2010 Midwest Reunion Recap and Photos

Donald, i've sent a coupel of messages to you thru this site. Do you get them? Is your correct email linked to this site?

Sorry for the threadjack

8122pbrainard wrote: sandstpf wrote: Thanks guys for checking out the vid! I know I didn't get every boat, but its hard to run a camera with that much action all around me. More to come... Paul, I just now had the opportunity to see your vid at home. No sound at work and my old computer there running windows 98 really does not like to run youtube vids. Fantastic job. I loved it!!

Thanks again for all the positive feedback guys. I think I'm going to have to upgrade to a little fancier camera! You guys can also check out the "backseat view" in Joes's boat during the speed runs on my youtube. (sandstpf)

lewy2001 wrote: The temperature looked much better but the water conditions looked similar to last year.

Mark,
I feel the water conditions were actually worse. With the good weather, there were lots of boats out producing wake chop comming at you from all directions. At least with wind produced waves there is consistency.

lewy2001 wrote: Paul just had a look at your Youtube ride in Joe's boat. One wild ride it is always a worry when the captain puts a life vest on before heading out. Joe that looked insane no wonder you could not get to 60mph you have to be in the water for the prop to bite. The temperature looked much better but the water conditions looked similar to last year.

Absolutely. It was a beautiful day but Pete is right, boat traffic was really roughing things up. I guess a lot of people want to see what this CCF thing is all about! Thanks for checking out that vid, by far the wildest ride of my life!

Again, a great time was had.
Hats off to Mojo and family, RainDog and family, Magicman and Halloween queen, Renee for the dessert, all the laboring volunteers, the attending members, and of course Keith. Here are a few pictures.

motley crew

a few 60s

a few 70s

the 2 BFNs

a gratuitous pic of our daughter sporting Alan and Dana's killer onesie

Ohhhhhhh... 10 days in beutiful Green Lake. One of which rained, but other than that, we had the best summer vacation up there in 10 years..

What can I say.. I told you guys the water was warm.. Indeed it didn't let me down.. it was certainly a long time coming.

The time goes by so fast, and when running around, I know I didn't get to spend enough time getting to know some of the GL virgins, but I'm glad that so many of you had a great time, I hope to see you again in 2011.. For those who could not be with us this year, we all missed you, as the stories continue to be told.

I thought the tech sessions came out very well. For that I have to personally thank Pete, Steve and RJ for the fantastic instruction they gave on the topics covered.

For all that volunteered their time to help us when help was needed, I again thank you immensely..

What a fantastic Reunion...... I wonder what the 10 year reunion will be like ?????? The 5th was one for the records..



Moj'

I'm back on my desk at work...
Got home yesterday after some 16 hours of flying and passing through 5 airports... (See "A Belgian in the Bayou"-thread in the Off topic section).
I'll get on resising my pictures for posting a soon as possible and also open a photobucket account.

I had a fantastic time in the US!! This sure won't be the last trip I'll make over there (and next time I'll sure bring Chantal along ).
Hopefully we can make it happen to come to the River Run in March... We'll see what we can do.

Keith wrote: when I have some free time. -Keith

Sounds great!

Great pics, Kristof! I wish I had been there.

Hollywood and Quinner in action...

Paul(ski247)'s wife Lisa hitting it off right on the first try...



Keith is a great teacher, he even taught me to ski on a slalom with two fixed bindings (always used the back toe plate untill now) and got me off at the first attempt too... Thanks for the great pointers Keith!

Few pictures of the great work the guys do under the dog house.

so those engines belong to Paul, Steve, Allen, Joe, then someone chevy, and then maybe Reid's but the carpet and 351w doesn't seem to match up right.

so is the other one Reid's then? Allen

JoeinNY wrote: Good guess chris but as you noted carpet not correct, my guys is it is Gary Blackburns hot new ride..

Gary has Hitek manifolds and a red motor... would that be Ken Meloon's M17 with the blue PCM and H-M manifolds?

I would love to see more pics of that BFN- looks very nice. Who brought that? I didnt see it registered.