Lake Mead reunion 2013

[talltigeguy]

I made it back safely. The waves were only semi-brutal across the big bay. I think it got worse shortly after we arrived to Echo marina.

[boatwakes]

Good to hear Larry! Things got sketchy Saturday afternoon for sure. We ended up pounding through this morning (sunday) and did a dawn patrol with the rest of the die hards (thanks for the monsters, John, gave me the extra motivation to power through the wind swell!). Great to meet everyone and sorry I didn't hang out during the evenings, exhaustion prevailed. Next year will hope to have a newer model with some goodies swapped in and more time on the water (although it's never enough!). Gil, I agree, thanks to John and Larry and everyone else who dedicated so much to getting this going. Thanks to Offshore and their crew and bringing the boats and riders, cool stuff. The swag was cool but it really was cool to hang and talk in person to everyone and throw things with dingle's kids... good times. Btw, on the way home, saw 6 tiges throughout the 7.5 hour drive and thought I saw the dudes with the 2100V get off in long beach ahead of us but I could just be delerious too... Good times guys, my son can't stop talking about wakeboarding now!!!

[dingleberry]

Another great reunion! Other than the freaking wind and Gil's prop ouchie, it seemed that everyone had a fun time. Another huge thanks to John for all his hard work on putting it together, Tige for their support and letting Chase and Dom attend again, Offshore Marine, Wake9, and all the sponsors! I know that my boys had a blast hanging out, talking, and messing around with everyone. And thanks for all the attendees - for being so helpful, friendly, generous, kind and patient.

May as well post up pics in this thread rather than starting another one...

Temple Bar Marina on Saturday


High wind warning with gusts up to 50 mph had been forecast for the afternoon, and the warning flags were flying


some of the boats that made it

[dingleberry]

A few pics of the gathering after lunch








Sat night activities consisted of a variety of foosball, cornhole, ladderball, pool, maybe a drink or two, and general BS'ing with everyone

[dingleberry]

Since Sat afternoon was blown out, many of those still around Sun morning hit the water early, like 6:30, in hopes of calm water. While the wind had died down a bit, it was far from smooth water. My boys and I had the pleasure of riding along on the Wake9 Z3 with Dom Lagace, Chase Hazen, ragboy, RJ, Maddie, and Thomas. A few pics of Dom:

[dingleberry]

Chase and Dom are also getting ready for the World Wakesurf Championship, which is being held at Lake Las Vegas next weekend. Best wishes to them in that contest! Chase:

[dingleberry]

And they were all kind enough to spend some time working with my two boys on getting them surfing. I thought these pics of Chase trying to give Riley a feel for it and playing around with him were great:













and a short vid of him with Aidan - tossing him at the end

[boatwakes]

Those tandem pics are awesome!!!

[TeamAllen]

What an awesome time. I agree with Gil. We never go for the prizes (although they are nice and the sponsors are SUPER generous) just love meeting the other owners. Each year is always different and John organized an incredible event. Thanks to you, John, and your wife for all of your efforts. You did a fantastic job! The Tigé family is fortunate to have such good sponsors and riders supporting our group.

[Timmy!]

Cool pics Ding! That orange RZ4 is pretty sweet!

[h2osk8er00]

What a great time! Man that was a blast.. So glad I was able to get out there a couple days before and catch some of the better water becuase as everyone knew I don't wake up before 8am... and the wind got a little crazy for my liking.. Thanks John (Bad05) for all that you did! It was a pleasure to meet everyone and I think I will most certainly be back if I will be in country for the next one. Big ups on all the giveaways and a special thanks to all the sponsers... @CHPthril I won the Line Driver that you provided! Stoked about it and thank you... A big up to Eric's sons... Especially Aiden who made me encouraged me to swim 2 miles to grab his sandals. Hope we can get more people for the next event.. Pretty sure Tige has the best customers of all...

[dingleberry]

... A big up to Eric's sons... Especially Aiden who made me encouraged me to swim 2 miles to grab his sandals.

Hey, I was starting up the boat so we could recover your body if you hadn't made it back.

Also, PM me your address and last name so I can get that dock line sent back to you.

[Bad05]

Well another year in the books! I'd like to start off by personally thanking all the Sponsors:

Tige (jeanw), Offshore Marine (OFFSHORESHANE), WetSounds (wetsounds1), ACME, Babes, Theisen Industries (Dan and Christy), Mikes Liquid Audio (chpthril), Monster, Wake9 (ragboy), Greenfield Products and tigeowners.com

Each year we are able to count on some of the same and manage to find a few new. Big thanks this year also to D&P Powell for the help sending out letters and xpjim1 for the personal donation!

Dominic and Chase – Thank you guys for joining us again this year and sharing your talent, knowledge and enthusiasm for the sport of surfing, we all appreciate it and would love to see you again next year!! Good luck with Worlds, some of us will be there to cheer you on!

We ended up having a great turn out with many return attendees and lots of new. Minus the wind, I feel the event was a success and I really enjoyed the weekend. Whether talking boats, boards, trailers or something totally unrelated to boating all together, there was never a dull moment around the Marina or Bar!

One thing that didn’t happen with all the moving parts is photos of each of you with your prizes. I was able to chase some of you down but others ran away prize in hand! If you could take a photo of you in a shirt you won or bought, next to your boat or on the water, with your prize/s in hand and send them to me, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, please post your favorite shots from the weekend on here for everyone to enjoy!

That’s all for now, back to work I go!

[Wakeman22]

Glad to hear everyone had a great time. Wish I could have made it this year. However next year for sure. The pics look like all had a great time. Love the video of your son with Chad ding. Both are fantastic guys.

[h2osk8er00]

Hey, I was starting up the boat so we could recover your body if you hadn't made it back.

Also, PM me your address and last name so I can get that dock line sent back to you.

Don't worry.. I had the Rocky theme song playing in my head... so I wasn't going to quit... Thanks for thinking about keepingthe water contaminate free though... Also, don't worry about the dock line.. it's all yours Sir.. or until I see ya at the next one of these events!