Yeah I barely passed the mussel inspection, the guy was cool about it and allowed me to leave my towel in my truck. I forgot to hook up my battery so when he asked me to hit the bilge I had to pull the seat to get to the battery so that exposed the vdrive access which I didn't think to dry up, long story short he was nice about it, I explained I had driven an hour to get down there. Pretty sure I will never boat there with my sanger again, there is always water in my bilge because we use the cooler every time. Sucks because I grew up using that lake and have many great memories from there and Anderson that my kids won't get.
I think it's pretty rediculous how hard they make it to spend money at county (taxpayer) funded parks. I was so turned off by the experience, I didn't even care that it was totally blown out and I would never have gone out in those conditions locally but it was the only day we could organize with San Jose people and were committed, just to find out I may have to leave due to rainwater in my bilge.
No wonder all of our government facilities have cut backs and less access to the public, the enviro nazis have made itso hard to get in that people will just go to the delta, pay a private launch fee and enjoy. How much pollution is caused by bay area people driving out to the valley because its less hassle to get on the water? Sorry done ranting....I got my two month old out on the boat, got a short choppy wakeboard ride, and got to cruise in my brothers new vdrive hot boat, so all in all a good day. Eff that inspection BS though. It's worse than the dirtbike red sticker because it's year round.... Also water was not bad for riding temp wise, I had on a rash guard and trunks and was fine, and I am a little beeyotch about cold water!
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