How Did You Start Going to the Water?

[ChumpChange]

I know a lot of people grew up there but I'm first generation........

For me, it was a Kamikaze trip with two fraternity brothers for Spring Break 2000. We loaded up a tent, some beer, some food, and drove out to Havasu not knowing anything about it. We found Crazy Horse and had one of the best times ever.

The following year, we had about twelve guys go out as the stories were so epic from the year before. Once again we stayed at Crazy Horse and had a blast. I ended up dating a girl who's parents had a place at the Isles, a ridiculous Eliminator Daytona(at the time it was one of the baddest MoFos on the water) and the addiction had fully taken effect. Picked up my first boat soon after, a Monterey 206 and I have been going ever since, buying a house there, a bigger boat and more.......

Have since curtailed the trips with kids but the story is still being written.

[Wendi]

I know a lot of people grew up there but I'm first generation........

For me, it was a Kamikaze trip with two fraternity brothers for Spring Break 2000. We loaded up a tent, some beer, some food, and drove out to Havasu not knowing anything about it. We found Crazy Horse and had one of the best times ever.

The following year, we had about twelve guys go out as the stories were so epic from the year before. Once again we stayed at Crazy Horse and had a blast. I ended up dating a girl who's parents had a place at the Isles, a ridiculous Eliminator Daytona(at the time it was one of the baddest MoFos on the water) and the addiction had fully taken effect. Picked up my first boat soon after, a Monterey 206 and I have been going ever since, buying a house there, a bigger boat and more.......

Have since curtailed the trips with kids but the story is still being written. 2nd Generation for me.
Started going out with my parents as a young kid to Riverland Resort, previously Kinders. We did not have a boat but the friends did. They were all flat bottom boats with big engines! Once parents got divorced the trips stopped. Then my BFF in high school her parents had a boat and we went to Park Moabi all the time and skiied behind their fishing boat. Then we would go without the parents to Crazy horse and that's where the WMC and Wendi show started.... WMC bought his Rogers and we used that for a few years. Friends of ours had a place at Riverland Resort so we started camping their in our 19' trailer aka "The Cube" for many years had our 21' Carrera. Happened to be their on a weeks vacation and bought our Mobilehome. Sold Carrera bought the HTM, sold that because I hated it and bought the Magic Deckboat in 2005. Been boating for a very long time.

[28eliminator]

1980, a couple friends and my brother all went to Crazy Horse for the weekend. Friends brother let us take his boat. The rest is history.

[WESTERNAERO]

This thread is going to separate the old from the young. After reading frat bros in 2000, I'm defiantly feeling old.
Oh, and I learned to ski on the strip in the late 70's. That's all I'm gonna say about that.:wink2:

[HB Vic]

I followed a horse. He drank, so I drank :D

[SBS933]

Started going in 1975 with my buddies family, they had a trailer at the old bluewater park, then started hanging out in havasu in 1980 at Crazy Horse with another buddy. Got married and started hanging at Parker again.

[Stainless]

There seems to be one common thread here, Crazy Horse, lol.



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[314joey]

In 1968 my parents bought a 15' Arkansas (open bow) Traveler tri-hull with a 40hp Johnson (yes, there was a boat named this back then) and they took me and my two brothers to the Mississippi River (by Alton, Ill.) every weekend and we learned to ski and that was it, I was hooked.

I bought my first boat when I was 21 and have had six others, just all getting a little bigger, until now and have had this 35' Formula for ten years now and LOVE it.

[Wendi]

We need to start a thread tell us your "CRAZIEST" Crazy Horse story. This thread would be epic!!! LOL Alcohol, Jail, oh nevermind.

[Joker]

Went to Spring Splash at La Paz County park with our mini truck club the same weekend Kinnison died. Had no idea about the river even though we were camped right on it. About 4 years later, my parents made a trip to Laughlin, came home and said we should go. So the wife and I hopped in the car with them and made the trip the same day they returned. Been hooked since.

[chevellesb406]

First trip was around 2000 or 2001 I think. My friends on Riverland D row were just boyfriend/girlfriend at that time and the g/f organized a bunch of us and rented two trailers with way too many people for the weekend. A couple of years after that started going sporadically with friends and then I was hooked. I finally purchased my own boat in early 2011.

[Napanutt]

My dad has had boats my whole life. I've seen pictures of me when I was like 5 or 6 (early 70's) at Lake Berryessa. Boat must have been a 15 footer with like a 50 hp Johnson out board.

[Stainless]

Sounds like we were all roughing it without the modern conveniences of a motel room, or RV back then. I remember launching out of the Springs with our little Glastron CVX 16 and camping on the BLM spots at the South end of Havasu nearly every summer weekend, ah the good old days!
Anyone think they could rough it on the river in July at our present ages?


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[Wendi]

Sounds like we were all roughing it without the modern conveniences of a motel room, or RV back then. I remember launching out of the Springs with our little Glastron CVX 16 and camping on the BLM spots at the South end of Havasu nearly every summer weekend, ah the good old days!
Anyone think they could rough it on the river in July at our present ages?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free (http://tapatalk.com/m/) Oh hell no!!! Last time we tent camped was at Buckskin and we left in the middle of the night and never did it again.

[Bianca_Rose]

Been going since I was in my mom's tummy. I was born a river rat :wink2: I am a third generation. We used to stay at Havasu Springs, miss that place but its changed alot so its not the same as it used to be. Now its just the river.

[RVRKID]

Grandparents had a place on the strip and my Mom was still pregnant with me the first time out in 1971!:D Been going ever since but mostly Havasu now.

[Sharp shooter]

My parents made frequent river trips in the 60's. My mom water skied while pregnant with all of us kids. There were times when my dad slept on the deck of his boat as it floated.

Here's a short tribute video I put together in memory of my Dad after his passing in 2003. I'm wearing the Raider jacket on the ramp at Elsinore. :D


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[Sharp shooter]

Anyone think they could rough it on the river in July at our present ages?

They could they just won't. :D

This is Crazy Horse lagoon May 20th 2000.

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[SBS933]

Oh hell no!!! Last time we tent camped was at Buckskin and we left in the middle of the night and never did it again.Spent 4 days camping at Buckskin the last week of June years ago. I Damnear died, never again. Thank God for the river house, it was all Bluewater till then.

[riverrunner1984]

What a great tribute video!

[niceguyeddie]

My grandparents bought a place at the river a few years before I was born. They had been going for years before that and would camp on the Indian Beaches. So I started going as a baby. I remember back when we would launch the boats and skis off the beach. I think people that did that and still do are crazy! lol

When I turned old enough to drive they would start letting me use the house with friends. I few of us had stand ups so we'd just hang on a beach all day and I always day dreamed about owning a boat. I bought my 1st boat when I was 19 and kinda carried on the tradition. I wish my cousins/ siblings would have also carried out the river tradition, but I was the only one of all the "kids" to have an interest. I knew since I was a kid that I wanted my own hot rod jet boat.

[ChumpChange]

We need to start a thread tell us your "CRAZIEST" Crazy Horse story. This thread would be epic!!! LOL Alcohol, Jail, oh nevermind.

Mine would involve all of those. Burned security guards golf cart, porta potties in bonfire....EPIC!!!!!

[Stainless]

Remember these?
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[ChumpChange]

Remember these?

Should this go to the Cooler thread? :D

[Stainless]

Oh hell no!!! Last time we tent camped was at Buckskin and we left in the middle of the night and never did it again.

Lmfao, I'm with you, I would stay home bf I suffered that ever again. ;)


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[HB Vic]

Remember these?



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We started going back when these were the hot ticket :D 19085

[ChumpChange]

Oh hell no!!! Last time we tent camped was at Buckskin and we left in the middle of the night and never did it again.

Tent camping was perfect for a buch of drunk college students. If we had a hotel, it would've been too easy to just sleep the entire day away from the previous night's hangover. Nobody wants to sleep in a 100 degree tent in the morning. It forced us to start the party bright and early every morning!!!!!

[78Southwind]

2nd Generation for me.
Then we would go without the parents to Crazy horse and that's where the WMC and Wendi show started....

So what year are you talking here? I was at Crazy Horse pretty much every spring break and big weekend from 85 thru 87 (I graduated HS in 87). My buddy had a Lifted Grey Toyota truck on 40's with a couple thousand watt stereo system in it. We would go to North Beach (I think that's what they called it) before it was developed and start the party. It was absolutely insane (girls dancing & flashing in truck beds, Palm trees set on fire, hand guns firing in the air and just about everyone was under age). I have so many stories I could tell. It got so bad that Crazy Horse started charging to just to come into the campground and party. The local Havasu girls would come down to party and they wouldn't bring anything to drink...just cups. When we weren't staying at Crazy Horse another friend of mine had a place at the Isle condos so we would just sneak in from there. I am sure our paths crossed back then.

[Stainless]

Should this go to the Cooler thread? :D

Hey, those were the cool cooler then, you just had to buy ice twice a day. :D


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[78Southwind]

Third Generation here…my Grandmother owned a boat and kept it in a slip in Long Beach. However, my parents were really the one’s that got me going to the river since they had the lake/river boats. My parents started going to Parking in their late teens and they started moving up river to BHC/Laughlin (to get away from the craziness at Parker) when they started their family.

I am sure I was on the water at an earlier age but the first memory that I have of the river is when I was four years old at Riverside Casino in Laughlin. A friend of my fathers had won some money on the TV game show Match Game. My father had his pilot license back then so this friend offered to pay for all of the plane fuel and the hotel room if my Dad flies him to Laughlin to gamble away his winnings.

My Dad and I had a great time just hanging out and fishing. However, I remember the horrible gnats. I think that’s the day they came up with the saying Visit Laughlin and Bullhead City - 10 Billion Gnats Can't Be Wrong.

My parents bought a motor home shortly after this trip and pretty much took me everywhere with them (Powell, Mead, Mohave, Laughlin, Havasu, Shasta, Tahoe, ectra…and when I was in sixth grade they bought a mobile home in Bullhead City AZ. I have a lot of good river memories and continue to create them with Lisa (MMA).

[Wendi]

So what year are you talking here? I was at Crazy Horse pretty much every spring break and big weekend from 85 thru 87 (I graduated HS in 87). My buddy had a Lifted Grey Toyota truck on 40's with a couple thousand watt stereo system in it. We would go to North Beach (I think that's what they called it) before it was developed and start the party. It was absolutely insane (girls dancing & flashing in truck beds, Palm trees set on fire, hand guns firing in the air and just about everyone was under age). I have so many stories I could tell. It got so bad that Crazy Horse started charging to just to come into the campground and party. The local Havasu girls would come down to party and they wouldn't bring anything to drink...just cups. When we weren't staying at Crazy Horse another friend of mine had a place at the Isle condos so we would just sneak in from there. I am sure our paths crossed back then.

Graduated in 87 too! We had to have partied together there I'm sure!! Funtimes. I was going to upload some pics but WMC backed them up on this thing I have no idea how to get them off. Oh well.

[Sharp shooter]

Hey, those were the cool cooler then, you just had to buy ice twice a day. :D



I still use this one and it works waay better than any of the newer coolers I have.

19093

[Sharp shooter]

What a great tribute video!

Thanks!

[Bobby V]

There seems to be one common thread here, Crazy Horse, lol.



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My first trip was to Crazy Horse also in 79'. Went to Parker a few times. But Memorial day 1982 we were staying at Bransons Landing and ole Jeanie Branson kicked us out because we didn't have written permisision to stay in our freinds trailer. So off we went to Havasu and we ended up camping in the channel where the golf course is now. So Havasu was our place to be. 4 years later bought a house in Havasu and have been going back and forth ever since.

[Jet-Daytona]

So Havasu was our place to be. 4 years later bought a house in Havasu and have been going back and forth ever since.

So what year was that? lol.

[Bobby V]

So what year was that? lol.

Bought a lot and had the house was finished in 1987.

[DC-88]

Mine would involve all of those. Burned security guards golf cart, porta potties in bonfire....EPIC!!!!!

Totally, I remember the palm trees on fire at CH. Not good but definiteley OC. I graduated in 87 and hit the Palm Springs deal the year before too....

[ChumpChange]

Bought a lot and had the house was finished in 1987.

Finished/Built. What's the difference!

[ChumpChange]

Totally, I remember the palm trees on fire at CH. Not good but definiteley OC. I graduated in 87 and hit the Palm Springs deal the year before too....

There's a reason it's called Crazy Horse!

[78Southwind]

Graduated in 87 too! We had to have partied together there I'm sure!! Funtimes. I was going to upload some pics but WMC backed them up on this thing I have no idea how to get them off. Oh well.

You better get William to throw up some of pictures of Old School Crazy Horse. I only have a couple pictures from those days. Here's a couple at my buddy's condo a friend of mine took.

This is the start of the party at the condo. Shorty after this picture we went over to Crazy Horse to party. I am the goofy one with the Cig in my mouth (what a dumb ass I thought I was so cool).

19094

This picture is of my buddies passed out.

19095

This pictures is of the morning after. You might think to yourself where's 78Southwind? Well let's just say he didn't make it back to the condo that night and on his way home from someones house in the morning he was still drunk. He didn't want to wake anyone up by ringing the phone to have someone open the gate so he tried to find what he thought was a better idea. This better idea was to make his own entrance through the next door property. Well that didn't work very well and Havasu's finest gave me the break of my life.

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[ChumpChange]

Look at all those short shorts!

[SBS933]

I still use this one and it works waay better than any of the newer coolers I have.

19093Ha, Shooter that Yamaha cracked me up my sons no. was 933, hence the shortened Slow Boats Suck 933

[78Southwind]

Look at all those short shorts!

Hey that was the eighties the only students wearing long shorts in HS were Gang Bangers...:biggrin: at least they weren't dolphin shorts

If I remember right I think I had a couple pair of long short too, the trend was just coming in

[Wendi]

Hey 78SW WMC asked if you remember the "Chucky doll" at crazy horse?

[78Southwind]

Hey 78SW WMC asked if you remember the "Chucky doll" at crazy horse?

I don't know why it rings a bell but I will have to ask one of my friends to see if he remembers. I was usually the drunk one of the bunch.

[Wendi]

I don't know why it rings a bell but I will have to ask one of my friends to see if he remembers. I was usually the drunk one of the bunch.

He said if you were there for the Burning of the palm trees then you should remember Chucky. We were there. He was in his tan Toyota per-runner haha.

[Wheeler]

Parents drug me to Parker in '62, we stayed at River Lodge.

[wolfie]

I grew up on boats. My father loved the ocean and fishing. When he was discharged from the service, he and his friend spent most of their time fishing and skin diving. He decided he wanted a small fishing boat. It grew from there. He and his cousin bought old 42' converted landing crafts and built decks and cabins. By the time I was born, he had been running charter trips on Saturdays to pay for fuel and slip fees. He sold that one and bought a smaller boat (26'), then a 30'. My mother wanted to do more camping, so he also bought a 17' Glasspar. That was my first trip to Havasu in the early 70's. That's where I saw my first Campbell mini daycruiser. We spent time between weekends at Catalina and all the Central and Southern California lakes. My cousin's father-in-law owned Southwind and raced for them. That's where I really got hooked on lake boats.

My wife's and my first boat was a hand-me-down from my uncle, a 1960 26' Owens. When we sold that, we were boatless (except for my 8" Naples Sabot) for years. We looked at boats on and off throughout our marriage, at one time looking at my cousin's SWTD, a rag picker, and finally the Eliminator cruiser but that wasn't until a decade ago.

[rschap1]

Very little boating with the folks as a kid.
When I got my driver's license I bought ex-girlfriend's 1976 Kawasaki 440 jet ski.
Kept that for quite a few years.
A lot of my friends still talk about my drag racing my 79 Trand Am while towing that ski on it's trailer.
Donuts too.
Had to be extra careful.
Gosh, I hope my kids are smarter than their Dad.

[Sanger_Spectra]

I know nothing other than going to the River for Vacation, youngest of 7 all siblings are the same way. my Dad went with his Brother (Uncle Walt) to Lake Millerton in 1948 he was a Freshman at Excelsior high school and he took a buddy with him. If anyone knows Kenny Meyers from B&K boats in Bellflower, he was the buddy with my Dad. We have been going as a family ever since. This last August we celebrated my folks 60th wedding anniversay at the river with about 90 friends all from the river and we had 4 generations at the party on the water. The river is great for keeping families together, at least it has worked out for us, all 3 of my kids were in the boat at under a year old.

[Stainless]

I know nothing other than going to the River for Vacation, youngest of 7 all siblings are the same way. my Dad went with his Brother (Uncle Walt) to Lake Millerton in 1948 he was a Freshman at Excelsior high school and he took a buddy with him. If anyone knows Kenny Meyers from B&K boats in Bellflower, he was the buddy with my Dad. We have been going as a family ever since. This last August we celebrated my folks 60th wedding anniversay at the river with about 90 friends all from the river and we had 4 generations at the party on the water. The river is great for keeping families together, at least it has worked out for us, all 3 of my kids were in the boat at under a year old.

Congratulations on celebrating your folks 60th! That had to be quite an event with 4 generations together. :)