Best boating day?

[PARADOX]

Share your best boating day ever and why.

My best is the time I took my (new to me) 16' hustler out the first time.
1972 Used boat, new 135 HP Evinrude. Just got finished and I was excited taking my own boat out the first tiime. 4th of July, panning to watch the fire works on Lake Geneva, WI.
Also the worse boating day. Well... almost... Had worse boating days since, but that's for another thread.
All smiling, going out from the ramp to the lake, pretty sunny July day... idling and 12" smiles. Then WHAAAAAM hit bottem... all gravel.. 100 yeards from ramp. New alum. prop is like a saw blade. No worries... no viboration,, full speed ahead... Awsome day with new toy, and being 16.

[stecz20]

loto was great trip... too many to count..

[Chris]

Best boating day? The last one and the next one.

[H20 Toie]

Best boating day

[stecz20]

you know when you're a boater when that dumb ass slogan doesnt go for you.. two best days in a boaters life when you buy and when you sell... stupid...

[Knot 4 Me]

Coin toss between my first trip to LOTO in '77 with my parents and my first trip with my wife and son as a family in '99.

[GENERAL LEE]

Best boating day? The last one and the next one.

[Knot 4 Me]

you know when you're a boater when that dumb ass slogan doesnt go for you.. two best days in a boaters life when you buy and when you sell... stupid...

That slogan was coined by a "boat owner", not a boater.

[DollaBill]

too many to pick just one

[jayboat]

For me, the Key West to Cancun run with Bobthebuilder.

[PARADOX]

I'm waiting for my best 3 days as "boat owner".
So who wants to be a boater/boat owner, and buy my stuff?
I will be always a boater, hopefully with less boats.

[Geronimo36]

That slogan was coined by a "boat owner", not a boater.

There's definitely more boat owners than boaters out there if ya catch my drift!

[stecz20]

that night sunkin pulled a knife on me was pretty good... breaking the unbreakable...

[scarabman]

Best boating day

Couldnt be a bad boating day

[xlr8by]

Best boating day? The last one and the next one.

While I am with you on this one! One of the best rides of my life was blasting down the Jersey coast from Somers Point to Cape May on the 41' Apache Island Runner about 800' off the coast. The weather was perfect and there were some big rollers that made somebody realize how nice the Apache ride is.

The most memorable ride with myself at the wheel was the first time I took out the old man's boat by myself. It was a 23' Eurosport, and I thought I broke the boat as it was unable to get up on plane and felt bogged down. It turns out I got all types of sea grass caught around the prop leaving the marina, trying to take a short cut at low tide! I came back to the marina thinking I was going to be in big trouble. The guy that used to run the marina was walking the docks must have been able to see the prop, and yelled at me to raise the drive and spin the prop on the surface. Low and behold all the crap flew right off the prop, and I was back in action!

[Sean H]

this one wasn't too bad.... 30 miles off the coast of Trinidad in Tobago, 100 miles off the coast of Venezuela. All sorts of boating; dingy, kayak, race boats, sport fisherman, center console. That was basically the only way of getting anywhere.

Even got time to fit in some marlin fishing...

[Chris]

While I am with you on this one! One of the best rides of my life was blasting down the Jersey coast from Somers Point to Cape May on the 41' Apache Island Runner about 800' off the coast. The weather was perfect and there were some big rollers that made somebody realize how nice the Apache ride is.

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I just assume everyone boats in an Apache.

[Airpacker]

any day it goes back on the trailer with the same number of moving parts it came off the trailer with.

[stecz20]

any day it goes back on the trailer with the same number of moving parts it came off the trailer with.

your asking too much.... think about all the time jc perf blew a motor or a drive and all those tows back... now thats a party....

[DollaBill]

I just assume everyone boats in an Apache.

nice