Shelbyville Illinois, July 29th to July 31st 2016

[mattschepker]

 

[jcyamaharider]

Great pics as usual @buckbuck . We will get ours posted one of these days lol

 

[OperationROL]

What a blast!

I would like to thank everyone for attending and making this 9th Annual Shelbyville Gathering a huge success. This gathering has always been about Family and Friends, Adults and Kids, Food and Laughter and lots and lots of water time. This year did not disappoint. Another awesome time with everyone.

I want to give a special thanks to our sponsors, JetBoatPilot, Nielsen's Enterprises, St. Charles Boat & Motor, WakeMakers, Gantlin Products, Spruce Studios, GunkStick, and UFloat. I would like to thank Will Owens of @JetBoatPilot for taking the time to attend the Gathering this year. It was an honor to have you there and to be able to gain insight into the latest happenings at JetBoatPilot!

This year we totaled 32 boats and 146 actual attendees that came from 9 different states including Oregon and Alabama! We even had an additional 2 boats join us on Wednesday and Thursday.

We learned a lot as well. Here are 2 changes that we will be implementing.

First, we will be changing the Annual Family dinner to Friday instead of Saturday for many good reasons, including giving you more time to stay on the water on Saturday, since it's most people's last day. Second, we will start the kid's movie as soon as the kids finish eating. We realized that the night got long and the kids were tired and probably bored.
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If you have any other suggestions, please PM me and we can discuss.

I hope to see all of you next year, July 26 - July 30, 2017.

 

[007]

I am still in disbelief it went soooo fast. Good times always do...

 

[buckbuck]

Next year @007, I am surfing on your boat early in the week.

 

[robert843]

Do most of you guys start booking now for next year? Where is the nicest cleanest place to stay up there?

 

[RiverRat]

Lithia Resort is where pretty much everyone stays. If that fills up, there's some other pretty nice places nearby, and we always have @MutherTucker to guide us on all things local!

 

[RampRage]

I do have one request for next year's raft up.

If you have children please make sure that you have them in a life jacket.

With the amount of water toys and boats it would be very easy for a child to slip between boats, slip under a raft, or fall off a raft or tube and hit their head.

It is a rule of the Army Corps of Engineers to have a life jacket while in the raft, so why take the risk?

Our children are our most important part of our lives; let’s make sure we all do everything we can to keep them safe at this great event.


From the Army Corps of Engineers.
http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/Media.../491589/lake-shelbyville-boat-rafting-policy/

Life jackets are to be worn at all times on rafts greater than five boats unless person is below deck or in an enclosed cabin.

Everyone in the water associated with a raft greater than five boats must have a US Coast Guard approved properly fitted life jacket or Type IV throwable device in their personal possession at all times.

 

[scot71]

 

[scot71]

 

[Speedling]

I do have one request for next year's raft up.

If you have children please make sure that you have them in a life jacket.

With the amount of water toys and boats it would be very easy for a child to slip between boats, slip under a raft, or fall off a raft or tube and hit their head.

It is a rule of the Army Corps of Engineers to have a life jacket while in the raft, so why take the risk?

Our children are our most important part of our lives; let’s make sure we all do everything we can to keep them safe at this great event.


From the Army Corps of Engineers.
http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/Media.../491589/lake-shelbyville-boat-rafting-policy/

Life jackets are to be worn at all times on rafts greater than five boats unless person is below deck or in an enclosed cabin.

Everyone in the water associated with a raft greater than five boats must have a US Coast Guard approved properly fitted life jacket or Type IV throwable device in their personal possession at all times.

Agree
My older two can put it on themselves and youngest just can't zip. Mine even wear on docks. We have just started jacketless in the pool and use it as training.
Our little guy swam for the first time in cumberland which was far calmer than shelbyville. At Shelbyville he took a couple gulps of water but you some awesome people grabbed him faster than i could jump in. Thank you to all of you for keeping such sharp eyes! He was playing again in seconds but for a parent that one full second seems like a super slow motion.

On the bright side, i have a surf board, a new depth finder gauge, sea dek ordered, bimini for tower ordered and two more speakers to hang on the tower.
Let's go boating!

 

[scot71]

On the bright side, i have a surf board, a new depth finder gauge, sea dek ordered, bimini for tower ordered and two more speakers to hang on the tower.
Let's go boating!

So what style SeaDek did you go with, faux teak or outline? You can't go wrong with either one, you're gonna love it.

 

[mattschepker]

@Speedling, the best thing I have done to our boat isSeadeck I absolutely love it

 

[Speedling]

So what style SeaDek did you go with, faux teak or outline? You can't go wrong with either one, you're gonna love it.

Outline/border
Too many teaks out there, lol

 

[buckbuck]

Some boat data that might interest some.
At Shelbyville we put 10.7 hours on our boat engines. We burned 53.369 gallons of gasoline for an average of 4.99 gallons per hour.

 

[Bill D]

That's pretty good @buckbuck! I don't know how many engine hours we put on, but we burned 46.8 gallons almost perfectly emptying the tank for the drive home.

 

[007]

Some boat data that might interest some.
At Shelbyville we put 10.7 hours on our boat engines. We burned 53.369 gallons of gasoline for an average of 4.99 gallons per hour.

Wow @buckbuck. That is pretty good! When we had our AR230 all bagged out, we were often burning 7-8 gph when surfing.

For comparison, the Tige (which is over 1.5k heavier than an AR230 stock) burns 4.5 gph pretty consistently at surf speed with about 2,200lbs of ballast in it and in combo with short hops around the lake...but forget about adding in any high speed runs!

 

[trace]

We put 39 hours on our boat that week, I didn't keep track of the total fuel, but we burn the same as @007 about 4-4.5gph average like clockwork.

 

[Bruce]

@OperationROL, is it time to start the 2017 thread and get it on the calendar?

 

[OperationROL]

@OperationROL, is it time to start the 2017 thread and get it on the calendar?

Created just for you @Bruce!

https://jetboaters.net/threads/2017-lake-shelbyville-illinois-gathering-july-26th-to-july-30th-2017