2009 CCF Midwest Reunion - Green Lake, WI

I had a great time at my first reunion. Already looking forward to next years event. The weather man was completely wrong in his forecast but you guys were right on that this was not an event to be missed. It was great meeting everyone, I know I missed a few but the time was just too short.

Big thanks to Mojo, raindog, 81natique and their families and the rest who helped out to make this such a great event. The Thursday night part was great and the food was delicious.

Riding in "rocketman" Joe's boat was a thrill I will be talking about for months to come. Damn that thing is fast!

It was great hanging out with Lewy and Jo, sharing cultural differences and learning some new words to describe Quinner!

My buddy Mike who helped me drive the 10 hour plus trip had a great time as well. He is trying to convince his wife that they need to make the trip with us next year.

Can't wait till next year's event. The wife and kids will definitely be joining me. They would have had a great time this year. After looking at the pics they are already looking forward to the trip.

Well we are home. 3400 miles and 56 hours of driving. Amy and I had a great time. We got to see some great boats and meet a ton of wonderful people. We will try to be back next year.

First off thank you keith for introducing me to all these great people on this site.....I have life long friends that now seem like family to My daughter Mike and myself!!!Once again a GREAT TIME.....wish i could have spent more time talking with everyone!

Again thanks to Dave(Mojo),Allan(81Nautique),Steve(raindog)for everything.....you guys make it all happen!!!!

Damn what a bunch of kick ass boat's!!!!! to many to look at and or drive

Thanks Reid for letting me drive the Crush!(i think i crushed mojo,kerri and his daughter in the back seat on that last turn)

Thanks Joe for the Rocket ride in your beast of a boat!

That's all i had time to get too wish i could have driven all of them!!!

My daughter was amazed at all the great genuine people that she met and will be back next year! And as always mike will be back too!

I may try to make it out to lake George? Not sure how it could be as good as this reunion but i guess i will have to go and find out?

See ya all soon!

Paul,

JoeinNY wrote: 67nautique312 wrote: I may try to make it out to lake George? See ya all soon! Paul, I tell ya what Paul, fly in and out of Syracuse and you can take my truck and boat up there (3.5 hours drive)... can't promise what the rev limiter will be set at though...

Then you can join us on Sunday Joe - now that sounds like a plan! Now if we can just drag Dan away from that other thing he's doing

BuffaloBFN wrote: That was behind Quinner's boat friday morning. This bonehead(me) left the camera at the camp. Whatever it was, it was kinda gold/brown; and of course I have no idea what sort of fish would want to live in that cold water.     Great to meet you sir! It might've been the Bee-Gees that scared him out of the water?

I believe what I saw was a cold water Piranha singing "Stayin' Alive."

Chuck

Once again, thanks to everyone who made this such a great event, first time for me and the family. Already can't wait for next year (when does the date for GL10 get set)???

Anyway here are some of my pics. There not that great, but at least it shows some of the Saturday stuff.

Thanks again!

Boats on the Water:


You would think we were at the Peabody Hotel Lake with all the ducks on the Correct Crafts:


We decided to put in at the Dodge County Park (Heading Keith's warning about ramp jam), nice launch. But we were a little sad when we returned to this:

Not exactly what you want to see when you go to get your trailer... Anyway in true Correct Craft spirit, their were other Nautique guys who actually waited around til we got back to see if we needed any help. I thought I would be able to go through the registrations and pick out the boats of the guys who helped, but I can't determine which boats they were. So to the guys who lent me there bottle jack (it took mine plus theirs to get the tire high enough) and compressor, THANKS A TON. It is so refreshing to be with a group who don't even think twice about offering a hand!

Thanks everyone! Hope to see you all again soon!

Am I reading this right? Someone let the air out of your tires while you were out on the lake? That aint right. BKH

Steve, thanks for posting another great pic of me in the Dart. That is the coolest boat to drive and easily the oldest boat I've ever driven. Many thanks to Billy for having us and giving me a turn or 2 behind the wheel. I bet some of you are still laughing about the extra 2 revs I gave it.    

For anyone who doesn't know, the throttle is in the center of the wheel and the tranny is a long handle in the floor. Takes a little getting used to!   

Did some downloading tonight. It reminded me of the great times all over again.




Nice Photo Mr & Mrs Bear


The volleyball game






Whats this about Godfather?




Chris you have a treasure there.


Mojo thankyou


James nice footing run. Hope the tear down goes well.





Quinner you big "Poofter"


Monday Morning Early....What a waste



And my Favourite "The GPS read what.. No way she is good for at least 60mph"

Lewy great pics. The one of the water on Monday morning I could have done with out seeing.

No that's joe's face after he realized he said i could fly in and take his truck and boat to Lake George reunion...Ahhhhhhhhh I said what..%$#4#@

paul,

Hey Joe you are very generous with your offers of hospitality. We are in Niagara at the moment. We may have time to drop in either Sat afternoon or Sunday morning if that fits in with your plans. My new US mobile is 14143060847.

Volleyball has been in the Thursday night cookout plans since Steve first came up with idea for the Thursday night cookout, I just volunteered the set. It went unused last year due to the freak storm that had us all huddled inside fearing for our lives. I was glad it finally picked up some players and we got a solid game going, I was starting to think I would be playing against Reid and Dan by myself forever.

Lewy, I still have plenty of making up to do if I want to match the hospitality I have been shown by members of this site and if that means I have to suffer through a day of hanging out in and around the water with some visiting fans then sign me up brother. I will give you a call this afternoon I hope you can make it by, we are actually projecting some decent weather this weekend.

Gotta agree the VB game was fun; I never quite figured out the scoring system which made it even better.

Best slerver: Joe
Best over all players: All the women

Chuck

What the heck are those yellow stripes in the grass for?!?