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  • Gathering of Boats at The Avi: July 13, 2007 - July 15, 2007

hotrod56cars

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #250 on: July 13, 2007, 02:13:09 PM »
... hey if any one wants to buy a boat for the "avi" trip i got one for sale ...real beauty too......

Dude, you're killing me... whoring that thing on every single post... I must need a beer or something...
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NO REGRET$ ... Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics / no matter how good you do you're still retarded!!!!!

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CHROMEY

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #251 on: July 13, 2007, 05:07:50 PM »
im desparate...what can say...
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HDriderTH

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #252 on: July 13, 2007, 05:11:01 PM »
no blower, no boat....fuc it
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Brad @ SCJB

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #253 on: July 14, 2007, 05:26:48 AM »
recap of fridays events...

We woke up late...so we didnt get on the road in time to meet up with the caravan....

Just after VictimVille heading into barstow, I was doin 80 in the #3 lane towin marcs boat...and got pulled over....

Cop said it was 2 violations (speeding and in wrong lane for towing) and would be over $500 and 2 points on my record....started short talk about jet boats and said he had a 74 sunray or something.....let me off with a warning and I gave him some SCJB stickers  ;D

we got here and the beach was packed with river lice....idiots everywhere on sea donts (sea doos)

Ralph busted teeth on his dist on the hondo pretty quick...so he put it back on the trailer and brought out the cj812.

Towards the end of the day, we headed up river to float back down.....Myself, Marc, Kate and ryanbrindle were in Marcs boat....marc driving......ralph in his boat.......got some bad ass pictures (i think :() ....marc and ralph werent watching and they smacked into eachother pretty hard....the corner of ralps transom hit marcs gunnel right by the passanger seat.....the impact and marc yankin the wheel out of instinct threw kate over on top of the motor and pitched me out of the boat at about 60mph.

Everyone is ok thank god....Ralph has a some damage to the back of his boat and its just over the waterline so it doesnt take on much water...Marc has a nice gouge on the side of his. I lost my sunglasses and soaked my camera. Its dead and wont power on. I would post pictures, but I dont have a card reader with me. It was a sobering experience to say the least.

To anyone who is at the avi thats reading this.....just be safe out there guys. I will report back later with how saturday goes.  ;D
  • Boat #1: 1978 Liberty
  • Boat #2: 1982 Eliminator Sprint
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Warlock

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #254 on: July 14, 2007, 02:24:13 PM »
recap of fridays events...

Towards the end of the day, we headed up river to float back down.....Myself, Marc, Kate and ryanbrindle were in Marcs boat....marc driving......ralph in his boat.......got some bad ass pictures (i think :() ....marc and ralph werent watching and they smacked into eachother pretty hard....the corner of ralps transom hit marcs gunnel right by the passanger seat.....the impact and marc yankin the wheel out of instinct threw kate over on top of the motor and pitched me out of the boat at about 60mph.

Everyone is ok thank god....Ralph has a some damage to the back of his boat and its just over the waterline so it doesnt take on much water...Marc has a nice gouge on the side of his. I lost my sunglasses and soaked my camera. Its dead and wont power on. I would post pictures, but I dont have a card reader with me. It was a sobering experience to say the least.

To anyone who is at the avi thats reading this.....just be safe out there guys. I will report back later with how saturday goes.  ;D
Not the Top Gun sunglasses! :o :o Glad you guys are alright and no one got hurt...See TheChaz....Turns out yer not the only one who has problems staying inside a boat... ;D
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Warlock

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #255 on: July 14, 2007, 02:29:02 PM »
recap of fridays events...

....Ralph has a some damage to the back of his boat and its just over the waterline so it doesnt take on much water...
LOL! Thank god it's not takin' on "much" water...Nevermind me....Just a jealous bassturd that has ta' work!!!  >:( >:(
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GlassCutter

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #256 on: July 14, 2007, 09:15:15 PM »
I have never heard of so many things going wrong for so many different people associtated w/ this trip.  Its like Voyage of the Damned of sumthin.  At least Brad talked his way out of some serious $$$. Those stickers must be reeaallly nice. Maybe somebody will buy Chromey's boat now just so you can finish out the weekend. Play safe guys, we want you back.
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The Chaz

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #257 on: July 14, 2007, 10:55:18 PM »
Wow,  imagine if had been able to make it >:D  Thank god everyone is OK!  Boats and pride can be repaired  (of this I'm sure)  I hope the rest of the weekend goes perfectly and makes up for the bad start.  Good luck out there guys.
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HDriderTH

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #258 on: July 15, 2007, 10:45:48 AM »
It was awsome, only about one third of people who signed up showed but we had a hell of a time in the cove BSn and floated down riv yesterdat w/ nine boats
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HDriderTH

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #259 on: July 15, 2007, 10:50:25 AM »
Again, like Parker and Irvine if you missed it you GOTTA be gay!
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Warlock

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #260 on: July 15, 2007, 10:54:55 AM »
It was awsome, only about one third of people who signed up showed but we had a hell of a time in the cove BSn and floated down riv yesterdat w/ nine boats

Glad ta' see everyone had a good time and no one got hurt except Ralph and Marc's boats....Fortunately both of which can be fixed... ;) Ohh yea...And thank you Marc and Ralph for making Goad finally take a bath... ;D
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The Chaz

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #261 on: July 15, 2007, 01:53:46 PM »
OK, now we need pics!!   ;D
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HDriderTH

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #262 on: July 15, 2007, 02:07:53 PM »
OK, now we need pics!!   ;D

Brad drowned the camara.....but I'm sure there will be a ton of 'em to come.
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bkplesh

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #263 on: July 15, 2007, 06:17:38 PM »
where are the hot spots here? thimking of go at the end of summer(bar,hang out,ect)
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Warlock

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #264 on: July 15, 2007, 06:21:34 PM »
where are the hot spots here? thimking of go at the end of summer(bar,hang out,ect)
Well Plesh....That would require you to hem up yer skirt and overcome all of the excuses you have for not making it to the lake...You decide you wanna go to the lake you say when...We'll round up some SCJB peeps and give ya' the grand tour of Havasu....Outboard style.... ;D
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bkplesh

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #265 on: July 15, 2007, 06:28:06 PM »
might get a free trip there and stay on a houseboat ;D plus that's a few months away ;)
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bkplesh

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #266 on: July 15, 2007, 06:29:35 PM »
Well Plesh....That would require you to hem up yer skirt and overcome all of the excuses you have for not making it to the lake...You decide you wanna go to the lake you say when...We'll round up some SCJB peeps and give ya' the grand tour of Havasu....Outboard style.... ;D
I got something for you, if you were going to the river, I was going to do a day trip down there.
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Warlock

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #267 on: July 15, 2007, 06:31:35 PM »
I got something for you, if you were going to the river, I was going to do a day trip down there.
What does this mean? If I were going to what river?
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bkplesh

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #268 on: July 15, 2007, 06:34:15 PM »
I thought you and offshore were cum down this way
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bkplesh

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #269 on: July 15, 2007, 06:36:26 PM »
just wont to meet a few preps ::) plus the wife said we can go
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Warlock

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #270 on: July 15, 2007, 06:37:50 PM »
What way?
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bkplesh

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #271 on: July 15, 2007, 06:40:08 PM »
meet some of the people i've been talking too. :P
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Brad @ SCJB

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #272 on: July 15, 2007, 11:15:27 PM »
Saturday was just as eventful as friday....

Rod offers Kate and I a ride in the High Life (which was lookin pretty snazzy I must say)....we headed up river and no joke....we hit a waverunner....guy wasnt paying attention and he saw us at the last second and cuts hard and drenched us as he bounced off the bow....he had a 8 year old kid on the back. He didnt stop...made a B line for up river full speed....full hit and run.  >:( slight scuff to the front of the highlife (very minor)....and we were all ok....we took off up river lookin for him and he was long gone.

Honestly, I have no desire to EVER go back to that section of river ever again. there is WAY too many amatures on sea-donts (sea doo's) that had absolutly no idea what a no wake zone was...what the rules of the river are (not much different then a 2 lane road)....dont realise that its NOT ok to just cut left and right without looking. There was no presense of law inforcement anywhere. I later found out that its Reservation police who monitor that area and I just assume they dont give a flyin crap about what goes on down there.

So pretty much the entire theme of the weekend was "watch out for the lake lice" ....they were everywhere like flys on shit. buzzing around with no defined path. I tried to complain to the Avi about the situation and I was blown off. It's their cove and they just let underage kids run amuck on waverunners at will. I wont be supporting any events that are held there ever again. Seriously. I was surprised that waverunner drivers were not being pulled out of that place on stretchers....i have no idea how they all made it out alive.

Other then the tards on the waverunners....it was a great weekend....met up with several people from the site including ryanbrindle, factory502, coorsheavy, chromey, mdunn, rivertard, crewchief22, and anyone else I forgot...it was a busy weekend and I tried to talk to everyone I could.

Thanks to Marc, rod, omar and coorsheavy for takin kate and my non-running boat owning ass out on the water  ;D

Thanks to Rivertard for the entertainment on and off the water ;D

I heard from Rod at about 8....he was in barstow putting on 4 new tires on his trailer....I will let him explain why.

My smart card for my camera is ok...I will post pictures in the morning...the ones of ralph before the mishap are amazing.

I won some big bucks on a slot machine before I split  ;D

goin to bed now....hope everyone made it home safe.


.................so whens the next one?!?! not at the avi, thats for sure!

« Last Edit: July 15, 2007, 11:19:25 PM by Brad @ SoCalJetBoats.com »
  • Boat #1: 1978 Liberty
  • Boat #2: 1982 Eliminator Sprint
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crewchief22

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #273 on: July 15, 2007, 11:34:20 PM »
Finally got back to a computer to check the latest ...

Glad to hear no one got hurt this weekend.  I had enough problems this weekend without coming home to findout someone got hurt.

It was cool to meet some of the people from the site at AVI, but that was just the beginning.  My wife fell off the boat and tore her suit (had to drive back to Needles to change).  Later got the ignition wet and sucked a sh** load of rocks into the grate (pump stopped pumping and the engine started getting hot).  Luckily I was close to my camp in Needles.  Caught a ride back to AVI to get the truck & trailer so I could get the boat out of the water to clean out the rocks.  Lets see, what else happened?  oh yea, my daughter slipped trying to get back into the boat and gave herself a fat lip.   :'(

But with all the S**T that happened this weekend we had a good time and are looking forward doing it again (somewhere else?).  This was the first time for me on the river in the Laughlin/Needles area and I liked the mostly flat water.  Just need more ponies for the BBC  >:D
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"Racing is life!  Anything that happens before or after, is just waiting"    Steve McQueen

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

crewchief22

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Re: July 13-15 2007 - Gathering of Boats at The Avi
« Reply #274 on: July 15, 2007, 11:45:34 PM »
Head up to anyone wanting to launch at AVI without staying at the hotel there is a $25.00 fee and no beach privliges  >:(
I should have launched in Needles and used the 25.00 for fuel  ;D
Oh well, had fun anyway.
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The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

 


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