TOPIC: Silver Lake (Perry, NY) Video

Bob Emens, Tim Calmes and I decided to take advanage of great Fall weather to churn the waters of Silver Lake, near Perry NY a couple of weeks ago. Our local AOMCI chapter and Tim Calmes' Toy Storage co-host a Meet there in early June each year. Bob's boat is a 66 GW Invader with a 79 Merc 700, Tim's is a 72 Switzer Bullet with a 79 Merc 800, amd mine is 1974 Hydrostream Vixen with a 1976 Johnson Stinger. I used my new toy - GoPro Hero3 to record the day.

Here is a link to a short video on You Tube:

Thanks for the warning! Don't boat with me. If anyone ever came that close to me (even a friend) I would have strong words with them. Not at all cool!

your not serious are you

Looked pretty durn close at .49 in the video. Hard to tell given the lack of perspective, but it would seem to be awfully close for comfort.....ed

Hey Don, I enjoyed the video. That's the first time I have seen Tim Calmes on the water since the Raytown Lake event in 06-07?? I know he's been out there but I haven't.

I like the video. 3 of my favorite boats.

Al

my favorite boating lake. usually you have the whole lake for yourself. tim's switzer runs super smooth. wish i could get the mantaray to run like that. ron

Those boats are cool! They remind me of one of my favorite boat cartoons.

Neat video, and it's great to see those boats out running. Re the "close encounter of the wet kind," I know when we use our Go-Pro to shoot snowmobiling videos, it often looks like the sleds are practically touching, when actually there is much more separation than it appears, so maybe that is what is happening here?

As far as the cartoon goes, here's our real-life version--a 15' rigid hull inflatable with a 200 HP Merc XS. We've often commented on how cartoonish the boat looks with that big motor hanging off the back.

Shannon in Crystal River

We both new we were going to do that & actually it wasn't that close maybe 30 ft Good camera !!
Yup Ed high 40s