Inner that was so cool that you not only got to attend, but also came in second, Good representing bro!:drink:

Sick let's see some in the water pics of that boat! How is it running?

Jeff, Thanks so much for inviting me along at the last minute with
your brother, his son and Mike. I really had the time of my life!
To say I'm impressed with your boat is an understatement. I'm
amazed how fast it really is considering you had more throttle to go. Those 300's are awsome! Can't get over how many times we
came out of the water. I'd also like to thank Mike and his dad for
hosting a real class act event. I think everyone had a great time
and also a contribution for a good cause. My best to all, George.

Im guessing he didn't get the message jeff, I was hoping someone got him some cuz the the 25s were going on my boat and i'm now sure I need them, 4 guys 3 full coolers, full of fuel pulling 5200 in a little chop, i'll worry about that after mike and I put a crank and rods in one motor.....wtf

Some nice boats.
nice to put some faces with some names.
Good people & good times!!

And $500

MD

First of all, nice meeting you Jeff, albeit briefly at the ramp.

I had quite an interesting day. I didn't really know what to expect at the start, but I wasn't expecting it to start so soon. I was in that back of the pack, facing the wrong way when I heard everyone hammer down. I got on plane and ran it hard for 7 miles, passing about 15 boats. I was right behind Jeff, when...BOOM!...a noise like I have never heard came from the motor and the smartcraft started alarming. I pulled off plane and opened the hatch expecting to find a disaster, but nothing seemed wrong and the alarms stopped. Thanks to the guys in the Formula who stopped to check on us...I think you are on the board. And thanks to OCD and Slboatdrinks for checking up on me as well. I was gonna head back to fall river but slboatdrinks convinced me to run it. I did..at 4000-4200 RPM for the rest of the day without any problems but my oil pressure is low. The scan tomorrow will let us know what went BOOM. I skipped some of the stops to "keep the mileage down."

All in all, a great run at a great price. I will be back next year.

Nice to meet a bunch of the cpba guys - innerage, jeff, scot, sick, etc...

Glad to hear ya'll had so much fun! Sick, how'd the boat run, you ghet any props to try yet?

wow sorry to hear you had troubles, I broke a bolt that holds one of my outboards on that could have been a bad situation, didnt even notice it until I goit back to the start point.

Sounded like there was quite a bit of carnage one of the guys who ran with us got put in the back near nopper and I and they told him to spin his boat around, They told me too also. He got sideways put it in gear and clank clunk cluk all you heard was props on rocks! Thank god I decided not to try and spin my boat around, though I did get a chip in the back of my strake in there, Rediculous putting boats back there.

I dont think they knew it was that shallow in there or they probably wouldnt have put us back there.:bigbird:


How did Ernie make out at the end anyone know?

I overheard that one of the Cig bullets cooked a motor near the end of the run as well.

heres some video of sicks boat in the water!:party-smiley-004:
http://www.youtube.com/user/turbo69bird


THeres also a killer picture of mikeys cafe in this thread right in front of the war ship!

http://forums.boatfreaks.org/showthread.php?p=300283

[QUOTE=Gladhe8er; I pulled off plane and opened the hatch expecting to find a disaster, but nothing seemed wrong and the alarms stopped. Thanks to the guys in the Formula who stopped to check on us...I think you are on the board. All in all, a great run at a great price. I will be back next year.

Nice to meet a bunch of the cpba guys - innerage, jeff, scot, sick, etc...[/QUOTE]

that was me in the formula, my port motor developed a rod knock coming out of newport through the blow boat slalom course and i idled home on one motor

Ran great was a lot of fun. Only have one pic from a camara phone. Takes alot to get the resin pit out of the water and i mean that in both sences. From power to waves/wakes. The boat came out only once one a decen cruiser wake but othere then that pretty much planted well.

Kev Jeff worked hard and not kidding about this on lead for 2 sets not just one for me. I need to call him back. Plus I found a set in boston area and another set a memeber Expensive Date got me a lead on. Dan K has a set of tsunami hopefully can can grab and try out
-Mike
P.S. there is an OK pic on the Cafe Grenade thread Cig forum. Hopefully scot got some GoPro vid.

Btw thanks to Scott, Steve, and Mike for helping me get the boat out without incident much appreciated guys

I know those kids,and can say,they are a good group.Always bring the laughs.They are fresh out of school,work hard,and don't cause any trouble.Pool there money together so they can do this stuff. The thongs were not my thing.But it was pretty funny.Mike brought them in the bar,and the ended up raising over $1000 more for the charity. Spoke with Mike late that night,and he said they raised over $8000 total.In my opinion it would have been nice to see the poker hand winners give the prize money back,but all was good anyways.

Well, just got back from FR, boat's all set, ran beautiful minus the draining of the batteries from the Knot-Right/Team Liquidator dance party that took place Saturday night haha...

It was a real pleasure to see great people again, Mike was fantastic, Gerry, Brenda, Sick, Inner, Christine, Marissa, Scott (I PICK THINGS UP I PUT THEM DOWN) and everyone else involved. Truly a class act, this was how poker runs should be run. Ran flawless and had a absolutely epic time with everyone. I will be a participant for every run in the future.

Cheers!

jeff ernie in boxer at the end broke , got towed in by mike ds friend that had the red white and blue sutphen sun pad , and one of the nopper race guys young one fell off the side at the town dock and me and another guy from ernies boat ended up pulling himout of the water, talk about in a instead things happen, just glads he was alright and we were all laughing at the end:drink:

Anybody know wzup w that dude pat-madhat?
Thought I heard someone mention he drove boat from CT to f.r.
Just wondering if the rain - tstorms f'd up return trip?
MD

Never mind just read post 9 mins ago. Hope return trip was good.
MD

MADHATTER PAT YOUR ARE AWESOME,cant wait to hang with you more in ct, :drink:

;) I trailered, got her out over at the Bristol ramp after the battery fiasco..

Great meeting you bud! That little scarab ran well!

RAGE: Feeling's COMPLETELY MUTUAL BUD!

Back to the grind tomorrow ughh...

SICK: got a nice video today when I took off I believe, lookin forward to seeing it!

God that was fun...

Everyone was a COMPLETE RIOT and fun, friendly, and all around GREAT TIME!

Pat my girl left all the lights and radio on friday and killed mine lol luckily the little troll was at the shop and brought me back a jump box thx mike!

HE DID THE SAME FOR ME! HA! :lolhit:

The magic leprechaun...haha

I heard about that! Eh, it's all good, atleast it was a battery, not a bearing, piston, or a rod!:coolcowboy:

"BLACK CADILLACS"

You're welcome. Any time.

That video is a riot. :evilb:

haha, I pick things up I put them down...I am moving the boat with my muscles and my mind haha

He likes to flex by the pool too yah!

He likes to show off his muscles!

He picks things up and puts them down:party-smiley-004:

For those who dont know its Scot, ss930 in the video on the bow of sick stingers boat.

naration is madhatter and myself after a couple cocktails:evilb:

:drink::evilb:

Charlie it was a pleasure having you aboard this year! Your more than welcome to come anytime! A big thanks goes out to Mike at Borden Light Marina for putting on another fantastic event! Next year we'll get you an Outerlimits! These Ilmors just keep running and running. The whole package is fantastic. I love this freaking boat!! We ran 109 from the start all the way to the Mount Hope Bridge. I've never had as much fun running a boat as I do in this Outerlimits. It was a great turn out. The last leg with the three Ilmor boats was awesom and that SV43 can just plain run!! It was great meeting some new faces and great seeing the Sutphen crews. What can I say about the after party but Team Outerlimits, Team Liquidator and Team Knot Right know how to do it up!! Gerry you da man bro!! The Tipsy Seagull was a blast and had some great bar tenders!!:D A great time!! Scot it was great seeing you and Christine and next year you have to bring the 37! There's just too much to say. See everyone at the next run!

well were fixing the rod noise tomorrow.......

It was great seeing boats from all over New England at the poker run. Mike, you put on a great event again. Many thanks. I lost a water pickup and fried a water pump. Hopefully I caught it in time.We have to start planning a Fall run in Conn., Jeff. ERNIE

we are already working on a CPBA event Ernie, buying the speedos as we speak.:party-smiley-004:


No but seriously, I hope when we do put the run on all the guys from RI and Mass will come down to CT, and Don't forget about the swap meet sounds like a few guys will have some spare parts laying around after this run.


Id like to see EVEN MORE sutphens down in CT in the fall than we had at this event.

+1 to Mike and a GREAT event, and let's do it with the CPBA!

im kicking myself now that we didnt do this run but we didnt have a truck to use (dad was using it for his boat). next year we will be there 100%.

I just wanted to say thank you so much to Mike for putting on a fantastic event!!! Everything about this event was so well done, from the organization to the incredible hospitality and plentiful buffet!

About the only two things I might suggest for next year would be 1) get some poles to hand the cards out so boaters dont have to get so close at the card stops and 2) maybe have the route go out and around Newport so we we see some rougher water (smaller boats could always opt to stay inside for that stop). Other than that, kudos for a fantastic run!


Mike (Sick), thank you very, very much for having us on your boat! The Cafe came out excellent... looks really good, rides great, and once you get the proper wheels on it it will be faster than Jeff's boat! :lolhit: Seriously, thanks again, it's always good to see you and Marrisa!

Also, I met a lot of great people at this PR, you couldn't ask for a better group of folks. And the party afterwards... oh boy! :drink:

Dont know, but those are some sexy hands! :D

BTW, Gerry... always a pleasure to see you Brenda, and Maria! You guys better get your butts to Block for our GTG on 8/27-8/28!!! :cool:


No problem. Great meeting you. Hopefully you and Mike can get that rig of yours all set to make it out to BI as well!


I have one for you too... :drink:
http://vimeo.com/3432886


WHAT?????????????? How many times did I ask you if you wanted me to bring your boat up there for you??? I even othered the same to your brother. Hell, I even offered to bring your trailer up AFTER your boat was already there! :angry-smiley-038:

Next time you guys should make it a point to attend, it was a fantastic event!

^^ lack of registration on the trailer and the logistics of getting back to CT by car would have been painful. there is always next year. sounds like you guys had a great time.

:bsflag: I call BULL SH IT scot said he would have towed your skinny azz up!:kiss:

and I told you Id pop my car trailer reg and plate off for your trailer!

yea but i didnt want to put scot in a compromised position with a un registered trailer etc. i didnt feel comfortable with doing that.

that registration says so little on it you would have been fine.

Both my trailer regs say CAMP TRAILER on them for christ sake

If you were that close to the run why didnt you just come over and hop on magoo we had room?

You know your welcome to ride along

The trailer I have on my boat rigth now is the first trailer I ever had a proper registration for and it took me two years to get it! I guess I've lucked out by never getting in trouble.