Green Lake 2013,, We're Back

Great to meet many of you last weekend at my first reunion! It was great to chat with some folks and get to know you a little bit, and I definitely appreciated the advice on boat stuff as I worked around the crowd Saturday afternoon. I'm looking forward to many more, and next time (thanks to some of that advice) coming with a cleaner boat :)

LOVE the photos everyone! Frankenotter yours KILL. Mine (only a few) coming in a sec.

Was I the only one that got a pic of Pete swooping in front of Boat Dr. at the last minute to lead the parade to Norwegian bay?


I guess his training schedule did not allow him time to stop and chat, but it was nice of him to make an appearance and keep his attendance streak alive.

diggit wrote: Great to meet many of you last weekend at my first reunion! It was great to chat with some folks and get to know you a little bit, and I definitely appreciated the advice on boat stuff as I worked around the crowd Saturday afternoon. I'm looking forward to many more, and next time (thanks to some of that advice) coming with a cleaner boat :) LOVE the photos everyone! Frankenotter yours KILL. Mine (only a few) coming in a sec.

Thanks Dug!!!

I was looking for you out at N Bay. I was going to offer you a ride so you could see your manifolds in action but I couldn't find you. It may have been the beer and excessive sun that slowed me down a bit.

Cheers bud!

Good pictures dudes.

skutsch wrote:     Heard his tube school is only for dogs...

No Steve, the tube school is going to the dogs

Frankenotter wrote: (Going to hell for this one)

Don't worry I think you will have some company. I suspect 40-50 years from now we will be able to hold a pretty respectable mini down there. Of course It will be hell, so we will all be driving Mastercrafts.

Just realized I had this on my phone. The shorter of the 2 runs, but mildly entertaining.

Finally back in Australia. That 14 hour leg from San Fran. to Sydney is a killer. A bit fuzzy today still (Friday). I missed Wednesday altogether left SF on Tue 23rd 1030pm arrived in Sydney Thursday 25th at 630am.

Pictures are great this year and the almost official photographers, Picture Pat and Foot still have not posted their's.

Tim I think Foot has some video of a "shot ski" run also.

Frankenotter, Chris? I think I may helped you with the steering cable on your 176, not sure if I caught up with you at GL. That is a shame would have loved a ride in that 176. Your pictures are amazing the colours are so vibrant.

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Glad to hear everyone is back home safe and sound. With relatively minimal amounts of boat carnage.   I would definitely say it was the best Green Lake reunion I have attended yet! I thought the weather was about as perfect as could be, maybe a little bit of wind the first two days but it gave us time to crawl around the boats on land and at the sand bar. Saturday was pretty near perfect weather, and even Sunday provided a great morning for water sports before the rain came down. Just all around a great time!

Many thanks to my travel companions, my boating companions, camping companions, watersports companions, dinner companions, drinking companions, bearing repacking companions, and of course the Dorsen, Arrighi, and the Evans Clans for their most excellent planning activities. Because as those who have met me know… I ain’t to bright and I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills – skills I have acquired over a very long career.   Skills ideally suited to an experience like the green lake reunion, and without all the people to share the experience it just wouldn’t be the same.

Seriously, though I had a ton of fun, It was a blast to reunite with old friends, I was lucky enough to meet the many new faces (and promptly forget the many new names- sorry – I’ll remember what boat you belong to though) and sorry to have missed quite a few people that I had on my list to meet.   But there is always next time for the new faces to become old friends, and the missed connections to become new friends. Keep the pictures coming, I love seeing what was going on when I had my head turned the other way.

I was thinking more along the lines of eating, drinking, barhopping, hanging out at a sandbar, pushing new watersports upon the semi-willing and generally burning the recreational candle at both ends skills myself. Although I do appreciate that I was able to approach a few really nice boats with borrowed wrenches and not be thrown off over the weekend- I was not by a long shot the only or most successful fixer of others boats over the weekend. All just part of the correctcraft fan experiece.

Chris, good to see you in that boat. Was it in the witness protection program?

RainDog wrote: You gonna land it this weekend? You were damn close on the first backflip attempt.

I would love to try.. but I have the tough mudder to run on saturday and have to fly to chicago sunday for a quick one day business trip. Out of the country visitors are coming back from Chicago with me on Monday and here the following week. Best case scenario I should have some video of the next attempts next weekend.

Not sure tired, hungover, and with a 800 plus mile drive staring me down was the best way to make my first attempts.. but sure glad I did it and many thanks to Brian for talking me through it and you guys for providing the moral support.

He bailed me out on Saturday too,Thanks Joe. It would have been a long tow or paddle thats for sure. Turns out I have two dead cells

It's Friday everyone is loosing some cells.

No crap though I've seen some dead cells in batteries do some weeeeeeeeeeeeeird stuff.

Old Dakota r/t the dome lights were so bright they looked like LEDS and it flipped all the gauges completely backwards. Assuming it reversed polarity.

The thing I liked most about being at GL was you could toss the keys to the boat or the truck/trailer to anyone there and have complete confidence they knew what they were doing.