The Boat Fanatic Thread

[troph 24547]

Ruedi Reservoir near Aspen. This was late in the day boats were coming off the lake but plenty of wake surfing and there’s a sailboat marina too. Wouldn’t pull our boat here but we found a campsite and taking the fifth wheel and renting a wake surf boat does kinda seem like winning.

[Chewbacca 7727]

Ruedi Reservoir near Aspen. This was late in the day boats were coming off the lake but plenty of wake surfing and there’s a sailboat marina too. Wouldn’t pull our boat here but we found a campsite and taking the fifth wheel and renting a wake surf boat does kinda seem like winning.

Rent a wetsuit, too. That water is not warm.

[troph 24547]

Rent a wetsuit, too. That water is not warm.

Well we learned to wake surf on Whitefish Lake in MT so yeah either a wet suit or have balls of stone or something.

 

Btw I really like Basalt. A bit of a covid outbreak so we are laying low but the town is charming.

[Chewbacca 7727]

Well we learned to wake surf on Whitefish Lake in MT so yeah either a wet suit or have balls of stone or something.
 
Btw I really like Basalt. A bit of a covid outbreak so we are laying low but the town is charming.

Everyone loves Basalt. That's why it is almost as expensive as Aspen.

Cool ass place, no doubt.

[troph 24547]

Figured as much given the views and the stellar places to fish with aspen then so close. Our cabin is way up on Ruedi Creek Road 40 min away from the town. I like this even better. Anyway back to boating.

[Sbbruin 21697]

Things that never get old:



Wife was like "what do you want to do for Fathers Day?"

You have to ask?

[Sbbruin 21697]

Jumped in the water and it's glorious.


Yep that's a Trump flag. The OC contingent (mostly Trojans) are Trump thumpers. And there are a lot of them out here.

[ChickenSandwich 9797]

Playtime has some bump in the trunk.  Nice

[G650 13989]

11 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

The OC contingent (mostly Trojans) are Trump thumpers.

I see things haven't changed much since I lived out that way.

[Sbbruin 21697]

Breakfast view.

[troph 24547]

Was not me!!!

[davidg 4025]

Hey, that’s my boat!

[Anastasis 23375]

7 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

Breakfast view.

So how do the moorings work there? First come first serve? Reservation system? What?

[Party_Taco 3671]

Breakfast view.

That looks like the exact view of the place we rented for my birthday two years ago... killer spot!

[Goofyboy 3156]

Ran across this today on my wake boarding group:


From one of our customers in Cedar Lake, Indiana. Someone sunk their $300k+ Pavati wake boat, then swamped his Jeep and Raptor while trying to drag the Pavati out Should have tried the helicopter first @thequalifiedcaptain #thequalifiedcaptain @captknotright #captknotright @failarmy #failarmy

[Brew 3044]

More money than sense. That is going to be a fun phone call with the insurance guy.

[conVINCEd 21468]

14 minutes ago, Brew said:

More money than sense. That is going to be a fun phone call with the insurance guy.

There’s a reason your insurance is more expensive the first few years of boat ownership.

[Brew 3044]

Scrolling through the comments, it looks like they identified the guy as godzilla1350 on Instagram.

[fattyflattie 4636]

Has to be a wink wink insurance deal right? 

[Sbbruin 21697]

9 hours ago, Anastasis said:

So how do the moorings work there? First come first serve? Reservation system? What?

.  Yes, first come first serve.  No reservation.  The reason I rolled out on Friday.  

9 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Edited June 22, 2020 by Sbbruin

[Sbbruin 21697]

8 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

Ran across this today on my wake boarding group:


From one of our customers in Cedar Lake, Indiana. Someone sunk their $300k+ Pavati wake boat, then swamped his Jeep and Raptor while trying to drag the Pavati out Should have tried the helicopter first @thequalifiedcaptain #thequalifiedcaptain @captknotright #captknotright @failarmy #failarmy

Wow.  Really?   Yikes.

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2721]

Could be the Austin guy that just bilked the SBA for about $2m. He had a Pavati.

[texhorn 351]

Ouch.

[BearSchlong 8076]

Since I'm exclusively saltwater, I had to google Pavati.  Goodness, is that a boat or a video game console?

[Sbbruin 21697]

13 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

That looks like the exact view of the place we rented for my birthday two years ago... killer spot!

It’s only been open about a year.  Toyon Grill.  Sits above the conservancy center.  Nice outdoor patio.  I was adamant we eat outdoors because it was bazaar.  The island completely shut down for months but holy shit the mask wearing was MAYBE 30%.  I was stunned.  And I feel like I probably got the rona.   They were totally paranoid because they have a small hospital but Jesus the rona is going to blow up there and most of the OC trumper areas.

[Pescado_Rojo 19327]

16 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

Ran across this today on my wake boarding group:


From one of our customers in Cedar Lake, Indiana. Someone sunk their $300k+ Pavati wake boat, then swamped his Jeep and Raptor while trying to drag the Pavati out Should have tried the helicopter first @thequalifiedcaptain #thequalifiedcaptain @captknotright #captknotright @failarmy #failarmy

I like the early-80s runabout trying to help them out. 

[stone oak 639]

Lake Austin was pretty packed yesterday.

Tons of idoits still don't understand what "no wake zone" means near the 360 bridge. Boat cops were definitely busy all day.

[Anastasis 23375]

8 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

Wow.  Really?   Yikes.

Insurance scam imo. 

[Pescado_Rojo 19327]

50 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Insurance scam imo. 

Either that or someone's dad is going to be really, really pissed. 

[davidg 4025]

18 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

Ran across this today on my wake boarding group:


From one of our customers in Cedar Lake, Indiana. Someone sunk their $300k+ Pavati wake boat, then swamped his Jeep and Raptor while trying to drag the Pavati out Should have tried the helicopter first @thequalifiedcaptain #thequalifiedcaptain @captknotright #captknotright @failarmy #failarmy

@thequalifiedcaptain has a few more pics.

$300K and it doesn't even look like the boat has the stripper poke option on it

 

 

Edited June 22, 2020 by davidg

[utee94 15742]

1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I like the early-80s runabout trying to help them out. 

I like it, too.  Notice, it is still floating comfortably ON TOP OF the water.

 

[smuggs 9340]

35 minutes ago, davidg said:

$300K and it doesn't even look like the boat has the stripper poke option on it

I don't think the stripper poke option is available if the Pavati is not floating.

[Pescado_Rojo 19327]

41 minutes ago, utee94 said:

I like it, too.  Notice, it is still floating comfortably ON TOP OF the water.

 

yea, and you know it's been well cared for if that old ass Johnson is still running. 

[HOOKEM4 5012]

This is poetic. Stupid fucker clearly has more money than sense and the gods proved it. 

[Goofyboy 3156]

Dude has a bigger truck in his garage and a helicopter. I’m thinking the kid took out the boat and forgot the plug and then used cars poorly to save it. Just idiocy all around.

[davidg 4025]

3 hours ago, smuggs said:

I don't think the stripper poke option is available if the Pavati is not floating.

True.  And you usually have to pay extra, but maybe not if you have a $300k boat that floats.

[Pescado_Rojo 19327]

22 hours ago, davidg said:

True.  And you usually have to pay extra, but maybe not if you have a $300k boat that floats.

sheeeeeit. 6 White Claws, a Tik Tok page,  and some dope beats and you could get them to pay you to use that pole. 

[Anastasis 23375]

18 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

sheeeeeit. 6 White Claws, a Tik Tok page,  and some dope beats and you could get them to pay you to use that pole. 

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[Sbbruin 21697]

Headed from San Pedro to Marina Del Rey. The wife will drive the boy down, and he and I will roll to Channel Islands Harbor where we have a rental for a week starting Tuesday. Going fishing with a bunch of the boy's buddies on Tuesday. We'll do our best to not get the rona. So this is the site where they filmed the Catalina Wine Mixer with Catalina Island in the background. And yes, it's a Trump property.

[Sbbruin 21697]

Have our little armada in front of our rental house. The boat is about 150yds away as we are just onboard of a bridge I can't get under with my mast. Great little house though.

[troph 24547]

Made it out on LT tonight. Tubing and cliff jumping for the boys. Noticed mattress Mack is having his fireworks at 930pm on Saturday. Lago vista cancelled all of their festivities except their fireworks, claiming this will be the grandest fireworks display in their history. We may be double watching fireworks shows this weekend with Starnes Island tomorrow and Mack or Lago vista Saturday.

[G650 13989]

Happy 4th from the Rivah

 

 

 

[troph 24547]

Little fishing on the Llano today now on LT waiting for Mattress Mack’s fireworks.

[Horns99 155]

Mack’s show was pretty freaking good, esp for someone having it in their backyard


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[Sbbruin 21697]

So we came up to the Nard (aka Oxnard for Cowboys fans), rented a house, but I gotta wake up early and sail solo 60+nm to San Pedro in the am, so just left the fam.  The normal fireworks show was canceled, but it’s like the gotdam Tet Offensive around here.  Civilians are firing shit off like it’s the end of the world.  Way more crazy than when the Navy used to do the show up here.
 

 

[troph 24547]

Mack’s show was pretty freaking good, esp for someone having it in their backyard

 

 

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Yeah it was good, no CR but probably a ‘Murica kinda guy I’m guessing. Makes for a darn good show. Mad props.

 

Caught this one pre-show... no filter.

 

 

Man we had quite the day social distancing - fishing the Llano, some Que, and LT fireworks.

[Updawg 2260]

Great pic

[Sbbruin 21697]

Long solo sail down to San Pedro today. Lazing along


Then these guys showed up


Wind backed off so I started the engine, and my battery monitor is going haywire. Lights blinking and flashing all over it. Don't know if it's a problem with the monitor, or if the alternator isn't working right or what. About 7 miles to go, crossing my fingers I get in ok. Was already taking tomorrow off so I didn't need to rush today so I reached out to the marine electrician who is meeting me in the morning

[RPM 26185]

[fattyflattie 4636]

Seems like every year about this time, people get surprised by the Wx.   Last year the big storm across the east Tx/West La gulf that sank all those boats.  Wx had been perfect for days, and many bay boats out 30-50 miles, then boom, big wind hit.   There were guys on THT in BIG cc's that were concerned, and many rode it out or storm anchored it.  Watch your Wx people.