Great get together - Jeff, Gregg, Sean and Amy, David and son Paul, Dave and family, Shawn and daughter - six boats altogether. Went from Fort Snelling State Park to Valley Fair and back, a total of 43 miles. Stopped at a sand bar past Valley Fair to rest and gab, and returned to fort Snelling to grill and picnic.
We did have mechanical troubles, but nothing we did not overcome. Without associating the problems with names, someone left their key on from Red Wing and their battary was dead, someone had a reoccurance of the same fuel starvation problem they had been having for the two prior years, someones motor stopped and they had to be towed back, someone did not bring enough gas and while going full speed past the launching ramp on the way back, the engine cut out and they floated to the ramp, someones transom plug broke, someone elses battary was dead and they had to be jump started.
We reminded a DNR boat launching that their transom plug was not in after their boat was in the water halfway off the trailer, and got rewarded by them asking equipment questions to the entire group - throw life preservers, horn, fire exstingquiser, etc.
My max speed was 49.9 MPH at 5,300 RPM.
Great to have new faces join us.