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Brew

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  1. Hey now, don’t get carried away. I’ve got a new boat to pay for.
  2. Bought the bottom expecting it’s normal bounce, it did not. I have more shares of this than I originally planned, but whatever. It’s going to roll at some point.
  3. Just seems much simpler to stay offsite and drive in and park. We have done it every trip to both sets of parks and their parking system is so easy I don’t mind paying. They tell you where to park, the shuttles are running constantly, you never have to wait on the tram more than a couple of minutes, do it in reverse at night with no wait for buses, etc. Get a private house, stay in one of the time share resorts if that’s your preference, etc. We do stay onsite for Universal (usually the Portifino) because the perks make it worth it.
  4. First Snook of the summer in shitty beach conditions, hopefully the water improves in the next day or two. Still beats sitting in the office the next couple of months.
  5. Bourbon, but the concept is the same.
  6. Hit the stores that aren’t directly on the interstates in small towns. I’ve had plenty of luck finding decent bottles on the shelves. Pappy, no. Others lower on the totem pole, yes. If nothing else, you can buy all the ER and BT you want. I picked up a GTS for a decent price and several other things close to retail on my last trip.
  7. This dog is like having a baby, throw him in the car and he’s out. 6 hours in and besides a couple stops, he’ll pretty much stay there wedged up under the seat in his bed.
  8. You’re in the redneck riviera and pretty much the heart of it as other areas have tried to go more upscale. It is what it is, but the fishing is great out of there. We looked around Perdido before we bought in SWFL, but it was not our scene even though the drive would have been much better. If you figure this tournament fishing out and need some people, I’m always looking for a way to blow some cash. Best plan is buy a boat, hire a crew, and spend some serious coin I would imagine.
  9. That’s part of the reason it’s taken me so long to find something. All my boats have either been white on white with an accent color or white and black exterior with white interior. Same for vehicles (except for they are white on grey), I’m as vanilla as they come. I also wanted a standard windshield. This one has a light gray interior with black accents which took some getting past, but I think I may end up liking it better than white because it should hide spots easier
  10. Flew to Chicago for a couple of days last week for the first time since all this started. Airports were great with traveler counts down, flights on time, boarding/deplaning organized, etc. We go to Chicago a couple of times a year normally. It’s been hit hard, lots of closed places but the ones we frequent were still there. Police presence downtown was extremely high. Heading out for South Florida tomorrow, be interesting to see how the community we are in down there is dealing with this since we were there at Christmas. Bunch of old people, so it has stayed locked down for the most part.
  11. Picked up yesterday, a little lighter in the pocketbook now. Going from a rotation of boats from the 2000’s to a 2020 was a little eye opening today. The sales guy looked at me funny when I asked where the key was at. Everything is touchscreen which is going to take some getting used too. My wife asked me this morning if this ended my hunt for a bay boat, nope. You can’t have enough boat options although I may be looking a little older and cheaper for that one.
  12. So what you’re saying is you prefer to be on the boat by yourself. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
  13. Had to push pickup of mine until this Saturday because they didn’t have it ready last weekend. Looks like I should have upped my budget and gone electric. https://nautique.com/models/super-air-nautique-gs22e/overview
  14. 2.0’s don’t have a remote reservoir, 2.5’s do. The issue with Fox’s/Icon’s etc are that you really need someone local that does rebuilds to keep them any length. They require rebuilds at max 50k miles (40k on Icons) and if you have to send them off they can keep them for weeks. The last set I had was a cluster because the fronts went early and now this shit with the rears blowing at 7,000 miles. I prefer the ride quality on the performance shocks, but I’m going to look for other options. Luckily my shop still had my rears, so he put them back on which saved me some dollars. My main issue with Fox is their customer service sucks donkey balls. He called yesterday and they just said pull them off and send them back and we’ll get to them when we can. He asked them to send out a replacement set since the mileage was so low and they wouldn’t even consider it.
  15. Fucking hell, I said numerous times in this thread I would never own another set of Fox shocks. Then I traded last year and the first thing I did was put a 2.0 set on the new truck. Fast forward 7,000 miles and a few months and I started hearing banging from the back of the truck when I hit bumps. Take it in and both rears are blown, I guess from the pictures a page or so back of me using the truck for truck like things. We have to pull them off and send them to Fox to be rebuilt with an unknown timeline, so I have to buy another set of shocks to use while those are with Fox for who knows how long.
  16. Before every start, that should be sufficient. If we’re changing out riders, I just leave it running while we sit.
  17. Most people buying trucks buy for the size. Ford probably isn’t designing this for fleet usage, it’s for people that like the thought of a Tesla but prefer the size of the truck. They just drive around town and rarely tow and this works perfectly. It does not work for me, but the concept makes sense. Even the towing issues would be fine for most people that are running back and forth to the lake, Home Depot, wherever that is inside of 50 miles from their house.
  18. Didn’t look back, but I think the Murder Hornet is a Malibu. That looks like like an X-45 with the step in the hull. Run your blowers, this stuff happens every year from people not properly running their blowers with inboards. That may not be the cause of this one, but I would put my money on it.
  19. There are still only so many boats being put out and very few carry over to the next year in inventory. Those sales are pretty fixed each year, so I think it will be the older used market that crashes. I got a deal on this one versus overpaying by as much as double on the used ones right now. I called on an 06 X-30 and they were firm in the low 50’s. That was the end of my used search. There are ‘17-19 210’s for sale for as much and more than this one.
  20. Unless something falls apart tomorrow or a better option becomes available, look like I’m picking this one up on Saturday. Don’t think that drive is what my wife had planned for our 22nd anniversary that day, but shit happens.
  21. Made an offer on a leftover new 2020 Nautique 210, we’ll see what they come back with. Don’t want a new one, but I feel a whole lot better offering on it at the price it is than what I’m still seeing in the used market. It will probably crash as soon as I buy something.
  22. Advantage of owning a white truck. It always looks clean from a distance unless you are playing in a mud hole. Here’s my dirty floorboard if it makes you feel better.
  23. I’m pretty sure we tried talking you into buying two. The boat market you are looking in isn’t as inflated as the wakeboat market. Pricing has been pretty consistent as the demand is different.
  24. Going to be hard to wakeboard behind that thing, but where there is a will there is a way. Electrical is not my area. It generally just involves a checkbook from my experience.
  25. Blind and ignorant is much better than knowing what prices of most models were 24 months ago. I’m seeing boats I’ve owned 5-10 years ago selling for 25%+ more than what I bought and sold for back then. I bought and sold an ‘07 Nautique 220 for low $40’s in probably 2012-2013, the ones out there now are priced upper $40’s, low $50’s. The damn thing sold new for upper $50’s 15 years ago. I called a guy about an ‘06 MC X30 with 800 hours and he wouldn’t budge from $52k. He’ll probably get it and someone will have a $30k boat when the market craters. Insanity.
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