Run In With a Sandbar

[wrangler]

David Baker...the good news is that the sand outside the channel there by Thomson Bay is pretty much free of rocks...so you have a nice shiny prop now???!!!

Smachfam...we have a 24Ve - white with red transom sweeping forward. White, grey and red 10 foot bimini with the chaching tower. We saw lots of Tiges running around the lake as well...good to see...

XP Jim is absolutely right...the Topock Marina eatery is a favorite stop for the wrangler family on our trips to Havasu. There are always interesting characters hanging out there...like us...and the food is always good. We have never been there except for breakfast... We usually stop off at the Sand Bar to let the kids run around before the crazies set in for the day...but I was a little skittish to stop there on my initial Havasu outing with the new v-drive.

I confess that in our deck boat without a depth gauge, I was living in blissful ignorance. Watching that number drop was alarming to say the least... I took the boat into Tige Watersports this week for the break in service and John mentioned how shiny my prop looked... I just smiled... I will have to compare props with David Baker to see which is shinier!!!

[Wake Havasu]

Originally posted by smachfam
wrangler -- Glad to hear you got through it unscathed. I have a black/white 24V with an extended black/white/tan bimini. How about yours? I saw many other Tiges that weekend -- we may have gone by each other.

What's the name of the chorizo and eggs place? My wife loves good chorizo.

[Tequilasun]

Are you guys worried about sucking sand into your engines running that shallow across a sand bar?

Just wondering, we don't have sand here, only rocks and trees.

[wrangler]

My sense is that the water pick-up is a good four feet in front of the prop and all the cloud of sand that I saw was likely kicked-up by the prop...so I suspect that we didn't draw any sand into the water intake...at least that's my hope...

[wrangler]

Originally posted by Wake Havasu

Wake Havasu has provided us with a fine look at the Topock Marina Cafe... Cafe...that probably is a little generous...it's more like an eatery... Perhaps a water-related road house... At any rate, it's fun and the food is good... Just be prepared to answer your kids when the go to the restroom and want to know what the machine is selling called a "rough rider..." Really enjoyed that one...