2009 Northeast Reunion - Sept. 18-20

That pic of Reid's CCF boat at the dock with the low hanging cloud in the background is awesome!

Bruce, it sounds like our observations about the terrible layout of the Million Dollar Beach ramp turned out to be true. I can't believe there isn't a fight there every single Saturday and Sunday of the summer.

Japanese Muscle, makes a Wild Hog proud.

The second photo in this last group includes the gold "wild hogs" Scion Boombox. Maybe next year we'll bring the band!

   ^^^^ That's a cool pic Jeff.

     I hope you make it back next year CQ. I need to turn the "stay up all night" reigns over to someone else. That was a looooong ride home Sunday.

    Here's a few more...








^^^^^ some sort of "pad" molded into hull on 200 ^^^^^


   

^^^^^ did anyone get an explanation of this from Lou ?? ^^^^^

He asked me to move and I nicely told him there was a half hour line out in the parking lot and the people with boats on the beach weren't just hanging out and he was screwing everything up, but he was all stressed out and red in the face, pacing back and forth, and wasn't going to budge. I had had too good of a weekend to let someone like him get me upset, but I'm surprised that somebody else didn't. It was my first experience with a busy public launch. Pretty amusing. Saturday am & pm and Sunday am we beat the crowds and had no problems.

Good eye on Blake's windshield, Mike. Blake, how'd you do that?

Wakeboarding, you were pulling out just as we got back to the ramp. It got a lot worse when this guy showed up and parks his boat at the dock claiming the line starts there rather than behind the 1/2 hour line in the parking lot. His kid couldn't cut the line of trucks/trailers in the lot so he shut down one of the ramps until his kid could get through. He wouldn't move his boat out of the way, so we were down to 1 ramp until the DH got his boat out of there. It was pretty amusing.

Quinner, I think that was Hollywood that fell.

   Way to represent w/ the CCFan logo on the windshield Blake!
    That's cool!

    Mike

This was my first CCF reunion. It was an honor to meet Mr. Ralph and get some autographs and listen to his stories.
To Dave, Thanks for the tag I wear my Godfather proudly.
To Keith, Thanks for a great event and publishing my poem.
To Morefoot, Thanks for the kind words.
To Hollywood, Great to meet another famous CCF skier, Maybe someday I'll be a show skier too.
and to Phil, and his dad, Thanks for taking me wakeboarding behind your boat with a tower, that was cool!

My sister Reanna, really enjoyed skiing behind the 2010 200. She said it was so cold and rough she didn't notice how great the wake was but she thought it cool that she was problably the youngest to ski behind it and really like the boat.

I met some great people and had a really good time. Maybe next year I'll bring my Air Nautique.

                         Blake   (the little Godfather)

For those who didn't see my post in the b-day thread where I answered the question 'how was the wake on the 200?' ...





I would describe the wake of the 200 as a single, broad 'hump' rather than a wake (or set of wakes). I'm use to two 'bumps' behind my '94 SN and the 196 has a defined rooster tail (even with the hydrogate down) but the 200 is more like a small mound of prop wash.

It wasn't ideal testing conditions. Even on Sunday there was plenty of chop and the boat had four people and all their gear. It was early and quite cold so I know I wasn't cutting through the wake as much as I'm capable of. I also didn't ski at various rope lengths - just at 15 off, 34 mph. I imagine with a few more sets and in better conditions I would have been able to really commit and I'm sure I would have found I could have cut right through and barely noticed any wake at all.

The boat does have a much different look and feel to it than the 196. For starters we easily fit four slalom skis in gunnel lockers with nothing on the floor! It also feels much wider than the 196. This boat, with the open bow and the tower, looked much more like a crossover boat than the pure performance of the 196.

However, it handled every bit like a high performance ski boat. It drove extremely well and the instrument layout and visibility was much, much improved over the 196.

Top speed with the Excalibur was 43 mph so it's a bit slower then the 196. After looking at that funky hull, you can see why. Man that thing is crazy.

Very cool to have it there and a real treat to be one of the few who have skied behind this new boat.

A very big thank you to Lou and Jay from Offshore Marine!

-Keith

harddock wrote: Million Dollar Beach ramp: You run out of dock before your boat floats off the trailer, but it has that nice self centering bump when you pull out. I guess you need to watch the tides. Can boats with towers get under that bridge? I was playing on that end of the lake taking the my kids skiing & wakeboarding and as soon as we saw a couple CC's headed that way we decided we better get in line. It looked like it was going to be quite the cluster f%$@ soon, and appearently it was.

Harddock-With that ramp and my 2 wheel drive truck I couldn't get over that bump on Saturday and so I swapped trucks with Kyle(66skylark) SUV. Then sunday I was wondering how I was going to get out since most people were not at the ramp and I talked to reid and hollywood and they suggested that i use the boat to push the truck out of the ramp WITH the boat. Best idea ever! I had my girlfriend put the boat in gear and give it half throttle and the boat and trailer and truck all come right out like its no big deal.

That ramp was a cluster f*&% the whole weekend. With my tower I took a left up towards the building before going under the bridge there.

I avoid Boston at all costs (just kidding), just don't seem to be too many foundries in that area. I'm sure I'll be back sometime for a skiing weekend with the NE crew. A van full of water, nice. Didn't you see the signs posted at the ramp to inspect and drain your tow vehicles of aquatic invasive species???

05 210 - thanks for sharing the room that worked out well and was fun.

77 Nautique - you are a talented man that boat looks awesome!

Fill - good skiin', nice boat glad to hang with you and Fill Sr.

I found a pair of size 12 black Mick Fanning Reef sandals. They fit me so I'll wear them until the next reunion, thanks!

Keith, good work the weekend went very well once again.

It was good to meet you Hollywood. John Berry was right when he said all those good things about you. I didn't notice any funny accents though.

C-Bass wrote: Riley wrote: ...Whose is this...and why does it look a little different to me? Is that the stock windshield? Looks like everyone had a great time!

That's Kyle's (66Skylark) boat... its a 176!