Fun on the Fox Photo Gallery

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I don't really get around much, but I guess our business cards do.

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Another great run put on by the Northern Illinois Offshore Club. Strong turn outs, the best boats, and good people. You can't end the season better than this.

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We had to dodge some rain on the weekends in August, but still great to be out on the water. Good times out there.

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Captains Quarters once again put on a great show, with our official FOTF photog DONK working the camera we were all over this event. Thanks Captains Quarters!

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We have had a great season of races, that really heated up in August. The boats are awesome, the people watching is great, and the nights have been warm. Thursdays Blarney really is the place to be.

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Some pictures from being out and about over the weekend. Including the boat races Thursday night, raft up for the Fox River Grove fireworks, and some sandbar time on Sunday.

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Another great day, and it was capped off with the fireworks on Fox Lake. Not as crowded out as Saturday, maybe people are at home recovering :)

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What a great day on the Sandbar. We helped Todd and Michelle renew their wedding vows after 20 years together. Then we had a Karaoke-DJ reception party on the sandbar. Great people out there and a ton of fun. Holiday weekends done right.

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We had 3 boats need the Bruceski Boys Crane Service. Glad they were on hand for an exciting night at the Island. What a great way to kick off the holiday weekend, being out at the Island with all the other great boaters.

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Great weather for a Boat Show! A big thank you to all the local dealers for bringing boats a ton of boats and especially JBS racing and Shogren for showing up with the BIG power.

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Some pictures of a couple nights out hitting some local establishments. Most of these are during the last week of bad weather. Hopefully in the coming weeks with nicer weather this will be packed with more people and we won't be driving around with the covers up on the boats!

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It wasn't as nice as it could have been, and the forecast kept a lot of boaters away, but it was still nice to be out on the water.

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It was a SCORCHER out there! What a hot day, the sandbar was packed. Nick's new AXIS with the kickin stereo kept the girls dancing with a great vibe and good crowd. It is great to see everyone getting along no matter what type of boat you have or music you listen to. We are all out there for the same reasons, to enjoy the sun and water. Thanks for being great boaters everyone!

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It was a HOT night out. Still great to take the boat out for a run, which included dinner and the Fireworks Fundraiser at Captains Quarters and out to Blarney to check out the band.

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The day started out overcast and there was a threat of rain. Luckily it missed us south and we ended up having a great day out there. Smaller crowd than normal, but still great that it was warm enough to get in the water and cool off.

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The extended Memorial Day weekend. A couple rainy days at the petite lake sandbar, and finally one nice one. Glad the weather finally turned and gave us a good day. Hopefully the bad weather is behind us!

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Blarneys band Schedule was KILLIN' IT over Memorial Day weekend, with bands such as Mike and Joe, Modern Day Romeos, and 7th Heaven. No cover, great atmosphere, and you can go by boat, can't ask for much more out of a holiday weekend.

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Went over to check out Electric Harbor on the north end of Fox Lake. They have a new pier configuration and extended deck to make it easier for boaters to hang out. With some of the best sunsets on the chain, it is a great place to stop in.

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Another cold weekend, but it turned around on Sunday with some sun. The weekend included a stop at Munson Ski boat demo days, Captains Quarters, Blarney, breakfast at Dockers with some great views and joining the NIOC club for their Loop the Lakes run.

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We had great weather and water conditions for this years Loop Cruise. We had 15 boats head out for some early season boating and great chicago views. This is a great way to kick off your season.

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The weather didn't like it, and it snowed the next day, but we had our Cabin Fever Party with a great turn out up at the Port. Hopefully the next get together we have the boats will be in the water and we will all be lovin the SUN!

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Great St Pats celebration downtown, watching Blarney Island turn the Chicago River green, then marching with them in the Parade. Boats in the water and summer is coming!

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Well it was a nice warm weekend, and I was really surprised by how few boats where out. Great bands, great people, everyone that already put the boats away missed out on one of the few good ones this year.

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Finally a decent Saturday at the Sandbar... if you were willing to dodge some rain drops. At this point we are going to take anything we can get. The summer is winding down faster than anyone would like.

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We had to dodge some rain, but this summer we are going to take any warm day we can get. The infamous party table was pulled out, and those that stayed made the most of it.

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The ARENA in the MARINA!! Mixed Martial Arts fights right on the Fox River. The weather kept some people away, but both the fights and the bikini contest were good stuff.

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The boaters are what makes this the greatest party of the year. A big thanks to all the committee leads and volunteers that made this party happen. Thanks for being there and allowing all the others to party this weekend!

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If you didn't make it out on the water Saturday, you only missed the biggest party of the year. Modern Day Romeos playing live out on a houseboat, how can it get better than that?

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What an amazing Petite Lake Party this year! Modern Day Romeos set off the biggest party of the year!! The band, the weather, the people. This is what chain o lakes party boating is about.

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It was a cold weekend and not many boaters made it out. Saturday was mostly a complete wash out. A few of the hard core ones still showed up at the Sandbar on Sunday. Then off to El Puerto for a wonderful end to a Sunday night.

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Finally a Saturday were the weather has agreed with us all day. It was great to be out at the Sandbar and stay late. Good times with Good people.

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The skies opened up and it became a great night to watch the best sunset views in the area from the Grand Bayou. We had our Petite Lake Party fundraiser there, and it was a huge success and brought in a great crowd of people. After the last raffle prize was pulled, we headed over to the island to start of the Blarney Gras weekend right.

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What a great night to be out on the water. The races were slammed and boats were loud. You can't act for more high octane excitement.

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By far the best day of the Holiday weekend to be on the water, and you could tell by the number of boats out there. It is great to see so many people enjoying the chain o lakes.

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This was the day you could tell who the core boaters were. It was sprinkling and spitting rain most of the day and afternoon, but people were still out. When the skies opened up, you could tell it was going to be a great night for the Fox Lake fireworks over the water.

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a friends husband rented one of the Freddie's party boats for her 29th birthday ;). What a great way to get all your friends out on a boat with you. We had a great time, bring your own ipod and play whatever you want, open bar. This really is the way to have a party and let them do the clean up. I suggest you check this option out.

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You could tell a lot of people had Friday off. I am sure if we had more sun the place would have been packed. I am just glad to be out on the boat with the summer we are having.

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What a great night at the Island. Everyone had Friday off and the place was packed. The races had a great showing with a lot of strong boats. I can't wait to get back there next Thursday. It certainly shortens the week starting on Thursdays!

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SO it was no wake, and windy...will still fired up the sandbar.

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Once again a great turn out and first class operation by the NIOC. It is great just to be on the water with all that big power. Great weather for the end of September and what a way to end the season.

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National Act TONIC came out to the Island to perform. Great to see some bigger names out there. The rainy weather kept the crowd away, and it really felt like you were getting your own show. What a great event to attend.

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The Island was almost all FOTF'ers with about 100 people turning up for the End of the Season Party. The Party included great drink specials at half price bomb shots woohoo!

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Spent a lazy Labor Day Monday on the hook at the Sandbar. Called it early to get the boat on the trailer and head home.
The weather was great all holiday weekend with low 90's or upper 80's the whole weekend. I am glad to see so many boats out on the water and not hear about any safety issues.

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With 7 different bars, thousands in cash and prizes, and over 200 people signed up, this has to be one of the biggest runs on the chain. We had a great day for it and a great group of people out there with us. A big Thank you to website member salsaguy for heading this up!

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I was at the sandbar all day Saturday. Even ate dinner out there. It was a perfect ending to a perfect day, and a great way to enjoy time out on the boat.

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The Pimp and Ho night at the Island is always a good party. This one did not fail to disappoint. It is great to see everyone getting into it and showing up in costume.

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Low key weekend, gearing up for the holiday. Spent Saturday on the river at a house party and made it to the Sandbar on Sunday. Followed by dinner and live music over at Captain's Quarters.

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Back at the boat races again on Thursday, Friday the Playboy Bunnies showed up, granted they were late, but they did show up in time to host the bikini contest. I thought it might be a sausage fest, but the island had a good mix of guys and girls for the event.

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It is great to see Dave bust out the Octabong on Sunday, but it turns out they filled it with a couple gallons my Mai Tai instead of beer. Which girls idea was this? It still makes for a good time out at the Sandbar.

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A big thanks to DONK from the website who has had the rough job of being the FOTF photographer at this event for years. He is pictured here with the contest winner. Captain's really stepped up the party this year with $100 to each girl who just signed up and showed up for the event!

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Well the boating lifestyle is a terrible thing to waste. Hanging out at the sandbar on a Saturday is a rough way to spend the day, but I made the best of it :)

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I missed some of the boat races Thursday picking up some friends when they had boat trouble. Luckily though, I caught the bikini contest Friday night. Good to be out at the Island, still one of my favorites.

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It was a late start Sunday, but was glad to be out on the water. Captain's is a nice end to the weekend with good food and entertaining music.

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I can honestly say I think Catfight musically has put on the best show I have seen at the Island this summer. The vocals were great and the band was having a lot of fun. If you have a chance to see this band live, I suggest you do so.

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Good to be at the races. The people have been good and the races have been great. Glad to see the tradition alive, and hear the boats roaring off the line.

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Back to the old Sandbar. This Sunday was a different crowd than most weekends and the large cruisers that anchor the front line were noticeably absent. It turned into a nice afternoon once things got a little organized and people started pulling together and rafting up.

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Aerial Shots once again provided by Lee Hogan (847) 902 - 3140. This is the guy to talk to for Aerial shots in Northern Illinois. It was a good turnout for the NIOC Thunder Run and site members Crash Landing and Captain Obvious pulled the best poker hand! The Venetian Night had a good turn out with some great fireworks. We ended up rafting for hours afterward enjoying the evening with site members.

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Another great night to be at the boat races. The last couple have been great, with some good competition. If you haven't made one yet, you better get up there before they are done.

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These are pictures I took making my way around the main party channel. I went through once during the DJ, then cam back around again once the band showed up. What a great group and I am glad everyone had a good time.

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Overhead shots provided by Hog n Fly, if you are looking for shots of your property, your boat, or anything from the air, he is the guy to call. 847-902-3140. These are pictures I took while going through the lines of boats making sure everyone was tied up ok. Most groups got together on their boat for a picture.

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Chicago MasterCraft and Liquid Sports Online hosted Dallas Friday for the Oakley Push Process Movie Release Party

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These are some great pics from the run down river. These pictures are generously reposted from Scott Renshaw Photography. Please respect this professional photographers work and order reprints directly from his site.

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What great weather we had for this event. You can't really call it the River Shiver when the temps are close to 90 in October! About 70 boats signed up for the run, and some big power showed up. Turned into a very exciting day.

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This is the second annual FunontheFox end of the season party. We had some great contest entries with the winner receiving a prize pack including a $100 Munson Ski gift certificate. Of course we had to then take a ride around the lakes and go to the Blarney Island Drink-em-Dry closing party. We couldn't have asked for better weather.

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What a great day for a contest, and it was also the Captain's Quarters end of the season party. We had a great showing and I am happy to say FOTF was well represented at the event!

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2007 Flood Pictures, that shut us down for Labor Day Weekend. It really hurt not being out on the water for one of the biggest weekends of the year.

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Our official BYOBC photographer, site member Donk, once again came through with the photos. This is the 3rd year he has been working for us. Even though the competition wasn't as strong as previous years, it was still a good day to be out.

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Of course at FOTF the weekend starts on Thursdays. Some pictures at the Boat Races, Pimp and Ho from Friday at Blarney, and then out and about during the overcast weekend. A bad day on the water is better than a good day at work.

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<------- this girl to the left, took my camera to delete ONE (1) picture and ended up erasing my entire memory card. I thought all hope was lost, but then site member Scary132 came to the rescue with the means of recovering pictures from a memory card. I didn't get everything back but enough to give you an idea of how the weekend went.

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Yes you are correct this is the biggest party of the year. Want to see your pictures in the User submitted gallery for this? send them to admin@funonthefox.com

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Another great weekend out on the water. Weather started windy but shaped up. Started the day at the Sandbar, moved over to Blarney Gras. The place was packed, good thing we got there early. Then Sunday ended the day at the Christmas in July Toys for Tots bike run at the Broken Oar.

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What a great weekend for boating, we certainly had some heat out there. We have some pics wednesday the 4th submitted by site member kphayes. Along with some from the boat races Thursday, along with the sandbar and the fireworks saturday. I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend as much as I did.

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Well of course the FunontheFox weekend starts on Thursdays at the boat races! Also pictures of Saturday and Sunday at the Sandbar. The Band at Knuckleheads and some time at Blarney Saturday night.

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Spun up to Blarney to see the Band Saturday night. Then spent the better part of the Day Sunday at the Petite Bay Sandbar. Not a band turn out for how overcast the day started.

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Great weather all weekend means a serious amount of time spent at the petite lake sandbar. We also swung up to Blarney for Key West Fest. Matt Avery put on a great show and the Island really drew a crowd. On sunday the band at the Broken Oar was great, I am glad I stopped in.

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Got things started on Wednesday, we have pictures of the Mid-Week Wake-Up brought to you by LIquid Sports Online and the Broken Oar. Then moved into Thursdays with the Blarney Island boat races of course

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97.9 the Loop was at Captain's Quarters, we were also there for Pete's wife's birthday party. Also some pictures of the Petite Sandbar Saturday and DruBru's Boathouse Bar party.

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Not many people out this weekend. It was threatening rain most of the time. Got some pictures in petite for a little bit and then at Blarney Island for the band. A pretty slow weekend all in all.

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Even with the foul weather we made it into a nice weekend. Pictures include Friday night for Mike and Joe, and Sunday for Modern Day Romeos. The Wolkinis Closing party, and some time spent at Lucky's. With a little rafting and wakeboarding thrown in.

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This was our first Bloody Mary Contest and Cruise. it started cold, but the sun and the people made it a great day. Thanks to Rodney, a legend on the water, for being a wonderful host, and also a big cheer to Sarah who won the contest!!

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They rolled by pretty quick this year. Some nice work, especially the pirate ship. I need to work on my night time photo abilities.

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Poker Run pictures courtesy of our very own site member Taqener Klozov #1. Thanks for the great job covering the event!!

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Helping out with the pictures again this year is site member Donk. One of our official FunontheFox.com photographers covering this event the last 2 years. Great work Donk!!

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It was a little rainy and a little cold, but still a great time running the 'Chicago Loop Cruise'. About 45 boats did the run this year. One of these years there is going to be good weather for this thing.

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This was another great weekend to be on the water. Pictures provided by our Senior Bikini Construction Correspondent and website member Donk. Thanks for being there for us at Captain's Quarters!!

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Of course one of the biggest parties of the year. Hosted by our very own website member Pink Flamingo!! good people, good band, Good Times!

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OK the fireworks needed some help this year. It was still a great weather and a long weekend out on the water.

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Long day on the water. Went to Vicki's for lunch, hit the sandbar on Petite, went the Thirsty Turtle for thier anniversary party and then to Blarney

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took the boat up to Castle Rock Lake in Wisco. weathered a few passing storms, but had a great time out on the water.

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Caught the Fabulous Janes playing at Blarney over the weekend. Not the best weekend to be on the water, but we worked with what we had

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Although the weather wasn't excellent, this was a great first ride of the season. Everyone should see Chicago by boat at some point in their life.

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Had a great day on Saturday, The Fabulous Janes played at Blarney Island (kicked a**) Nice time at the sandbar.

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This was a great excuse to take a day off work, we had a blast. Stopped at After the Fox, Kief's Reef, Orlando's, The Broken Oar and Port Barrington Bar & Grill.

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These are from the "Build Your Own Bikini" contest at Captain's. There's also some wakeboarding pics thrown in there.

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If you weren't on the Petite Lake sandbar on Saturday, you missed a HUGE party!! We followed this up with a trip to Blarney for Blarney Gras.

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After swinging past Freddies for dinner and talking to the Jager girls we Headed over to Blarney's for the Pimp and Ho Party. It turned out to be a late night, but we had a lot of fun.

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Finally got a Saturday out on the chain. Some wakeboarding, raft up at petite bay, lunch at Harmony Resort, then some time at Blarney Island.

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Started out Friday night with the FunontheFox V-ball team dropping 2 games at SideOuts in Island Lake. The Chain was closed so we had to go to Wonder Lake to get some wakeboarding in during cold overcast conditions. Then it rained Memorial Day and the BBQ had to be moved inside. Well we worked with what we had.

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Saw some familiar faces at this years Chicago Boat Show. The boats looked great. Loved the wakeboard tower on a pontoon boat.

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Much easier than I anticipated, basically just bolt everything together. Takes a few hours.

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2 first timers took about 2 hours.

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