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Where do you float your boat? Pics please!

welly193

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I have been workin' it hard the past few years and finally coming to a place where I will be able to travel anywhere (in the US), work for a few hours in the morning and play in the afternoon.

So I thought it would be interesting if folks could share pics and a description of where they run their boats, with my purely selfish reason of learning about great boating areas and perhaps visiting and splashing
my flite there one day. Also any resources available on the lake would be great to know.

Here are some of pics of my old mate on the local san vicente reservoir
( closed for several years now) and the final pics were taken at Lake Powell (when it had water).
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Lot's of salt water here in So Cal but not a lot of fresh water to rinse the boat afterwards without getting dirty looks from the neighbors.
 
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Mostly Lake Quinsigamond in Mass purely because my in-law has a house on it. Going to explore some more local lakes this year and hopefully make the jaunt to Winnipesaukee in NH. Winnipesaukee being by far my favorite lake to go to.
 

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Topermory ON. Hotel room 20 steps away from slip.
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Put-In-Bay OH. 35 min. ride out 1ftrs, 2.5 hr ride back 4-6+ ftrs next morning
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Lake Cumberland KY. Always Hot, well protected waters, watch 4 debris
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Chesapeake Bay, MD. Good People, brackish water
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Lake of the Ozarks, MO. Craziest place I visited. Rough, Rough Water on main body
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East Traverse Bay, MI. The Finest Day I ever Had on the Water
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The Saginaw River, Near Flint MI. Never went past my ankles
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Lake Havasue, AZ. Once in a lifetime trip 2200+ miles each way.
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Home Waters, Crystal Bay at the south end of the Detroit River & Lake Erie
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She just wouldn't let me throw out that yellow piece of industrial waste.
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No one minds me including this one, do they :D

I dragged my starflite all over this great nation and found my favorite water is only 4 hours to the north of me, Merc245
 
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Plenty of Irish waterways
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Cardiff, Wales (UK)
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Greenwood Lake NJ/NY
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Lake Hopatcong NJ
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Raritan river/Sandy Hook NJ
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Barnegat NJ
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Manhattan
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Verazzano Bridge (NY harbor)
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Solomons Island (OPBA racing)
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Yo knarloid- can't even begin to tell you how many great memories
that brought back.I was gonna post the triplets in front of lady liberty-you saved me searching for it.
BTW-Boat has been ready to go for over a month. Weather has not. Not once.
 
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