but first, a little back story......

[charlie_the_tuna]

this might turn out to be a bit long winded, so if you dont have the time or the patience.... bail now.
my father was on the water almost his whole life. he bought a little outboard motor at 15 or so and he used to get on the subway at coney island, his home, and carry that little outboard to sheepshead bay, where he would rent a little skiff for the day and fish his a$$ off. needless to say, i was pretty much born on the water.
now some of you old timers know, i sold my V to a member, a few years back and i'm currently looking at picking up another one. in fact, it's from another member. he's working through some pretty heavy personal issues so i'm gonna give him space until he's ready to make this happen.
in the mean time, i've been trying to get my fix in other ways. i live in long beach, ny, which is basically a sandbar on the south shore of long island. maybe 300 yards at it's widest and 6 miles long, tops. bay on one side and atlantic on the other. close enough to smell and hear the ocean from my house. we have a beautiful boardwalk of 2.2 miles, right on the ocean, so i can often be found riding my bike up there for sun and exercise. tons of fish in the surf as well as the bay, which is also a couple hundred yards from my house. also, we have a fishing pier and a boat ramp right down the block. i can often be found along the bay (reynold's channel) sitting on a bench, under a shade tree, watching the boat traffic cruise by.
one of the points of this post is sometimes, i'll watch videos of haulover inlet on my giant TV and watch some of these incredible morons get thrashed around by this formidable waterway. my father always said, any schmuck with $10,000 can buy a boat. i see that more and more. so i'm watching a 10 minute video of these idiots and at about minute 9, a really clean center console V comes rolling through. white bimini with a merc on the back. and i could swear, it was mounted on an omc seadrive bracket. i cant be 100% sure, but dam! that's what it looked like to me. needless to say, the poor little V was getting tossed around pretty good.
if you guys have never watched these videos, you'll see everything from 12 foot jet boats to 60 foot monsters with 6 on the back. sometimes i'll watch them for an hour or more. it's a lot of fun watching some of these qualified captains get their a$$e$ handed to them. so now that i've reached this point in my post, i realize i didnt really have a point. just doing a bit of typing on a sunday morning, before i get ready to go for a bike ride on the boardwalk, then get ready to do all the things the boss requires of me.
so that's about it.
LATER!!!