A little introduction...

[corey331]

Newb from the Midwest here. My name is Corey and I live in Dayton, Ohio but do all my boating on Lake Cumberland in the great state of Kentucky! I currently have a 98 Checkmate 253 Convinsor. It has the stock 454 in it for now, but I'm working on that. Picked up some lightning headers and a M1SC Procharger for it. So it should be running a little better before too long. I'm also looking at a small tunnel hull as we speak, and that's one of the reasons I joined here, hoping to find out some info on it, so I'll start a new thread in the tech section. I have been trolling around the site for a week or so, and so far, I'm really impressed!! Probably the best boating site I am on. I'll post up some pics of my toys later.

 

[DaytonaBabe]

Hi Corey!! Welcome to RDP! :thumbup:

 

[Outnumbered]

Welcome!

 

[milkmoney]

Welcome to the circus and enjoy the ride

Watch out for this thread jackers and the "WE" team.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Welcome , played in L C as kid in Summerset/ Nancy :cool

 

[boat527]

Welcome!

 

[RitcheyRch]

welcome aboard

 

[RiverDave]

Welcome to the board Corey!

 

[mjc]

welcome

 

[Flyinbowtie]

Welcome to the funhouse!

 

[Tom Brown]

Welcome, Corey. :thumbup:

What small tunnel? Are you talking about a 20' outboard?

Milkmoney asked me to do my best to recruit you for the "WE" team but I told him it's a bit early for something so severe as that.

 

[rolltide]

Welcome aboard Corey!

 

[charlyox]

Welcome aboard Corey. My wife is near Dayton working in Miamisburg.

 

[corey331]

Welcome, Corey. :thumbup:

What small tunnel? Are you talking about a 20' outboard?

Milkmoney asked me to do my best to recruit you for the "WE" team but I told him it's a bit early for something so severe as that.

Thanks for the welcomes guys!!! (And gal).


This is the small tunnel that caught my eye. Sorry, not an outboard.

http://limaohio.craigslist.org/boa/4426307555.html

I made a post in the "Jet" section on here asking about it. I have never owned a jet boat, or heard of the Firehawk name. So just looking for some advice on it. Thanks again!!

 

[corey331]

Welcome aboard Corey. My wife is near Dayton working in Miamisburg.

I'm actually just north of there in a little town called Vandalia. I work at Wright Patt Air Force Base here.

 

[YoPengo]

Welcome to RDP.

 

[waterhorse]

Ahoy Corey.
Get some pics of the cool interstellar alien stuff at the base.:thumbsup

 

[FreeBird236]

Welcome to RDP..:thumbup:

 

[28Eliminator]

Welcome Corey!!

 

[Tom Brown]

Neat boat. :thumbup:

 

[Finally made it]

Newb from the Midwest here. My name is Corey and I live in Dayton, Ohio but do all my boating on Lake Cumberland in the great state of Kentucky! I currently have a 98 Checkmate 253 Convinsor. It has the stock 454 in it for now, but I'm working on that. Picked up some lightning headers and a M1SC Procharger for it. So it should be running a little better before too long. I'm also looking at a small tunnel hull as we speak, and that's one of the reasons I joined here, hoping to find out some info on it, so I'll start a new thread in the tech section. I have been trolling around the site for a week or so, and so far, I'm really impressed!! Probably the best boating site I am on. I'll post up some pics of my toys later.

Welcome.

 

[TBI]

Welcome! What prop you runnin?

 

[RiverDave]

Thanks for the welcomes guys!!! (And gal).


This is the small tunnel that caught my eye. Sorry, not an outboard.

http://limaohio.craigslist.org/boa/4426307555.html

I made a post in the "Jet" section on here asking about it. I have never owned a jet boat, or heard of the Firehawk name. So just looking for some advice on it. Thanks again!!

Corey unfortunately our jet section is very slow.. (Well so are a lot of our tech sections). People seem to socialize and ask questions here in the lounge as opposed to goto those sections. If any questions you have dknt get answered ask them in here and they will be quick like.

Don't know muh about fire hawks other then they used to build a talon / AO / etc style 26 cat..

 

[Guest]

Welcome Corey... do you know your inmate #..?

 

[corey331]

Corey unfortunately our jet section is very slow.. (Well so are a lot of our tech sections). People seem to socialize and ask questions here in the lounge as opposed to goto those sections. If any questions you have dknt get answered ask them in here and they will be quick like.

Don't know muh about fire hawks other then they used to build a talon / AO / etc style 26 cat..

Actually I got a lot of really good info in the tech section. But after talking to the guy, I think I am going to wait on another boat. It was just way to under powered for me. Since I'll be getting rid of a pretty well built Buick Grand National to get it, I don't want to settle for the first thing that comes along. Also, I am in the middle of an engine build for my Checkmate so I don't want two engine build going on at once.

 

[corey331]

Welcome Corey... do you know your inmate #..?

Lol, can't say that I do!!!

 

[milkmoney]

Lol, can't say that I do!!!

Oh shit. Here it comes wait for it

 

[corey331]

Oh boy.... well while I wait for the shit to hit the fan, I'll share some of my toys with ya.....

Here is my first boat. Named her "Feelin' Nauti". I t was a 1988 Checkmate Starflite that I did a complete restoration on. I loved it, but a growing family, and a want to go bigger made me sell it.






Here is my current boat. Named it "Feelin' Nauti-er". Its a 98 Checkmate 253. i have done a ton of work to her too.




My two new deckhands, my identical twin daughters (a big reason the first boat was sold)





My two toys with wheels. The 67 Chevelle was my first car I bought when I was 15. Still have it today. The other is my Grand National. Its had quite a bit of work done to it. It should be in the 10's this year with the upgrades I did over winter.

 

[milkmoney]

Oh boy.... well while I wait for the shit to hit the fan, I'll share some of my toys with ya.....

Here is my first boat. Named her "Feelin' Nauti". I t was a 1988 Checkmate Starflite that I did a complete restoration on. I loved it, but a growing family, and a want to go bigger made me sell it.


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Here is my current boat. Named it "Feelin' Nauti-er". Its a 98 Checkmate 253. i have done a ton of work to her too.


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My two new deckhands, my identical twin daughters (a big reason the first boat was sold)

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My two toys with wheels. The 67 Chevelle was my first car I bought when I was 15. Still have it today. The other is my Grand National. Its had quite a bit of work done to it. It should be in the 10's this year with the upgrades I did over winter.


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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[CampbellCarl]

Welcome! The CL ad that you posted showed a 366 tall deck BBC......wtf, over? Never heard of a BBC with such small cubic inches....destroked the hell out of it or what?

Nice pair of girls and cars....welcome.

CC

 

[Tom Brown]

Love the Checkmates and I've never seen steel siding installed horizontally before. Neat.

 

[corey331]

Welcome! The CL ad that you posted showed a 366 tall deck BBC......wtf, over? Never heard of a BBC with such small cubic inches....destroked the hell out of it or what?

Nice pair of girls and cars....welcome.

CC

Thanks man!! Come to find out, its a stock tall deck big block that Chevy put in big trucks from the 60's to the 90's. I had never heard of such a thing either so I had to look it up. Apparently they run forever, but are lacking on power.

 

[corey331]

Love the Checkmates and I've never seen steel siding installed horizontally before. Neat.

Yeah, when the company came out to build that little barn, they started putting the siding on like that and dad and I both were like, hold up, that can't be right. They showed us how it worked and why it was that way. Pretty cool stuff. Barn has been up for 5 or 6 years now and never let a drop of water in.

I love my Checkmates too. It has become a big rivalry between my dad and I with him having a Baja and me having Checkmates. For those that don't know, the two companies built performance boats in the same small town in Ohio literally right across the street from one another. On the water around here the arguments get pretty heated after a few beverages. It has gotten so bad that dad built a new motor over the winter with about 650hp just to shut me up. It has had the stock power in it since he bought it new in 88 and it only took 2 years of me talking trash to change that!!