Boat ramp interaction

[miket]

So we pull up to the ramp last week for a day of fishing and this guy is launching his beautiful Grady White, I'm guessing 28', walkaround. He loads the crew up, backs out the tight launch area and engages his bow thruster, which blew my buddies mind as he did not know such things existed, in a beautiful display of control and grace.
I dump my boat in the water and we head out.

We come back after catching a boat best 34" striper and our limit of 22- 28" fish. The Grady pulls in right behind us so I ask one of the guys how they did. They caught more fish but we had the biggest.

Anyway, I load my boat and head to the staging area to button up things before the 40 minute drive home.

The owner of the Grady starts heading to his tow vehicle then he turns and heads our way. He comes over and says, "man I love that boat!" "That thing is phkn gorgeous!" "what year is it?" me "95", "she looks great for a 95!" "beautiful."

Either he was drunk, hitting on me, or all that scrubbing and polishing last spring paid off. Maybe all 3 

I normally could care less what people think but a guy with a $300k, or whatever they cost boat, drooling over my girl made me feel good.

[Juan]

Good fer you ! You earned that response. emthup It makes you feel like all the work was worth it. A couple years ago I had a guy ask me if my boat was new. That made me feel good since it's an 04.

[oldfatguy]

sounds something like mine, I bought a 2003 220 CC sea pro , 3rd owner, first guy kept it in a pole bldg., didn't use it a lot , second guy kept it in a rental storage bldg. with his other 3 boats at lake Cumberland, didn't get used a lot, he blew a piston on his merc 225 so replaced it with a merc 250 and put 14 hours on it then sold it to me. looks like new. lucky lucky lucky.   by the way, I see a picture displayed on my post, that's not my boat, don't know where it came from, I am going to have to wait till spring for a picture