gold-n-rod
05-29-2005, 08:53 PM
I brought my '03 Classic 16 back from Virginia to Michigan 2 weeks ago. Today was my first full day on the water with her.
My 15 yo son and I launched, ran and retrieved it three separate times today. First of all, the weather forecast was for ****, so we put in at 9 am today, thinking it was our only chance. The lake was like glass. We were out about 2 hours. We both had perma-grins. Damn lotta fun. We went in because the fuel guage was near empty.
Then, we got in to find our friends were on their pontoon and wanted us to join them. So we launched a 2nd time. Gave rides all around. We'd seen another Donzi earlier and decided to try to find them. Turns out that that boat was an '86 Hornet III. We ended up running about 8 feet apart at WOT (for me anyway) along with a very fast PWC. I wish I'd had the digicam. We stopped and shot the **** for a while. Only in a Donzi.....
My kid still didn't have enough, so we went out again about 6 pm. It was a nice ride, a little choppy and we hit 50 mph, good considering the 19P prop we are running.
I've never had a boat that brought more positive comments, thumbs ups and other props. What a great time we had. I am looking ahead to many more.
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My 15 yo son and I launched, ran and retrieved it three separate times today. First of all, the weather forecast was for ****, so we put in at 9 am today, thinking it was our only chance. The lake was like glass. We were out about 2 hours. We both had perma-grins. Damn lotta fun. We went in because the fuel guage was near empty.
Then, we got in to find our friends were on their pontoon and wanted us to join them. So we launched a 2nd time. Gave rides all around. We'd seen another Donzi earlier and decided to try to find them. Turns out that that boat was an '86 Hornet III. We ended up running about 8 feet apart at WOT (for me anyway) along with a very fast PWC. I wish I'd had the digicam. We stopped and shot the **** for a while. Only in a Donzi.....
My kid still didn't have enough, so we went out again about 6 pm. It was a nice ride, a little choppy and we hit 50 mph, good considering the 19P prop we are running.
I've never had a boat that brought more positive comments, thumbs ups and other props. What a great time we had. I am looking ahead to many more.
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