a year in review 2007

I had a good one...

met jbear;
met Eric Lavine

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.

Mike

backfoot, thank you for the grammer lesson and the tips on why we have the season,or should i say "The Reason For The Season"
God Bless you and all of yours in this time of giving and blessing for all that we have.Thank you God, for all that you have given ,all that you have taken and most of all for the bounty that you have left me and mine.
        Merry Christmas to All

Wow...So many...let's see...

1. Comradarie at the Boston Boat show.
2. Ken smushing his cheezy puffs into the carpeting of one of the new MCs at the boat show (just kidding)
3. Answering the phone one night and hearing JBear on the other end.
4. Tique firing up on first crank
5. Puttering with the boat: Cosmetic face lift to the engine, added a new platform, new badge stickers, painted the trailer.
6. Hauling the boat to NC for a week and entertaining my daughter and five of her friends following her HS graduation.
7. Meeting Ken for a couple pulls down here on the Cape.
8. Two mid season outings with the Lost Lake gang
9. Comradarie around the Harper dinner table.
10. 6 AM barefoot runs the morning of the NE reunion (including the "hot barefootin' chicks" over in the other boat)
11. Finding out at three in the morning, sleeping in my van at the campsite at the NE reunion, that if you lock the doors with the key fob and then try to unlock them with the button on the door (had to use the little boy's tree) that the alarm goes off. (sorry about that Farmer)(I was parked right next to them)
12. The rest of the NE reunion
13. Bacerds barefoot lessons from Tim (I'll get it next year!!)
14. Countless outings with my son.
15. Telephone conversations with the Boat Dr. Thanks for all your help on the cooling issue, Billy.
16. Final Lost Lake outing of the year with the great four man run
17. New and old CCF friends and lots of laughs

Well I've gotta add my .02 worth here too..and I'll probably forget some as well..so many good things happened this year thanks to you guys.

Having the engine (motor?) on the '80 redone by 5 guys and one girl that I barely knew. Thanks Mark, Lisa, Keith, Reid, Chris and Eddie.

Meeting backfoot100 (Eddie Olson) that same day. Turns out Eddie and his great wife JoAnne like all the same things as me and Patti. We were blessed with new friends that seem like we've known forever. Plus he's a awesome footin' teacher.

Easter weekend in the Keys with Reid and Laurie. Wow.

Visiting Mark's famous sandbar with Eddie and JoAnne as passengers..even tho we had to walk the boats thru the canal.

The feeling of being honored by Mark & Lisa, Reid & Laurie and Marshall going WAY outa their way to visit us at Norris on their way home from GL. The feeling of sadness of having to miss meeting more of you guys there.

Being guests at the fabulous Pinkham Palace.

Going to the airport with Reid at 11pm in wet bathing suits, with a cooler of beer to meet the quinner, HW and Johnny.

Being part of the NC SIX man. Meeting all of Reids buds at his place.

Shotski....no more needs to said on this subject.

Orlando Reuniuon with Mark & Lisa. Two great boats parked next to each other and having so many people walk by and say "I know you guys". Meeting Paul Carpenter and BJ Borling (hasbeen) and Jane and her family.

Weekly barefooting with Eddie...monthly dinner and movies with him and JoAnne.

Having Kevin and Carolyn stay at our house for a few days. Which brought me my best skiing moment of the year-double deep water with Hollywood. Thanks HW..hope you know what that meant to me. Thanks as well for the cool cups! Need some more of them pics. Carolyn: we were not holding hands!

Meeting so many of you guys and talking to more on the phone; BKH, 75 Tique, Ken, Chris, 62woodhead, Majicman, eric, 69 Mustang, the boat dr and all the others I've forgotten to mention.

Special mention of thanks to my friend Chuck Arney...the Lake...your calls brought me thru the year when this new experiance of a job got a little heavy.

Best 2 hours of the year? The 2 hours I got to spend talking on the phone to Keith...who made all this possible for us. Plus he fixed my computer over the phone.

Awesome year here for all of us...hope to talk to or meet more of this great group in '08!

john

Wow, it really is something to read about all the "Hook Ups".... CCFan is better than eharmony.com hahahaha......

Really, it's neat to see so many good weekends and good friendships come from an internet site

Here's to a even a better 2008. Happy New Year all...
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2007 recap

Started the year off by meeting Eric, when I dropped the BFN off to have new stringers put in.

Started talking to the Boat Doc about manifolds for the boat, managed to make a new friend out of the deal.

Went to GL07 met alot of great people. Then got the chance to wake up at 4 in the morning to learn to foot in 3 foot waves. Thank goodness we found some glass so Mike could carry on with the clinic.

Progresses to long line late July.

Early fall thank to the members on this I located a 2000 Air, which I brought home.

Capped the the year off with a visit to Eric and numerous phone calls with the Boat Doc. I always look forward to the new wisdom the boat doc has to share with me. Thanks Billy.

It was an excellent year. CCF really took off.

I went to the NE Reunion and met a bunch of great people. It was a real eye opener as to the great skiing and driving abilities so many people have. Got to see my boys run the course for the 1st time behind Keith's boat. Got to see them try barefooting for the 1st time off Brad's boat. I even tried the course for the 1st time.

In the Fall, the right deal came along in the Diaries, a '66 Mustang and we made a roadtrip to NJ to pick it up. I didn't think I would have a nice old boat like that for a long time to come.

I've either met in person, or talked through email or on the phone with some really decent people.

Thank you Keith.