posted 03-01-2006 10:01 PM ET (US)            

Alternatively, Find Jkcam, he lives on the water in Stuart. Last year, I trailered my whalers up from North Palm Beach and launched them at the park diagonally across the waterway from Marine Max. That worked out well with the 15_Rage and the 15_Sport.

posted 03-08-2006 10:34 AM ET (US)            

Stuart is 2 - 4 June

posted 03-15-2006 03:00 PM ET (US)            

Maybe we'll take Brian's 17' instead...again Decisions, decisions.

posted 04-20-2006 12:49 PM ET (US)            

I can believe they have problems with people stealing them, I vaguely recall hearing something to that effect. I have some concern about leaving mine unattended for fear it will wander off with a pirate...

posted 05-22-2006 02:21 PM ET (US)            

Friday:capt meeting, food, prizes, beer, etc.(no change).

Saturday: Fishing Tournament, scavenger hunt, boat rides, dinner, prizes, awards ceremony. You fish until 5pm and scale closes at 6pm.

Sunday: breakfast and boat rides..no fishing or lunch, etc. Deal is over by noon.

posted 05-26-2006 01:14 PM ET (US)            

We did not have a great showing of ContinuousWavers in Sarasota, so I hope the usual suspects show up here.

Ya know, we REALLY need to push this Nationwide Rendezvous thing again -- maybe once we get a burgee to "unveil"?

Can't wait!

posted 05-28-2006 12:34 PM ET (US)            

I am in of course...again staying at the Harbor Inn on Saturday...19' Revenge on Friday. I will be towing her over Friday. I went on a 4 hour ride yesterday and said ..NO FRIGGIN WAY AM I DRIVING THIS THING 10 FRIGGIN HOURS ACROSS THE FRIGGIN STATE! Aint enough beer-Period!

Anyone else coming across RT 70? Caravan?

posted 05-30-2006 10:34 PM ET (US)            

Wait until you get a look at the Rendezvous Shirts. Don't want to give it away, but the Grafton family will want a lot of them.

In San Antonio now, leaving Thursday to start to Stuart. (Maybe I can will the "most-distance-traveled" award this time! It is 1285 miles.

See y'all soon

posted 06-05-2006 10:31 PM ET (US)            

FINALLY winning the coveted
"Most Distance Traveled"
Award:------------------------P R I C E L E S S

posted 06-05-2006 10:45 PM ET (US)            

The new CP180i (Standard Horizon Chart Plotter) is an awesome addition to the 15_Sport. Running around Stuart, I was able to keep the boat right where I wanted to be, Right there in the channel.

I guess I need to go visit Whaler Wear and pick up a few things I didn't win in the raffle...

posted 06-05-2006 11:06 PM ET (US)            

Great time. As usual, the Marine Max folks went way beyond the call of duty in playing host for the event. Friendly people, and they remebered us from previous years. Just a great group of people! Thank you all at Marine Max

Robert Moore again brought us samples of Mercury oil, which seems to do just fine in my Yamaha. Thank you, Robert, for this.

Tito from NAVMAN brought a fully decked out Whaler console with every conceivable NAVMAN product to try out and evaluate.

Will Rogers, Karin Scott, and Lenny (never got his last name) brought the new 190 Montauk (I don't think I saw the 20 Dauntless) for us to test drive. Because the St Lucie river was so long, there was a variety of conditions to evaluate the Montauk. I gotta say, if they could just decide how much to charge for this boat (rumor is between $20K & $40K), this is definitely a boat to consider. I think it will make the fisherman happy as well as the family man who takes his family picnicing and water skiing.

I also ran along side the new Montauk while it was being demo'd with someone else. This boat rides a lot more level than the more "V"d hulls. I really like this boat.

We had a mini-reunion of all the ContinousWavers after the lobster supper on Saturday night. We took several pictures, but don't know if they came out since it was quickly getting dark. Hopefully someone else (Janis, Michelle) can post.

Let me see if I can remember all of us that showed up:

Nick and Laurie
Chris and Michelle and Bentley
Mark and Wendy
Ward and son (sorry I can' remember it)
Janis and Kimberly
Al-a-buy and Erin
TrafficLawyer and wife and son
Ace and Joyce . . .

. . . and there were more, but by then I had discovered the Yellowtail wine in the cooler boat, and imbibed more than my normal amount, and was not seeing too clearly.

Anyhow, the Stuart event is the one to attend (if you can only attend one). For those of you who are local and did not come, shame on you! The rest of you scattered across the country, TRY to make it next year. Date will be posted just as soon as it is known.

Thanks,

posted 06-06-2006 01:39 PM ET (US)            

The 190 was there again but not the 20 Dauntless. They also had a dark blue 320 outrage which was a nice change from the pastel colors they usually use. The new 150 montauk is about equiv. in size to the 16' 7" classics we so much love, I think it is a nice rig and hauls pretty good with a 60 on it. $19k

After 5 lobsters for dinner and a photo shoot with Louie who made the journey back west with us, the night was cut short from Triptephen(sp?). For those who do not attend this show...GOOD...more lobster and free beer for me!

posted 06-07-2006 10:54 PM ET (US)            

However, I give Ace plenty of credit since he remembered three times as many names as I could have, and I wasn't drinking anything but Sprite??

I find it humorus that Ace is trying to convince the rest of the owners to attend Stuart, which may tank his chances of picking up the "furthest traveled" award in years to come? I think there were still some beers left in the cooler on Sunday after Nick left, so we could probably take in a few more friends next year.

Brentley is already part of the family, it was quite evident on Saturday. We shall keep you in our prayers that the paperwork continues smoothly.

posted 06-09-2006 12:49 PM ET (US)            

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aboutmandm/album?.dir=9f9are2&.src=ph

Enjoy