Dedication or Insanity?

[Terry Keeley]

I knew it was gonna be cold this morning, but they weren't calling for snow until later in the afternoon.

My gal says I need professional help, I just thought I'd ask my friends here before looking for a shrink...

 

[Wasted wages]

insanely dedicated....

 

[Ray Sametz]

If you had too put on a life jacket and swim for that dead boat, insane for sure.

 

[Terry Keeley]

My backyard this afternoon in Tranna:

 

[RaceMechaniX]

How you could you turn down good water and really good air.
I recommend you attend a meeting Terry. I believe the next one is scheduled in Huntsville with some other mildly insane people.

 

[Hydro Junkie]

I have to agree, it's only insane if you didn't bring a chase boat

 

[Geraghty]

You do realize....your gal does have a point....lol

 

[LohringMiller]

I admit to racing in the snow, not to mention rain and flooding at a race site. Welcome to the crazy boatheads.

Lohring Miller

 

[SayMikey]

I tried to check both LOL

 

[Walt Barney]

I tried to check both LOL

When I lived in Angola Ind. I went out in the lake, on December 24 th on my pontoon and broke in and engine ran 4 or 5 tanks thru my 40 hydro and came back in almost frozen and happy Then had to take out the boat for the winter, that is one reason I now live in Alabama.
Walt Barney

 

[Terry Keeley]

How you could you turn down good water and really good air.
I recommend you attend a meeting Terry. I believe the next one is scheduled in Huntsville with some other mildly insane people.

I'd sure like to come but the border's still closed with the Rona.

 

[Tom Foley]

Yes , Insane ! I have done something like that in my first year of boating , running with ice actively forming on the pond , then foolishly going out in a 2 man blow up raft with waders on and no life vest to get a boat that had gone up on the ice ! Survived somehow .

 

[dave weagel]

This hobby is insane
Ive run my boats in December
Returned to shore covered with ice from
wind chilled water spray
Seemed like fun for a minute

 

[Zimmerman]

Back in the days of "rope starting" we had to pre-heat the engines with a propane torch.

 

[Al Papitto]

Don't have the cold here (Florida) but I have run boats on flooded soccer fields the day after a hurricane. You have to be mindful of displaced alligators

 

[Mike Betke]

The only insane thing I saw was that old 3EGX radio with the throttle stick on the right side.

 

[Hydro Junkie]

The 3EGX was set up in Mode 1. It wouldn't have taken much to change it to Mode 2(throttle on the left), just open up the case and rotate the gimbals 90 degrees, swap the center returns so the ratchet is on the left gimbal, close the case again and you're good to go. Since it wouldn't have had any of the electronics screwed with, it wouldn't have required a certified shop to do the work

 

[Bill Gibson]

I remember running at more than one Winternationals in Fl .that was cold, drizzly, and windy asking myself.....what am I doing here???????

 

[Terry Keeley]

The only insane thing I saw was that old 3EGX radio with the throttle stick on the right side.

The 3EGX was set up in Mode 1. It wouldn't have taken much to change it to Mode 2(throttle on the left), just open up the case and rotate the gimbals 90 degrees, swap the center returns so the ratchet is on the left gimbal, close the case again and you're good to go. Since it wouldn't have had any of the electronics screwed with, it wouldn't have required a certified shop to do the work

Lol! You don't know the pain I go through to convert these old radios TO Mode 1!

I flew airplanes as a kid in the mid 70's and my instructor at the time was on Mode 1 (IIRC Mode 2 was just starting), used my Royal tx on Mode 1 for my first boats and never switched. Tried the wheel thing a couple times and just can't get on to it.

https://www.intlwaters.com/media/mode-1.30426/

See how Martin Truex drives?

 

[Hydro Junkie]

My first two radios were from the same timeframe. The first was a T2GS on 72.160 and the second was a T4NL on 72.750. I bought the T2GS for my first boat, a Dumas Pay'N Pak. While it worked, it wasn't great. I converted it from Mode 1 to Mode 2 after I bought the T4NL to control the Kadet Jr I was building so I wouldn't get the controls mixed up. It also was easier for me to use since the ailerons and elevator were on the right stick and I'm right handed. Neither one has been used in years since neither was upgraded to the narrow band standard and I replaced them with a pair of 4PLSs for the boats and a 9CAP for the planes.