2011 Northeast Reunion — August 26-28, 2011

By far, this was the most active reunion I've attended with so much action on the water. The conditions were perfect, with exception for Sunday. Keith's boat did an awesome job between slalom, trick and surfing. The Crush got a workout as well with Randy tearing it up through the course (I believe 36MPH at 38' off). We saw Dave running the crush long-line footn' down the middle of the lake. My cousin Liam got up the very first time on skis off of Brad's boat. Then he got up right away long-line and took four circles around the lake before I cut power. That's Liam above. He's wearing the skis I learned to get up on in 1984 in New Hampshire.

We left Saturday night in order to secure the things around our home. It poured rain almost the entire ride home. We lost three trees in our yard and power for over two days. Overall, it could have been much worse!!

Ken

Here are some shots from Friday...

With that many people in a 230, I'd expect the surf wake to be chest high. It seems pretty small. Was it just the perspective of the photos? From what I see, I think the wakes are bigger in my 210, the demo Sport 200 @ GL and Mike Hunter's 210.

The 176 is Kyle Tompkins (66Skylark)

thanks now who is the guy w the green and red shorts he looks pretty damn talented

ok back,, so that 176 is really nice

Randy, the gentleman with the red, green and black shorts went to Nationals in Chicago this year. I believe he said he placed fourth for slalom. He's very good at providing instructions too. Randy reminds me of Hollywood minus the smart remarks every other sentence.

I still can't get over how many boats were pulling slalom skiers, footers, boarders, surfers and trick skiers over the couple of days we were there. Seem like everywhere we looked, somebody was doing something. The lake treated us well.

Ken

Joe,
Guess what I found this morning when we went footing/skiing ... your gloves!

They work great! It's up to you but if it's easier I might just send you money for them.

-Keith

JoeinNY wrote: peter1234 wrote: whos gray and silver 176? that boat is beautiful Funny you should ask.. you two guys have similar taste in boats it belongs to Kyle aka Skylark66 Steve.. the wake behind that 230 with that many people is huge.. most of the time. We were running with ballast full on both sides so if we had people stacked on one side it was awesome as good as the best I have seen mike hunters, considerably better than the 200 sport with 9 people at GL. I cant actually compare it to your wake because you never took me surfing.. Some of the pictures you see it wasnt quite as huge or defined because the police were on the lake so we were off the back deck and really not very well concentrated on one side at that point.

Ill disagree with Joe... I think that the wake on Mike and Gail's boat was significantly larger. I surf goofy, if that makes a difference. My guess is that set up has a lot to do with it- we had a ton of weight in the boat. Of course, this is coming from a real novice... and Ive never tried gen-1 210 either.

Tim was one of the guys we screwed in the wake, I also disagree with filling both sides but with 2k of people on the proper side with a good lean it wasn't an issue... I tried to suggest to a few of the larger spectators that they move aggressively to the proper side but when goofy it wasn't even close to a significant lean.   I stand by my assessment that when weighted properly it was similar to the hunters boat at its best. At 11 mph the pocket was fast and fun!

Steve if I didn't take that shot I figured it would lessen your opinion of me.

JoeinNY wrote: At 11 mph the pocket was fast and fun!

I'd be really happy with another mile an hour while surfing. I can't do much past 10.0. I gotta fatten those kids up.

JoeinNY wrote: Steve if I didn't take that shot I figured it would lessen your opinion of me.

- indeed!

Sorry for the jack, off I go...

Kieth any go-pro vids ready for release from the reunion?