How many of you were out of the slips, off the trailers and out on the water with your boats this past weekend ??

It seems that more and more boats have been out around here lately, I'm trying to see if it is the same with BABC members, or not.

Okay, we took our boat out all day Saturday and all day on Sunday. It was near perfect weather.

How about you ??????

Was out from noon to 8:00pm on Saturday and 1:00pm to 7:00pm Sunday. First time this summer with perfect weather both days. What a blast!

Nope, on the trailer all weekend, but it did get a fresh coat of wax on one side.

Out for the annual air and water show Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Friday was short lived as the seas were angry. Overall a great weekend and I'm slowly recovering today.

Weather was perfect, but we had to much going on. Weather doesn't look to good for this upcoming weekend, but we're planning on heading out!

You know we were...we hung out together Saturday at the beach . What an amazing day. Small rollers on Lake Michigan and not a cloud in the sky. Water was 75 degrees inside the arms.

Here are a few shots...our son LOVES the boat and the beach









Sunday we were going to head back out but I played golf instead.

We were on vacation last week, coming home last night. Spent at least parts of each day on the water. In all, probably used up about 40 gallons of fuel. We have not noticed any drop off in boat traffic on the water this summer.

Out Thursday with the Boys Tubing for 5 hours, went back out Friday for 4 hours and back out Saturday for 12 hours. Went thru about 50 gallons of fuel Alot of boat traffic considering the NASCAR race and The Woodward Dream Cruise was this weekend.

yup!

Wife and I were out for a day on the river. Temp was in the low hundy's water was 70.

Sat on the hook for the afternoon with a few hard lemonades and a fishing pole. Took several oppertunities to swim with the fishys.

on the trailer prepping for my cat trip in sept. Went shore fishing instead at mohave.

We were out Saturday. Winnipesaukee was really quiet, but the weather report (and its uncanny accuracy) were surely to blame. Had a nice swim and a good lunch before the severe thunderstorms moved in. We left the anchorage well ahead of the weather, got the boat tied up and the camper canvas on to wait on the storm (which missed us by about a mile), then motored 20 miles down the lake with all the canvas up to keep out the cold air that moved in after the rain. It was actually a fun time. It was also the first time I had ever run with all the canvas up (we usually just put it all up at the dock or at anchor). I'll be doing it again for sure, it was wonderfully cozy and warm, and the reduced rearward visibility was not a big deal at all. Felt like an entirely different boat.

Storm brewing

The storm at the Center Harbor town docks

Happy Campers waiting out the storm

yup +1. Spent Thursday and Friday at the local lake. Air temp in the 90's both days.

Thursday was with a load of land lubber friends on their first time out. A great day on the water tubing and on the hook. Pics to follow if friends ever e-mail the shots.

Friday was with a friend and his kids who have been out before as well as two noobies to the boat. It was the "jinxed" trip.

First cast sent weight, bait and hook flying, never to be seen again.

Rigging up second pole and the tip breaks off.

Inflating tube and hear air rushing out. Tube has a hole in it.

After swimming at the cove, we headed in for the day and pass a Malibu with girls waving at us. You guessed it. We are so handsome they just wanted to meet us. NOT! They sucked sand into their impeller and were overheating. So we got to end the day with a tow.

But any day on the water is a good one.

Semper Fi 75

Took a Kayak trip - pretty cool.

After doing some electrical wiring saturday, the wind died down (???) and we threw some stuff in the cooler & boat bag and headed out in the babyliner. For only the second time in 5 years we got as far south as Provo Bay, which is pretty much a whole 'nuther lake (in the circle)---



- It's about 2 miles in diameter and it's skiers dream water in there, nearly always like glass when the rest of the lake is a choppy mess, but nobody goes in because the water's only supposed to be 3 to 4 deep. We idled in about 2/3 the way, and I never hit anything or churned up any mud.

I took a bunch of pics and had autostitch make a panorama, I marked the approx. direction I was pointing--



The main lake was chock full of boats, and there was only 2 other boats I saw in here! Talk about peaceful... If only the weather would cooperate we'd love to spend a weekend in here with the big boat. But honestly, because of crappy weather the last time we were farther south on Utah Lake was 2002, the first year we got the Sun Runner...

We've doubled our fuel usage over last summer already. Friday we hit the A&W show in Chicago, and then baseball (First two games of 12 until mid oct) the rest of the weekend. We are getting out tomorrow and then hopefully Saturday afternoon again.

I need to keep an eye out for you on the big lake

I've been out nearly every weekend. 100 hours and counting for this year.

my daughters are turning 13 so i took them and a few friends out yesterday for a boating birthday party. there were seven 13 year-old girls on board and i still have a headache. i can't count the number of times one of them screamed "there are BOYS on that boat" or the amount of times i replied "that's why you're on THIS boat".

here are the girls hanging out.



and even though we have the worst possible boat for tubing (except perhaps a sailboat), one of my daughters and a friend managed to catch some air.

Holy Carp! SEVEN ... THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLDS. You're a brave man Bruce!

C4W, the big pond is rare. Usually only a few times a year, as the admiral doens't like big water. We launched at Hammond and had some fun skipping over the top of the waves. Did a quick tour down the river during the intermission for the bands.

What about our other Michiganders...Al, MarkS, Brian S., Jeffski, any others???

WetDoggg, musta missed it on pg1

We were out alot. We went to the party hang out on Lk. St Clair this weekend (saturdday) with the wife and her three girlfriends. Shoulda seen the looks I was gettin. Sorry left the cammera at home. Were supose to go again Labor Day Weekend and I'll make sure I take it with me.

Ooooppppssss sorry...yes...a camera on Labor Day is a requirement.

Second mate and I made it out Saturday. It was another for this years typical weather pattern. The same storm that Dave had pictures of hit our end of the lake right after I put the burgers on the grill. Rain I can deal with. Lightning bolts, not so much. We were off the lake early. We went back out on Sunday. Weather wise, it was one of the best days this year.

Doggg, great pics of the little guy.

Bruce, 7?!! You should get some kind of reward.

Spent weekend at West Point Lake. The four of us, daughter's boyfriend and my grand-nephew (2nd grader that idolizes my son) camped Fri night. My mom, 2 sisters and families came over for day on Sat. We tubed them in shifts all afternoon and grilled burgers & hotdogs to close the day. We stayed over Sat night and spent several more hours on water Sunday. Got home about 8pm and we ALL were dead tired! If you measure the fun from a weekend of boating on how tired you are Sunday night we had a blast!!!

We were out a few hours Sunday after I got home. Know I am in Kentucky again!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have not had the Rinker off the lift since July 4th. Have had the Sea Doo off the lift only twice. Mostly have taken my folks toon out his summer. Slow and steady.....

Time to get you a sweet pair of white shoes like Cousin Eddie bought Clark

Saturday and Sunday, two of the best days on the "Big Lake" this summer! Can only hope there are more coming.

We went out for a quick afternoon run to the swimmin' hole this past w/e. The Delta was fairly busy. Upper 80's to low 90's.

We're taking the boat and RV up to Lake Berryessa this upcoming w/e.



We always keep an eye open for the Zodiac when we're there. hehe