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I'm still torn right now. I love the new Centurion Ri245. I've been flirting with placing an order. Got the wife all hot and bothered by letting her sit in one and start making color selections while I picked out the other options. But that's a newly released boat and they don't want to move off the MSRP enough yet to make me happy. A lightly used Centurion Fi23 or Ri237 at >$50k less seems like the smarter play. After a season or two then maybe trade in for someone else's Ri245. Seems like this is the time of year where it starts to become more of a buyer's market on used boats. /crosses fingers

That's the plan. I wonder if that happens right at midnight? I bet they don't disclose the time and I spend the whole damn night hitting refresh on their site. And mother F'er. Almost as soon as I paid for my passes, I got a $150 promo code for last season's credit. Now I can't reach anyone to have it applied b/c their call center is apparently closed. Sent an email to comments@vailresorts.com, but what are the odds of that not just floating off into the abyss? Slim to none.

We already booked a week at a VRBO in Summit County during Xmas/NYD before the reservations announcement was made. At this point, I plan to just buy Epic passes and then cross my fingers we can reserve all those prime holiday dates when the system opens to reservations in November.

This was just listed yesterday. Not sure I can resist the urge... https://www.onlyinboards.com/2020-Centurion-RI237-for-sale-Forest-Grove-Oregon-115352.aspx What would it cost to have a boat shipped from NW Oregon to Austin?

What if you technically have the cash on hand, but would rather pay a low interest rate on the boat and keep your money invested at a higher rate of return? /mostly rhetorical

Our pontoon, which is a 2016, has cleats at all four corners of the deck, as in docking cleats. Looks like this while you’re running: Far from an ideal set up, but I’m not doing any serious tow sports behind thing anyways. It has a measly 60hp mercury. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you're looking for a safe way to get the littles used to standing up behind the boat by themselves, the ski trainer works wonders. It's two skis sewn into a float that's shaped a little like a jet ski. You're don't anchor it to the boat. It comes with rope and ski handle that you hold yourself inside the boat. The float has another handle tied to it. All the kids have to do is stand up and lean back a little with the handle. https://www.ganderoutdoors.com/airhead-ez-ski-100-trainer-317566.html My 5 year old still loves it but I can tell he's ready to graduate. He's trying to make it turn and jumping up and down to catch a few inches of air. We've also got the kids up on this thing, an inflatable quasi-knee board with handles and a clip on the nose to hang the rope on. The adults can stand up on it. Our kids haven't done that yet, but it's more challenging to stand on that than a board, so I haven't been trying to get them to do it. https://www.amazon.com/ZUP-Kneeboard-Wakeboard-Wakeskate-Wakesurf/dp/B07PGJDQGF?ref_=ws_cp_7ee806de43248bf3cc6a_p_3_t_p And I'm running a pontoon. I just tie the rope to a cleat on the back corner of the boat. I don't have much of a wake anyways, so it's fine. I don't think the Y set up or float is necessary.

How the hell is that still balancing on there? And how the hell do you fuck up that bad? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mine are 5 and 7 and your post is a reminder of just how urgent the wake boat purchase really is. I can make more money. I can’t make more time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My wife also can’t back up a trailer. That’s my job. She drives the boat up on there, which barring a fleet of drunken idiots blocking the ramp while they wait their turn, is really fairly easy to do. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You want to watch a massive shit show, go check out the 360 ramp on a Saturday night at 8pm. Drunk idiots who can barely do that shit sober. Add in fuckheads on the water who think they need to idle right in front of the ramps for some reason, and pontoon rental drivers in a huge hurry to get their asses home for the night. It isn’t pleasant. I definitely don’t want my wife and kids caught up in it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

While LBJ is the better lake IMO, Lake Austin is >1 hour closer to downtown, and to my house. You do have to be vigilant about keeping dumbass boaters from tailing you while you’re pulling someone, but on Travis you have to keep your head on a swivel because dumbasses come from all different directions. Both places are probably too busy to be safely pulling people on the weekends after 10am. All the more reason why I’m not willing to trailer it like I do now with my pontoon. I want to be able to come home at 4pm on a weeknight and take the kids out for a few hours, or take the kids out early on a weekend morning and not have to deal with crowds around the ramps at 360. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m not going to defend their price. And it’s the only one that has sat for sale for any length of time, so they’re definitely high. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The prices make absolutely no sense over here. You can buy a really nice lakehouse most places for the same as what gets you a tear down slip over here, and that’s if you can even find one. Because the market absolutely will bear those insane prices and they sell before anybody even hears about them. This 2M one though is really pushing the limits. Check out this place that is going up soon: https://westharbourlakeaustin.com The slips alone were 500K. They were all purchased immediately upon going on the market. There are just a couple left still pending close. There is a list of over 15 backups. If any of the backups actually get reached, their price is 625K. Not sure what the dues are, but they are obviously substantial. Unfortunately I didn’t hear about this place in time to snatch one up. I don’t need all the amenities, but it would’ve been worth it anyways. My best hope right now is from a friend of ours who is building on Lake Austin. The lot they bought came with plans which include a two slip dock. If they stick with those plans, they have told us we can rent one of the slips. As soon as they pull the trigger on the plans, I pull the trigger on the boat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve seen the sticker, I’ve experienced the shock, and I’ve recovered. I live right around the corner from this one: https://www.estately.com/listings/info/4518-rivercrest-dr That’s way more boat dock than what I need though. I just need a lift and a roof. I’m willing to pay the ridiculous asking prices b/c I figure the value will only go up and I’ll be getting a good return on my investment at some point when I’m ready to let it go. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was just at the centurion dealer recently. If you place an order now we won’t get your boat until December. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m sold on Centurion. I plan to either put in an order for an Ri245 soon, or buy a very lightly used Ri237. But first I need to find a slip for sale or lease on Lake Austin. Ideally one near Rivercrest. Anyone have any leads on one coming available anytime soon? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So can LJ’s silent go public now? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Andrew Mukuba is 6' 185#. Jonathon Brooks is 6' 185#. Both allegedly run a 4.5 forty. Can Brooks play safety?

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I was just a senior at UT in the Fall of 2000, driving a beat up old Integra, which I kept spotlessly clean at all times. Besides, Bob Wheeler is not even a lawyer. Great tailgates though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Contact tracing is great for reducing the spread of the virus. It has shit all to do with proving proximate cause, which requires evidence eliminating other possible sources of transmission. Contact tracing doesn’t show that you aren’t the one (or one of the ones) who brought it to the location yourself. I don’t understand why people are talking about class action as some sort of exception to the frivolous lawsuit myth. Can anyone tell me the last time a class even got certified in Texas? Or how the hell you could certify a class over Covid transmission? Honest question (for the surly lawyers). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Google “TTCA sovereign immunity A&M bonfire” if you’re interesting in reading up on that. I’m not particularly familiar with that decades long suit, but the sovereign immunity issue went up to both the US and Texas supreme courts, and if recall correctly, came down in Aggie’s favor. Lawyers pursued private individuals and entities in that case who did not have immunity. Now, imagine a case with questionable evidence of causation, if any, questionable issues of negligence (breach of the duty of ordinary care) and a potential assumption of the risk defense, and let me know how many lawyers you find ready to sink the next 20 years of their career into that case. No thank you. I admit, when/if a player dies, someone may try to make a case out of it, just as they often do in heat exhaustion and other football-related death cases. But the financial exposure here is minimal, particularly in comparison to the money guaranteed to be lost by cancelling the season. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk