Tonka Boater Intro

Hello, my name is Mark Bills aka "Cobalt Captain". My wife Deb and I love boating, spending most every weekend on the lake, weather permitting of course. Texas has a pretty long boating season, so our 25LS gets wet quite often!

For now, I'm a captain at a local police department, been here for almost 15 years. We're working on our retirement strategy, which will hopefully have us sailing the Great Loop on a much larger boat followed by retirement living somewhere in the Caribbean.

 

Hi, I have taught high school English for 23 years, and this year I will be high school counselor. We love spending our time on the water in the summer. My husband is the director of training for the plumbers and pipefitters apprenticeship here in Kansas. We have four kids with one kid left in high school. We don't get on the water as much as we'd like thanks to summer softball but I believe this was the last summer for that so I think we will see more water time! This is our third and favorite Cobalt. *As a side note we actually started a business in 1998 when we approached Cobalt with the idea of flagpoles. They like the idea and we manufactured those poles until about 2006. In about 2006 and 07 is when they started using the push button lock poles that were kind of like tent pole mechanisms. Apparently those didn't work very well and Cobalt had us start making them again until 2012 when they kept our design and started having them made overseas. Lucky for us there are a number of dealers that prefer the heavier American made poles. Now we sell to those dealers and will sell to individuals as well. We have a Facebook page TIG Tech Marine and a website www.tigtechmarine.com. This is not a sales pitch LOL I'm really here for the Cobalt camaraderie but I thought I'd throw that out there in case anyone is in need of a flagpole and would like to bypass Cobalt's s retail price. I'm looking forward to all the pictures and reading about everyone's boating fun!

 

How Cool that you created that app!

 

Thanks! Good thinking!

 

We had a '99 Cobalt 206 and after entertaining several family members and friends on the boat, we quickly realized it was a tad too small for us despite being a fantastic boat. Enter our new R3! Night and day difference - we love the boat. Unfortunately, shortly after taking delivery, we discovered a trash panda had apparently taken up residence in our ski locker. It had destroyed all of our swim noodles and had chewed on several boat components along with leaving us with several 'treasures'. This was a first for me...and not so pleasant. Regardless, these boats are simply badass and hope to enjoy many years on the lake with the family and friends.

 

Good Morning,
Thanks for creating the platform. When does the app launch? ;-)
We have a 292 and are in the process of upgrading to something we can sleep on. We've had the 292 for 7 years and love it! Our kids are getting older and getting too busy (cool) to hang with mom and dad. We love Cobalt boats and have been actively converting our boating friends to Cobalt people.

I'm President and CEO of a Zdi, Inc and RoomReady.com. We develop and deploy meeting room solutions for enterprise organizations.

 

Hi, I'm Jeff and just got into boating last year. I had been out on boats a very few times in my teens and twenties and loved the experience and always wanted a boat of my own. Last September I made a round trip from Wichita, KS to Angola, IN where I bought my '02 226. I did a lot of research on boats before I bought and knew I needed a Cobalt.
I've had it on a few lakes in Oklahoma and Kansas and spent the 4th of July week on Tablerock in MO. Had I truly known what I was missing I would've been boating long ago. Shout out to Captain Cobalt even though I'm only a sergeant, I've been with the Sheriff Office since 1988 and was an Army MP before that.
I look forward to learning and sharing with everyone and hopefully meeting at least some in person.

 

http://clubcobalt.net/index.php?account-confirmation/173/email&c=7Cd8jp5yr5xTn1Lt
I just sent a message through your website. Small world...we live in the same town! Hope to hear from you soon.

 

Small world! I'll send you an email shortly.

 

Hello,
I'm Jeff and we have a 2013 R3. We've owned a boat for 15 years and love being on the water! We get a lot of use out of it down here in Texas, and we are fortunate that my wife's parents live on Table Rock Lake so we get to enjoy that awesome body of water quite a bit!

 

Do you make ONLY American Flags? Or can you also make college flags, state flags, etc...?

 

Hello all, love this new forum! I've searched around and could never find any forums that were current, or very active. Hopefully we can get this one going strong! Not necessarily new to boating; my parents had a Cobalt when I was young, and my wife and I are fortunately in a position to where we were able to purchase our very first boat back in May, a 2007 272 with a VP 8.1 with 212 hours. Absolutely immaculate boat. I am a Project Manager, managing my company's scope of deep water oil and gas drilling projects, and my wife is a consultant in the Employee Training and Development industry. We try to get out on Lake Conroe, Tx about every weekend we can so we hope to see some of yall out there!

 

We only carry the American Flags since that's what most dealers want with their flagpoles. If you're looking for something particular, I could check with the distributor we use (flags are manufactured in America).

 

Cool! Tablerock is a great lake. We're currently looking for a lake house and although we love Tablerock, we are also considering Beaver. You're lucky to have some lakes in Texas... unfortunately, here in Kansas we don't have a lot of choices...and nearly all are mud.

 

We have our 2003 200 slipped at Prairie Creek Marina on Beaver. I live only 10 miles away so it makes it easy to get to.

 

Lucky! Prairie Creek is a nice marina. We were actually there this weekend looking at properties. We've decided Beaver over Tablerock for a lake house. It's tough to find on the lake with a easy walk to water - and a slip big enough...seems like every time we've checked with the marinas (in the areas we are looking) they don't have slips available.

 

Hello Shawn!

Will you be out on Tonka this weekend? My wife Jenny and I will be out if the boat is out of the shop by then. Tonka Bay Marina says it will be done by Friday.

 

Oops, I should have known that from your facebook message!