I'm just sitting around the house waiting for the tide to go out to go surfing,
Looking up my friend John Miller (Miller boats)saw all these replys to the "suck my wake boat". filming was done at bass lake ca. The director knew nothing about boats, we went through several boats , spending $100k on boats,
When Dan akroid saw this flat bottom ripping up the lake, Dan said "that's the boat" , the prob was it had one seat ,
I said if that's the boat you want , it's sitting in my garage, my brother in law as the same boat , ( mine was a wood deck , his was fiberglass, both were "millers" both had bench seats , 1/3, 2/3 , (bucket/bench combo) the production bought both $$$$$ . We didn't want to deal wth the blower, so we put a hollowed out blower over the existing tunnel ram . One of the famous lapoint brothers did the skiing,
John candy set on the back of a ski boat
Special skis for the streak, and smoke on the dock ( no CGI back than)
The ramp scene was scripted
2 things I wish I still had ;
(1) suck my wake
(2) Ferrari I built for "ferris Buellers day off"

Ps no one builds a wood deck like the millers , I never knew you could bend wood like that
Pss Miller boats were the first all open boat,
Dave Miller was the first to inset the cavitation plate into the hull, before that the boat builders just bolted A piece of stainless steel angle to the transom

I have to say, Suck My Wake has influenced the course of my life.

Cheers,

Joe

There's more
Dan always drove the boat, no stunts,
No fire extinguisher was used for steam
2nd unit hydrauliced the motor on one of the boats trying to make steam come out of the Bassett headers while it idled,
The boats set around the universal lot for awhile, than they sold them , less motors, that was the deal, we each got our 454's , ( I took the $ and bought a 22' Shiada)
Some foot notes about the movie;
The door the bear jumped on was made from steel with 3/4" plexi widows,
We put an air bag under it at the hinge point, what we didn't know was the bear thought the door was a toy , it was hard to get the bear off it,
Const built 2 cabins
1 at bass lake (taken apart, now part of the tour)
1 at universal for stage work (interior work)
I fell 30' out of a tree , and walked away from it , ( God said "not yet" )
Ducies lodge burnt down later that year:((
By the time the sets were built at bass lake, it was winter, we scraped all the special rigs we built for the water ski scene $250k
That's when we put John on the transom of a ski boat ( I thought it worked)


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