Video of heading home on Four Suns

Were you eating hillbilly meatballs while you were listening to that music?
 
Are we sure GW isn't David Puddy? Gawd that was bad music. Even the big guy would have changed the channel...

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I believe I have mentioned this before....I Love Your Boat!
 
Beautiful boat there, Captain Bow Thruster.

Thanks Frank - I almost spit out my drink on my keyboard!


Gary, obviously we all have boat envy.

Don't let 'em give you any crap about the music. Nothin' beats country lyrics. My new favorite is "You're not the best, but you're the best that I can do". Still love the rock'n'roll too. But I'd give about anything if Radio Disney would lose their transmitter for a few years (yea, 9 year old girl in the house).

One question though - with everyone else sleeping - and you crawling around on the boat one-handed running the camera - ever wonder how far the boat would go with you treading water behind it if you fell off? I know you all wear jackets - but do you have a "remote kill" for the auto pilot that you wear? Ever worry about that? Or have I seen too many movies?
 
Okey Dokey Mr. Dirty Boat-

First off, you are lucky you didn't fall in the drink while you were hanging out the windows and walking all around the boat filming, especially with all your peeps down below sleeping.

Your wake IS big. I know since I rode in it for two days week before last.

Your music is fine, no matter what those Yankee boys say...and all the better if you were eating Hillbilly Meatballs while listening. Cap'n Dom had thirds on the Hillbilly Meatballs and he is just jealous that he is collecting tolls over on the Jersey Pike while you are out hobnobbing around the sissy part of the Bay for the past week.
 
I was awaken in a cold sweat this morning from a nightmare. The radio was stuck on some hip hop station, I fell off the boat and my wife couldn't turn it around because the bow thruster broke.
 
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Jeez. I don't know what those other guys are sayin'. I thought your wake was cute...

:grin:

Paul
 
I know most of you are giving Gary a hard time but you make sound as though you would you turn off Axius or Zeus if you had it and dock like a real man. I'm all for using the tools at hand -- that's why they are there.
 
That was Gary's 8th take on the docking video...We never saw him hitting the pylons on take 1-7.....Gary is a captain, writer and now movie producer......Just kidding......Even with bow/stern thrusters, there is usually a little tap on the pylons, so good job........Since he does not let guests on his boat, we will just have to sit on the dock and admire...
 
I know most of you are giving Gary a hard time but you make sound as though you would you turn off Axius or Zeus if you had it and dock like a real man. I'm all for using the tools at hand -- that's why they are there.

It doesn't bother me. I can dock it without the thruster just fine (it was broke the first season I had the boat) but I just don't like touching the pilings. I did like 4 half-second bursts there as I can walk the boat sideways a few inches by engaging a simultaneous burst on a single throttle with the bow thruster. When there is only 12" of clearance on each side getting into a slip, it's nice to have. There is a guy with a 55' Viking in Hampton next to me and he refuses to use his bow thruster... His rub rails are all marked up from rubbing the pilings and he is always yelling at people to push him off... kinda silly if you ask me. I prefer the "Just Net" approach... and I'll use the thruster to get it.

I really like the thing getting off a fuel dock or T-head... a quick burst on the bow thruster to push the bow out as well as a quick forward burst of the outside screw and reverse burst on the inside screw pushes the boat 1-2 feet sideways off the dock and no one is pushing pilings, the boat isn't pivoting on pilings and people on the boat are not hanging off the edge pushing... 25 tons is a lot of weight to move. That gives me enough room to pivot the boat with just the engines and not have the swim platform whack anything.
 
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Oh yeah... Those videos give the impression there is a head behind a viewfinder... there is not. It's one of those flip cam things (one handed operation) and that's my arm hanging out the window/side of the boat... not my upper body... and if I fell off, the boat would crash into shore at the south end of the Chesapeake Bay several hours later. We generally follow the rule: "One hand for the boat and one hand for you" and there are plenty of rails to move around.

And I do wear my life jacket... with a strobe... (Rick forgot to mention that)

Falling off is always a danger but... so is driving down the Interstate with someone texting and driving.
 
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Gary,

Nice clips. Even though I was also going to say that you had cheated with the thruster, but the truth is that most people wish they had the thrusters, myself included. I always have my dinghy on the swim platform (this year it’s bigger dinghy), so docking with a dink sticking out is very different and there are number of times when I wished I had the thruster to walk the boat sideways. The fact that your boat is so heavy also helps to control it since the wind doesn’t affect it as much. I’m sure it’s a pleasure not just driving this boat but also docking.
 

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