Lake Clinton, Illinois 2013

We are going to try like heck to make it work. We have never made it to anything with you guys other than a Beer night so we are very excited to spend some time on the water with you all. Hopefully it will work...

Wendy and I will be coming through the camp ground on Friday evening for a visit . Then we will be heading on to Monticello for the evening with grand daughters but I would like to come back Saturday morning for a day of boating fun if anyone will have me . I will be boatless and in the van . Wendy will be doing some kind of pumpkin thing with our grand daughters all day.Hope to be able to catch up with all of you then.

Just set up the tent in the back yard for practice. We're getting ready!

martin 74 wrote: Anyone planning to camp site 21 for fri/sat? I've been wanting to take the Martinique to Clinton for a while. If somebody else has plans to camp there chime in it's walk up FCFS, I can go anytime. Rich

Rich,
I'd grab it now before someone else outside the group does !!! We'll look forward to seeing you there !!!

Moj'

martin 74 wrote: Anyone planning to camp site 21 for fri/sat? I've been wanting to take the Martinique to Clinton for a while. If somebody else has plans to camp there chime in it's walk up FCFS, I can go anytime. Rich

Rich if you're serious about coming I'll grab that site for you. It's too late to book online. Let me know and we'll try to keep the rifraff out.

Hope the wheather holds up!! looks good so far..?

Promo is almost ready. Had to rewire the charging system because the PO aparently thought that chrysler alternators have built in Voltage regulators and wired it like a 1 wire system....NOT!!!! thank god i had a donor boat with the same set up in it!! after 2 days of diagnosing i found 1)bad alternator(No output) 2)bad cut out relay(still not sure how that thing works) and 3) voltage regulator was shot(contacts coroded)

Jeez....it just goes to show you never know what you are getting into when you buy a boat. I inherited two major problems when i got this boat...Water pump on backwards and botched charging system!!!

The up side to all these problems is...wont ever have a problem fixing the damn thing if it breaks down!

Pat....Kim and i will have room if you dare ride with us....but you have to bring a tool box full of tools with ya...

can't wait to see everyone..... see ya Friday!

Alan....

I thought i would never figure it out..almost threw in the towel.

i still have to fix my Tach....i have a replacement that i got from Mojo.hope that's it?

would love a ride in the Hurricane!!....kim and i will take you up on that offer if you get time?

what elect improvments did you do? i'm sure you added a fuse block like i did....nothing was fused on the promo from the factory??? just one 30 amp one shot breaker from the battery that's it.

tim,

No evidence of any fuse's in the Promo...the guage cluster looked to be untouched and wires seemed to be the factory position. correct color factory wires nothing added or changed???

Paul, I'm on my third starter relay. Had a Cole Hersey piece in which is supposed to be good stuff but one of the studs broke free and I couldn't tighten the nut. So last night I stopped at our nautique dealer and picked up a PCM relay. Feels like a nice solid unit so we'll see. I also ran a jumper wire from the solenoid to the coil so I get full voltage at the coil when cranking. I was only getting 7v because of the ballast resistor and it just didn't want to fire up. Fired up first try after I installed the jumper so hopefully my gremlins are starting to be eliminated.

I hope I've got the shift linkage right now because there's no more adjustment in it, if it's not right I've got to pull it out and make some changes over the winter.

When I wired the boat up I installed a 40AMp main breaker, then a 20 amp breaker to the dash feed/fuse block, lights and bilge pump have their own fuses.

rleinen79 wrote: [QUOTE=Mojo] Anyone here from the Hines? Dana, are they coming out of the hole they've been in??? it would be really great to see them..

Bump.. Any Word from our Central Ill friends??

Mojo wrote: rleinen79 wrote: [QUOTE=Mojo] Anyone here from the Hines? Dana, are they coming out of the hole they've been in??? it would be really great to see them.. Bump.. Any Word from our Central Ill friends??

nope, we'll try tonight.

M3Fan wrote: I would love a trick ride behind the Hurricane. That's gotta have one hell of a wake. Should have no problem going W2W!

eh, no real tow point just a lift ring. Don't have the heart to tie a rope to it yet.

So let me change the subject...

I probably should just keep quiet and hide under the radar! I sure hate to wreck the weekend for everyone by bringing the rain, but I already told my kids we are going.... so there's no turning back now. That 20% chance for rain might as well be 120%.

Pat....yup...12 pack of tools will do! Naw...not really just bring yourself!

Evans out...never in actually. Sat is our 17th Wedding Anniversary so it was a non starter. I'm not celebrating my nuptials in a tent surrounded by this crew!

But the kicker is Riot Fest in Chicago. On Sunday I'm meeting up with Johnny to see the second Replacements show in 22 years. Opening up is the Pixies, Bob Mould and many others thrown in for good measure.

However, I'm certain my priorities are clearly seen as misguided by all with maybe Joel and Alan as the only possible exceptions.

Have a blast and don't eat any of the fish...

-SE