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ROLAND
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feel good moment

#1 Post by ROLAND » Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:45 pm

Those of us who have had our boats for a number of years, do you REALLY remember how you felt when you got your first toon? I think we all kind of loose sight of that after awhile but I got a good reminder of that today.. Had my truck parked out on the street and was taking a ztr mower off a trailer when my wife said " oh, here comes a pontoon boat".... I know the guy is a neighbor, but I don't really know him at all.. only that he lives at the very end of my block... behind his pick up truck is a brand new Bennington 18 SF.. dual toon with a yamaha 60 on the back.. toon rigged for fishing... as he approaches I point toward my driveway, like I'm telling him he car park it right here..... he pulls up and stops and this guy, who is probably in his mid 30's has the biggest ear to ear smile you can imagine... he stops for a second and we talk about his new benny... said he just picked it up and was headed to the house for the first time.. this young man was like a kid in a candy store... you could just see the excitement on his face... about a half hour later I have to run some errands - i drive down to the end of the street and there's my neighbor up on his boat and what looked like his whole family was on board.. they were all just smileling and laughing.... made me happy for the guy... and today he reminded me how I felt 7 years ago.. and it's really nice to know that this young man and his family are going to enjoy the hell out of that new benny for years to come.... I am back in the "boating" mood... time to get the looney tuned serviced and back out on the lake...
Roland & Jo
2010 Bennington 20 Sfi
Yamaha 75 4 Stroke
Shreveport, Louisiana

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Re: feel good moment

#2 Post by RcgTexas » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:14 am

The two happiest days in a boaters life.......the day he buys it and the day he sells it!

I'm in between with no plans to get the second happiest day soon.
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#3 Post by BobG » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:20 am

Hah, I know what you mean. Drove 1,100 miles to get my boat. Saved $10,000 that way. Stopped for the night outside Lincoln, NE, and we just sat on the boat in the motel parking lot, enjoying a cocktail. Ready for that thrill to start again...if it would just stop snowing!
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Re: feel good moment

#4 Post by guy48065 » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:43 am

Oh yeah...
My toon was over 30 years old and "came with" my cottage so I didn't get to go shopping or tow it home. Didn't matter. Our deck never gets used because in good weather we're always out sitting on the boat enjoying the day, reading a book, eating lunch, having a drink...etc.

2nd toon is half the age and actually came with furniture :nana
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Re: feel good moment

#5 Post by smltooner » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:57 pm

My father bought a 20' Twin-Alum pontoon in 1969.
It stayed in the water year-round and was used every summer until I traded it for my Sun Tracker Party Barge in 2007.
I agree with RcgTexas, I'm not dealing with the second happiest day.
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#6 Post by zoom650 » Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:32 am

About that second happiest day of your life ...

The broker let us know we no longer owned the center console. The money transferred and we bought the pontoon.

Does that count as a double-happy moment?

Two years later I'm still basking in the after-glow.
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Re: feel good moment

#7 Post by Bilboinsa » Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:36 am

My wife and I enjoyed a line of t-storms passing by yesterday morning. Late in the afternoon, we were tied off in the headwaters of our lake, listening to the occasional cry of a hawk and splash of a fish. Didn't catch a bite in two hours, and I was still the happiest man in the world.

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#8 Post by evinrude2stroke » Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:19 am

.. I am back in the "boating" mood... time to get the looney tuned serviced and back out on the lake...

I traded my 2006 in for a 2016 last year and was happy/sad at the same time. My 2006 gave my family & I a ton of happy memories but I had that smile of your 30yr old neighbor when I saw my new 2016 being launched. I start getting that crazed boating itch around this time every year.. it's been a long winter staring at it under the shrink wrap!
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Re: feel good moment

#9 Post by 410MAN » Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:25 am

we own 4 boats 2 flat bottoms, 1 ranger fishin boat and old skeeter hawk.
WE have place on lake in East Tx, entire family enjoys laking , one of our friends bought a toon in 2005 G3 with 90 yami, they let use enjoy it with them for all these years. We had some lean money years so never go a toon. Well they bought new benny 24 ft 250yami, ITS nice. his wife said we should purchase their old one, well it still not best time for money to change hands but they made one those "cant pass up this deal" so we got it. That was the best day when I pulled up to our lake house front drive way, they could not see me, I got a beer set in toon and honked horn they all started come out side to see what going on, I told WE bought ,well it was "tear" time for them, we finally put it in water and been going full blast for last 2 years. A day I never forget.

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#10 Post by ROLAND » Sat Apr 08, 2017 12:52 am

410,,,, hello from Shreveport... heck, We;re practically neighbors!! my friend we are only about an hour apart... congratulations on getting that benny...
Roland & Jo
2010 Bennington 20 Sfi
Yamaha 75 4 Stroke
Shreveport, Louisiana

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Re: feel good moment

#11 Post by smltooner » Sat Apr 08, 2017 6:03 pm

[quote="zoom650"]About that second happiest day of your life ...

The broker let us know we no longer owned the center console. The money transferred and we bought the pontoon.

Does that count as a double-happy moment?

Two years later I'm still basking in the after-glow.[/quote]

Double-happy moments are good.
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2019 Yamaha 150 HP
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