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From the helm….

 

  During this past weekend our club had another great meet at our Lake Catherine, Arkansas venue. The weather was better than we could have hoped for,

considering that almost all the State parks in Arkansas were closed due to high water. There was an abundance of flotsam on the surface, but depending up

on the direction of the wind, you could generally find an area of the lake that was clear for some great boating.

  We had in attendance, members and friends from five different states. There were boats of all kinds/makes and outboards ranging from Gales to Mercury’s

to OMC’s. I cannot recall a meet where we had such a high number of rescue tows and out of gas instances. I personally went dry once and sheared a pin

another time in my hydro. I had received a tow Saturday from Doug Samstag and also, from Ed Slominski. I believe Dave Samstag also, was towed due to his

Mercury Super Hurricane acting up.

  On Friday afternoon we pulled together all the available boats and proceeded to do a River Run on our way towards the Lake Hamilton Dam. Bruce Miller in

his recently acquired and very beautiful Aritocraft ran dry and it seems another boat did as well. Unfortunately, many boats turned around at different times due

to their own gas level concerns and did not see the idled boats. I barely made it to the Crazy Yankee Marina to fill up and get back home. Doug, back at the cabins grabbed a tank of gas and saved the day for those in need.

  There was not a lot of trading parts this meet, however Joe Roth and Carl Fryer did bring their fair share of parts, motors and boats. It seemed this time was

more of a vacation for most. I personally had all my family in attendance and the Samstag’s has a full house as well. We all did what we love to do most…run

our motors.

  On Friday night the girls, Heidi Guidry, Cindy Slator, Becky Samstag my wife Julie and others helped put together a dinner of Cajon chicken gumbo prepared by

Heidi, that was simply amazing. A job very well done, ladies! Dennis Schmidt provided live entertainment with his guitar and after dinner, we celebrated Dave

Samstag’s birthday with cake and ice cream.  

  This location for this meet is quite a distance for most, however we always fill the cabins and everyone seems to enjoy the lake. This has become an annual

get together and I would like to keep it that way for the future. In doing so, we have reserved the cabins again for next year, May 20-23rd.  Our next upcoming

 meet will be at the Longhorn Resort on beautiful Lake LBJ down in the Hill Country. It will be October 16th-17th. Please don’t miss this one; it will be the last

wet meet of 2009.

 

 Have a great summer.                 George

   Steve Guidry & Family