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GENERAL LEE
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A month?...you're too generous.
It ran once. 5 years ago.
Damn, was it THAT long ago....and THAT short of a run?! :willy_nilly:
I thought he'd gotten at LEAST 2-3 runs in....
JupiterSunsation
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In the spirit of Jay13......
An aquaintance named Dave was all amped up about getting a bigger boat. Money flies through this guy's hands like welfare checks in the 'hood. He had a fake/splash 28 Pantera and wanted to go big. So he hunts down a 38 Fountain SC. The SC is like a tall deck version, only made for a few years/only on the 38 and 47 bottoms. The boat is a turd. Dave is somewhat knowledgeable and has built a few hot rods that usually end up being stolen, wrecked or lost in a pink slip race so he should have realized it was a turd. No survey, no compression check and he buys it. Friends were begging him NOT to buy it, boat is junk. Nope Dave sees this pleading as "jealously" that he will have a bigger, nicer and faster boat. He buys it two inlets from home so he decided to run it offshore on the way back. The trip is only about 20 miles total. Him and a buddy bum a ride down and pick up the Fountain. He at this point already owns the Fountain gold chain with the bezel logo with 38 in the center. No fluid checks, just lower the "38" into the water and idle away.
Just outside the Boynton inlet one motor pops a rod, oil in the bildge the show is over. He had about 10 minutes on plane and now a 30-40 minute idle to the marina. He is playing off like he meant to blow it up so he can put new power in it. He pulls into the marina and gets the boat put on a rack.
Fast forward 2 years, boat is in pieces, some new parts, some used parts, props (no idea if they will fit/work). Boat now has a loan on it, paid cash but the loan will pay for the new blower motors. Gambling, drugs, divorce and stripper love empties his pockets. Boat is liened by marina for lack of storage payment. Bank isn't getting paid on the note and Dave decided the power/parts/props are too good for this boat so he is going to let it go and recycle these high HP parts for a better hull.
This boat got 10 MINUTES of use and he lost about 40K on the deal, not including whatever the bank/storage place lost. He will still bring up this boat like it was a regular weekend cruiser up and down the east coast. It usually starts like "Remember that 38 Fountain I had........" He recently rode on another buddy's 07 Top Gun w/ 525's.....you can guess the response..... It is nice but my Fountain was faster and much louder......\
Dave is out of boats and driving a black 80's Mustang with no a/c in FL with a built big block that he said was built for the Fountain........Car might pull $200 for it at a pawn shop.
An aquaintance named Dave was all amped up about getting a bigger boat. Money flies through this guy's hands like welfare checks in the 'hood. He had a fake/splash 28 Pantera and wanted to go big. So he hunts down a 38 Fountain SC. The SC is like a tall deck version, only made for a few years/only on the 38 and 47 bottoms. The boat is a turd. Dave is somewhat knowledgeable and has built a few hot rods that usually end up being stolen, wrecked or lost in a pink slip race so he should have realized it was a turd. No survey, no compression check and he buys it. Friends were begging him NOT to buy it, boat is junk. Nope Dave sees this pleading as "jealously" that he will have a bigger, nicer and faster boat. He buys it two inlets from home so he decided to run it offshore on the way back. The trip is only about 20 miles total. Him and a buddy bum a ride down and pick up the Fountain. He at this point already owns the Fountain gold chain with the bezel logo with 38 in the center. No fluid checks, just lower the "38" into the water and idle away.
Just outside the Boynton inlet one motor pops a rod, oil in the bildge the show is over. He had about 10 minutes on plane and now a 30-40 minute idle to the marina. He is playing off like he meant to blow it up so he can put new power in it. He pulls into the marina and gets the boat put on a rack.
Fast forward 2 years, boat is in pieces, some new parts, some used parts, props (no idea if they will fit/work). Boat now has a loan on it, paid cash but the loan will pay for the new blower motors. Gambling, drugs, divorce and stripper love empties his pockets. Boat is liened by marina for lack of storage payment. Bank isn't getting paid on the note and Dave decided the power/parts/props are too good for this boat so he is going to let it go and recycle these high HP parts for a better hull.
This boat got 10 MINUTES of use and he lost about 40K on the deal, not including whatever the bank/storage place lost. He will still bring up this boat like it was a regular weekend cruiser up and down the east coast. It usually starts like "Remember that 38 Fountain I had........" He recently rode on another buddy's 07 Top Gun w/ 525's.....you can guess the response..... It is nice but my Fountain was faster and much louder......\
Dave is out of boats and driving a black 80's Mustang with no a/c in FL with a built big block that he said was built for the Fountain........Car might pull $200 for it at a pawn shop.
Okay, I began questioning myself. I was off a little. It was 4 years ago.Damn, was it THAT long ago....and THAT short of a run?! :willy_nilly:
I thought he'd gotten at LEAST 2-3 runs in....
:sifone:
JupiterSunsation
New member
Jupiter, that's hilarious.
I think we all know a guy like that.
I only see Dave about once a year and I saw him in June so I am all set for 2009.
DonziGirl
Founding Member
****, I forgot about him. We should let Barb tell the story, seems she knows him pretty well. :lurk5:
T2x
Icon/Charter Member
JOE OFFSHORE
1980's Freeport Long Island Offshore race ...pits in the State Marina.
Large ...LOUD......41' Apache pleasure boat pulls into the pits and attempts to dock. In the boat is a group of folks who represented a major international olive oil importation consortium and maybe a little gambling and trash removal. Each one is nattily attired in tailored slacks, silk shirt, imported Italian loafers...no socks..... you get the picture? At about this time a similarly attired fella appears on the bulkhead running along frantically trying to "help" them dock. He's yelling the words I will never forget:
"Joey..tro me day string!!!...Tro me da string!!!!"
"Joey", a soldier obviously answering to the capo behind the wheel, is gingerly tiptoing on the deck with a dock line in his hands. He is resplendent in a flowered shirt with jewelry and a tight soft leather jacket, looking uncertain and definitely out of his normal element collecting "vig" from the shopkeepers on Flatbush avenue.
As the animated character on the shore continues to gesture and plead "Tro me da string!..... JO-EEEEE!", "Joey" does as instructed and flings the entire dockline....(untied on both ends) in his general direction. The line, of course, lands hopelessly in the water between them, at which point the "captain" at the helm delivers a tirade of such colorful and endearing phrases as "Youse Stupid sc*mb*gs!!!!..... I nevah shoulda brought you'se cheecherones to a g*d d*mn, F*ckin' boat Ting!!!!!!!!"...followed by a fusillade of Italian love poems referring to their mothers and something about "tomato heads".
Okay...That's the famous "Tro me da string" story.
Send me the tee shirt...I don't want the videos.
T2x
1980's Freeport Long Island Offshore race ...pits in the State Marina.
Large ...LOUD......41' Apache pleasure boat pulls into the pits and attempts to dock. In the boat is a group of folks who represented a major international olive oil importation consortium and maybe a little gambling and trash removal. Each one is nattily attired in tailored slacks, silk shirt, imported Italian loafers...no socks..... you get the picture? At about this time a similarly attired fella appears on the bulkhead running along frantically trying to "help" them dock. He's yelling the words I will never forget:
"Joey..tro me day string!!!...Tro me da string!!!!"
"Joey", a soldier obviously answering to the capo behind the wheel, is gingerly tiptoing on the deck with a dock line in his hands. He is resplendent in a flowered shirt with jewelry and a tight soft leather jacket, looking uncertain and definitely out of his normal element collecting "vig" from the shopkeepers on Flatbush avenue.
As the animated character on the shore continues to gesture and plead "Tro me da string!..... JO-EEEEE!", "Joey" does as instructed and flings the entire dockline....(untied on both ends) in his general direction. The line, of course, lands hopelessly in the water between them, at which point the "captain" at the helm delivers a tirade of such colorful and endearing phrases as "Youse Stupid sc*mb*gs!!!!..... I nevah shoulda brought you'se cheecherones to a g*d d*mn, F*ckin' boat Ting!!!!!!!!"...followed by a fusillade of Italian love poems referring to their mothers and something about "tomato heads".
Okay...That's the famous "Tro me da string" story.
Send me the tee shirt...I don't want the videos.
T2x
Geronimo36
Charter Member
Pretty funny Rich!!!
Similar story from about the sime time era although, maybe it was late 70's....
My father shows up for the racers party and he's stopped at the door because he's wearing his boating shoes, shorts and an open t-shirt with all his gold chains hanging out.. No one told him it was a formal affair (probably on purpose).:leaving:
So being the loud, obnoxious, boystrous character that he was, he convinces someone to go inside and bring out their jacket and he puts the sport coat on over his short sleeve shirt and gets into the party still wearing his boat shoes...:willy_nilly:
Also some kind of other story I was told, at the same race, someone kept a guard dog inside the cockpit of the boat overnight so no one could "mess around" with their stuff...:seeya:
And, one of the boats sank at the dock... The next morning they thought the boat was stolen but then they looked closer and saw the dock-lines and the boat sitting on the bottom...:willy_nilly:
PS, don't hold ya breath on the t-shirt... still waitin for mine from Shore Dreams. And to think Stecz lives nearby, lol
Similar story from about the sime time era although, maybe it was late 70's....
My father shows up for the racers party and he's stopped at the door because he's wearing his boating shoes, shorts and an open t-shirt with all his gold chains hanging out.. No one told him it was a formal affair (probably on purpose).:leaving:
So being the loud, obnoxious, boystrous character that he was, he convinces someone to go inside and bring out their jacket and he puts the sport coat on over his short sleeve shirt and gets into the party still wearing his boat shoes...:willy_nilly:
Also some kind of other story I was told, at the same race, someone kept a guard dog inside the cockpit of the boat overnight so no one could "mess around" with their stuff...:seeya:
And, one of the boats sank at the dock... The next morning they thought the boat was stolen but then they looked closer and saw the dock-lines and the boat sitting on the bottom...:willy_nilly:
PS, don't hold ya breath on the t-shirt... still waitin for mine from Shore Dreams. And to think Stecz lives nearby, lol
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