Flibs 2019

[Freeebird]

I will at the the "Party" near the engine tent. Bright green shirt, Khaki shorts, tall, previously dark but still handsome and debonair.

Didn’t see you.

 

[tomrealest]

It's not 2:30 yet. Heading over now

 

[Pascal]

Too hot and too beautiful a day to deal with traffic, parking and crowds!! And I ve got to put some hours on these cummins!!

 

[rsmith]

Just out curiosity after all said and done what was your total cost for the conversion?

 

[Freeebird]

Great seeing everyone yesterday. I won’t name names, but we had a pretty good bunch of HOF'ers laughing at those $14 Dixie Cup rumrunners with the optional, $6 floater. It was definitely hot with little to no breeze, and water was the drink of the day.

Got to check out the odd Viking owner’s boat and could see why he would go the blasphemy route. A big thank you to him and his admiral for the tour and an enjoyable evening.

 

[Pascal]

Just out curiosity after all said and done what was your total cost for the conversion?

240 and counting... but that includes a lot more than a repower. All new thruhulls and seacocks, a dozen old TH glasses, new stabs and hull reinforcement, new shafts, new electrical... pretty much everything has been replaced on board. Will probably end up around 375 when everything is done incl paint. Not cheap but I get the boat I want with the layout I want and all new systems. Good to go for another 50 years

 

[Pascal]

Great seeing everyone yesterday. I won’t name names, but we had a pretty good bunch of HOF'ers laughing at those $14 Dixie Cup rumrunners with the optional, $6 floater. It was definitely hot with little to no breeze, and water was the drink of the day.

Got to check out the odd Viking owner’s boat and could see why he would go the blasphemy route. A big thank you to him and his admiral for the tour and an enjoyable evening.

I did a delivery on one of these Viking - Lazzaras. Good boats. Dick Lazzara knowns his stuff... their brand new 95 is amazing.

 

[Passages]

Good times. Ang & Bird Picked me up at the marina for a ride to the water taxi stop.

Fried our butts off waking around the show (thank goodness the tents had AC)

Met a bunch of HOFers at the booze barge

Came back to Coral Ridge Yacht Club for a beverage or 4. Ang and the Admiral hit it off good, Too good. I think I'm in trouble.

 

[Eddieclemons]

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-yacht-arrested-at-fort-lauderdale-boat-show-over-4-mil-dispute-20191105-jkgrbhsovjc3tn7mmksb4it3fa-story.html


I had always kinda understood everyone's stance on this, but to bring it to the show, I feel is a bad reflection on Sunseeker.

 

[Pascal]

Apparently there are more than one boat involved band about $12M of money missing. Sunseeker can’t loose $12M because of an apparently crooked dealer/broker

 

[Passages]

Hey, look at that! I re-remembered how to post a picture.
Below is the lovely and talented Angela, the infamous "Bird", and me after the show.

 

[Angela]

Damn...I look just beat up in that picture. It was the most miserable boat show day I ever had in my entire life due to the extreme heat and sun that day...and it showed! LOL. All I wanted to do by that time was fall into a swimming pool somewhere.

 

[Freeebird]

Damn...I look just beat up in that picture. It was the most miserable boat show day I ever had in my entire life due to the extreme heat and sun that day...and it showed! LOL. All I wanted to do by that time was fall into a swimming pool somewhere.

You and I both have that, "just drank all the beer in the yacht club", look. I'm blaming it on the fact I was dehydrated and they kept bringing it to me.

Thanks for the beers, Jim, and for everything else. It was a good time short of that sweltering heat at the show.

 

[Angela]

You and I both have that, "just drank all the beer in the yacht club", look. I'm blaming it on the fact I was dehydrated and they kept bringing it to me.

Thanks for the beers, Jim, and for everything else. It was a good time short of that sweltering heat at the show.

Oh that’s right, but it’s not like they had a lot of “good” beer to begin with (I only drink IPA beers). We did clean ‘em out, though, didn’t we? LOL While the day from a weather perspective was miserable the company was pretty darn good and a great time had after the show.