Dinghy Poker Run

[Big Bliss]

Here are some shots from our Dinghy Poker run this weekend. It supports a local Cancer charity.

My trusty first mate and gunner:

The helm of our '08 Zodiac ProJet 350:

The troops are gathering:

Entering the Battle Zone:

The mayhem begins:

Enemy combatants with protective gear:

Guerrillas wading in from shore:

Thanks Fire & Rescue for helping out an keeping everything safe and orderly:

Another stop on the crusade:

Quick lunch:

First mate fraternizing with the enemy:

First mate tried to board enemy vessel and missed:

First mate tries to sweet talk her way passed enemy combatant in line for another poker card:

Funniest thing, our fiends who watched our kids while we were gone had a wateballoon slingshot. Which of course was a big hit with my son. They launched at a boat who in turn called 911 (must have gone something like this: Operator: What is the emergency? Caller: I am being attacked by water balloons....)
Anyway, so while Coast Guard, Fire and Rescue and the Voluntary Coasties were everywhere and making sure everything was halfway controlled the County Police stopped by our raft-up to warn them to only fire at Poker Run participants [:-headache] and handed out tickets for not having a sound making device or not enough PFDs [:-eyebrows] to people in the Poker Run. As you can see this is all on a very small creek where you actually can almost everywhere walk to shore.

 

[Shadowcruzr]

Cool pictures. Looks like a lot of fun.
However that knob at the bottom of picture 2 does look a little suspicious given the proximity to...

 

[Chesagansett]

Looks like a lot of fun. Where did it take place?

Thanks.

 

[Big Bliss]

This one was on the Middle River ie, off to the Creeks, Frog Mortar etc. They have several events every year across the Bay http://dinghypokerrun.org/

Also there is the Kent Narrows Poker Run where people decorate all the dinghies, which lasts about one water attack long.

That knob almost was our demise, it is unexploded ordance launched at us by an enemy troop caqrrier. fortunately they did not know how to properly prepare their naval shells and underfilled them. Worse are the members of the evil axxis who against the Chesapeake Dinghy convention use coolers and ice water in their projectiles and cannons......

 

[Chesagansett]

Thanks. Looks like a really fun time.