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Waking up in Du Sable Harbor Chicago
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I had just gotten up from bed the morning of November 3rd 2007. We were taking a trip from our home port to where we were planning to store it for the winter. Reason we waited so long to put her away was that I was waiting for my wife to give birth to my son!

Chicago's Navy Pier.
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This is Chicago's Navy Pier on November 3rd 2007 at about 8:00 pm. We had just taken a ride down the lake from our slip in Kenosha Wisconsin.

Summer trip to Grand Haven Michigan
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Here we were driving to Grand Haven Michigan

Trip to Coast Guard Fest 2007
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Just another leg of our beatiful trip to Grand Haven Michigan this past summer. I just love Bayliner!

2006 Early morning crossing to Grand Haven
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Running across the lake from Kenosha to Grand Haven Michigan. I was trying to capture just how beautiful the morning was. I crossed the lake all by myself without the wife and kids...

2006 Early morning crossing to Grand Haven
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Look at that wake, You can tell I'm moving along pretty darn good. This was my 96 Bayliner 2855 cruising an easy 35 mph which got about 1.7 mpg.

2006 Early morning crossing to Grand Haven 1st Sunrise
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Here the sun was just coming up. With the naked eye, it looked just huge! Look at how little to how much of the whole sun you can see in this short video... Isn't this a wonderful world!

2006 Early morning crossing to Grand Haven 2nd Sunrise
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This was like a second sunrise because it was just beginning to peek above the clouds.

2006 Early morning crossing to Grand Haven 3rd Sunrise
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The sun was just starting to peek above the clouds making it look like another sunrise. This one because of the clouds was almost better than it popping above the horizon.

Summer trip to Grand Haven crossing lake michigan
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I had to stop the boat to download all the video from my trip up to this point onto the laptop. It's still a beautiful trip... At this time my sd cards would only hold 1gb of files from the trip.

Coast Guard Fest Trip 2006 Lake Crossing
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This is a video of me driving my 1996 Bayliner 2855 st with the 454 big block and 330 hp and Bravo III outdrive kicking big ass across the big bad lake at about 6:00 am on July 30th 2006. Just take a look at my wake. I'm cruising at a speed of about 37 mph which is hauling ass for a boat of this size!

Summer trip to Grand Haven
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Here I'm finally getting into the Grand River in Grand Haven Michigan. I felt like a total idiot. I had gone about 45 minutes to an hour north of where I was supposed to go. Before I left, I had no waypoints on my gps of where I was to end up. So when I left Kenosha, I looked at my sheet of gps waypoints down below and tried to remember the coordinates. So at about 2 hours and 15 minutes, I stopped because I still couldn't see land and checked it again. I was supposed to go to 86 degrees 15 min 22.03 seconds longitude and 43 degrees 03 minutes 26.58 seconds Latitude. I went to 43 deg 15 min 22 sec north and 86 deg 03 min 26 sec west. So that put me about 20 miles north west of the harbor entrance. And as you can see from the tone of the weather, it was starting to cloud up and get nasty looking. As I said in another video post, this was the day that several boaters on the Big Bad Lake Michigan lost their boats.

American Beauty Moment...
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Here I was having one of those "American Beauty" moments like that kid in the movie with the plastic bags. I was sitting in my boat on the seawall in Grand Haven watching the boat rise and fall next to the seawall and just thinking about how beautiful it was. While it only lasted a several seconds, I still feel the same when I watch it.

Coast Guard Fest 2006 b4 fireworks show
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This was the end of the week raft off of boats in the Grand River in Grand Haven Michigan. We were so lucky, we were passing by and were luckily invited into the tie up by the people on our port side which were already there. Nice bunch of people. The people one the shore number about a million. you can't even see the grass on the shore here. People mark their spots for days in advance to reserve a spot on the hill for the fireworks show. This is a show to be seen. It usually goes for anywhere between 45 minutes and an hour. And it's pretty darn good. The year before, the caught the hill on fire! THE HILL, THE HILL, THE HILL IS ON FIRE, WE DON'T NEED THE WATER LET THE MOTHER @#$%ER BURN! Thats what everyone was signing that night. It was pretty funny.

Grand Haven Coast Guard Fest Fireworks Show
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This is the fireworks show as seen from the river just a couple hundred feet from where they are set off on on the Grand River. We were sitting on the lake side of the split groups of boats. They never let you sit right in front of the fireworks because of the possibility of boats catching fire.

Grand Haven Coast Guard Fest Fireworks Show
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This is the fireworks show as seen from the river just a couple hundred feet from where they are set off on on the Grand River. We were sitting on the lake side of the split groups of boats. They never let you sit right in front of the fireworks because of the possibility of boats catching fire.

Grand Haven Coast Guard Fest Fireworks Show
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This is the fireworks show as seen from the river just a couple hundred feet from where they are set off on on the Grand River. We were sitting on the lake side of the split groups of boats. They never let you sit right in front of the fireworks because of the possibility of boats catching fire.

Grand Haven Seawall Views
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Here is the scene from the Grand River Seawall in Grand Haven Michigan. This was the day that they did the Coast Guard Rescue diver demonstration. Or rather I think they had just finished it.

Sea Trial 1
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Our first sea trial aboard the boat we were going to end up buying. A minute into the trip we were scraping the bottom with the props and the rudders just as he got a phone call telling him not to drive where we were cause we might run aground.

Sea Trial
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This was the Sea Trial on a boat we were looking at.

Lake Winnebago sea trial
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This is the sea trial of the boat we were looking to buy.

Grand Haven Return trip in 2005
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The boat had broken down on the river in front of several hundred boats. The drive was stuck in the forward position. The throttle would move back and forth and work the trottle, but would not go back to Neutral or Reverse. I was in the middle of manuvering in between a whole bunch of boats when the boat wouldn't go into reverse. So to avoid hitting several other boats, I killed the ignition and coasted into a spot on the beach. I called the company I bought my boat from and reported that "it had happened again" and that they should come get it and fix it or prepare a check for me as this was the 5th time it had happened that summer. A new office/shop of theirs in Grand Haven picked up the boat, and took it apart. There were 3 pieces all totalling $18.50 in parts which were totally worn out and had no business being in a boat anymore as they put it. This was the last time I had this problem. In any case, here I was just leaving Grand Haven to go back home.

Grand Haven Return trip in 2005
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Here you can see that I'm running pretty good and still hitting some big swells/waves. I'm doing about 32/33 mph which was a good cruising speed for my boat(max 44 mph). To get an idea of how big the waves were look at how the boat is splitting them as I hit them. It was very cool! This is one of my favorite videos from this boat.

Grand Haven Return trip in 2005 YEEHAA!!! I see land!!!
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I had been cruising for about 2 hours at this point and I could just make out the land below the clouds in the distance. I was feelign pretty good about it. The way over, which we have no video from, we were in the biggest swells I have ever had the pleasure of riding. The bulk of them were 6-8 footers out of the south which kept turning the boat, and then 10-14 footers going north east which were were able to run in the same direction. Occasionally we'd get stuck between a couple of swells and have to wait for the next one to pick us up from behind. In the trough of the swell, the top of the wave behind us would be a few - several feet above the top of the radar arch on the back of the boat. IT WAS COOL!!!

Leg 4 of Return Trip from Grand Haven
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It had been 2 hours or so and I hadn't seen a soul on the water. And about 8-10 miles from Illinois, I saw this wierd wedge shaped thing pushing through the water. I guess it's some sort of steel fishing vessel. You couldn't see anyone, there was just a ton of birds on top of the boat with a ton of birdy do do... Other than this, there were no other boats I saw this day...

Trip to Chicago July 3rd 2005
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Before this video was taken/shot, we were braveing some pretty big swells north of Winnetka. Every 3rd to 5th swell was getting us all drenched. We were going to Chicago for the Independence Day Fireworks show. The show however was a major disappointment. It only lasted about 15-18 minutes. When it ended we kepth sitting there waiting for it to continue.

Cruising View of 1996 Bayliner 2855
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Here we were doing video of each others boats on my cameras. I just wanted to see how my boat looked while it was moving.

5:45 Am July 30 Going to Grand Haven
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Here as you can see the sun still hasn't really come up because of how dark it still is. The windshields still have a good amount of dew on them and it's easy to see the lights in the dashboard guages.

Hot Babe on Go Fast Boat at Jobbienooner
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Just look at all the talent at the Jobbienooner event in June 2007

Booty Shakin at Jobbienooner
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Just a couple of girls dancing on a boat.