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An earth-shattering show

Blue Angels’ performance breaks windows in downtown shops; no injuries occur

By TOM CARR
Record-Eagle staff writer

TRAVERSE CITY — A Blue Angels jet is believed to have blown out a plate glass window at a Front Street gallery/gift shop Saturday afternoon when vibrations from the F/A-18 Hornet rattled panes throughout downtown.
As a loud boom from one of six jets staging an airshow by West Grand Traverse Bay at the time wowed and startled the street crowds just after 3 p.m., four people in the back of Watermelon Sugar watched in astonishment as the 8-foot-by-7-foot plate glass window came crashing inward. It took glass vases, ornamental balls and other fragile artwork with it.

Nobody was standing close enough to be hurt, though there were some shards as much as 15 feet from the window.

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Mornin Ho's!:seeya:

Blue Angels by Boat in 1 Hour, Charlie(Sonic31) and Donna will be My guests ..plus whoever else shows up. Going to be rough out until around 2 PM...15-25 MPH Winds out of the South, then calming to 8....Should be a Beautiful Afternoon.
 
Was thinking about getting boat out of storage , then I remembered it was snowing out. I just keep saying- saving gas saving gas saving gas! Yep, screw that, time to find the rum!!!!
 
Beautiful day here, 81 with a 8 MPH Wind......We watched the Blue Angels right up until My Boat started sinking....then we started bailing, I beached it...looked everywhere for a leak, and bailed out about 20 gallons of water.....then we took off(transom about 3" above water line....couldn't get on plane...Charlie(Sonic 31) kept bailing all the way back to the Marina...2 hours, We used Donna's (Mrs Sonic 31) phone to call the Marina and have the lift stay an extra 15 minutes...(My Friend Sheila tipped him another $15 for staying)There was a line but once you tell folks You are sinking, they let You go first....plug was in...no water through the through Hull fittings...pictures as soon as they come through.

Dave, My forklift guy pulled the plug and about 50 gallons poured out, Great Crew, no one panicked, everyone pitched in to help...tomorrow is Work Rack Day
 
Was a good day on the water with "Bobcat" watching Blue Angels off of Boca Chica. Then the day got interesting when I tell Bob I think we are taking on water. He says maybe cooler water. I think not but don't want to get worried. Then Bob says maybe plug fell out of boat. I jump overboard and find that the plug is in. Of course we find that bilge pump doesn't work. We beach boat and start bailing with a cup. Get the boat at manageable floating situation. We make it back to forklift under power 2 minutes before marina closes. Still was a good day as everyone remained calm and we were in the Keys
 
Mornin Ho's !:seeya:

Make that a Johnson!!! I don't do Japanese !!

Some pics.

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Blurry pic is a 20'Flat's Boat with a 350 merc on it:eek:

Charlie relaxing.

All of the Boats at Anchor watching the Show.
 
Not supposed to be water in there!:(

Charlie keeping us from drifting , Draining on the lift(look closely and You'll see a Beer Couzy stuck in the through Hull).emergency Wine Bottle opener:hurray:
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Was a good day on the water with "Bobcat" watching Blue Angels off of Boca Chica. Then the day got interesting when I tell Bob I think we are taking on water. He says maybe cooler water. I think not but don't want to get worried. Then Bob says maybe plug fell out of boat. I jump overboard and find that the plug is in. Of course we find that bilge pump doesn't work. We beach boat and start bailing with a cup. Get the boat at manageable floating situation. We make it back to forklift under power 2 minutes before marina closes. Still was a good day as everyone remained calm and we were in the Keys

Talk about cutting it close! At least it was still a good day :D
 
Mornin Ho's:seeya:

Crawled all over the Boat, can't find where the Water came in...Charlie gave Me a new Tach...it's the nicest thing on the Boat:rofl::rofl:


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Mine are new, I must have broken the wiring when I slammed a new Battery in last week...they are working now.

Rained out of Work....guess I'll just swill Beer all Afternoon:party:
 
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