[Tommy-G]

Originally Posted by upstatedoc

This thread is giving me "boat envy"

+1

[kscarrol]

Originally Posted by TommyG-inFlaNow

This has happened to me before...I have no pictures on my browser from OP but I have everyone elses

Yeah, I've had that happen, just bustin' your chops!

[Josh-PA]

We have an '08 Regal 1900 with a fuel injected Volvo V6. Its great having a lift at the lake, so if you feel like taking it out, its a 10 min load into water instead of a trailer in / trailer out situation.

The second pic is when I pulled it out of storage last year on Mother's Day weekend. We had some freak weather that included a massive snow squall. Made for an interesting 15 mile drive up the lake. I was in my full ski gear.

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by kscarrol

Nice rebekahb!! You the blond or the brunette with the blue cap?

I do have blonde hair and think that might be me. Picture was a few years back.

[Bonk!]

Originally Posted by Bloke

Well we sold our last boat 4 yrs ago and regretted it, have been waiting for the right time & perfect boat to replace. With last years lock down, the idea of staying/boating locally (New Hampshire) along with the surplus cash from no family vacations, allowed us to get back in! We're so excited to hit the lake this season on this beauty, literally the only boat that has me snapping my neck to look at as they pass.

Wow - what a beauty. When's the N.E. boat party?

[oVeRdOsE.]

nice boat.

im into boat since im born, my dad is crazy about them.

He just bought a Monaco Parker, brand new. Fabrication started early march, expecting around july.
with 2x seapro 250hp.

his previous was a 2005 Doral Prestancia 32' with 2x5.0L V8 mercruiser and bravo 3.


can't wait to test drive it

[dscabra]

I like to let others spend their money on nice boats that they always seem to want to share with the "boatless". Here are a couple of pictures of one I got to ride in a while ago on the Lake of The Ozarks. She's 38' long with two 502 c.i. power plants making about 800 combined horsepower.

[erickonphoenix]

My live-a-board home for 25 years. I bought her when I was working at a shipyard and she was towed in after a fire. Over the course of five years I rebuilt her from the keel up and later sailed her at least once a month for decades. As Houston's population grew through the 90s and 2000's the once easy 30 minute commute to downtown because an hour then 90 minutes each way. Finally had to sell her when my commute to work got unsustainable and my salary couldn't support a home and a 42 foot sailboat.

I never had the "bad" day when I lived aboard. Like most of all the live-a-boards I knew, we self maintained so it was an affordable and sustainable lifestyle. It never turned into the money pit people expect when all the task have to be farmed out.

But not all is lost. One of my former crew members went on to buy a boat himself so I still get time on the water every month.

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by dscabra

I like to let others spend their money on nice boats that they always seem to want to share with the "boatless". Here are a couple of pictures of one I got to ride in a while ago on the Lake of The Ozarks. She's 38' long with two 502 c.i. power plants making about 800 combined horsepower.

Hopefully, you at least offer them some fuel money when you ride. We don't expect it because we're taking the boat out anyway but it's always nice when someone rides if they at least offer.

We've always wanted to do one of the poker runs at LOTO but haven't made it up there.

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by rebekahb

Hopefully, you at least offer them some fuel money when you ride. We don't expect it because we're taking the boat out anyway but it's always nice when someone rides if they at least offer.

We've always wanted to do one of the poker runs at LOTO but haven't made it up there.

He wouldn't accept any gas money, but my wife and I sent him a thank you card with a gift card when we got home.

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by dscabra

He wouldn't accept any gas money, but my wife and I sent him a thank you card with a gift card when we got home.

That's really sweet and am sure it was appreciated on their end. Anytime we ride with friends either pick up their food and drinks throughout the day or we sneak gas money in their boat bag😂

[rcracin]

Wow, a garage kept boat.

-guy from NYC whose garage only has space to open the m3 door only about 6 inches.

[Bloke]

Originally Posted by rcracin

Wow, a garage kept boat.

-guy from NYC whose garage only has space to open the m3 door only about 6 inches.

It's insane........ Obv. not us, she'll have to make do with a covered slip, a far cry from her previous life.

Examples of the lake houses & their boat houses on Winnipesaukee!

[rebekahb]

Originally Posted by Bloke

It's insane........ Obv. not us, she'll have to make do with a covered slip, a far cry from her previous life.

Examples of the lake houses & their boat houses on Winnipesaukee!

That's absolutely gorgeous!!