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    Ever have a biker gang harass you on the ramp?

    Everyone likes to watch the folies at the boat ramp. <br /><br />In years past, it even became a place where all the Harley Chopper/Biker undesirable types would hang out and watch the 'goings on'.<br /><br />As one thing leads to another, the bikers finally got to be a problem. <br /><br...
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    WOW!! Got the little hydro up over 80!

    After I launched it off a wave last fall, and rode it into the lake like a yard dart. Going along at about 60-something one second, then looking up at the surface of the lake about a millionth of a second later was a real rush.....<br /><br />Doing that nearly ripped the transom off the back of...
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    Anybody else ever make concrete engine mounts?

    I've been carrying this around for awhile. I wasn't sure if it should go here, or on 'Stupid Human Tricks'.<br /><br />I used to have a early-mid 70's 23' (tupperware)daycruiser with a Mercruiser behind a 351 Ford V-8. As it aged, the engine mounts under the block turned to mush. The engine...
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    All electrical components are made with a ceratin amount of smoke inside

    One night several years ago, I was working on a old outboard. I thought I had it all back together and wired up right.<br /><br />A buddy who had been a Avaition Electrician in the service was there to drink beer and criticise when I tried to fire it up.<br /><br />When I turned the key, I...
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    Blowing holes in the bottom of the boat...

    Rodbolt reminded me of this,,<br /><br />While stationed at MCB Quantico, VA, I used to work with a guy whose main goal in life was having fun at someone else's expense.<br /><br />No practical joke was too severe, or caused too bad of a injury---- to someone else. <br /><br />Naturally, You...
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    Does that vibration seem bad to you?

    You guys talking about stumps and busted props reminded me of this:<br /><br />I'm much better now, but back when I was younger and did the ocassional stupid human trick--- <br /><br />I'd just gotten out of the service back in Dec. of '80, and one of the buds I'd grown up with had just gotten a...
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    Wow!! From underneath, the surface of the lake looks so close,,,,,,,

    Last week, I went out with Hooty for a bit of high speed boating. Or, so I thought when we made the plans.<br /><br />The wind was gusting, and after launching, I noticed the waves were running about 2' high*** and white capping.<br /><br />***<br />In the new hydro, your butttt is about even...
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    Check out my new depth finder........

    I got a buddy that is hated by most items of modern technology. <br /><br />He got a fancy new depthfiner once. It had every option you could get on it. This is a guy that can't make the VCR clock stop blinking 12:00 too.<br /><br />He went out fishing a few times, sees fish all over it, but...
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    Any of you guys ever rent 'jon' boats and do this?

    I was going back through many of the posts here, to be sure I hadn't missed anything really hilarious, and coming across the dough-nuts in a jon boat posting reminded me of one of my Marine Corps buddies favorite Sea Stories.<br /><br />Unlike me--- a super smart- perhaps bordering on brilliant...
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    Here's one that's hard to beat,,,,,

    I've posted a few missadventures that my Dad and his Aggie buddy<br />(who is also a early 60's issue US Marine Lt.) had had. Here's another funny one-<br /><br />"How funny is it"? you ask.......<br /><br />Well,,,, I think this one is funnier than watching a class at "Clown College". <br...
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    Some people rate very little sympathy from me,,,,

    I got a million stories just from my old 'Aggie' buddy.<br /><br />I think part of the reason I laugh so hard at his miss-adventures is that he was a Marine also, but a Officer. Since all his tribulations are self-inflicted, it makes them even more funny to me, and at the same time- I just...
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    In Texas, there's a reason we have 'Aggie' jokes,,,,,

    For us, they're like Pollack(sp) jokes they have in other parts of the world. The main difference with Aggie jokes is that they are true stories.<br /><br />I have a buddy who is the poster child for why they have Aggie jokes.<br /><br />This fella keeps a cruiser on one of our area lakes, and...
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    Making progress- got it to 70mph

    Hooty & I snuck off to the lake yesterday with the hydro. he's been helping me build.<br /><br />I've updated the webshot site with a few pics he took from the beach.<br /><br />We're still playing around with the set up/tilt/trim and different props. <br /><br />But we've touched 70mph at...
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    It actually runs!!

    Took the 16' Aluminum Hydroplane with it's 150 Black Max. to the lake today and got to drive it. Now I know what them dope addicts fell when that narcotic runs up and hits their brain.<br /><br /><br />After 11 months, 12 tanks of Argon, 15 pounds of Alum. welding rods, 7,000 rivets, 14 gallons...
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    If ya are too drunk to read, let the kid fill your tank.

    In other threads, we were talking about how important it is to fill your own fuel....<br /><br />That's not always true:<br /><br /><br />Years ago, back in the late 80's a friend of a friend of mine came into a big windfall of money. So, naturally he bought a 60', two story house boat, on what...
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    How to install a 21' cruiser in your Surburban

    Used to have a friend who'd was married to a guy for awhile that had a rather short temper, and was prone to hollering fits for what seemed like little or no reason. <br /><br />They'd gotten a 21' fiberglass cruiser once, and had no end to the fits such a person can have with something like...
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    Whew, my backyard project is almost done...

    Well,<br />I've been working on this (2nd)Aluminum hydroplane since last Sept.<br /><br />Starting with the plans for the 12' Aeromarine Special over at the 'Boat Plans' site. I wideneded it 6" in the tunnel, stretched it to 16', switched it from wood to Aluminum, built it, and hung a 2.4 Merc...
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