Milwmarc
Jet Boat Addict
- Messages
- 137
- Reaction score
- 240
- Points
- 92
- Location
- Wind Lake WI
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2006
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 23
Here I sit, at 2:47 A.M. Imbibed on a bit O Rum and Milk...Not because I'm a drunkard, but because I'm a High Strung Type A Personality who has a Bride of 27 years laying in the bunk next to me wheezing and coughing of a stuffy nose and of Spring Allergies here in Wisconsin, oh and I've been creating a buy list on Amazon and Crutchfield for the new boat since 10 P.M. tonight. I can't sleep and hope the Rum will help! I'm thinking about the new to us AR 230 that we bought on a 31 degree November Morning in Wisconsin. I'm thinking about the 25 minute "shakeout cruise we took tonight at 6 P.M when the air was 58 degrees the water was JUST above freezing here in Wisconsin and my New To Me 2006 Yamaha AR 230 jet boat was launched, ran and retrieved at the launch with NO dock and with NO hiccups. My wife screamed a bit, my oldest boy laughed as he took the controls and I breathed in the fresh air.
I took her out of storage just 5 days ago, and my hours after work have been spent perusing this web site along with Amazon, crutchfield and West Marine creating buy lists for the larger "to do list" i'm creating in my head. It's much healthier than cheating on your spouse, porn, having a mental breakdown and in so many ways this boat will provide the solace we need in a world that seems to be turning quicker, angrier and makes less sense to me day by day. I look at my boat in my driveway here in Wisconsin and think. This boat could take me through the great lakes, down to the Caribbean to a place of fantasy, joy, warmth, laughter and smiles. My wife in a swim suite, white scarf flowing behind her... holding on to the rail laughing as we jump waves, break hearts and make memories. Boats are famous for "Break out another Thousand!" and this boat will not be ANY different in that regards. But with this new to us Yamaha Boat, even though being a 2006 its Already 13 years old,...it's new to our family, my wife, my 2 boys, my girl and our dog.
This boat seems different than the past 9 we've had in 25 years of marriage. Some were large, some were small, all broke, yes EVERY single stinking one of em!!!!!!!!..some cost more than others to maintain and some gave great memories and some not so great memories (remember that year you took the boats to the Cliffs of Wisconsin Dells upper river, jumped off and broke your ankle, 2 surgeries and had 4 months of BIG recovery, or the time you took the Glastron to a river, swamped it and with 10 people on board almost sunk it, how about that FIRST boat you ever bought 3 hours to the South in Galena Illinois where you pulled that 18 foot bayliner home with a Mercury Grand Marquis, my new to me wife and one year old in a baby car seat and we totaled the transmission pulling the new boat home, had to stop every 45 minutes to let the car, the wife and the baby NOT overheat and stop screaming) my wife and I laugh now and isn't that what boating is about? Memories.
So, I don't have any fancy pictures of the "new to me boat", or of things I need help with. I've been researching on this website for the past 9 months, much the same way, when I was a 10 year old I spent an eternity in the library shuffling though card catalogs to learn the books that would unleash the wonders of the universe to me! This website seems to have answers to 99 percent of my questions.
Pictures and my hobby project will follow. All I can say in the mean time is this is boat number 10 in 25 years. Some boats I've loved, some I've hated, but THIS one is different, our first jet boat. In our short ride it seems like a Ferrari waiting to be unleashed! It's quiet, fast and WAY easier to prep and maintain than our bow rider's, Deck boat's and Pontoons. Could this be "the one"? The ultimate boat for an Inland Family? I have delusions of being a "Blue Water" guy, boating to some desolate area, to put on my fins and snorkel, and free dive off this boat. Surrounded by the exciting world beneath the surface, catch my dinner, cook it and make it on a beach somewhere with Island music in the back ground while I have my fill on the bounty from the Sea. In reality we live in dark, cold water with 3 good months to make memories.
I'm going to use this Forum and my Thread Called "It's a Good Life" as a sort of Diary. I know the next month brings about $2,000 in projects, idle hands are the work of the devil and my hands, brain and ideas won't be Idle! All the things I have to do and more importantly want to do on the AR 230 are swimming in my brain, stopping me from sleeping tonight But it's now 3:14 in the morning and I need to get some sleep, I need to go to work in just a few hours, not only to bring home the bacon, but to pay for the additions to make this 2006 be the boat that can sail my family to safety when the Zombie Apocalypse rears it's ugly head (Personally I think its coming in July of 2020).
I'm grateful for all the info everyone on this site provides, am fortunate that my career allows me to have toys like boat's, snowmobiles, trucks, Trap Guns and a nice house. In good times and bad...……………………..
I can ALWAYS say.... IT'S A GOOD LIFE!
Marc.
I took her out of storage just 5 days ago, and my hours after work have been spent perusing this web site along with Amazon, crutchfield and West Marine creating buy lists for the larger "to do list" i'm creating in my head. It's much healthier than cheating on your spouse, porn, having a mental breakdown and in so many ways this boat will provide the solace we need in a world that seems to be turning quicker, angrier and makes less sense to me day by day. I look at my boat in my driveway here in Wisconsin and think. This boat could take me through the great lakes, down to the Caribbean to a place of fantasy, joy, warmth, laughter and smiles. My wife in a swim suite, white scarf flowing behind her... holding on to the rail laughing as we jump waves, break hearts and make memories. Boats are famous for "Break out another Thousand!" and this boat will not be ANY different in that regards. But with this new to us Yamaha Boat, even though being a 2006 its Already 13 years old,...it's new to our family, my wife, my 2 boys, my girl and our dog.
This boat seems different than the past 9 we've had in 25 years of marriage. Some were large, some were small, all broke, yes EVERY single stinking one of em!!!!!!!!..some cost more than others to maintain and some gave great memories and some not so great memories (remember that year you took the boats to the Cliffs of Wisconsin Dells upper river, jumped off and broke your ankle, 2 surgeries and had 4 months of BIG recovery, or the time you took the Glastron to a river, swamped it and with 10 people on board almost sunk it, how about that FIRST boat you ever bought 3 hours to the South in Galena Illinois where you pulled that 18 foot bayliner home with a Mercury Grand Marquis, my new to me wife and one year old in a baby car seat and we totaled the transmission pulling the new boat home, had to stop every 45 minutes to let the car, the wife and the baby NOT overheat and stop screaming) my wife and I laugh now and isn't that what boating is about? Memories.
So, I don't have any fancy pictures of the "new to me boat", or of things I need help with. I've been researching on this website for the past 9 months, much the same way, when I was a 10 year old I spent an eternity in the library shuffling though card catalogs to learn the books that would unleash the wonders of the universe to me! This website seems to have answers to 99 percent of my questions.
Pictures and my hobby project will follow. All I can say in the mean time is this is boat number 10 in 25 years. Some boats I've loved, some I've hated, but THIS one is different, our first jet boat. In our short ride it seems like a Ferrari waiting to be unleashed! It's quiet, fast and WAY easier to prep and maintain than our bow rider's, Deck boat's and Pontoons. Could this be "the one"? The ultimate boat for an Inland Family? I have delusions of being a "Blue Water" guy, boating to some desolate area, to put on my fins and snorkel, and free dive off this boat. Surrounded by the exciting world beneath the surface, catch my dinner, cook it and make it on a beach somewhere with Island music in the back ground while I have my fill on the bounty from the Sea. In reality we live in dark, cold water with 3 good months to make memories.
I'm going to use this Forum and my Thread Called "It's a Good Life" as a sort of Diary. I know the next month brings about $2,000 in projects, idle hands are the work of the devil and my hands, brain and ideas won't be Idle! All the things I have to do and more importantly want to do on the AR 230 are swimming in my brain, stopping me from sleeping tonight But it's now 3:14 in the morning and I need to get some sleep, I need to go to work in just a few hours, not only to bring home the bacon, but to pay for the additions to make this 2006 be the boat that can sail my family to safety when the Zombie Apocalypse rears it's ugly head (Personally I think its coming in July of 2020).
I'm grateful for all the info everyone on this site provides, am fortunate that my career allows me to have toys like boat's, snowmobiles, trucks, Trap Guns and a nice house. In good times and bad...……………………..
I can ALWAYS say.... IT'S A GOOD LIFE!Marc.
