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SJBrit
10-10-2007, 06:15 PM
I was digging through some old photos and found these - I thought people on here might get a kick out of them. What you can't see is how big the swell was - about 10 feet peak to trough. My elder brother is driving (he was about 18 at the time), I'm in the passenger seat (at 15) and my younger brother is in the back (he was 13). My dad took the pictures from a friend's boat. As you can see, we got some pretty good air! That day was a freaking riot - and the boat even survived :smokin:
jakew4
10-10-2007, 06:23 PM
In picture 3, do I see a Mullet in the passenger seat???
SJBrit
10-10-2007, 06:26 PM
In picture 3, do I see a Mullet in the passenger seat???

LOL! Nah - I think that's something on my life vest.
keefer
10-10-2007, 06:32 PM
I don't know, that looks like a case of 80's mulletitis to me. Come on man up and admit it. Heck we all had them, come on, we won't make fun of you!:poke:
keefer
10-10-2007, 06:34 PM
But seriously, those are some wild pics, a friend of mine had a 16ft lightweight boat with a 150hp hanging off the back. We went airborne a few times off of a big boat wake more than a few times back when I was younger and dumber..
SJBrit
10-10-2007, 06:38 PM
I don't know, that looks like a case of 80's mulletitis to me. Come on man up and admit it. Heck we all had them, come on, we won't make fun of you!:poke:


OK. here's a pic I took with my phone of the poster size print I have of that picture. See? No mullet :cool2: Now, can we focus on the cool boat jumps please? :booty:
eel
10-10-2007, 06:53 PM
Is that the white cliffs of Dover in the background?

I worked on those straight six mercs as an apprentice. I remember they ate needle valves like an early model buckshot brm.
keefer
10-10-2007, 06:59 PM
That looks like a short hull to me, what kind of HP were you sporting? Also the background landscape looks like something you would see in a photo. Where were those pictures taken?
WaveDemon
10-10-2007, 07:18 PM
f'n couchers...






J/k I bet those landings were brutal.
The Penguin
10-10-2007, 07:19 PM
OK. here's a pic I took with my phone of the poster size print I have of that picture. See? No mullet :cool2: Now, can we focus on the cool boat jumps please? :booty:
photoshopped. :afro:
SJBrit
10-10-2007, 08:15 PM
photoshopped. :afro:

I wish - sad to say that was so long ago that I don't think Photoshop was even on the market! Jeez - I'm getting old....

Those were shot on the south coast of England - lot's of white cliffs along that coast. The boat was a Fletcher 17 foot, with a 90HP inline six Merc. Not long afer that we put a V6 135HP Merc on there: that was a fantastic motor.
tor*p*do
10-10-2007, 08:45 PM
gotta love the mercs!
i had a 650 for a few years
o/b stench, grease, premix
put a low prop on it and learned to wakeboard back before anyone had even heard of wakeboards!

http://www.pwctoday.com/photopost521/data/500/wake2563.jpg
Nascency Chris
10-10-2007, 10:53 PM
OK. here's a pic I took with my phone of the poster size print I have of that picture. See? No mullet :cool2: Now, can we focus on the cool boat jumps please? :booty:

negro please...you know bon jovi by heart...there has been a mullet in your past for sure...:aargh4::beerchug:
Moondance
10-10-2007, 11:08 PM
negro please...you know bon jovi by heart...there has been a mullet in your past for sure...:aargh4::beerchug:oh no you di-idn't
SJBrit
10-11-2007, 10:03 AM
negro please...you know bon jovi by heart...there has been a mullet in your past for sure...:aargh4::beerchug:

Or a perm...!! :loser: