Last Cruise of the Year

[LazyCruiser]

Well, the day has arrived and all too soon.
Packing up lunch now for the final cruise and then on to the ramp and pulling my beauty outta the water and bringing it home for the long, lonely winter.

I guess the dog and I will head for Mallett's Bay over in VT. Can't stay too late as they're predicting 4' waves on the pond later this afternoon.

Big lunch, small bottle of wine* and a good book.
The last hurrah......

Thanks to all of you who've helped me this past month.
Sarah

* no criticism from any teetotalers,,,,,please. I am a big girl and it will just fall on deaf ears

 

[ziggy]

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hope ya have a great day.

i think my last horrah was yesterday. got out for 5 hrs. no one wanted to go so went by myself.
had me the whole boat ramp to myself. docks were still out. though the ramp i went to is my second choice of ramps, my favorite one the docks are all out at. then 4-6 boats on the lake including me. it was great, but a bit windy. 15-25 nne winds.

next week, winterize...

 

[sasto]

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No worries....some of us boaters will keep boat spirits happy during your times of enjoying the other activities in your life.

 

[Baysidejoe]

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Rub it in Sasto

 

['96 Charger]

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I love living in the southHave a nice last trip Sarah.

 

[NYBo]

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Just watch out for Champy, Sarah! You may have to share your wine to appease him!

 

[25thmustang]

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Mine came out this past weekend! Enjoy that last cruise, I did without knowing it was the last.

 

[89mercruiser]

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I joined in the club too, got out for the last time yesterday for the year. Now to help my dad get it ready for a long winter.

 

[swaycleveland]

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hope you enjoyed your last cruise of the year! we ( the other half) and i took our fathers out fishing for the last cruise. we didnt get on the fish very well but in trying to find them (the fish) we had ourselves a 8 hour boating/fishing trip on a beautiful 70 degree day with prefect seas wow what a summer!

 

[LazyCruiser]

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Hi all,

Well my day on the water started badly but turned out rather well.
I arrived at the boat to find 2 dead batteries; I knew one was shaky and planned to replace it over the winter.

But today they were both dead - the marina pulled the power, my fridge was on, and it toasted my batts.

So I took my mini battery out of my honda and hooked it up; not enough power to crank over a big motor. UGH

So off to NAPA - no marine batteries in store. Great. So now I am forced to go to the 'Evil Empire',,,,Walmart. Bought their biggest marine battery, $85 and about 85 lbs too. One heavy sukka let me tell you. So the rest is history.
I connected it, it started the boat, and VOILA, some fun on the water!

It turned out to be a decent day!
Thanks everyone for the good wishes,,,,I needed 'em for awhile today!
Sarah

 

[sublauxation]

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Glad your day ended well and you got out. Turns out my last trip was last weekend unless some unforeseen warm front comes in. Gonna put the boat to bed next weekend or the one after, wife is getting anxious to get her garage back before she has to start scraping windows. A little jealous of all you down south...but then again you don't get to ice fish.

 

[stic88]

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SUB- I do not know how anyone thinks that sitting on a frozen chunk of ice is any sort of fun..... i is for cooling off the drinks not for fishing.

 

[sublauxation]

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SUB- I do not know how anyone thinks that sitting on a frozen chunk of ice is any sort of fun..... i is for cooling off the drinks not for fishing.

Yeah, honestly it was fun when I was 10, now it's just cold. The only real advantage of it is you don't have to pack ice for the beverages.

 

[nuboat2me]

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Love ice fishin'....

Hey... Even though the water is frozen... I can walk to my favorite spot!!! WHen its not... We just motor over the "Hole" and drop anchor... Dual purpose...

Gotta love loon lake in Feb... The tulibee bit is ON!!!

Have fuN!!!

 

[rwidman]

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Love ice fishin'....

My buddies and I went ice fishing once. ......................... By the time we cut a hole in the ice big enough to launch the boat, we were too tired to fish!