Time is flying by faster than ever before. Here it is the beginning of
May. What happened to April? And soon to be June. What's special about
June?

- The first Monday is a public holiday in Ireland.
- Summer solstice June 20th to 22nd.
- Father's day is the third Sunday.
- Flag Day June 14th.
- World Cup, NHL & NBA playoffs, and the US Open
- June 31st is Weasel Stomping Day

These events pale in comparison to Nicole's 40th Birthday on June
14th. Yes, the big FOUR OH. A major milestone met.

In just over 4 weeks we'll be celebrating Nicole's b-day on June 9th
and 10th at Whatcom Lake in Bellingham WA. This is in conjunction with
the third annual Unofficial Mini FlyIn. Take out your calendar now and
mark it down.

Each year there have been more people coming to the Mini to have fun,
meet, learn, and generally have a great time. Kids of all ages are
welcome.

We meet at the lake in the morning around 10am, fly and have fun,
watch the idiots try to load their boats, and then back to Nicole's
house (a 5 minute drive) for BBQ, hot tub, and a game or two of pool.

Bring booze, food, boat, ski, sleeping bag, and other personal items.
No presents (maybe a card or small flower arrangement).

Let us know if you need a place to crash or anything else. We'll be
making a Costco run for steaks - they run about $12 ea and are well
worth it. Two people can eat one (well, except for Shrek and Dave).
Let us know and we'll pick up enough for all who want one. Nicole will
be doing the BBQing. And you know how well she bbqs steak...

Looking forward to seeing the old gang, and meeting new people!

Randy & Nicole

And then there was pain!

I'm not sure what I'm more sore from, not riding since last year or the
late night antics.

Keith


> Bryan Schumacher may be big...and fat...but, he still gets decent air.
>

----- Original Message -----

From: tbarnes@...

To: Brett Erdmann

Cc: bsteele@... ; hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:32 PM

Subject: Re: [Hydrofoil] Spring Fling last weekend

And then there was pain!

I'm not sure what I'm more sore from, not riding since last year or the
late night antics.

Keith

> Bryan Schumacher may be big...and fat...but, he still gets decent air.
>

Hey guys,

your welcome for the paintball gun bag for wing thing.  You can get
flat bags with better padding at a paint ball gun store, but the
walmart special works pretty good..........

Dave Ewing
All brilliant thought is plagiarism to some degree.  All stupidity is
your own work.

-----Original Message-----
From: bsteele@...
To: wakeskiboat@...; hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 1 May 2007 5:12 PM
Subject: RE: [Hydrofoil] travel case



  Ogio Monster

   

  This thread:  http://www.foilfreaks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1465

   

   

   bsteele

  www.foilfreaks.com

  Foiltech Pro Team - Captain Seat Towers


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   From: Hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Jesse Farnes
  Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:05 PM
  To: hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Hydrofoil] travel case


   

   What is the best travel case to use on airline and where to get one?
Thanks Jesse

   

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That made me giggle!  Was the landing as smooth as  your ski???  LOL!  Hope you were wearing your "protective gear"!

Bryan Schumacher may be big...and fat...but, he still gets decent air.

Hey Dr. Dave,

I'm playing at the Little Bear on Sat. June 2nd. Hope to see you.

Also doing my annual Quadrathalon the following day-golf, mt. biking, snow
skiing, and water/sky skiing on Sun. June 3rd.

Bobby Earl


>From: ewingski@...
>To: bsteele@..., wakeskiboat@...,
>hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Hydrofoil] travel case
>Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 21:46:01 -0400
>
>Hey guys,
>
>your welcome for the paintball gun bag for wing thing.  You can get
>flat bags with better padding at a paint ball gun store, but the
>walmart special works pretty good..........
>
>Dave Ewing
>All brilliant thought is plagiarism to some degree.  All stupidity is
>your own work.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bsteele@...
>To: wakeskiboat@...; hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Tue, 1 May 2007 5:12 PM
>Subject: RE: [Hydrofoil] travel case
>
>
>
>  Ogio Monster
>
>   
>
>  This thread:  http://www.foilfreaks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1465
>
>   
>
>   
>
>   bsteele
>
>  www.foilfreaks.com
>
>  Foiltech Pro Team - Captain Seat Towers
>
>
>    --------
>
>   From: Hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com] On
>Behalf Of Jesse Farnes
>  Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:05 PM
>  To: hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com
>  Subject: [Hydrofoil] travel case
>
>
>   
>
>   What is the best travel case to use on airline and where to get one?
>Thanks Jesse
>
>   
>
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>
>  Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
>  Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.
>
>
>
>
>
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Looking for some input on the best fixed foil rack as well as the best swivel rack?  Availability has been an issue when I have looked before as well. 

Thanks,
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Those are pretty sweet Geno but there is just enough room for the Wakesetter in the garage.  Actually it looks like I melted it down and poured it in there.

Q

Quoting Genoyauchler@...:

>

Looking for some input on the best fixed foil rack as well as the best swivel rack?  Availability has been an issue when I have looked before as well. 

Thanks,
Ryan

Hi All,
This is your last chance for hotel discounts and our fly-in or possible
mini fly-in if we can't get sanctioned.
We have been asked not to have anymore spring events because of TN fly-
in NEW time slot. We do not wish to compete or cause them any problems
with their longer running event and wish them all, the best in the
years to come. Good luck guys!
Thanks for the good times we have had and the support from you ALL.
Bud & Michaelle

"We have been asked not to have anymore spring events because of TN fly-in NEW
time slot. "

I think this is a load of %$##... who in their right minds would ask you to stop
having a fly-in? Whoever it was needs a public flogging.

Don't stop this fly-in because it competes with someone's dates who have
moved...that's crap. To be honest with you, it sounds like your fly-in is way
different than the TN fly-in anyway..... I'm not sure houseboats or tarnished
foils are for everyone.

And a fly-in doesn't have to be sanctioned to be a fly-in. USHA wants you to
because it shows USA waterski that hydrofoiling is having a bunch of events each
year and is bringing them in money. If it isn't sanctioned, it just doesn't
count in the USHA list...that's it. Some of the biggest fly-ins ever haven't
been sanctioned.

Please don't stop your organizing of a fly-in based on these two items!

-evilE



  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Bud & Michaelle" <hccanvas@...>
> Hi All,
> This is your last chance for hotel discounts and our fly-in or possible
> mini fly-in if we can't get sanctioned.
> We have been asked not to have anymore spring events because of TN fly-
> in NEW time slot. We do not wish to compete or cause them any problems
> with their longer running event and wish them all, the best in the
> years to come. Good luck guys!
> Thanks for the good times we have had and the support from you ALL.
> Bud & Michaelle
>
>

a new ferney in the family.... samantha!

Even with my limited attendance of fly-in's I would agree with
Brett's comments. After looking at both fly-in's (GA and TN) they are
very different and it would seam to me that they would draw different
kinds of crowds. GA sounds like a better place to take non-foilers
and children since it is land based and has lots of other ammenities
on site. TN seams to be a good fly-in for the die hard foiler who
wants to be on the water 24-7. I myself can go either way and will
probably try the TN fly-in next year. I mostly agree with the fact
that the dates are very close together and it makes it hard to attend
both unless you have lots of extra vacation time and money. If you
move it to much earlier there is the FL event to worry about. And
when you start talking about Sept there is the Fales River fly-in,
but thats not really East Coast, or is it??? Is the reason there are
no events in June, July, or Aug because it's to hot or are there to
many problems/conflicts with summer family vacations?

My 2 cents. See ya in GA, only 14 days to go!

Chic Craddock, Lake Anna/Smith Mtn Lake VA


--- In Hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com, brett.edelen@... wrote:
>
> "We have been asked not to have anymore spring events because of TN
fly-in NEW time slot. "
>
> I think this is a load of %$##... who in their right minds would
ask you to stop having a fly-in? Whoever it was needs a public
flogging.
>
> Don't stop this fly-in because it competes with someone's dates who
have moved...that's crap. To be honest with you, it sounds like your
fly-in is way different than the TN fly-in anyway..... I'm not sure
houseboats or tarnished foils are for everyone.
>
> And a fly-in doesn't have to be sanctioned to be a fly-in. USHA
wants you to because it shows USA waterski that hydrofoiling is
having a bunch of events each year and is bringing them in money. If
it isn't sanctioned, it just doesn't count in the USHA list...that's
it. Some of the biggest fly-ins ever haven't been sanctioned.
>
> Please don't stop your organizing of a fly-in based on these two
items!
>
> -evilE
>
>
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Bud & Michaelle" <hccanvas@...>
> > Hi All,
> > This is your last chance for hotel discounts and our fly-in or
possible
> > mini fly-in if we can't get sanctioned.
> > We have been asked not to have anymore spring events because of
TN fly-
> > in NEW time slot. We do not wish to compete or cause them any
problems
> > with their longer running event and wish them all, the best in
the
> > years to come. Good luck guys!
> > Thanks for the good times we have had and the support from you
ALL.
> > Bud & Michaelle
> >
> >
>

good.... i'm not the only one that thinks this reeks of a big pile of sheeeeet.

I'm probably going to catch a lot of flak for this... but I've sat on my
feelings about this long enough... discouraging a fly-in, even if it is just for
when it is, is too much in my opinion. Why should USHA even care? I'll tell you
why....

Brad, what business is it of yours to influence anyone attempting to grow this
sport? This is not a personal attack on you, but have you too been bitten by the
greed bug that is known as USA Waterski? Remember when you used to get excited
about how many fly-ins there were going on? Sanctioned or unsanctioned, it meant
more to the sport....When they have to be sanctioned, more people at Fly-ins
means more money to USA Waterski does it not? After all, USHA membership has
dropped has it not? so more people have figured out that they can buy 2
temporarly memberships that covers them for the mandatory insurance fees of a
fly-in, or maybe two that they go to a year.

Even more, they charge the person putting on the fly-in a $75 club membership.
I'm sure this will raise as well. So the year I put on the sanctioned fly-in, I
paid $70 or so in dues (more I think because of my wife joined as well), and $75
in a club membership.

  Here's more about our beloved mandatory insurance.... they raise our rates
every 2 years...for what? to build 2 (or 3 - I can't remember) ski lakes behind
their NEW facility, both of which I will never see, much less ever get to foil
in... no way are they deep enough...they are built for slalom and trick
competitions...yippeee...and even if tI wanted to slalom in them, do you think
they would let me walk up with my shiny USA Waterski member card and take a run?
hell no.

or what about the NEW waterski hall of fame? seriously? I'm going to travel all
the way to florida to walk through the halls of has-beens? I'd rather stay here
in the rain.... What is next? Are they going to build a ski boat mausoleum that
I can never really care about either? Keep raising the dues... see what happens
to members....

Think about it...what did your membership in USA Waterski really get you? A lame
magazine that tells how to hit 6 buoys, or throw a tantrum, or maybe how to
barefoot?... ok, sometimes that's cool, but what else? some free gifts to entice
you to join? let's see... you get a $50 coupon for $80. Wow...that seems like a
great deal.

Try asking for a copy of all their insurance payouts for the previous 5 years.
Then, out of those, try asking how many went without going into arbitration.
Your money is a on a one way road folks, and it aint towards your wallet.

USA Waterski has turned into a money grubbing (insert word here), that doesn't
care about us....they care about the bottom dollar....period.

Does anyone else think it's funny that we don't hear about how many members are
in USHA anymore?

we were sold the story that if we joined USHA and built up enough members that
we could become a legitimate sport. I bought in to this for a while... I even
offered to help draw more of you into it... but now, I say we are a legitimate
sport.... I don't need to be a member of a very costly organization to believe
that.

Now they are trying to influence who can and can't have fly-ins based on
sanctioning, and when you *should* have them.

If I seem bitter in this email. I am.

Brad, I can't believe that you would ever apply any negative or discouraging
voice at all towards someone trying to organize an event to promote the same
sport that you say you are supporting with USHA.

-evilE

  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "chicjr1969" <chic@...>
> Even with my limited attendance of fly-in's I would agree with
> Brett's comments. After looking at both fly-in's (GA and TN) they are
> very different and it would seam to me that they would draw different
> kinds of crowds. GA sounds like a better place to take non-foilers
> and children since it is land based and has lots of other ammenities
> on site. TN seams to be a good fly-in for the die hard foiler who
> wants to be on the water 24-7. I myself can go either way and will
> probably try the TN fly-in next year. I mostly agree with the fact
> that the dates are very close together and it makes it hard to attend
> both unless you have lots of extra vacation time and money. If you
> move it to much earlier there is the FL event to worry about. And
> when you start talking about Sept there is the Fales River fly-in,
> but thats not really East Coast, or is it??? Is the reason there are
> no events in June, July, or Aug because it's to hot or are there to
> many problems/conflicts with summer family vacations?
>
> My 2 cents. See ya in GA, only 14 days to go!
>
> Chic Craddock, Lake Anna/Smith Mtn Lake VA
>
>
> --- In Hydrofoil@yahoogroups.com, brett.edelen@... wrote:
> >
> > "We have been asked not to have anymore spring events because of TN
> fly-in NEW time slot. "
> >
> > I think this is a load of %$##... who in their right minds would
> ask you to stop having a fly-in? Whoever it was needs a public
> flogging.
> >
> > Don't stop this fly-in because it competes with someone's dates who
> have moved...that's crap. To be honest with you, it sounds like your
> fly-in is way different than the TN fly-in anyway..... I'm not sure
> houseboats or tarnished foils are for everyone.
> >
> > And a fly-in doesn't have to be sanctioned to be a fly-in. USHA
> wants you to because it shows USA waterski that hydrofoiling is
> having a bunch of events each year and is bringing them in money. If
> it isn't sanctioned, it just doesn't count in the USHA list...that's
> it. Some of the biggest fly-ins ever haven't been sanctioned.
> >
> > Please don't stop your organizing of a fly-in based on these two
> items!
> >
> > -evilE
> >
> >
> >
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: "Bud & Michaelle" <hccanvas@...>
> > > Hi All,
> > > This is your last chance for hotel discounts and our fly-in or
> possible
> > > mini fly-in if we can't get sanctioned.
> > > We have been asked not to have anymore spring events because of
> TN fly-
> > > in NEW time slot. We do not wish to compete or cause them any
> problems
> > > with their longer running event and wish them all, the best in
> the
> > > years to come. Good luck guys!
> > > Thanks for the good times we have had and the support from you
> ALL.
> > > Bud & Michaelle
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>