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Don't forget a guy drowned at Jamestown Friday night and 8-10 got ejected on Friday also. From what I gather all Shotgun starts have gone by the wayside due to insurance reasons, Cumberland has gotten to be about the party amd not the pokerrun.
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jmoore1225 (09-15-2021)
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Exactly on the party. Which is OK I guess. To each their own. But to me it loses the performance boat aura. So it's kind of like having 50 Harley shirts in your wardrobe and not even having a motorcycle endorsement on your license.
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kilo (09-14-2021)
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We saw you guys several times over the weekend - but I get on OSO so infrequently anymore, I forgot it was your boat. I would have invite you to raft up. I was on a black and white 36 Deep Impact cc with some friends.
Destin poker run next week - god my liver hurts! lol
Destin poker run next week - god my liver hurts! lol
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Pretty sure we were docked behind you at StateDock, behind the first finger of slips past the pumps, tied up to the walkway. We were in a 28' PowerQuest, tied up right behind you, and had a red 236 Rinker stack tied beside us. I remember seeing the B&W DI. Nice boat.
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I got pulled over for a wake violation, sorry can`t go any slower , nothing I can do.Pretty lame reason .
Pretty sure they just wanted to check out my crew. Good thing I was dead sober.
Ice actually and thank you ...that`s the other thing , fill up on land at $3.30 something vs. $4.65 at State .
lol that cracked me up but so true.
Pretty sure they just wanted to check out my crew. Good thing I was dead sober.
Ice actually and thank you ...that`s the other thing , fill up on land at $3.30 something vs. $4.65 at State .
lol that cracked me up but so true.
It was a sobriety check. Almost guaranteed. Again, this is why I don't drink ANYTHING with alcohol on this weekend. They will also sometimes check for CG safety equipment. I've never been approached on any other weekend.
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ICDEDPPL (09-14-2021)
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We had a great weekend running the lake out of our home marina Grider Hill. The weather was perfect. One of those perfect weekends that you just don’t want to end. I don’t enter the fall poker run anymore because I just don’t see the point with no schedule and the boats no longer running together. As others have said it’s all about the party now. Still fun but just not the same as before they neutered it.
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We had a great weekend running the lake out of our home marina Grider Hill. The weather was perfect. One of those perfect weekends that you just don’t want to end. I don’t enter the fall poker run anymore because I just don’t see the point with no schedule and the boats no longer running together. As others have said it’s all about the party now. Still fun but just not the same as before they neutered it.
Bill Jasper was the man responsible for getting the PokerRun started on Cumberland. He was actually my dad's next door neighbor at the time. He and his group bought the StateDock when it was a raging Indian $h1tpile and turned it into the premier marina on the lake, and put in the footwork to organize the first PokerRun and several subsequent years before selling the marina and moving to Florida. I spoke with him at length about the changes after the first year, and I told him this would be the case. The drivers' incentive to make the run would decline until the event disappeared. I'd say it's only a matter of time before the party isn't enough to garner the attention it needs to make this event viable and it will end. I wonder if the current administrators will recognize what's wrong before this happens.
Thanks. Brad.
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