Has anyone mounted a 40MM potato gun on deck? I wonder if we could get away with it........ Just as a conversation piece of course 
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David Foster
Bad idea, (but understand motivation)
I watched with glee as a Father and group of boys built and fired a potato gun on our vacation resort in the Thousand Islands. When they turned it on the tour boat roaring offensively close to the swimming area of the island, my response was "Great!" But I'm an adult. And a potato is _not_ a harmless water balloon. A potato fired from such a gun at a boat moving at 20 miles per hour can produce serious damage, and, even more important, serious injury. So I had to ask the group to reconsider, and we then decided that letting the potato launched go missing after contolled use that first summer was the only responsible approach. David Lady Lillie
I watched with glee as a Father and group of boys built and fired a potato gun on our vacation resort in the Thousand Islands. When they turned it on the tour boat roaring offensively close to the swimming area of the island, my response was "Great!" But I'm an adult. And a potato is _not_ a harmless water balloon. A potato fired from such a gun at a boat moving at 20 miles per hour can produce serious damage, and, even more important, serious injury. So I had to ask the group to reconsider, and we then decided that letting the potato launched go missing after contolled use that first summer was the only responsible approach. David Lady Lillie
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Ron Mehringer
Potato Guns
Potato guns may be fun and goofy, but they also pack a wallop. After all, they can turn a piece of plywood into splinters. So don't shoot tham at PWCs, no matter how tempting it may be. Of course you were joking to start with. Spud Gun link below. Ron Mehringer s/v Hydro Therapy
Potato guns may be fun and goofy, but they also pack a wallop. After all, they can turn a piece of plywood into splinters. So don't shoot tham at PWCs, no matter how tempting it may be. Of course you were joking to start with. Spud Gun link below. Ron Mehringer s/v Hydro Therapy
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Rick Webb
Bag Limit
We are only allowed six per day but if you spread it out to everyone on board we can have a pretty good haul. There was a picture of a guy using an AIM-9 Sidewinder (something I have considerable experience with) to get his in the archives here I think but it is kinda like using a 30-06 to hunt rabbit. The Tater Cannon sounds pretty good, I am off to Home Depot right now.
We are only allowed six per day but if you spread it out to everyone on board we can have a pretty good haul. There was a picture of a guy using an AIM-9 Sidewinder (something I have considerable experience with) to get his in the archives here I think but it is kinda like using a 30-06 to hunt rabbit. The Tater Cannon sounds pretty good, I am off to Home Depot right now.
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Andy Howard
Pest Control
Last summer when a jet skier invaded our quiet anchorage at dusk, I called him over to our boat and with a straight face told him that big clouds of blue smoke were comming out of his exhaust, and we were hearing a strange grinding noise, every time he gunned his engine, and did he want a tow back to his dock. I thought my wife was going to pass out from trying not to laugh as he slowly and quietly nursed his "wounded" seadoo back home.
Last summer when a jet skier invaded our quiet anchorage at dusk, I called him over to our boat and with a straight face told him that big clouds of blue smoke were comming out of his exhaust, and we were hearing a strange grinding noise, every time he gunned his engine, and did he want a tow back to his dock. I thought my wife was going to pass out from trying not to laugh as he slowly and quietly nursed his "wounded" seadoo back home.
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Chuck
HA HAHAHAAHAAAA!!!!
I thought this subject might brighten up our winter shrinkwrapped lives a little.
I thought this subject might brighten up our winter shrinkwrapped lives a little.
Survival of the fittest?
On the morning news a few weeks back there was a story about an all-night manhunt for a jetskier who had gone missing on Lake Monroe north of here. They found him the following morning sitting forlornly on his machine less than a 1/4 mile from the boat ramp. He had run out of fuel and sat there all night because he had nothing to paddle with and was afraid to put his hands or feet in the water (gators). He could see and hear the searchers but they couldn't see him because he was in the shallow water and weeds close to the shore. I've also seen jetskiers throw their passengers as they gun the engine coming out the marina entrance. Maybe the stupid ones will eventually kill themselves off.... Peter H23 "Raven"
On the morning news a few weeks back there was a story about an all-night manhunt for a jetskier who had gone missing on Lake Monroe north of here. They found him the following morning sitting forlornly on his machine less than a 1/4 mile from the boat ramp. He had run out of fuel and sat there all night because he had nothing to paddle with and was afraid to put his hands or feet in the water (gators). He could see and hear the searchers but they couldn't see him because he was in the shallow water and weeds close to the shore. I've also seen jetskiers throw their passengers as they gun the engine coming out the marina entrance. Maybe the stupid ones will eventually kill themselves off.... Peter H23 "Raven"
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Nivritti Kuzma
bumper boats
I ALMOST cought one between my 24 foot pontoon boat and the mangroves once while moveing at full throttle. He decided to pass on the right with his friend on my left in a 25 foot wide chanel in the mangroves. I saw the one comming up on the left and almost Tanked the one on the right. He cleared my boat with maby 6 inches on each side of him. boy you should have see the look of fear on his face! it was priceless.
I ALMOST cought one between my 24 foot pontoon boat and the mangroves once while moveing at full throttle. He decided to pass on the right with his friend on my left in a 25 foot wide chanel in the mangroves. I saw the one comming up on the left and almost Tanked the one on the right. He cleared my boat with maby 6 inches on each side of him. boy you should have see the look of fear on his face! it was priceless.
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