Fall Season Skiing / Boating

Any chance of shifting the meeting point southward a bit????

Very cool, guys.

You're up kind of late Jbear.
Are your cut-offs frayed?
My son and I went out at dinner time tonight, trying to squeeze in all the skiing time we can in the fall. The best part? We were the only boat on the lake. Wahoo!
Chuck

The rain held off just long enough for Ken to get his feet back on- looking good out there Ken.Had a good time fellas, hope to do it again soon.
Tim, I'm ready for some barefoot lessons

Calm day in MA so far. No wind and the rain is holding off. I'm looking forward to getting my feet on. It's been three years, but should be like riding a bike, right?

Counting the hours.....

Ken

Ken,

If you make it down this way this weekend, give me a call. Boats all back together. Hope to check it out tomorrow.

H 508-888-3863 or C 508-367-4122.

Larry

Brian,
Thanksgiving day, that maybe a good time to take the new little one out for her first trip on the water. Boat rides always put our little ones right to sleep.
Here in Missouri our family usually takes our last ski sometime in October. The only suits we have are bathing suits.
Last year we kept the boat going through the year, usually putting it in once every three or four weeks, sometimes having to wait on the ice to melt

Chuck

Jimbo, here in Alabama we have about the same conditions. My wife puts her foot down, says no skiing on Turkey day. For putting up with me the other 10 months, I give her that!

75, I'm on the south side--Friendswood. Most skiing in Clear Creek, Taylor Lake, and a private lake nearby. Been in the San Jac, Bernard, Conroe too, but like the ease of 18 minutes to the ramp on Clear Creek.

This is the time of year we're dreaming of "nippy" weather. We're still waking up each morning and cursing the heat. Waiting for that first cool front to finally make it down here.

Ken, keep working on her to drive. Although if she runs you over I can understand why you might not want to push her too hard!

79nautique wrote: Ken needs to trade up the plaid shorts for pinks ones is what I'm thinking. Hell ya drive all day and check in and your thrown in the mix, rough crowd.

It's all in the name of fun, 79!

Ken

Larry,

I had you pinned for 40's. Guess you found the secret of youth. That's encouraging. Keep up whatever you're doing!

Ken

It's getting pretty darn nippy in the morning. Towels, sweat gear and coffee, sounds like a plan to me. My boat is going into storage on Nov 1st. We still have two solid months, gentlemen. Tim's going to teach the deep water start approach. I'm going to purchase an instructional video to help too. I don't want to burn up all your gas, Brad.

Larry (75 Tique) works in Plymouth and lives in Sandwich. He made the trek to Natick one night and met my Dad and I. It would be great to hook up with him too. Larry has to be in his early 40's but looks 29. Great guy!

Ken

Hey Larry,

Could be one of several simple issues why the Tique had a difficult time powering on the trailer. Was it running a long time prior to doing that? My '80 used to get vapor lock after shutting the engine off after use and turning it back on to power onto my trailer. It would sort of chug for a few seconds.

I'll let you know about Labor Day. Sounds good to me, just got to see if the wife had anything planned for us. I think Monday's going to be nice too. Can you e-mail me your phone number again?

Ken

Hey guys,

Got room for one more on your fall outings? But have you noticed how short the evenings are getting. It gets pretty chilly and dark pretty early these days. Maybe an early weekend morning would be better.

Ken,

It ends up I am not going to NY this weekend due to the crappy forecast, if you want to come down. (score points with the relatives on Labor Day weekend) I've got to make sure the Tique is running ok first though. We went out last weekend. Before we got going we heard a funny noise from under the hood. Opened up to see the rubber exhaust hose just off the manifold had a hole in it, blowing exhaust and water into the bilge. I fixed that this week (more involved than you would think). But what concerns me more, when I was putting the boat on the trailer, it didn't seem to have any power. It wouldn't even push itself all the way up onto the trailer. (choke stuck maybe? - Thats what it acted like.) Not sure, it ran fine out on the lake. Anyway, I hope to do a test run shortly, I'm sure its fine. That's my only choice right now as I have sent the Supra to a consignment lot.

Anyway, a fall barefoot outing would be fun. Let's try to get a group together soon. Maybe we can give those PLBC guys a run for the money.

Hey jbear, come on up for some doubles runs. Our combined age would be 106. Would that be some kind of record?

(I still swim competitively. We "masters" swim in 5 year age groups. Relays are defined by cumulative age. My family was amused when I came home part of a team record in the 230 - 239 year age group. I guess that's why they call me "Pops".)

Sorry ... wordy post.

Hey guys,
I got a pair of Jaski shoe skis that'll make learning deeps a lot easier!