#419885 - 07/07/0811:52 AMRe: To the river for July 4th - AND IT'S GONNA BE
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BoatingFamily1
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Thanks HF. We really enjoyed meeting you as well. Sorry I didn't get a chance to say goodbye, I got held up in copper canyon on the Sea Doo . It was hot, but as you mentioned very light crowd in my opinion. Thanks for your hospitality and I hope we get the chance to meet up again. I will also post some pictures as soon as i figure out were I packed my camera.
#419891 - 07/07/0812:28 PMRe: To the river for July 4th - AND IT'S GONNA BE HOT!
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Hockey Family
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A long time friend of mine rented this house with his family and friends. Right on the river and with a private launch ramp I was able to use on Friday WOOOHOO !!
#419896 - 07/07/0812:36 PMRe: To the river for July 4th - AND IT'S GONNA BE HOT!
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Hockey Family
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The girls love riding in the bow. I was able to open it up on a few calm sections. Hit about 49mph and maybe 0.00000001 hours per gal.
Pary Heat (Havasu) pulled along side at one point to let me know we were coming to a no tow zone. I had already known about the zone and was in the process of pulling in the tow-ee's.
#419912 - 07/07/0801:02 PMRe: To the river for July 4th - AND IT'S GONNA BE HOT!
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Hockey Family
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ZOINKS!! I hate it when I'm unexpectedly pulled into a VPs office and he starts out with 'I've been contacted by our legal team, and I was requested by our company lawyer....'
Gives a guy a heart attack!
OK, back to my post...
We have determined that we do not like to beach the boat anymore. In the past, I've always tried to find a sandy beach to get on, but our kids have never liked getting off the boat. So now I've learned to just find a quite part of the cove, drop anchor and float around.
BoatingFamily1 and his crew dropped anchor with us. We got a bit tangled, but nothing serious.
BF1's friends
I'm not sure which kids were who's, but this little guy in the red lifevest was such a cutie. He was just floating around, dog paddeling, having a good 'ol time. All the kids were very friendly and seemed to be having a good time.
#419914 - 07/07/0801:05 PMRe: To the river for July 4th - AND IT'S GONNA BE HOT!
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Hockey Family
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Lately I've been knocking myself out trying to get better at fishing. Little did I know, you only have to drop a net in the water and they swim right in.
#419919 - 07/07/0801:15 PMRe: To the river for July 4th - AND IT'S GONNA BE HOT!
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Hockey Family
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On the second day, I talked the girls into wakeskating without the boots. Got up right-a-way and they liked it much better. BTW, one of the friends was a first timer for the wakeboard/skate, and she was able to get right up. When we got home, I was teasing our son that his sister and friends are getting better than him.
I did notice that the bimini was mounted inside the boat before I saw your other post about biminis. I would prefer that that be outside of the boat so that I'm not always bumping into it or scratching up my elbow.
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#420267 - 07/08/0811:48 AMRe: To the river for July 4th - AND IT'S GONNA BE HOT!
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That's what I don't like about how it's mounted. Not that we bump into it, but the posts would bang on the windshied frame. You can see in the picture that I wrapped some padding around the bimini posts where they contact the W/S frame. That solved the problem.
I noticed on later models of my boat, they mounted the bimini to the top of the W/S frame instead of inside like mine.
Edited by Hockey Family (07/08/0811:51 AM) Edit Reason: more info