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KRoundy 
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 Topic: Lake Powell MacGyverPosted: October-03-2020 at 9:07am |
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That is a great story!
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Previous: 1993 Electric Blue/Charcoal Ski Nautique
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ultrarunner
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Posted: October-03-2020 at 8:57am |
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Ahhh, “houseboat”. Didn’t connect those dots on a fully stocked parts bin:-)
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fanofccfan
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Posted: October-03-2020 at 8:28am |
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Good story! That is a Bucket list vacation for me.
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2004 196 LE Ski 1969 Marauder 19 1978 Ski
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Jonny Quest
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Posted: October-03-2020 at 12:38am |
Dude...HOUSEBOAT.. The broom handle wasn’t on the Ski Nautique. When the throttle cable broke, we were close to the houseboat, so I scoured the houseboat for something that I could fashion into a makeshift tiller. Repairs were done while moored at the stern of the houseboat. In my S.N. I also have an extendable paddle / boat-hook that I was going to sacrifice for the tiller before finding the broom. JQ
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MrMcD
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Posted: October-03-2020 at 12:05am |
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JQ, I am glad the shorts were RED or you would have got a ton more flack.
Nice work on the repair, that is how we avoid tows. Looks like a great Vacation on Powell. I am jealous. Mark
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ultrarunner
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 10:52pm |
I was thinking the same! Who sweeps out the boat!;-) A paddle? Sure, I have one. Not a broom handle. I’m gonna say it’s their “docking pole”. Yeah, that’s it!
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gun-driver
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 10:26pm |
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For someone that supposedly skis a lot, those white legs could rival Gary’s Illinois whites.
Great story
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jbear
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 9:36pm |
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you just "happened" to have a broom handle?
LOL
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KENO
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 8:31pm |
I would have expected nothing else
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Jonny Quest
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 8:28pm |
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At least the shorts are RED. The long sleeve black sun shirt and bucket hat are for old, fat, bald guys who just don’t care.
FWIW, as a general rule, I hate tubing but the “Sombrero” is quality entertainment and a decent rough-water activity. As we brought the boat into the marina to to load onto the trailer, we idled past several high dollar houseboats. We got some strange looks from spectators as Cam was in the driver seat, leaning back with no hands on the helm and some ugly guy in the back holding a green broom handle. JQ
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KENO
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 8:09pm |
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Oh Jonny
That outfit is just to die for
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Gary S
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 7:48pm |
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Oh great another thing to carry around in the boat
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Hollywood
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 7:30pm |
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It was surely the tubing that did it. Stop that. Good story.
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cspruill
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Posted: October-02-2020 at 5:04pm |
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Last weekend I joined Johnny Quest and his family/ friends for a houseboat trip on Lake Powell. We embarked from Antelope Point Marina in Page, Arizona pulling both of our nautiques behind the houseboat. We anchored the houseboat in Padre Bay and decided to take some of our crew out on the "sombrero" for a hell ride. While we were in the process of forcefully removing Johnny Quest from the sombrero, my steering cable snapped and there we were stranded in the middle of lake powell. I feared that we had just experienced a catastrophic failure and it would be a long (and expensive) tow back to the marina. JQ disagreed with my assessment. He promptly removed my back seats and floorboard, disconnected the steering cable linkage from the rudder arm and attached a broom handle to the rudder arm (with the same bolt attaching the linkage) whereby he could easily steer the boat with one hand exactly like a sailboat tiller! We drove the boat (me on throttle/ JQ on tiller) the entire way back to the marina and onto my trailer w/ zero problems. Legendary.     Live Demo: https://youtu.be/tR5RtdKYh5A
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