taking that first ride on the Hudson River with my wife and kids to have pizza at the same place my Dad used to bring me when I was a little kid.It was a ride I will never forget.
After being on boats since birth and borrowing the family boat for MANY years. Joining the Coast Guard ,Getting Married , building a house , starting a buisness , having kids ,etc... Then finally buying my first boat a brand new 08' 288 Sunsation . And taking that first ride on the Hudson River with my wife and kids to have pizza at the same place my Dad used to bring me when I was a little kid.It was a ride I will never forget.
Bobthebuilder
Charter Member
Wow, that's a thought provoking question, Peter. Like some have said, too many to count. I could write a book.
Bob
I have many, but three that are most impressed on my memory are the day when I took home my first real boat and took it out for the first time. This was in 2000 when I bought my Baja Hammer. It was exciting day for Erin and I.
Another is when I first took my dad for his first ride on my Cig in 2004. He too is a boat lover, and I can remember back to when I was a kid and he would take to me to boat shows, and we'd just look up at the boats in the Cigarette display area. To be able to finally take him for a ride in one, after he introduced me to boating and all the great times we had on the water when I was younger, was a truly great moment.
Lastly, and this is actually the first, was when my grandfather let me drive his boat for the first time. It was in Budapest, Hungary and we were on the Danube river. This was a beautiful wooden which he hand-built and perfected over many years. That was a special time.
Another is when I first took my dad for his first ride on my Cig in 2004. He too is a boat lover, and I can remember back to when I was a kid and he would take to me to boat shows, and we'd just look up at the boats in the Cigarette display area. To be able to finally take him for a ride in one, after he introduced me to boating and all the great times we had on the water when I was younger, was a truly great moment.
Lastly, and this is actually the first, was when my grandfather let me drive his boat for the first time. It was in Budapest, Hungary and we were on the Danube river. This was a beautiful wooden which he hand-built and perfected over many years. That was a special time.
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Edward R. Cozzi
Founding Member
I've had so many it's difficult to choose.
Today Randy Sweers and I sea trialed a 2005 36' Nor Tech with 900SCs at 125 MPH. That was cool.
Taking Oprah and Steadman out for the day in a 47' Fountain SC was memorable. (April 1992).
I took Jimmy Connors, Vitas Gerulaitis and several of their friends to Shooters one night in a 36' Sonic.
Throttling "INXS", (47' Apache), to a second place finish in Long Beach, CA after only about five minutes total practice time in the boat. (April 1992). I won't forget THAT day soon.
A demo ride I gave in a 40' Hustler 75 MPH in 5 to 7's. Triple 415's with blackhawks.
Today Randy Sweers and I sea trialed a 2005 36' Nor Tech with 900SCs at 125 MPH. That was cool.
Taking Oprah and Steadman out for the day in a 47' Fountain SC was memorable. (April 1992).
I took Jimmy Connors, Vitas Gerulaitis and several of their friends to Shooters one night in a 36' Sonic.
Throttling "INXS", (47' Apache), to a second place finish in Long Beach, CA after only about five minutes total practice time in the boat. (April 1992). I won't forget THAT day soon.
A demo ride I gave in a 40' Hustler 75 MPH in 5 to 7's. Triple 415's with blackhawks.
PARADOX
Founding Member
Wow, that's a thought provoking question, Peter. Like some have said, too many to count. I could write a book.
Bob
C'mon Bob.. start writting the BOOK. We love to read it.
Nick.. LOL I know all too well the boating environment on the Danube.. One of my MOST memmorable boating day.. not the best day, :leaving: when I first took the helm of my Dads ole' woody. First time ever driving. Near the Check boarder around Vac.. Dad is tinkering with the weedwacker size outboard, tells me to go straight for a while and I go across the Chech / Hungarian boarder. A few minutes later we are surrounded by Check. boarder patrol boats with machine guns poining at us. I was so scared, (and of course not my BEST boating day) that I could't even move or twitch a muscle. If my brain would have worked...!? I would have wett underwear and flooded the little 14' boat. And remember, there were no auto. bilge pumps in those days.
Sean Stinson
Founding Member/Contributor
Any one day that had female nakedness involved......
When I look back at my favorite boating moments over the past 35 years most of them were on boats I owned other than my offshore boats 
My best boating day was when me and a friend were crossing Long Island Sound going back to CT during a pitch black night after we had been partying at CoCo's in Long Island around 11:00pm in a stiff NE wind on my old 21 Sea Ray. There's never been a question of which side the green and red bow lights are on because as we were about to be stuffed into another wave the bow lights would illuminate the face as it was about to break on the deck. It took forever to get accross and it was a bad feeling crossing the Sound seeing that we were the only boat out there...big water small boat. It's my best day because we made it back alive
Then there was that time in Montauk in the same boat caught in a storm...
My best boating day was when me and a friend were crossing Long Island Sound going back to CT during a pitch black night after we had been partying at CoCo's in Long Island around 11:00pm in a stiff NE wind on my old 21 Sea Ray. There's never been a question of which side the green and red bow lights are on because as we were about to be stuffed into another wave the bow lights would illuminate the face as it was about to break on the deck. It took forever to get accross and it was a bad feeling crossing the Sound seeing that we were the only boat out there...big water small boat. It's my best day because we made it back alive
Then there was that time in Montauk in the same boat caught in a storm...
Edward R. Cozzi
Founding Member
ANY time sexual intercourse is involved in ANYTHING it's good. Boat or no boat.
jayboat
Banned
Post some damn photos, Ed!!!
ChiefApache
Contributor
There are so many but the one that stands out in my mind.....
It was the first time running the Apache in water we could never run our Stinger in. We spent the night at a marina in Geneva, leaving in two footers. The next moring when we returned home, there were 4 to 5' and after going from the 31 Stinger to the 41, this was going to be our first big water ride that was more than 2 or 3 miles long.
It was scary and exhiliarting all at the same time doing 75MPH in the big water.
Rob and I will never forget that day.
It was the first time running the Apache in water we could never run our Stinger in. We spent the night at a marina in Geneva, leaving in two footers. The next moring when we returned home, there were 4 to 5' and after going from the 31 Stinger to the 41, this was going to be our first big water ride that was more than 2 or 3 miles long.
It was scary and exhiliarting all at the same time doing 75MPH in the big water.
Rob and I will never forget that day.
We meant best of all time, not this year.
DollaBill
New member
ok that was funny
Funny?? That was shoot Dr. Pepper through my nose funny!!!! :rofl:
:sifone: :cheers2:
Sea-Dated
Charter Member
You owe me a new keyboard Chris........ :rofl:
CRC
New member
I always enjoy the run to Put-in-Bay from north Lake St. Clair. A distance of roughly 70 miles each way. I made the run a half dozen times last summer and usually we encounter some rough water on part of the trip. Sometimes it can be downright scary in a 22' boat, especially on Lake Erie. But on one trip the water was just perfect for the cruise there and back the next day. I was cruising between 70-80 mph the whole time. Yup, cruising at 80 in a 22' boat with a top speed of around 85. I think the 525 is up to the task. Looking forward to making new boating memories this summer. We will be doing overnighters to Tawas City and Cedar Point as well as the usual trips to PIB.
