My new love

I finally got my 85 BFN on the water yesterday. She ran like a champ. Three of us footed, but it was chilly, 53 degrees. The boat looks, sounds, and runs great. Now I know why all you guys love your Correct Crafts so much. I'm at my office trying to figure out how I can get back on the water. I feel I'm going to start neglecting everything else in my life. It's supposed to hit 85 degrees on Wednesday. Oh no, I think I'm coming down with a 24 hour flu Tuesday night.
I love this boat.

Thanks Tique
I enjoyed your "30 Years" photos. I also love that 75 Tique. If I didn't need the HP's for barefoot racing, I might have gone with a Tique.
What makes owning this BFN tough for me is that I live on a lake that has a 90hp outboard max. I can't even put this boat on my lake. But what helps is that I will be keeping it at my brother-in-laws house, on a lake that is 3 miles from my office. This lake has a fun bar with docking and great pizza. It also has an island that rivals MM's sandbar.
Should be a great summer.
Steve

tullfooter,

If your brother-in-laws lake has a sandbar that competes with MM's sign me up for a week end out there with you. I would like to try to get up there on sunday sometime, if the invite is still open sometime this summer. Plus some ski sets and footin runs would be great.

i ran the new boat last night from Sandusky causeway to Port Clinton its about a one hour run in 3 to 4 footers, almost didnt find a gas station to fuel though, im sitting here trying to figure out how i can go up again and run out to put in bay,
I got one of the sweetest deals ever on a boat and forgot how much i missed boating, sometimes you get numb when you work on them all the time, at times yesterday we were popping the boat on some 6 footers and just gliding over the tops.
it was a sunset that you couldnt forget and its so early in the year on lake erie, we took our chances running the boat, the minute i fired the boat i left all my thoughts behind

Forgot to tell you guys. Don't pay any attention to MCRick. That's my brother. He just bought a MC X-1. His first non-pontoon boat. Cut him a break, he's new to inboards.
Actually, we grew up on the lake he lives on and we both are new owners of our first inboards. It must be that I'm older and wiser and that's why I chose Correct Craft.

Tull,

Yes I got the boat back from Eric. Stringers look good. Yeah some warm weather would be nice. Going to be hot tomorrow and the boat is all torn apart. Not very happy about that. I know what you mean about the boat being close to work. My brother works right across the street from the lake that I use my boat on. He works days I work afternoons, so it should work out just fine, we can hit a couple runs each every day that I don't have stuff to do.

Tullfooter,

I heard that ruomor about the long week end. I am hoping to have everythingback together for this week end. I have one Hi Tek on, new distribuor should be here today. Ordered the wrong one the first time. New hoses to fit the Hi Teks should be here tomorrow.

Tull what octane are you running in your 454?

Tullfooter,

The BFN is running like a top, little more fine tuning but is ready for the water anytime. Maybe we could get together sometime.

the dude, when he posted that it was late may, here in Michigan we got a late start on the warm weather.

87
Nice to hear back. Sounds like you guys had a great time in GL.
I'm jealous as hell. Glad to hear your boat is running good. It looks great in the pictures. Mike Siepel driving for barefoot training? How cool was that. That dude was my idol back when I saw him do a "bridge flyer" on the show That's Incredble.
I haven't run my boat in a couple of weeks and I think it needs a tune up. This weekend is jammed but next week I will bring it to my house for the tune up.
In the next couple of weeks we should drop these boats in. As I said, White Lake would be a great place.
Sept 22nd there is a barefoot endurance race in Big Rapids. You should get a 4-man team together and enter. You don't have to foot, you can be the designated driver. Last year out of 8 boats, the first three places were BFN's.
Congrats on learning how to foot at GL.
Steve

MC, you gotta be a DJ with a name like that, Im biased on ski boats... when i buoght my 96 sport 176 the place i bought it from which i wont mention badmouthed Mastercrafts to the end and bragged in thier sales pitch that a CC was far superior.. and wouldnt you know it 2 months later he dropped the CC line and started selling Mastercraps. with pun i could say correct craps but i wont. there both great boats but if it came down to it again a CC would be in the drive

87
There is a Skylon extended tower for sale on Craigslist detroit.
"Wake Board Wakeboard Pole Mastercraft Malibu - $150"
Thought you might be interested. It's in Ypsi
I've got the same one. Great for wakeboarding and barefooting.
Sorry I couldn't post the direct link. I'm not that good on this machine.
Steve

I've already got a team put together for the race. We've had the same team for a couple of years. We are not that good yet but we have a great time.
Sounds like those three guys did some serious rough water footin in GL. They would make good racers considering the sh*t water we run through during the race.
We'll put something together for White Lake in the near future. I'll look at my calendar and see what looks good.
Steve

MCRick wrote: waterskier2007 wrote: MCRick and tullfooter are both tools, and they cant ski nearly as good as their son or nephew. i heard hes a god among waterskiers. haha just messin around. but seriously MCRick, the nautique will kill the X-1, unless it is wakeboarding you are talking about Well I Guess next time I put the X-1 up against the Nautique, I'll have to drain the 1,000lbs of ballast and have only 2 people in the boat for a more balanced race.    & P.S. It is about the Wakeboarding! (But you can still pull a skier, footer and your Dad Tubing.

yeah but, my dad just drove an atb with the 90 horse outboard at the house yesterday, with me and tim skiing