Meeting off of 405 would be good. Around the Bellevue area lets us head out in any direction. Please PM me the details of the drive.

Thanks,
David

 

Vincent you only work 2 days/week now? I can't make the weekday meets, I'm working 5-6 days/week...

 

How does everyone feel about leaving at least 1/2 hour earlier. Possibly leave Gig Harbor 8am. Meet and leave in Bellevue by 9am traffic permitting. So far we have 4 cars confirmed w/ 2 very possible totalling 6.

 

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am I forgetting anyone.
Bruce and Ben possibles.
Barrier Porsche is close to Freeway kind of maybe we can just meet up there. 9am shouldn't be a strain on their parking lot.

 

Sorry I can't make it now as I've made other plans. But I would offer one piece of advice, and that is stay off of Northbound I-405 in the morning. It's stop and go 1st gear all the way from the Renton S curves to at least I-90. It would be easier to meet at Southcenter in front of Nordstroms.

 

Earlier works for me. Traffic is gonna be bad no matter which way we go. 405 clears up around 9:30-10:00 usually. There are many backroads we could take to get past the Renton/Bellevue area if we wanted. Even though it may be a pain to get to Barrier, it still might be a bad spot. Besides, I need to see if I can retrieve my code to program a new remote for my car.

Traffic is going to be lame, but the drive will be worth it.

 

I’m in depending on what kind of drive this is. I don’t want to sit in traffic and it would be nice to actually go drive some good roads without any *******s with brooms, water bottles or rocks. Where are we actually going too, and what is the general route/time schedule?

BTW what’s a good school for dentistry? You guys are pissing me off with this talk of working two days a week and all the fun toys. Maybe if the whole Wall Street thing doesn’t work out I can get out my Dremel tool and open my own practice.

 

That's why I don't get to drive a F430.

 

This drive will be a nice no traffic drive once we leave Everett area. There is always traffic somewhere but the brooms we shouldn't see. The roads are really fun. From Everett we should be ok with minimal traffic concerns. It's a long one I think we will have almost 300 miles round trip from Gig Harbor area. I don't know for sure the distance. My only concern is this crappy weather but should be great east of the mountains.
Vincent you don't drive a 430 because you haven't bought one yet. that's the reason.

 

Damn, I might only do part of the drive. If I do decide to go all the way maybe we could stop over at my cabin and I could show you a real ski boat. I have a few Connelly f1’s that need to have some passes put on them.

 

I ski on a Goode. What's a real ski boat. Do I need to get my money back from Correct Craft? I hope you can make it the whole way. We can stop on the top of the pass kinda if people can't go the whole way

 

At the factory getting put together.

Right now it’s a Malibu Sunsetter LXi (05 I think). It’s got about 11 hours on the Hammerhead that puts out 470ish hp and tq . The best feature for skiing is defiantly the perfect pass/gps. That combined with the super soft tiny wakes at over 30 it’s a lot of fun. Its also good for boarding with the tower, MLS and wedge (2500 lb ballast). I have a connection over at Connelly/CWB if you ever need a ski or board for cheap.

 

where off of 405 (Bellevue) will the meeting be? I can be thre at 10(ish) or whever but t might be good to meet in Kirkland, WA as there's a few deent places to parka few cars in the downtown area there. There's a restaurant there calle "Hectors" that's decent. Also, there's a very good place to meet up around there called "Carrillon Point" which is a marina in Bellevue. This is extremely convenient and again,close to 405. The "other" best place would be the regular PCA meetup place at the "XXX Root-Beer" restaurant off of I-90 and in Issaquah off of the Front-Street Exit. Let me know precisely where and I'll likely be there.

 

Sorry for off-topic, but just have to say that a nice boat. Been boarding with a friend of mine and he's itching to upgrade to a Malibu.

On the Connelly connection, any chance a new 6speed member could take you up on that? With my friend having a boat I now have an excuse to get back in to slalom skiing

 

when your the one buying the boat.. then we will see your real ski boat

CWB has some great wakeboards..may need to talk to ya about a new board..

come enjoy the drive and have fun