willy - Page 2

willy · #11 09-20-2007, 01:34 PM

Nah Blue trust me it aint cheaper, just spending it differently thats all. It is fun though, I have always wanted a large sailboat or possibly a smaller trawler style boat to actually stay on the water for weekends etc. I love being there.
A friend of mine has an older Grand Banks that he weekends on all summer and fall, has it berthed on the Hudson river just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge. I love the sailing but your days out and where you can go are subject to the weather report. He has this Grand Banks and it is like a townhouse on the water, cruises at 12 knots, fairly shallow draft and it works great to fish from. His is a single screw diesel and he get between 2-3 gallons per hour cruise. So it is very economical to run out. You are no speed demon but very sea worthy and 10 knots gets you there fine. And if worse comes to worse weather wise you drop anchor put the ball game on the big screen pour a cocktail and give a super model a good spanking on the couch ;D

willy · #12 09-20-2007, 01:41 PM

Yea Cy those are mine, the wife took the shots. Good kids I have been a very lucky man. Just now I got to figure how to pay for the colleges for them all. Wish me luck.

And Blue Man that boat is a racer, surfing hull very light weight, designed for one thing and one thing only, go fast on the water. But they were getting big time wet, there are no real facilities on the boat. Genes boat is a great weekender for a couple with all the amenities and is heavy and dry. And that boats rating is much lower than Genes cruiser yet he only beat us by about four minutes in the end. They did not have enough racers that had crews to have their own race earlier in the day so they put them in with the cruiser race. The race winner was a 30 something J Boat.

Blue_Runner · #13 09-20-2007, 04:29 PM

Cool Willy, yeah if I could afford a 40ft slip and a nice trawler AKA water condo I'd much rather have that than a real condo. I guess hurricane season would be a pain in the butt but oh well.

Good lookin younguns you got there Willy!

charlie_the_tuna · #14 09-20-2007, 05:00 PM

dont worry willy, they made the sight faster by taking my picture down.
apparently everybody was trying to look at me at the same time and, well, therein lies the problem.

willy · #15 09-20-2007, 05:28 PM

Charlie they should just do like I do, I had printed out your picture and made it 4x6, now I have T Paper on rolls with your pic on it and I think about you every time I am conducting buisness from the throne ;D