Tuna Towers - egad

This place is dead this weekend...

Well, its no secret I'm no fan of the rarely utilized big-wake tuna-towers, but its their fun, everyone else's crappy water..

But I thought even their fans would gasp if they saw a print ad i viewed in NH for a marina near Ossipee, they have some brand of pontoon boat with a hideous tower structure, some shlep hanging off the back. The pontoons had big aluminum lifting strakes to it could get some rise, and kind of resembled the abortions on the side of F8 crusaders to keep them from swapping ends on a cat launch. The wake appeared to be garbage. Egad indeed.
Sorry if its old news.

I was in a Ba** Pro (Pro Ba**??) shop this summer and saw a tower on a fishing boat. I concur..."Egad!!"

Something old timers say :-)

Towers are here to stay, deal with it! Who gives a rat's if someone wants to put a tower on their cruiser, jet ski etc..it's dumb I know but it's their business.

One really dissapointing thing about this site is the negativity towards a sport that keeps many a 70's and 80's SN alive.

markb; I plead guilty; I'm an old guy and tried to admit as much in my post. Don't take a difference in opinion as negitivity. I know there is lots of old Nautiques out there being used for lots of reasons and for that I am glad. Just turn the boom box down a little. Just jokin'...john

jbear wrote: markb; I plead guilty; I'm an old guy and tried to admit as much in my post. Don't take a difference in opinion as negitivity. I know there is lots of old Nautiques out there being used for lots of reasons and for that I am glad. Just turn the boom box down a little. Just jokin'...john

Yes, stop calling them tuna towers and we'll get along famously

I don't think you could hear my system from the Hawkesbury river in Sydney, Australia so I reckon you'll be safe.

That reminds me I need to get some Aussie diary entries happening pretty soon.

Thanks for being good sports.

Sooooooo.....you don't think you've upset a neighbor or two cranking up your uncorked 351W (or 454) at 7:30am on a Sunday morning to go blasting up and down the lake at 32+mph?

Hi pot, I'm kettle...you're black.

jbear wrote: Gotta; <> But I'd guess you must be about my age (50ish)

Well 38 is 50ish...I hear its not the age, its the milage!

Oh certainly 50 is still young! I used to foot regularly with guys well into in their sixtees who still rip it up every weekend. They're still footing compet*tively with more skill than most half their age.

markb wrote: 50 is the new forty apparently

Yeh, people say that, but I dont really get it. To me, 40 is 40, 50 is 50, and 60 is 60.

At 42, I know I can't do, physically, what I could do at 25. At 50, I don't expect I'll be able to do what I could at 40 - and that's ok. My goal is just to keep doing what I like to do, as well as I can do it, for as long as the mind and body will let me. I figure you can't ask for much more than that.

BKH

BKH; My goal as well, just keep doin' whatever ya like as long as possible. As you get older tho your health does become lots more important and you sure don't take it for granted........john