Lake Cumberland PR 2004
 

Well we pulled back into the driveway about 6PM today. Three days at Cumberland and you are beat!

A very wise man (Sonny Spectre 30) once said...

Doc, I know you have been on a lot of poker runs, but this will be the MOST ROUGH run you have every been on!

If if is not tight, secure, and strapped down, you will have problems

WOW, to those words ever ring true!


Many of you know how the start at Jacksonville is, well it is a little worse at Cumberland and it last for over 60 miles. Then the last 45 miles are a little easier!

There are five classes;

Aqua 50 to 60 MPH
Red 61 to 70 MPH
Green 71 to 80 MPH
White 91 to 100 MPH
Orange 100+

They have five starts by color with the slowest starting first. There is five minutes between each color and the first card stop was 28 miles!

There were 137 boats entered according Roger who buts on the run. He is a very nice guy that went out of his way to help us with some last minute details.

The neat thing about this run is the spectators. I would estimate that around THREE THOUSAND people came out to watch from our boats and from the shore line.

My trailer and truck brakes got a workout this weekend also. I just came in from washing the boat and the brakes still smell from Cumberland area and the Smokie Mountains!

There were several boats from this area that we knew and we made new friends like Doug and Betty with the 38 Top Gun.

I have 355 pictures to share and a lot of details to post if anyone is interested. Will try to get back online tomorrow.

For now just a few pictures to get everyone started.

We will begin with my favorite boat of the run.

Doug, it was a real pleasure running and hanging out with you and Betty.

I love the boat!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your boat is my favorite of the run!

Thanks again for letting us raft off you at 76 Falls.

Doc

A Real Classic!

That runs and sounds GREAT!

Life Style of the Rich on "Lake Cumberland"

The above shots all were taken at "State Dock" which hosted the Poker Run this year.

We stayed at Jamestown just accross the cove and had a slip there for Dock. Jamestown is very nice. They have over 800 boats in the marina and have a water taxi moving you around it is so big!

Not sure who the house boat belonged to with two helicopters, but it was not the only one we saw with choppers on top!

Baja had a BIG presence at this run. There had to be around 40. Fountain and Outerlimits were both stong in numbers. There were about 6 to 8 Cigs including "StripPoker" that runs like a bat out of hell!

Spiderman was there as were a LOT of cats!

The Baja house boat.

JR with Baja gave us a big surprise. This issue coming out of the Baja magazine has the Jacksonville Poker Run article in it and "Dock Holiday" is in the magazine!

Thanks JR, great seeing you again and thanks for the hospitality.

The house boat they had was built at the same time and exactly like one that was built for Garth Brooks that he has on his private lake for his childrens play house!

Spiderman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way too cool.

100 MPH with 525's!

Baja made the mold for Skater and JR told me they have it back up at Baja now.

Spiderman

BIG CATS!

One Bad A$$ "Outerlimits"

Can You Feel The Heat

This picture was taken at the lunch stop.

They are changing out the blower pulley's.

Ugh, we puttin them there big pulleys or the little pulleys on Bubba?

Well, the end of the day, a great poker run, and good times at 76 Falls.

Coming back into Jamestown with a nice Baja 442 with triple 525's over my shoulder.

My lovely wife has been very sick for almost a week now.

She was feeling much better Wednesday and looking forward to the run. Then she got worse Thursday and we almost canceled going all together.

But being the boating freak she is and knowing how I love Poker Runs at 10PM Thursday night she had me a new crew and we pulled out at 5AM Friday morning.

Thank you VERY MUCH "Boat Princess". It was not the same with you not being there. And a special thanks to my Son Anthony and his girl friend Tasha for helping out.

I am VERY glad my son can handle both the truck and trailer and the boat. The ramps up there are a real bitch and your have to have a full crew!

Nice

This was my son's favorite boat!

Triple 5.2.5's

It's so fast it needs two speedo's!

This is what Lake Cumberland looks like.

The whole entire lake is carved out of sand stone!

This one picture is exactly like what 98% of the shore line looks like.

It is a corp lake and there are no homes. Only five or six marina's.

It is a VERY deep lake. The State Dock where most of these pictures were taken is floating on 12o feet of water.

You have to really use caution on this lake. There is a noticable change in water color around some of the points. When you see the water change color you are going from 180 feet of water down to 75 foot of water!!!!!!!

When we dropped the boat in I backed out past the dock at the ramp and it was 90 feet!!!

The only area I saw down around 30 feet was at 76 Falls.

You can be 20 feet from shore at this lake and be in 140 foot of water!

This is a shot from 76 Falls. You can just make out the falls in the center where the tree lines merge.

Our good friends Ron and Michelle "Wild Thing Taz".

Great to see you guys there!

Ron. the new truck is killer!!!!!!!!!

It was fun running with you guys!


P.S. " I know, I OWE you big time. Thanks again for saving me $15K"

The Wild Thing

A really NICE pair of "CUSTOM" engines in a Baja 33 Outlaw. These guy are running close to 90 MPH with fuel and four people!

He built them himself and they have "Electric Water Circulating Pumps" along with other interesting things!

503 Cubic Inch

Yes, "503", turning 6400 RPM.

The Damn

Damn

Pretty

36 BAJA Outlaw

92 MPH on GPS

What's Up Doc?

I think "Bat Man" could use one of these for a quick get away in the Bat Boat.

That is Sonny's cat to the right!

Sonny, Did you Party hard Friday Night?????????!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the last one tonight.

Let me know if you want to see more!

Keep going. I wanted to ask Doug how it went. We skipped this year since we did last year, but we're planning on next. It's a great one, well organized and last year I was told 178 boats were in the run. To get all those people in somewhat organized fashion is amazing.

Did they have a helicopter this year? Last year was the first year without due to a crash the previous year. Just wondered if they brought that back in.

Very cool pictures Doc, Please post away. Looks like you had a great time out at Cumberland, and you are right about the ramps out there they are a pain and you better have some good brakes.

I hope Tommie is feeling better.
Thanks Again
TJ

man after my own heart:D i think he may be able to go a little higher.;)
great pics,what was the name of the ol your son liked?

The Corp will "NOT" give them a permit for a helicopter from what I'm told?

There were several private owned choppers in the air.

Does not look like we will have any coverage from the air.

That's too bad.

Tommie is much better, thanks. She is back to work today.

I will post some more today as I have time.

Sorry, did not see a name on it.

46 Sonic

"Sonic Boom"