Clams Canino wrote:
Is big.....

Too big to take a powerhead out on to break in at dusk.

By 9am the next morning it was all broken in though, we found our way home
in the daylight.

We live by buey T-21 - that doesn't help much in the dark without a map....
hehe

You need a handheld GPS.

BTW am I to infer that you're out on Lake Hartwell charging around in a
high powered boat when you can't see where you're going??

Fair Skies
Doug King

No, you're to infer that I did a LOT of 1000 - 2000 RPM running with an
occaisal forray to small bursts of WOT (in wide open places) as it got into
early morning. It was a bright night real good visibility, and I had to
conseve gas to make sure it lasted ALL night. My first real hard run at WOT
was at 9am when I chased down a small bass boat for 3 miles to get
directions. hehe

-W



"DSK" wrote in message
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Clams Canino wrote:

BTW am I to infer that you're out on Lake Hartwell charging around in a
high powered boat when you can't see where you're going??

Fair Skies
Doug King

Clams Canino wrote:
No, you're to infer that I did a LOT of 1000 - 2000 RPM running with an
occaisal forray to small bursts of WOT (in wide open places) as it got into
early morning. It was a bright night real good visibility, and I had to
conseve gas to make sure it lasted ALL night. My first real hard run at WOT
was at 9am when I chased down a small bass boat for 3 miles to get
directions. hehe

-W



"DSK" wrote in message
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Clams Canino wrote:

BTW am I to infer that you're out on Lake Hartwell charging around in a
high powered boat when you can't see where you're going??

Fair Skies
Doug King





Wussies...I once drove two of the hours between Kansas City and Ponca
City, Oklahoma, between midnight and 3 am in a Formula A racing car that
had no lights whatsoever. The car had a newly rebuilt engine with no
time on it at all, and I was supposed to race it the next day. So I
drove behind the van towing the other two cars, and ahead of the truck
towing the Class D TR4. Everyone except me thought it was a gas; I was
scared to death but too macho to admit it.

But driving a boat on the water at night is not something I enjoy, at
least not in Ches Bay or its environs. Too hard to see, too much to hit,
and radar doesn't necessarily help with really small targets.




--
We today have a president of the United States who looks like he is the
son of Howdy Doody or Alfred E. Newman, who isn't smarter than either of
them, who is arrogant about his ignorance, who is reckless and
incompetent, and whose backers are turning the United States into a pariah.

What, me worry?

Clams Canino wrote:
No, you're to infer that I did a LOT of 1000 - 2000 RPM running with an
occaisal forray to small bursts of WOT (in wide open places) as it got into
early morning. It was a bright night real good visibility, and I had to
conseve gas to make sure it lasted ALL night. My first real hard run at WOT
was at 9am when I chased down a small bass boat for 3 miles to get
directions. hehe

My bad. I slightly misread your original post.

Riding around at night is a different kind of boating... night sailing
is a favorite of mine. It can be a lot of fun... but my viewpoint is
also slanted by encounters with a few of the "if I can't see anything,
it must be that there's nothing there, so let's go full throttle"
persuasion.

Fair Skies- Doug King

With the recent hurricane I felt the risk of wood in the water was too great
to do any more WOT than was needed to come somewhat close to a proper break
in.

That said, when I run at night the lights are on properly - I expect the
same of others.

-W



"DSK" wrote in message news:S_B3d.182043$%

Riding around at night is a different kind of boating... night sailing
is a favorite of mine. It can be a lot of fun... but my viewpoint is
also slanted by encounters with a few of the "if I can't see anything,
it must be that there's nothing there, so let's go full throttle"
persuasion.

Fair Skies- Doug King

"Clams Canino" wrote in message
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No, you're to infer that I did a LOT of 1000 - 2000 RPM running with an
occaisal forray to small bursts of WOT (in wide open places) as it got
into
early morning. It was a bright night real good visibility, and I had to
conseve gas to make sure it lasted ALL night. My first real hard run at
WOT
was at 9am when I chased down a small bass boat for 3 miles to get
directions. hehe

-W

Guess you have forgotten about our last thread? That's okay...

However, you have in the past made references to you drinking and driving a
boat. You have also made statements about "turning donuts" in open water to
clear lilies.

You have demonstrated to me...well...that you just aren't too bright, and
this last "episode", only confirms my beliefs.

Glad you don't boat on my lake...


--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.columbus.rr.com/ckg/

No, I didn't forget about our last thread... Much like O'Reilly - I let
*you* have the last word.

Now if you wish to provoke a new thread... keep it up.

You can clear lillies with a prop. You can also drink and drive a boat, just
don;t drive a boat drunk, or worse yet fast and drunk. They don't call a
pontoon boat a "party barge" for nothing.

-W









"Netsock" wrote in message
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"Clams Canino" wrote in message
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No, you're to infer that I did a LOT of 1000 - 2000 RPM running with an
occaisal forray to small bursts of WOT (in wide open places) as it got
into
early morning. It was a bright night real good visibility, and I had to
conseve gas to make sure it lasted ALL night. My first real hard run at
WOT
was at 9am when I chased down a small bass boat for 3 miles to get
directions. hehe

-W

Guess you have forgotten about our last thread? That's okay...

However, you have in the past made references to you drinking and driving
a
boat. You have also made statements about "turning donuts" in open water
to
clear lilies.

You have demonstrated to me...well...that you just aren't too bright, and
this last "episode", only confirms my beliefs.

Glad you don't boat on my lake...


--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.columbus.rr.com/ckg/

"Clams Canino" wrote in message
ink.net...

No, I didn't forget about our last thread... Much like O'Reilly - I let
*you* have the last word.

Thanks...I guess...


Now if you wish to provoke a new thread... keep it up.

Ill let you know...

You can clear lillies with a prop. You can also drink and drive a boat,
just
don;t drive a boat drunk, or worse yet fast and drunk. They don't call a
pontoon boat a "party barge" for nothing.

-W

You can "party" without alcohol. And with the Ohio standards lowered to
..08%, it makes it almost impossible to "drink legally".

And what exactly is the point to clearing (killing) lillies?

--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.columbus.rr.com/ckg/

"Netsock" wrote in message
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You can "party" without alcohol.

And what fun is that? hehe

And with the Ohio standards lowered to
.08%, it makes it almost impossible to "drink legally".

Agreed... around here they tell me that the Lake Patrols don't bother
things that only troll, and that's what we only do if there's been any
drinking on the boat, usually always at night when the lake is empty. The
Phantom Menace II is equipped with a 110 perverter and a blender - frozen
drinks on demand.

My only real fear on a nightime "booze crooze" is that there will be a time
that a "real drunk" will be out late at WOT with no lights and I won't have
the reaction time to power up and hammer it out of HIS way. Remember - my
cousin Tom was killed by a drunk boater who came up on him from behind at
WOT. I don't have a fear of ME trolling around at 1000rpm with a daquerior
or 4 in me at 9 at night, I have a real fear of drunken "yahoos" who are
doing the same thing I am only with the hammer down.

During the day drinking on my boat is minimal to non-existant, dehydration
sucks on a hot afternoon. The one exception being that I might drop a quick
single beer if I'm about to wind up on the wrong end of the tube and wanna
deaden the pain nerves a bit.

And what exactly is the point to clearing (killing) lillies?

Lillies that infest a swim-beach area need to die - that simple.
Two of the gifts that our creator endowed man with are the ability to alter
his environment to suit his needs - and the ability to make fire. Using both
in combo allows rapid defoliation of desired areas.

-W

Where's your lake?

-W

"Netsock" wrote in message
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Glad you don't boat on my lake...