CT mini reunion: June 10-12, 2011

Uncle Todd,

Hope you are going to be able to stay through sunday, as I don't arrive until late saturday evening and realy want to be one of the record breaking 14 on the doubles in the Sunday morning runs.

Tim, got your email with directions. That helps a bunch, we are still planing to be in early saturday morning. Let us know if we can bring anything.

Any chance we'll see the ski tique this weekend?

The most pressing issue at the moment is the lack of a throttle bracket. The OMC set up had some hokey 3" extender on the end of the cable, which is now broken. SkiDIM is checking to see if the PCM version is available or not. That little hiccup (among a few other slow downs) kept us from breaking in the cam last night. Once the cam is broken in, we still need to do an oil change and disassemble the valvetrain to reinstall the inner valvesprings... otherwise we'd have run it "ugly" this weekend. Other non deal-breakers include the lack of a connected bilge pump and blower, seats, panels and windshield... and of course, the thing is filthy. We'll have it at the lake for you to check out for yourself.

Glad to hear the '83 is making an appearance, Joe- Ive talked it up quite a bit to my buddies here... Im sure it wont disappoint!

Guys I have a cool trick for ya, that makes an awesome video. It worked with my boat and my cousins SN. We had the booms in between the two boats, my cousin started in his boat jumped out slide down both booms and jumped into my boat. It was pretty cool cause my brother and I had to make sure we were driving the same speeds and keeping the boom ends together.

You guys have a great weekend, take plenty of pictures and PLEASE double check all the cable ends on those booms before you put 12 people out there. How's that for sounding parental on father's day weekend.

JoeinNY wrote: According to my barefootcentral.com calendar you are a week early on the fathers day there Alan.. but we appreciate the fatherly advice.

Well that is good news because dad's card was going to be late, now it'll be early and he'll wonder what's going on!!

I will be waiting for the picures!!!
have nice meeting guys!!

A huge thank you to Tim, Greg, Melissa, and Deb along with the rest of the Benjamin Family. You guys were outstanding hosts and were so gracious with your home and taking care of everyone throughout the weekend. You guys are truly a top rate family with a deep deep love for these boats.

The weather wasn't perfect but in typical CCF fashion we made the best of it!

Personal Milestones for me this weekend were skiing behind the crush, barefooting for the first time behind the boom, picking up a 68 cuda SS thanks to Bruce and his outstanding sons, and getting up on the air chair.

Great weekend all around and couldnt ask for better people


A little game of friday night a-hole

Setting up the tent

Tim and Dave making shelter to keep us dry on the porch

Joe and his 800 dollar truck

My new 68 Cuda SS

The banana boat at rest

Tims Skier and '90

Joe pulling up

Ken Spurling ready to go parasailing behind Joes '83

That's awesome. Any parasailing action shots?

Fantastic weekend and a great time! The Benjamins are a great family and hosts. Thank you for an awesome weekend! There must have been 25-30 people and 6 or 7 boats. Todd was there with his Banana George boat which is a great piece of CC history and a really cool boat. We all got to ski behind the Crush. There was plenty skiing, footing, boarding and surfing. One of the highlights of the weekend was Ken Spurling parasailing Saturday afternoon. We all can't wait to see the pictures of that. Sunday after noon the Banana George Boat pulled 8 footers off the booms. Dave, Tom and I had a really good time.

Hey guys, picture pat and I are still here bumming out at the Benjamin complex. He took over 1200 pictures this weekend. Once he's done watching dr phil we'll get thru them all and post them when we get back to IA. Hope everyone had safe travels home!

Joe and I got there around 2:00 Friday afternoon. Got some good skis in off of the orange crush. Tim's dad was driving and his mom took a ski too. Tim's mom rips it up on the ski.

Then we went footing a little off of boat with Uncle Todd. He gave me some great pointers and taught me a swing out from the boom on the handle.

We couldn't stay because Joe was going to the Belmont on Sat. I intended on coming back up on sat but got involved with cutting up all the trees tat fell in my yard from the last storm. Plus the weather wasn't that good. ;) It seems we gotthe best weather Friday afternoon.

Thanks to the Benjiman family for their hospitality. It was a fun afternoon. WishI could have made it the rest of the weekend.

Here's some pics;

Wow, what a whirlwind of a weekend! Thanks to everyone for coming out- it was great seeing old friends and new faces alike! Im pretty sure no one is normally allowed to have that much fun during such lousy weather- we sure gave it hell. I should also thank my family, as they played much better hosts than I did! Thanks to everyone for pitching in- it was a true group effort.

Im really looking forward to seeing more pictures- good times. We’ll have to do it again… Ill be sure to order better weather next time.

I had a great time for the practically day I was there. Got in around 3:30 just as Ken Spurliing was taking off Parasailing OMG..... stuck around for a bit then launched the 85 thanks Brad for driving it back to the Benjamin Camp while I dropped off the trailer. Weather held out for awhile then roughly around 6pm it poured and then cleared up took the covers off. Filled Joe's Fatsacs in his boat and people and filled the 85 with people galore. We stayed out pretty late but Joe's crew was out till dark. Nice lake they have, just enough room to do it all aslong as other boaters respect each-others water. Sunday came I took Larry and Brad footing off the 85 awesome time they had with the limited visiblity as it was foggy as hell out there. Once we got back I decided I was going to go for a ski, so Eric took me and Larry out on the Orange Crush, 4 turn arounds from the Benjamin camp to the Marsh area nice and calm at the time. Just full day of events it was a great time just wish it was longer. Great bunch we have as friends and fellow correct craft owners. I decided to leave around 5:30 yesterday and thanks to Jay, Sage's BF for driving the boat back to put it on the trailer.

Thanks again for the Benjamin family for the hospitality. We def have to get together more often somehow during the season.
-Phil