Slow Start 2022

[rdlangston13]

This my thread to vent and whine about an excruciatingly slow start to 2022.

Been on the water once this year so far.

Yep you read that right, one trip for one day.

April/May all my weekends were booked, when I got home from work in mid June my first week was helping grandparents move across the state, then I got one day in.

Had big plans for the 4th and Saturday morning the whole family woke up with covid. So that wasted last weekend and this upcoming weekend we are going to an out of town water park. Hoping to get on the water Thursday just to cruise around and swim but my son is still fighting a covid fever so we will see. A week from today it’s back to work and I won’t be home until mid August. So by mid August at most I will have made it out twice! In Texas!!!

Anyone else out to an drastically slower start to the year than normal?


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[HFarr]

I feel for you, but sometimes things find a way of working out. As long as you are enjoying time with your family, you are still doing good!

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[rdlangston13]

I feel for you, but sometimes things find a way of working out. As long as you are enjoying time with your family, you are still doing good!

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I’m about ready to go Homer Simpson on my son lol





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[Mxmark4]

I’m about ready to go Homer Simpson on my son lol





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I feel ya there! My youngest son is having some issuesn we were gonna go out yesterday bit his attitude has soured my wife to the point she didnt even wanna go at all. I am doing contract teavel nursing so my entire schedule is awful. Missed most of the weekends this summer due to work, cant get out, multiple prop strikes etc. Been rough but at least I made it out more than once. Hope it gets better for you here soon!

[rdlangston13]

I feel ya there! My youngest son is having some issuesn we were gonna go out yesterday bit his attitude has soured my wife to the point she didnt even wanna go at all. I am doing contract teavel nursing so my entire schedule is awful. Missed most of the weekends this summer due to work, cant get out, multiple prop strikes etc. Been rough but at least I made it out more than once. Hope it gets better for you here soon!

We officially may it out last Friday for day two. Just the wife and the kids. Didn't do any riding as we really need an extra adult to help control children while one of us drives but it was nice to get out on the water and cruise. We went to the beach by the dam and swam for a couple hours and let the kids played. Wasn't the best day on the water but it sure felt good to get some sun shine and wind in my hair.

[Zog]

The lousy boating summer just gets worse... Houseboat was pulled from the lake 6 weeks ago to fix a leak in the gimbal seal. We were promised it would be looked at that week and should be back on the water a week later. Two weeks later, they finally looked at it and told us what it would need to get fixed, which was many more parts. Two weeks after that, we were told the parts would take another week and the thruster also needed replacing and it was 3 weeks out, but the thruster could be replaced on the water. At the start of this week, we were told the boat would be done and launched on Friday ahead of our Saturday visit to Lake Powell. Today, they told us that the boat didn't launch because the outdrive was in worse shape than expected.

So much for my week of boating

We have found an Airbnb off the water at the other end of the lake though, so instead of 7 days, we will take 5. Unfortunately, I have to pay for it, plus we are out our annual maintenance on the houseboat and will also have to pay our share of what I was told today would likely be a $10,000 repair bill. Love my Moomba. Sometimes I really hate house boating.

[larry_arizona]

I would cancel the out of town water park trip!!!


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[Holdmybeer]

I get it completely.

Rain rain and more rain made the lakes in Ohio high and cold much longer than normal. Memorial day (not weekend) water was 72 but we roughed it.

Then 1 other time because of weather, 4H for the kids, yard work, family gatherings, etc.

Made it out twice this weekend July 3rd and 4th but that is 4 times. Last year it was twice a week from Memorial day until Norris before we calmed down.

Just remember have fun and enjoy....I have found forcing the issue causes problems or problems find me.

[rdlangston13]

I would cancel the out of town water park trip!!!


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I tried but it’s with one of my wife’s friends from college and we have a cabin rented ect ect


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[haknslash]

Don’t feel bad. It’s been a slow start for us as well.

Once with a buddy.
Once demoing a new SA.
Once with wife and daughter.

We don’t do holidays on the water so that hasn’t helped either. Hoping to go this weekend if the weather forecast will clear up.