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MT'S FLEET OF RINKERS!
bry1429
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MT's 310/360 new owner's met up for a meet-n-greet to discuss how meticulous Michael was on the building/upgrades/maintenance of his fleet of Beautiful Cruisers!
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@randy56. Got to relax a bit, brother. Had a lot of chemo recently and it looks like every 4 months now until December 2018. NO complaints. When I'm getting treatment I see so many people with no hope that I thank GOD for my luck.
Soooo, to finally answer your question - I will travel (leaving for two weeks in Aruba this Saturday) and drop-in here to the forum, whenever I can!
I love the modifications, I love the problem solving and I really love the pictures of the boats, cars, planes, sleds, cycles, ATVs..... and we can't forget all of the girls (are you listening, Joe?)
This forum - the greatest bunch of guys I have ever met. Rinkers - hands down the best boats I have ever been on - unless the boat was 3X the price and even then they didn't have the Rinker headroom!
I don't think I will ever be well enough to own a big cruiser again. Maybe a small bow rider - RINKER - of course! :-)
@bry1429 I can not thank you and @gtyee enough for sending me those pictures and posting them to the forum.
I really love both of those boats. I put everything I could think of into them and they were treated so well that they will last forever - particularly the way you two gentleman look after them.
I would love to see them side-by-side some day. That would be awesome...the RINKER TWINS!!!!!
I am so happy that they went to two great guys! I know as I have corresponded and talked a lot with @gtyee on the phone. I spent more time on the phone and on e.mails with @bry1429 than my family this Spring during our boat sale. Both guys are class acts and I could not imagine better captains of those boats.
I am SMILING tonight as I look at those pictures. The Admiral almost started crying...but she was happy they went to great homes.
Thanks again guys. I'll keep those pictures forever!
BREATHTAKING @gtyee. My GOD those two boats are beautiful. I haven't seen them for quite some time now.
Finally, I GET it. I see how someone who was looking at them for the first time would walk up to the Admiral and I and ask to look around. People even took pictures. I thought some of them were a little nuts. NOW I get it!
Does RINKER build beautiful boats?
Tonight I'm in HEAVEN!....wait a minute, let me rephrase that LOL. I FEEL like I'm in heaven....let's not rush that LOL!
Hey...just saw it in the last two pics...is that @bry1429 down in the engine bay? You keep that spotless, brother! LOL
2007 280 Rinker Express 6.2L B3
Steve, I am very happy with the way the transactions transpired.
@randy56, yes the 360 is a huge boat. The 310 is a big girl too but she looks smaller beside that 360! The incredible thing is that because their hulls are so fast and their engines the perfect match to those hulls, the efficiency of BOTH boats is way better than any other brand I have been on.
In one case to the horror of the captain of the same sized year of boat (2014 360 Rinker and a 2014 X) with the same engines, clean bottoms, on the same day (side by side) etc. etc. he was 7.5 gph MORE at 3500 rpm. THAT is a huge difference and a testament to Rinker hull design, balance and engine/transom design.
Both that EC 310 and that EC 360 handle like sports cars. I carved through the S curves of the River STYX at 3500 rpm with both of those boats many times going up and down that stretch of the Rideau Canal.
A guy who came out of the locks behind me in a 410 Sea Ray with caterpillars managed to follow me to the start of where the channel markers turn into a slalom course. He couldn't stay with me, I lost him in about 5 minutes but when he saw me at a set of locks, the next night he came over and said "I have never seen a boat that size handle like that!"
Rinkers...awesome.
Both of those ladies are gorgeous
06 Rinker 270
Bry
Soooo, you guys @212 is to blame for this:
When I was 11 years old I bought a guitar and learned to play - pretty decently. We formed a "garage band" in 1965. At that point dances were mostly"sock hops". In we walked with top notch guitars (Fenders, Guilds, Gibsons, Hoffners etc.) and Marshall Amps. Really a wall of sound. We made a lot of money. Played at the opening of a big mall one time and were on T.V. One dance we opened for Neil Young. Met Bachman Turner Overdrive, met The guess Who, met the Who, met Alice Cooper, met Johnny Winter - twice (have a signed copy of Johnny Winter and...). The other guys stayed in the band. I stayed in school. About 10 years ago our band was inducted into the Manitoba Hall of Fame.
But....my desire to buy the best I could was established way back when a legendary Amp builder named Gar Gilles told me ....buy the best you can and look after it!
Soooo - thought you guys might like to see my two guitars. I had a bigger collection but I'm in a condo now! LOL The acoustic I bought in 1970. It still plays true today. A Yamaki Y337S The other is a G&L Legacy made by Fender's founder and his partner. It was custom built for me according to my specs: including fret spacing, neck width and length, fret height, pick-up placement, distance from strings to frets (of course adjustable), electronic controls and three twin blade humbucker pickups. Don't ask the price of that Steve - you couldn't handle it.
BTW my amps are smaller now, Fender Bandmaster and a TRUE amplifier a TUBE Peavy Classic 30.
BTW that "mouse" you see plugged-into the Fender....WiFi (how cool right) it allows me to rove up to 200 feet away and transmit to any amp!!! You all know how I love the latest electronics!
When we fly to Aruba, Saturday, to Palm Springs in October and then the Carribbean for Jan-March, I fly the Admiral first class - SHE'S the best I'll ever get and I mean to "look after her" LOL
That's how I tried to do things. Get the best I could and look after them. IMO it pays in the long run but even better, along the way..... :-)
This attitude carried over into my boating, from my first home made mini-hydro to buying Mercury products to RINKERS and finally to my EC 360.
Because, as Tom T Hall said: "It's faster horses, younger women, older whisky, more money!"
I KNOW you guys get that! (except maybe Steve) LOL
Thanks @212!
*****Picture of the guitars was taken today at about 3 o'clock!
I too believe in proper equipment and seeking quality...
that said, my favorite guitar is a seagull s6 circa 88~90, which i bought new, and which has a three digit serial number... it plays better than my martin, takamini, or taylor, and cost a fraction..... which goes to show you- quality is in the details not in the presentation. (same for cigars- easily on top of my list of cigars is a '04 mc#3 corona @ around $4- and fellas, I've had some good cigars [both expensive and rare] in my life)... same with wine (villa mt. eden california pinot noir circa '99~'00 is a fantastic pinot noir for under $20/750ml, that stands against ALL the big boys).... same with whiskey (have one bottle about 1/4 left of pappy van winkle 23yo from '09, and had a 21yo from '05ish, it was okay- but WL Weller? made right along side the pappy, and a 750 for $35---- JUST as good if not better).
^and so it seems to be w/ rinker.... dropping the coin doesn't mean getting better quality... it's supposed to, but it doesn't.
Agreed, Drew! I have sold Martins and other custom guitars that were many times the price of the Yamaki but I just love its quality and sound. Mind you, I played some finger ripping garbage when I was learning - for those ones I have no love. LOL
I have some great Scotches, Irish whiskeys, aged rums - but I still have a special place in my heart for "Pappy"....unfortunately all I can do now is have the odd sip but that's okay I had enough in my younger years to last a lifetime!
best cigars I ever had were two rolled by an 80 years old Cuban right in the cigar factory in 1983...a Cohiba and a Monte Christo 2.
06 Rinker 270