Lake Hartwell Meals on Wheels Poker Run 2005

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We had a great time at the poker run this year. We got to meet some new friends, and see some old ones. Everyone made the entire run with zero problems. Dinner at the Galley last night was excellent. You could not have drawn up a better weekend.

Here are a few of our pictures. I'm sure Dock will contribute when he gets back.

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Rafted

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Albert Haynesworth from the Tennesee Titans in the white shirt talking with Dock and Tommie.

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Look at the LCD screens in the back of the seats.

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Another raft up shot.

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Dock and Tommie

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Our Tennesee friends.

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Heading out.

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Albert's Fountain.

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Albert again, he wanted to run hard all day.

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Troy and Angela in the Baja 272.

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Another of the Fountain.

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Look at the tail.

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Matt and Ali in a Baja 245. Nice looking boat guys.

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Kent and Crystal in a Baja 20 Outlaw.

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At the first card stop.

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Another at the first card stop.

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Dock and Tommie headed to the second card stop.

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Try that one again.

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Matt and Ali.

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Second card stop.

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Chris from Tennesee in the Profile.

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Heading to Charlie T's for the 3rd card.

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And a word from our sponsor.

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Here they come.

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Look it's a otter, or is that Dock?

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yeap that's Dock.

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Can you say MONEY.

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I forgot to mention that there were 90 boats, and they took in $12,000 for Meals on Wheel charity.

[Velocity Mark]

Jeff it looks like you guys had a great time. Thanks for the pic's

[AMBUSHER]

Thanks for all the pictures Jeff. Looks like you guys had a great turnout.

[Dock Holiday]

Jeff,

First off "Happy 40th Birthday"!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have done a great job with this thread and I cannot tell you what a good time we had at Hartwell. Thanks again for putting everything together!

The Poker run did very well for the Charity which is the most important thing. There were a LOT of very nice volunteers that made this all happen.

But lets not forget that it is Memorial Day weekend and I want to thank the local National Guard that did a VERY good job at the event.

Doc

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Meals on Wheels = $12,000 + dollars

National Guard = Memorial Day

God Bless America

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With holiday & race traffic we got down there LATE Friday night, but got a good nights rest and were ready to go early Saturday morning. I think Jeff and us were the first two boats to get the vessell safety inspection and our extra bonus card for the poker run.

We had one hand with 3 Aces and one hand with 3 sixes, so we were counting on the bonus card for an ace, six or a jack wild card to beat the winning full house, and we got a NINE. Oh well, that's the way the cards fell!

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We had our favorite slips at Dock #4

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Agent Orange arrives!

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Team "Dock Holiday" ready for the sun to come up!

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What's that smile all about "Bubba"?

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The gang from Tennessee arrived and we all started to raft up waiting for the event to start.

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Albert is AKA "BIG", and his buddy Tyreese is on the phone with "Small".

America is a "GREAT" place to live!!!!

Imagine being 23 Years old and already having a "CUSTOM" build 42 Fountain.

But these guys are really VERY nice level headed guys, that love life and like all of us "Love Boating"!

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Checking fluids getting ready to run hard with Sonny!

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The Boat Princess looking pretty!

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Troy & Angela from Atlanta with a beautiful 25th anniversary 272 with a really bad $ $ $ custom built 502!

That is Matt and Ali on the far side with their new 245 with 496 HO. He is a major Tennessee Titan fan and the guy that introduced us to Albert & Tyreese.

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The fastes cat there this year was also the fastest cat there last year. Only this year he is running over 135 MPH.

Man those DCB's really run flat on the water!

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The now FAMOUS trade marked pose!

Don't try this pose on your boat, "Sonny is a PROFESSIONAL".

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Well, here is a close up from a few weeks ago!

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A really sharp looking "Profile".

These guys had a Pantera last year.

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Agent Orange and the gang.

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Albert

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After our third card stop we took a two hour break to have lunch, get to know everyone better and enjoy some water activities.

A real treat was getting to try out Troy's Aqua Scooter. You can see it on the swim platform of his 272.

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Here's Troy doing water donuts!

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Come on Jeff, you ain't going to try it?

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Well, this FAT boy was ready and willing when my time came.

You better have your swim trunks on tight, cause this baby really moves pretty fast, and you just might loose them!

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Man this was a BLAST, I gotta get one of these.

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I tried HARD to get Albert to give the Aqua Scooter a shot.

He was not even interested, I asked him if he could swim and he had us all rolling.

QUOTE " I can swim just enough to save my fat A$$".

"That thing needs a few more horsepower and a Labbed Prop to pull me"

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Albert's 42 Fountain is a really beautiful boat that he designed himself. His first boat was a Baja H2X and he got hooked fast.

He went directly to Reggie Fountain himself and they built this boat to fit his 6'6"tall, 320 pound body.

The gel is 100% totally grey with black flames. The floor of the boat is much lower than standard, and the seats were custom built so his knees would fit under the dash. When standing he is still head and shoulders above the windshield, but is very comfortable while sitting. It is a LONG step down from the sun pad to the top of the back seat. You had better watch your step!

The sound system is something he is very proud of and should be. It is by far the best I have ever heard. He has a total of four LCD screens that you cannot see well in the daylight, but he and his wife and two children like to take dinner cruises and he says they are really killer to view at night.

Rodney "Spittin Kitty" met him in Daytona at Stu's run week before last and Stu gave him the word o Jacksonville.

He is really pumped about coming to Jacksonville, and you can see this BIG Man and his custome Fountain first hand.

Brent, I know you will be wanting a new Fountain after seeing this one!!!!!!!!!!!!

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He was over checking out our boat and I was checking out his. The seats are the widest I have seen, they are very low, and when I'm sitting all the way back I can barely reach the steering wheel!

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Jeff,

I hope that is not one of those "Spank" drinks Albert was passing out!

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Twin 525's

He was trying some 30 Pitch 5 blades for the first time.

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That was a lot of fun. I don't think anyone wanted to pull up anchor, but time to get to our last card stop and head back to see if we had any winners.

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The docks were already getting full when we returned.

The outof town guys were going to load up and we cruised on over to our slips and got the A/C running!

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This older Formula had a great name.

"Panty Puller"

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The gang less Albert & Tyreese.

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The band was very good.

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The Atlanta girls

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They had three "Full Houses" early on and no one beat them!

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Rafting off for the Party.

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Albert had to get back to Tennessee and he got loaded up and ready to roll.

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One SWEET rig

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Waiting for our dinner reversations at the Galley.

If you ever make it to Hartwell, you owe it to yourself to eat at the Galley.

AWESOME FOOD!!!!!!!!!!

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Well, we all got a good nights rest and Tommie had to feed the ducks and geese breakfast Sunday morning.

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Went out and played a while and had lunch at Clemson.

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Another

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Until "Jacksonville", that is all folks!!!:cool:

[CBlakeNS]

Very nice pictures/boats!

Is Albert gonna register over at boatfreaks?!

[haulinvols]

Thanks for the pics guys. We had a blast and look forward to doing it again. I will pass the site on to Albert so that he can check out the shots as well. Thanks for letting us little boats play along.

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Originally posted by haulinvols
Thanks for the pics guys. We had a blast and look forward to doing it again. I will pass the site on to Albert so that he can check out the shots as well. Thanks for letting us little boats play along.

Matt,

Great to see you again and to meet Ali. You have a very nice boat, even if it does have "Orange" on it!!!!!! LOL :D

Hope you had a safe trip back. Let me know what they find with the sensor, hope it is an easy fix.

Albert is a pretty cool guy. Sounds like he may need some crew down at Jacksonville. You should come down with them.

Look forward to making a run down the river with you guys.

Doc

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I think that shirt might be Clemson orange.

What do you think?

[Dock Holiday]

Originally posted by Steel Outlawed
I think that shirt might be Clemson orange.

What do you think?

Orange is Orange is Orange.

How about Razorback "RED" .

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Originally posted by Dock Holiday
Orange is Orange is Orange.

How about Razorback "RED" . Better than Georgia Red.

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The following pictures are courtesy of Kent from Columbia.

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Baja 272. I love the tinted windshield.

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Another view of the raft up.

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Albert checking to see if the engines are still there.

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Good picture of Matt and Ali and the 245.

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Picture at Charlie T's card stop.

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Nice picture of the Profile.

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Lunch time.

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There's the box anchor holding them all.

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Good shots Jeff. Tell Kent thanks!

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Nice shoots Jeff, thanks for posting and tell Kent thanks.

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are these boats in the same group?

(the answer is yes:D )

who's navigating anyway?

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more pictures

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dang disposable cameras...

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some more

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here's another one of those "navigation issues"

actually let's just say we did it for the pictures :D

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a pair of Baja's

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Last year a big group of boat sat right outside of the marina before we started. last year when this picture was taken it would have been FULL of boats... maybe next year :D

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duuonit,

Thanks for the pictures!!!!!!!!!!

Doc

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Originally posted by duunoit
are these boats in the same group?

(the answer is yes:D )

who's navigating anyway?

The Baja was running circles around the Fountain.

Glad you got a picture as proof!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

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:D