Green Lake 2007

Gary: How can I turn down an offer like that? I do think that at least one planning meeting should be held during the winter months down here.


On another matter....our son did 10 years in the Navy. Loved it. We got to cruise on "family" trips twice and I got to cruise with him on board his Frigate for 7 days! My best of luck to your boy. Go up for graduation, boy will you be proud and your wife will cry the whole weekend. At least mrs jbear did.

john

Where is green lake?????how many miles is it from Orlando??????and why is the water green???

I enjoyed Green Lake. However, for me, part of the fun is in going to different places. I would not mind Green Lake again, but, I think I would like it even better if a different venue were selected. I'm not positive yet that I will be able to attend, but I will try. BKH

I'm gonna go ahead and throw out some dates that I will absolutely not be able to make.

July 20-22
Aug 3-5, 10-12

Middle of July worked out well this year.

We may want to move the event closer to Spring to avoid some of the wally crowd, if possible. Just throwing it out there.

Hollywood wrote: Sandbar is a given. I think this outweighs skiable water in the mid-afternoon. The theme of the reunion is a relaxed, hang out weekend instead of a 3-event tournament. Don't get me wrong I like skiing as much as the next guy, you might have to get up early or stay out late to do it. If the weather would have cooperated on Sunday morning at GL that would have been perfect.

Good point. We did get hosed on Sunday. You can't beat the sandbar at GL- it was ideal.

Edit: PS- Keith and I were at the ramp at 5 AM on Sunday- we tried.

Looks like this thread is the official start to the 2007 Green Lake reunion. Less than a year away!

Ken

Ahh, YES, the PLBC Boys!




Ken

Fine, no skiing. Looks like GL is a pretty strong contender. Doesn't get much better for just plain hanging out. Perhaps we could buddy up with that hotel right by the park and see if we could use their lot for rig parking that weekend? Heck, we'll rent out the whole thing!

PLBC wrote: I think it would be fun to show off some skills as well as boats.

People really seemed to like skiing at Shelby. There was no shortage of takers.

I've decided instead of working too hard today, I'd monitor this thread...

I like the idea of bringing it into IL/Indiana. It would really help the east coast guys too, since some are talking about driving. Maybe we could get MD Boats to bring a promo.

Hollywood wrote: I thought Alan said MWCC did a lot of work for us at GL, they'd probably be able to swing something again if we were even closer to them. This online chatting is aggrevating, we should be at a bar with the CL flowing...

My last conv. with MWCC is that they are on board for this year, they know they have a hugh hole as far as support in the upper midwest and our GL reunion helped them fill that. I think they will help us even more than last year. They will supply wakeboard talent as long as schedules don't conflict with their pro athletes. I think a demo boat is a given again schedules permitting.

As far as venue, I thought GL was fine for hanging out but the skiing conditions were terrible. Even the 6am barefooters had marginal water. I would return to Green but also have an alternate in mind that may work better.

Feel free to throw out site suggestions but limit them to lakes that have all the ammenities we need to host the event, ie: hotels, camping, launches, park or picnic area, a place to line up all the boats friday night,most of all a in-water hang out for saturday afternoon.

Does anyone here ski Lauderdale lakes, Wi? Lauderdale lakes Marine was a major sponsor and they have a CC dealersship on the water. If the lake has what we need it may be an option. STill in Wi but close for most of us who attended last year.

My other suggestion would be in Ottowa on the Illinois where the Militia hold their wakeboard events. If anyone has any feedback on these two sites please speak up. I think Ottowa would be ideal but I'd have to contact the owners of the property and see what they think.

Likes:
location - my brother has a weekend place on a lake 10mi south of there, so it was easy for us with the two little guys, especially to 2-month old ... errr new
footin' w/ Seipel
hanging out at the sandbar
driving the new 220

Dislikes:
Green lake is pretty rough

I would be open to some place in IL. It is closer to home. I was up at Lauderdale lakes on Labor Day weekend. I don't know if there is a place to stay on the lake, and they have the early morning no-wake rule.

Ottowa would be cool. You can almost always find good water on the river, and you can do some long footin' runs.

My opinion, if there's a place that has fairly smooth water, that would be great. It would be great to foot, slalom and board all day long (wind permiting). I'd love to learn some new tricks, but not depend on 6:00AM everyday. Sounds like GL is a little choppy? Whatever is decided, I'll enjoy regardless.

Ken

Green Lake was great.....for hanging out. The thing I disliked the most was the park. Great little gathering spot, but as people would get there friday night, there wasn't anywhere to park. It would be ideal to have a gathering spot on Friday night where all the boats and people could be togeher. The NE reunion looks like they had a pretty good "out of water" gathering. Don't get me wrong.....in the water is definitely better than out.....but looking through the pics, there were some boats/people there that I never even saw. It would definitely be cool to follow the same format as last year, with an informal Friday meet and greet, followed by a full day of fooling around Saturday. As for the skiing......I want to ski. SKI Nautique. Green Lake was pretty rough the whole weekend. 81 and I went out early friday morning in the rain, and there wasn't great water then, let alone any other time. Coming back from the sandbar Sat afternoon was the roughest water I'd been in for a long time.

Is there a place that we can rent a private beach? Have a BBQ on the beach, place to keep all the brew ha ha's, put the boats on the sand or anchor right off the beach. This would keep everyone in one spot too. Maybe this has been tossed around before, or is similar to last year. I'm just thinking out loud.

Ken