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  1. 8 minutes ago, davidg said:

    Bert is/was more about the party than the boat.  I worked at a company Bert owned part of. Never got a ride on Bandit but did fly in one of his planes a few times.  True 1% does have it's niceties.

    Sorry you missed out on Bandit. They’ve got a great fishing program going and consistently do well in tournaments. Bert’s a good dude, too.

  2. 22 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    i question if any fish has ever been caught from that boat.

    It’s rigged to fish including the extras like sonar that you don’t put on if you’re not serious about marlin fishing. That and 1300 hours on the engines means they fish a lot.

  3. Since we are on the subject, some fun notes-

    the boat I mentioned above, Smooth Move, travels between Costa Rica and the U.S. hitting both tournament circuits and fun fishing in between. Owner is out of Louisiana and had a 500,000 dollar budget for the captain to purchase t-shirts, stickers, koozies etc. when they back in to weigh-in’s at tournaments they have 2 t-shirt guns like you see at sporting events to shoot shirts into the crowd.

    Bandit, an 82 or 84 foot Viking based in Port A has an owner that gets seasick and hardly ever fishes. He sends clients out on the boat and during tournament season he hires additional captains and mates to be his fishing team. The reason he has a boat that big is because he had a 74ish Viking, but then another guy in Port A bought a 78 foot boat. He got pissed his boat was not the biggest in town so he bought a new one.

    the craziest I’ve seen is in Los Suenos in Costa Rica. The Russian finance minister or something like that has an 80 foot fishing boat there. And a 140 foot yacht. He also has matching yachts and fishing boats in about 10 other places. A few years ago we were fishing a tournament there and there are certified observers that come on your boat to record your sailfish and marlin releases. You have to feed them and we generally do sandwiches or fried chicken. Friend of mine gets assigned to the Russian boat as an observer. It’s a party with like 15 guys and a bunch of paid women. This is a serious tournament with some of the best crews in the world. They start the day at 6 am with multiple bottles of vodka and drink all day. It gets to be lunch time and they bring my friend lobster, and caviar in a Faberge egg.

  4. Well after we buy the Surly Clubhouse above there should be plenty of money left in the wreath fund for a boat. I vote for the new Spencer named Smooth Move, but it’s red so someone will have to pitch in for a paint job.

  5. 15 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    Mechanical man was the first fast boat I remember (I’m certain there were many more, just in my mind).  She blew by us once (35’ Bertram with triple nickels) and it was like a Ferrari and a pinto.   I could hear the turbos from several hundred feet away, over the roar of the 555’s at 80%.  Such a beautiful boat. 

    Know what you mean. We are happy to cruise at 26 knots on my boat and probably 75% of the fleet just blows by us. The last few years I’ve spent a lot of time fishing a Davis hull finished out by another custom builder that was better at about 29 knot cruise and last season is Texas we fished a 63’ F&S. That boat was amaaaazing. There’s nothing like cruising in from 300 miles offshore at 34 knots and then punching it when you get close to the jetties to pass everyone at 39 knots.

  6. 36 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I still don’t know how the  C’est la Vie, No Comprimise, and even Mech Man class back in there to weigh.  

    Ha I know. And with so many boats now in the 70-90 ft range, Mechanical Man is simply a mid-size boat now when it comes to the tournament trail.

  7. It’s pretty much impossible regardless of who the builder is to build anything other than basic, basic quality in Port A now for less than 200/ft and I imagine it would be similar or more at Sanctuary. Quotes for my house came in 200-270 in January and I’d bet if I got new ones now it’d be even higher.

    As y’all know Port A is starting to price a lot of people out of their vacation/retirement home plans. My guess is Port O’Connor is next.

  8. I haven’t heard anything and haven’t asked, but there almost has to be something up at Sanctuary. We’ve kept a boat there  a few times during POCO and Lonestar Shootout and it’s great. So much better than dinging your props (or worse) in the shithole of a marina at Caracol. Every freaking year there are multiple boats with issues.

  9. It’s all on their website. You can do single game or the whole season with varying price levels depending on the package and extras you choose. We had the smallest version and generally had 10-15 people at any given time coming ang going. I think they do packages up to 100, but it’s not like they go around counting how many people you have in your area.

    https://tailgateguys.com/

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  10. 6 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    That was me, and do you recall a name? 

    Also, I'm really impressed with your friends ability to engage in sex with anything that worked there as well as his total disregard for his own health. I seriously don't know that I could have gotten hard with any of them, but I surely picky like that. 

    I’m sure it had a name, but I’m coming up blank. It’s been gone a pretty long time now. And that wasn’t my friend it was another poster that made that comment. Like I mentioned I heard that especially towards the end that place was a straight up whorehouse. Maybe the dude had a thing for pregnant women.

  11. 9 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    It is the highest rated Liberal Arts college in the country. The dean is a family friend.

    Yeah it’s definitely a great school. I was down to deciding between there and UT. Went on a visit out there and one of the players picked me up at the airport and told me I came in on the perfect weekend because the biggest party of the year was the next night. I had been to plenty of UT fraternity parties already so was expecting a lot. Turned out the party was at LBGT student union (not that there is anything wrong with that) and it sucked. I went to round-up a few weeks later and watched a frat dude throw a motorcycle off the FIJI house. Naturally, I chose Texas.

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  12. 8 hours ago, Bevo said:

    Maybe, but he is right about the order of schools. And Scripps amd Pomona are also part of the Claremont College school system.

    They wanted me to play basketball there but I declined in favor of drinking beer with the ugly UT co-Ed’s /csb 

  13. 33 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I’m all for it. 

    LSU weekend it is, then. Someone needs to plan. Some young dipshits with more time. We can make it a party. 

    I’m a dipshit but not young so I can’t plan it, but I’ll be there with beer in hand.

  14. 15 hours ago, burntorangebongos said:

    The old Antone's on Guadalupe was kind of a shithole but it was never dangerous. Same with Liberty Lunch. Dirty as fuck but pretty safe. The horseshoe lounge had some racist regulars that didn't like drinking with mexicans and would say things but the bar tenders always threw them out  in favor of me. I guess the regulars were gonna come back anyway....no way to change their rut. Only happened maybe 2 times in the dozen that I went there. Usually everybody just minded their own business or yakked it up with a new face.

    I went to a bar in Denver that was by my hotel and it ended up being a gay bar. A real dive but I was probably the safest person in there.

    Double 

    whoever mentioned that strip club outside Aransas Pass on the way to Port A has the right idea. Pretty sure that place was just a straight up whorehouse filled with methheads

  15. 15 hours ago, burntorangebongos said:

    The old Antone's on Guadalupe was kind of a shithole but it was never dangerous. Same with Liberty Lunch. Dirty as fuck but pretty safe. The horseshoe lounge had some racist regulars that didn't like drinking with mexicans and would say things but the bar tenders always threw them out  in favor of me. I guess the regulars were gonna come back anyway....no way to change their rut. Only happened maybe 2 times in the dozen that I went there. Usually everybody just minded their own business or yakked it up with a new face.

    I went to a bar in Denver that was by my hotel and it ended up being a gay bar. A real dive but I was probably the safest person in there.

    Antone’s and Liberty Lunch??? GTFO. Pretty sure places frequented by plenty of fraternity/sorority types don’t really fit in this thread. And both places had great music.

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  16. 2 hours ago, Chili dog said:

    Yeah, he sounded way more enamored with the SEC schools he mentioned. How far behind Bama are we with the facilities? Those quotes make Bama’s facilities sound other-worldly. 

    We are way way way behind Bama. We are way to slightly behind pretty much every P5 school in the country. It’s embarrassing, but CDC is getting us on track to fix it.

  17. 15 minutes ago, DoobieWah said:

    It couldn't have been too sketchy if you can remember the name of it.

    My buddy and I decided at the last minute to go to Superbowl XX in New Orleans, (1985?). Got in late Friday night and stopped at the first motel we came to waaaaay down Canal. Went out and hit the first bar we found and it was a dump. Bought some... well...something from a sketchy guy with a weeping bandaged knife wound in his hand. But he was more than happy to share it with us after we paid him, so it was probably "safe".

    Same buddy. We're in Austin for a UH game, (his alma mater). Staying at some cheap motel up 35 and went into an I35 strip club. This would have also been the mid-80's so maybe somebody remembers it. Some girl was giving a lap dance and her pill box, (not a euphemism), popped open and pills went everywhere. Suddenly dozens of strippers and patrons were on their hands and knees, (not a euphemism), and looking around for pills. I found two but later inspection couldn't identify them so down the toilet they went.

    My buddy died a few years ago from a rare bone marrow cancer and I miss the shit out of him. RIP JC.

    Crazy Lady

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