Originally Posted by Baja 250es

Not everyone that was ejected came out fine many still in the hospital with serious injurie just an update

Originally Posted by ICDEDPPL

So I wonder what happens when they get you BUI, arrest and they take your boat in or how does that work? Not drinking anything is hard . Pretty sure there weren`t many people sober that day . I was having some stomach issues (probably hung over) and couldn`t keep anything down so I guess that was lucky for me.

Also I was on 500 dock, that`s a 10 minute walk to the bathrooms, electric scooter came in real handy!!

Originally Posted by Brad Christy

tmmii,

Your memory is undoubtedly better than mine. The first one I actually observed was 2008 or 2009. The wife and I went out on my dad’s boat (we didn’t own our own yet). My dad lived on the lake. We didn’t. My dad could have gotten some of the details wrong or my memory could have distorted them some.

A Hell of a lot of good it did, as far as noise, moving it from Jamestown to StateDock, though, huh? 😆

Thanks. Brad.
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Originally Posted by GETTINBYE

The former group-owners had it from somewhere between 1995 and 1999. Not exactly sure but when it first started I was in a 1995 boat that i had until we upgraded in 1999. The first years it was hosted out of Jamestown Marina. We moved to State Dock in late 2005 and at that point I am thinking the host venue moved to State Dock in and around that time + - a year. Shortly after that Bill and his constituents at State Dock got the rights to it and began running it from that point forward until they sold to Suntex.

Mark

Originally Posted by H20 Toie

Well this was my first time and it was fun but not likely that I would go again,
The lack of hotels remotely close to the venue is an issue. when you sign up you can get one room only, so ended up signing up for the poker run twice just to get two rooms, nearest hotels are like an hour away., I know most people get a house boat and now I know why, you have to take a shuttle to get from the rooms to the dock ( that is where everything happens ) and no way are most people are ever going to be able to hike up those hills to get to lodges.
Once you go there and have an idea what's going on I think its fine but for us the lack of information was pretty interesting. when we checked in they told us to go to Pumpkin creek lodge as opposed to the lure lodge where you check in, a map would have been nice but the explanation was its the original lodge just go there,. ( that helped a lot) after driving around for a bit we finally did find it, so after getting settled into the room we drive down to the dock. any parking remotely close to the dock is reserved so end up going back to the lodge and walking down one steep ass hill to get to the dock. just as we get there a shuttle bus drives up, ( Humm would have been nice to know about that) Shuttle drivers were all super nice. as was pretty much everyone, having the shuttle bus number is needed,
As you get to the dock there is a nice open air bar/restaurant and store,
The poker run itself was not really a run at all. over the two days you have 10 marinas you can go to and get your card punched, but they all seemed to be just that marinas not bars restaurants like Loto, One of the people I heard about was Skinny and he puts on a pizza lunch in a marina that is far end of the lake. ( that was a fun time and chance to check out the other boats) super nice guy,
Friday and sat night is the party on the dock. that was fun. but the only place to get drinks is back at the bar which closes at 10pm. but most people have houseboats so they have there own drinks.. place was rocking until after midnight and a lot of fun. People we met offered us drinks so we didn't go without but was still kind of strange that you couldn't get your own, also the shuttle stops running at midnight. so if you are not on a house boat you better leave early.
we stuck around on Sunday and the place was a ghost town, also shuttle stopped at 6pm, same time the restaurant and bar closed.
it was amazing how many trees and logs there are floating in the water. the tie up at Harmon creek is something to behold. since my boat didn't make it I was on a buddies 42 tiger with big blower motors and no way he was going got go thru that mess. it makes the channel in Havasu seem like a wide open throughfare, The amount of patrol boats around when leaving was unbelievable. it was literally an obstacle course to go thru them.
Am I happy I went? for sure. but now I feel like its a been there done that thing. I would haul the boat out to LOTO no questions asked. don't think I would even fly out to Cumberland to do the run again on someone else's boat. but still glad I went

Originally Posted by tmmii

state is over a mile long from end to end. Place is crazy. Back before suntex took over it was mostly open container tickets written with a mandatory county appearance and $500 fine. Since they took over the dui’s have been written. For better or worse.



State was ok with it because of the money made lol.



they had it Through 2005 and state Dock bought it in 06. First year at state Dock was 2004.




Houseboats have gotten crazy. I started getting an admiral in 2012. 4 bedrooms, a couch, one shower and two toilets. First few years were just under $1,600. 400 a room and kept the couch open. Few years later we had a surcharge for the hot tub. Paid an extra 300 bucks and we didn’t even have a hot tub. Prices now are stupid. I love how they advertise the boats as sleep x amount of people and we get half of the number of wristbands for people to be on the dock.

Originally Posted by Brad Christy

tmmii,Just about the entire state used to be dry county. Now, a lot of it isn’t. Not sure of the timeline or if the counties involved changes, but that may have been the impetus for change in how DUIs were/are handled.



I was referring more to the people who were apparently complaining about the noise. Moving the event across the creek didn’t really solve that, I’m guessing. More funny than anything.

Thanks. Brad.
Model Machine and Precision LLC
(937)545-8991

Originally Posted by RaggedEdge

If you still have the set up as when Samantha and I were there to buy the Fountain why would you ever want to move into a comfort cruiser? You had the best of every world then, one I have been working to achieve for the past few years. Once you are bitten by the Go Fast rumble bug,,,,,,,,,,,,,, You be stuck for life.

Ask John Force!

Originally Posted by tmmii

that could very well be a part of the dui changes. I always thought they picked up after jasper sold.

And the stereo usually can’t be heard that far away, the humidity on a lake sucks up so much sound. This year might have been different lol.

Originally Posted by jmoore1225

Dan, That was a nice lil Trot back from the damn Friday evening. I was wondering if anyone got pics or vids. Half my crew hid in the cuddy.