Lake Cumberland PR...Bad Influence style!

[redhotsommer]

What an AWESOME event! We decided kind of at the last minute to take a little road trip south and hit up Cumberland...myself, Obnoxus, and BZ and his 42 Fountain. Here's some pics of the fun:

Bad Influence staging area...undisclosed locale...
Our buddy Rich's sweet 42 Outerlimits had a bad day on Thursday...
Ready to roll...

 

[Magic Medicine]

nice pics Mike.

Count me in for next year

 

[Sunsation96]

Sweet boats and sweet building more pictures?

 

[redhotsommer]

It's a LOOOONG ride down there from Chi-town, and we made it ALMOST all the way without incident. About 7 miles from the state park entrance, we were cruising along at the speed limit, climbing a small hill, when we heard what sounded like a freight train horn to our left. Some completely whacked-out-of-his-gourd local boy was PASSING us in a no-passing zone with a stake-bed diesel dually towing a flatbed trailer with a farm tractor on it. He DID NOT do it with any skill or finesse, however, end dragged his old metal trailer down the side of the boat. The fender was folded in, the gelcoat scratched up...and the dude DID NOT STOP. In fact, if Dennis had not hit the brakes, the stupid hillrod would've taken out the front of our truck. What resulted was a Dukes-of-Hazard style chase thru the hills of the Cumberland area...with duallys and large trailers! He tried like hell to get away from us, but D kept us in it...even PASSING a guy on the dam to stay with him. We got close enough to get his plate, then pulled over and called the cops. Here's the damage:

 

[Magic Medicine]

Amazing freaking Bill Billson at the wheel of the dually

 

[Magic Medicine]

Sweet boats and sweet building more pictures?

cannot give anymore hints as the the wareshouse we don't need any unwanted vistors!:rofl:

I do advise packing heat in the area though the neighbors aren't very freindly:biggrinjester:

 

[redhotsommer]

We launched at night, after a bit of gelcoat repair...THANKS STATE DOCK...you guys rule! We could NOT find the launch ramp in the dark, ended up driving 1/4 mile down a dead end and having to back the whole rig up! Finally launched and Boatfreak guided us home to the nice little spot he had reserved for us...thanks a ton Mike!

We had a small amount of well-earned liquid libation and retired early to get ready for the run!

 

[redhotsommer]

Rolled into State Dock early in the am...on the way to our boat, we noticed this 25 Sunny riding pretty high in the bow and that the swim platform us UNDER water. Pulled the guys cover back and popped his engine hatch and HOLY #$%! Notice the level of water in the bilge...there was 6 inches of water in the cabin already...Dennis jumped in and tried to get the bilge pump going without success. He bailed with a bucket while a couple dudes ran over to borrow a big pump from the State Dock guys. Pumped it dry before the owner got down there...close one for sure!

Checked out some of the hardware on the docks...

 

[redhotsommer]

Flight Club...my god this boat is awesome.

Jayboat...last pic is for you, bro! :sifone:

 

[redhotsommer]

More fun toys...

 

[redhotsommer]

Milling...

BZ's secret weapon...the infamous throttle glove. :26:

 

[redhotsommer]

GO TIME for the Green wave...

 

[redhotsommer]

Poker runnin'!

Accidently blew past the first card stop...oops!

I got behind the wheel for a bit...

 

[redhotsommer]

Ran most of the morning side by side with this beautiful T/S Gun from Virginia...if you boys are on here and you can send us the video you shot, drop me a pm!

Our boys Formula Mike and neighbor Jimmy!

 

[redhotsommer]

Lake levels DOWN a bit with the repairs to the dam...this'd be a HELL of a launch ramp to use...

Obnoxus Dennis on the sticks...

Love those 525s!

 

[redhotsommer]

After lunch, we hit another card stop, then headed over to party at Harmon Creek...at this point, Obnoxus commandeered my camera, so there will be a significant contribution to the Uncensored section coming at ya...

 

[redhotsommer]

We had an AWESOME time...huge thanks to the organizers of the run, and the boys from Canada that let us on their houseboat when the docks went under during the wet-T contest! See UC for those pics as well! Den killed my batteries!

 

[OldSchool]

Ran most of the morning side by side with this beautiful T/S Gun from Virginia...if you boys are on here and you can send us the video you shot, drop me a pm!

That guys name on here is ROGMAN. That is a nice looking TG! Looks like you all had a good time. That's wild about the hillbillies. Did the coppers catch them?

 

[Candyman]

Sorry to hear about the damage Looks like you guys still had a great time. Need to hit the UC section for the other shots:biggrinjester:

 

[redhotsommer]

OH...and Gatorone...BZ gets tired alot when he's drinkin', so he'd like to say thanks for parking right by where we were waiting for the shuttle...