2012 Masshole raft up - MJ V20 tribute

[chumbucket]

Originally Posted by Monkey Butler

Okay fellow V20 forum members! Here is you chance to meet your beloved forum moderator and enjoy scenic and historic waters in the heart of New England's boating paradise.

THe 2012 Masshole raft up!

Location: TBD
Could be any where from Gloucester to Buzzards Bay

Date: TBD

Details: TBD

I'd really like to put a face with some of the virtual friends I have met here. Plus I think you all owe it to the big guy to make a pilgrimage to Mecca (Wareham) and kiss his feet, or something.

Anyway, MJ said it had been mentioned before but fizzled out. I'm willing to give it another shot. (Can we get a sticky here mj?).

Pick a date, pick a location, pick your nose... I'm willing to dedicate a weeks vacation to making it happen and will be glad to act as coordinator, trail guide, buddy boat, hostess with the mostest, whatever, before, during and after the main event.


Things to do, places to see all within trailering distance:

Gloucester,North Shore, a working New England fishing port, Andrea Gail, Perfect Storm fame. Fisherman statue. Anisquam River, Marblehead, Rockport, Cape Ann.

Boston, Here is an awsome trip that we like to do. Launch upstream at the Charles River ramp in Brighton. No wake all the way to the locks at the Boston Museum O' Science. Takes about an hour. On the way, Harvard, MIT, Esplanade (4th O'July fireworks), Cambridge and Boston port and starboard. Boston Harbor, We will often put people ashore for a few hours to sightsee USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), Fredom Trail, N.E. Aquarium etc.while we fish for stripers. Outer Harbor... Castle Island... Mobster Billy Bulger's turf, I can show you where he buried the bodies! historic Harbor Islands, striper and flounde rfishing. Return trip against a big city skline at night is cool.

South Shore, Plymouth, Mayflower, Pilgrims. Bay waters that should remind you Jersey boys of home. Green Harbor, launching point for a 18NM drive to Stellwagen bank. Giant Blue Fin Tuna, Whale watch city and a hop skip and a jump to Provincetown (No jokes about dropping your wallet and then kicking it to Wellfleet before picking it up).

Cape Cod & Islands. Canal, tourists, National Seashore, Hyannis, Kennedy Compound. Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard. Did I tell you guys that Ted Kennedy taught swimming at the camp I went to as a kid? "First you get out of the car and float to the surface". That blip on your fishfinder could be a tuna or a shark or an Oldsmobile Delmont!

Buzzards Bay, west end of CC Canal, rich people, sailboats, Woods Hole - Bob Ballard Titanic Fame, Legendary striper fishing and I heard that there might be some fluke out there too.

SO come on. You local guys should have no problem. For anyone else this should be a bucket list item.

It would be great if we could meet up for a day and if anyone wants to stick around for another day I'd be glad to buddy boat anywhere else on the Mass. coast.

#1) I'm all for it. I can bring my boat or pilot MJ's boat for him

#2) I know some nice spots on the South Shore that are nice for rafting up and hanging at nice sandy beaches. Some down towards the Cape too.

#3) My calendar is pretty open as far as dates are concerned.

#4) I ain't kissing any part of MJ. Period! Once you meet him, you'll understand.


Let's do it!

[lumberslinger178]

sounds like fun get some dates im with cb I aint kissing nuttin .....

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by chumbucket

#1) I'm all for it. I can bring my boat or pilot MJ's boat for him

#2) I know some nice spots on the South Shore that are nice for rafting up and hanging at nice sandy beaches. Some down towards the Cape too.

#3) My calendar is pretty open as far as dates are concerned.

#4) I ain't kissing any part of MJ. Period! Once you meet him, you'll understand.


Let's do it!

Point taken, then again theres alot less of him now. I still can't believe that's him in that fishin pic.

[macojoe]

Sounds great!! I an now applying for disability so time is not important issue for me! I have a great camp ground like 1 mile from me, hotels all over the place! I can take a few guys on my boat with CB and I, also for a couple of daysI can park a couple of boats here also. This sounds great, I hope it happens!
No feet kissing needed

what dates??

[Destroyer]

Well, we have the Barnegat raft up coming up in July, so it will have to be sometime after that. Mid to late August sounds great for me. I have inlaws that live in Sturbridge, Mass. so I've made that trip lots of times... Never with a trailer, but I pretty much know what to expect. It's about 3 1/4 hrs for me to get to their house from mine, so it only should be about another hour - hour and a half to get to Buzzards Bay. Sounds like fun.

[Monkey Butler]

Well the response has been underwhelming to say the least! Is it the lack of New England hospitality?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1ql_q-nQc

Is it something in the water?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apEctKwiD8
The last two weeks of August are when I usually take my vacation. The weather here always seems to be perfect then. After Labor Day it is like throwing a switch.

Destroyer, I am about 10 mintes away from the Sturbridge exit on the Mass Pike/ I-84. My son works at the Sturbridge Host hotel. You don't have an excuse to not attend.

If anyone can make it but doesn't feel like towing their boat I figure I could take at few guys if we are fishing and 5-6 if it is just a raft up.

As an enticement I will offer to buy and cook a chikken lobster, a Qt of steamers and a couple of ears O' korn plus awl the Sam Adams you can suck down for the first dozen lucky respondents to sign up for the V-20 Masshole-alla-palooza - 2012. Be there or be square. Honestly guys, if you are on the forum you should plan to be there or have a good excuse, like a death in the family, your own death might be a barely acceptable reason. Anything else run it by the Moderator for a hall pass.

So just to throw a date out there how about August 18th or 25th?

[chumbucket]

Either of those dates I can plan around. As I said, if there are members without boats, I can bring mine and MJ's son can pilot his.

[macojoe]

work for me either one!!

[Road King Cole]

So what is up?

If we cannot find a "raft up" place, maybe we can do a "belly up place" (for those of us that still have bellies).

Plus it might be a better way to meet and greet everyone, Also, If I am late coming back from my trip, it might be easier for me to make it.

rkc

Originally Posted by Monkey Butler

Well the response has been underwhelming to say the least! Is it the lack of New England hospitality?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1ql_q-nQc

(btw, love that clip "Peter Falk in Athol MA", haven't herd that in years. That was a classic, loved bcn back in the day...

[Monkey Butler]

I'll second MJ's suggestion. So it's a plan, right?