Lake Shelbyville 08’

We indeed had a great time, always nice to hang out with fellow CC people. Muscles are sore and eyes are a bit droopy but it was well worth it. A HUGE thanks to Alan, Dana, Beth, Joel, for feeding our freeloading and mooching a$$es on Saturday. The "cased meat" items were great and so was the salad, beans, and corn. We owe you.

It was good meeting Todd and Renee and seeing the Decatur clan again.

Till next time.

I do have to say that we had a great time as usual. Meeting Tim and Pam's gang was fantastic along with some new faces from the PLBC and Decatur groups. I thought we got rid of the MasterCraft, but the Decatur group brought it back! Just kiddin' man! I was happy to see some new "local" faces and learn about all the secret skiing places in Illinois. Tony, we need to talk more!

It was super to see all the kids skiing and wakeboarding off of Tim's boom! Great to see the young kids getting into the sport! They even taught a gal to ski for the first time!    

I do have to agree that the afternoon skiing was dismal to say the least. The early morning skiing was great and I can't think of a better way to start the day! Even though the skiing tapered off, people were still able to visit and swim around the boats. I think the kids enjoyed the water as well.    I think Helden jumped off my swimboard 100 times!

Joel, if you thought Clinton was rough, your fillings AND teeth would have been jarred out of your head if you went to Shelby. I talked to some people who were at Shelby this weekend and they said it was horrible!

To top off the weekend, Renee and I felt honored to pull one of the newest upcoming wakeboard stars by the name of Helden Hein. We were getting ready to head out, and we were asked to give him a yank. That little guy is awesome to say the least! We also got to pull Mariah who is a newcomer to wakeboarding. What a cool way to end the day.

I do want to thank everyone for coming. It was unfortunate that the traffic was high, but that is also what you get for a public lake and great weather. The campground was awesome as usual. It is always fun to visit with everyone in the evenings and talk boating.

We had a super time and look forward to seeing everyone again.

Thanks for not beating me up too bad Saturday! You may have to photoshop the pic above to change the MC into an SN!

It was great to meet you all out there. Thanks for letting us crash the party and I am glad you did not need my MC for parts!!

Todd and Tony: hopefully the Wallys will start winterizing and we can have the lake to to ourselves, we need a few cold fall days to get them in the mood to winterize!

rleinen79 wrote: M3Fan wrote: Here are a few pics. I think my favorite quote from the weekend would have been from Rob: "Oh, all three of you have 4Runners now? Isn't that F***ing cute." I don't think that's exactly how it went. OK, maybe it was.

There was another part at the end that I decided to censor, so yes, that's not exactly how it went.

Heldon $Rocks!!

What's up Stang????

Damnit......looks like alot of fun there!

Wishing again i could have been there!

Paul,

Tim, send me a e-mail. I have something of yours that was left in my boat.

Todd

I should take back my complaints about rough water as we dropped in LATE in the day every day. What do you expect at past 10 AM on any lake? Had I dropped in early, I would have had hours of good water.

Gary,

Nothing would make me happier!!!!!!!!!!

My Daughter is a senior this year and my schedule is packed with her activities and trying to get her prepared for college...........I think however she will be attending Green Lake next year.

So maybe i can schedule some lessons now with your boys before they hit the big time!

Hell CC will be giving your boys the next Promo boat at the rate they are going......At the Green Lake Reunion it will be your boys putting on the show instead of adam.

BTW tell heldon i still have the Rhino stuffed animal he won for me at the Goose.

paul,

M3Fan wrote: I just realized that The Liquid Edge is in Farmer City. DAMMIT. Son of a... We were RIGHT THERE.

Joel, heading east on 74 to Farmer city they are right off the highway before rt54. I think you guys came in from the other direction. I saw a bunch of wake boats out there but didn't realize what it was until your post.

I sense a road trip in our future.

Turns out the Liquid Edge guys did see our Nautiques parked at the hotel! They are about 3 minutes from there.

speaking of the Liquid Edge (& if you are an Illini fan)... just got this email   

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The Liquid Edge Newsletter
The Journey - Coach Zook - Big Ten Network
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A quick note for all the Illini and The Liquid Edge fans and out there. During the recent bye week for the Fighting Illini, the coach found about 30 minutes between practice and a recruiting trip to stop by The Liquid Edge. It was an extremely rare sighting to get the coach away from a football field, but the weather was perfect and rather going to the gym, why not hit the water. The cool thing is that his trip to the Edge was filmed by

The Big Ten Network and will air tonight at 8:30pm.

It wasn't exactly like a Hollywood movie set, but you definitely felt the presence of the three guys with bags, multiple cameras, tripods, microphones, and no idea of what they were getting into. After all, they were in Farmer City, no footballs, no cheerleaders, just a lake, some skis, and a really cool boat. I wasn't sure weather to hide, smile, or make a quick shameless plug for The Liquid Edge and Mastercraft. In the end I just tried to stay out of the way. Once the crew settled in and figured out the right camera settings (zoom, frames per second, and other terms I didn't understand) we were on our way. I was amazed at how relaxed Coach Zook was from the start with the cameras about 2 feet from his face while he put his bindings on and set into the water. I would have put the wrong feet in the wrong bindings or forgot my gloves. Once in the water, the Mastercraft 197 fired up and we took 10 or so passes down the lake. Coach ski'd hard and fast. After a couple of trips around the turn islands my new crew started to relax and have some fun. They were really getting into the action. Out of the water, they asked Coach and myself a few questions. And as quick as they showed up, they disappeared.

After all this is Football season and it was time to get back to work.

The show is called The Journey. We have watching it for several weeks. It is basically a documentary about the typical day of Coach Zook, his coaches, and the team through the 2008 season. It has been fun to watch. Check it out.

Go Illini

The Big Ten Network
Program Title: The Journey

Tuesday September 30th - 8:30 pm (Central time)

Re-airs on: Oct 2nd at 6pm and 10pm, Also Oct 4th at 9 pm

Gary,

Your boat has Illini written all over it. I am sure the Coach would have preferred the SA to the MC 197.

The girls loved the board! They thought is was "cool". They enjoyed watching Heldon do his tricks as well. Too bad there isn't more summer left.

I'll send you some of the pics via email.

Strange that there are a couple of positive reviews amongst the bad ones.. To bad, since it seems like there is a need for a class joint on that lake...

Moj'

81Skisinker wrote: I gotta say Lake Decatur is alot better of a place to ski due to the traffic. And Im assuming you were talkin about the Ski club at the lake?... spent alot of my childhood on those docks with my family. Learned how to ski there too. There is no shallow spots where u could run aground like you can in Shelbyville plus the jump is nice ( watched my older brother face plant off it while trying to jump) but I was looking for older ski club members on here if they exsist

81, Stang72 and his family ski from the club on Decatur. Shoot him an email, I'm sure you could hook up.   Keep an eye out for this thread again around August of next year as this group tries to plan a trip to your area once a year and the more the merrier.

I plan to get the boat out and running once I get it redone. gotta recarpet and fix a few minor things.. but Im bout 30 mins from lake shelbyville and decatur is just a hop,skip, and jump away so Id love to come and join ya guys this up coming year