Badin Lake Mini Oct 9,10,11

Eric NauticoRico   Awesome CCF site name, I'm sure you will grow into it well!

You guys just wish you looked liked Donald ...   Nice new ride big guy !!

Hollywood wrote: Donald can I get a few wallet sized?

$50.00 buck via Pay Pal just for the shipping and handling charges. Dang stamps have gone up. I normally get $100.00 but I will consider it an early wedding gift for you and your lovely bride.

Ok Don who squealed?

had a good time seeing some nice boats and meeting some new people. lookin forward to another get together!

Plus + Plus what everybody else has already said, HUGE thanks to the entire Fossett crew for the wonderful hospitality and all associated with it, great time great event!!

Big thanks to Alan and Dana for giving me a lift down and back, your new rig sure made for a comfortable trip!!

And a big shout out to Reid for bringing enough boats so us boatless people were not boatless at all!!

Great to meet a few new faces and see all the other familiar ones!!!

I thought it was perfect. Seriously, above and beyond on all the Fossetts + Kyle. Donny on the grill, Reid on the kegs. Samuels on the overflow. Made it way too easy on us out-of-towners.

Maybe you can lower your house closer to the water. My only complaint.

NCH20SKIER wrote: Ok gang I am looking for some help here...........I would ask those who attended what if anything would you say could be done to improve the event,

Not a gosh darn thing................

Seriously thou....I think you should be asking ....what do YOU need from US?

Did you need more food stuff, supplies, help from us? That would be the only thing I would change. I felt that Susan, Kristin and Kyle were working hard to make sure we were all well fed etc.

More cleats on the huge dock of yours even if they are the cheap plastic ones installed on the external portions of the dock just for the weekend. I was a little concerned about someone tripping over a dock line as there were only the 4 cleats for 8 or so boats tied up.

If our northern brothers have Columbus day off as a norm then I say keep it that weekend as it makes it easier and less painful to travel plus it's a longer weekend of fun for them.

Fantastic gathering and perfect for what we need....We just don't want to over burden y'all with the onslaught of peeps.

I think Greg could use a PayPal donation or two for everything he did......

IAughtNaut wrote: don't throw good parties while I'm out of the country?

Thats okay your dad tried to make up for your absense...... When the Capt. Cannonball rum was being passed around he kept changing his position in the circle so that he was always the 3rd person the bottle was passed to. He did the same thing when the Fireball was broken out.

I echo what has been said above. Great event, great time for all.. Changes? Paraphrasing John Kennedy, its not what you can do for us, but what we can do for you, mostly in the area of food. Clearly the hosts did more than their share of the heavy lifting both costwise and effortwise, related to food. I felt bad seeing "the women" spend an inordinate amount of time in the kitchen, when they should have been out playing or mingling. So only recommended change: more planning related to food in terms of guests stepping up to help with offerings, costs and preparation....with the exception of Donald who gets the awesome grillman award.

Next discussion is scheduling. Reid was always pretty much every other year. Tim was every year, then decided on an every other year schedule. As it ended up, their every other years are presently coinciding. Should they be staggered or are both of those events the same year far enough apart (timewise and maybe distancewise). Now with the Fossett's very successful event in the mix, I heard talk of alternating the NC fall event between the two venues. Does that mean we only get to go to Gregs or Reids every fours years. (R-T-G-T-R-T-G-T...) That is unacceptable. Well, I'll let you guys figure that out. Again kudos to all the Fossetts and Kyle and those who helped make this one, one for the books.

From what I hear the Buckethead has likely replaced any August reunuions.

Riley wrote: From what I hear the Buckethead has likely replaced any August reunuions.

Tbd, Bruce. Gotta see what the buckethead dates looks like. There may be an opportunity to do both. Buckethead takes priority in my schedule as of now though!

I think there is enough interest to put together a pretty good Sunday Funday race at the bucket next year. It fell apart this year due to lack of organization and it was a real shame. I think we could put together 2-4 teams from CCFan alone to compete in a 19 mile race. Might be a better option than the 38-miler on Sat... That was pretty intense.

Greg - glad to hear there will be a repeat event, looking forward to it! Everything was great - I'm having a hard time finding anything that needs improvement. It was the perfect way for us northerners to extend our season and hang on to summer for a little longer. Oh, I just thought of one suggestion - more Holman Moody races!

But I'll second Timbob and Larry that we (guests) can do more to help ease the burden of hosting.

I'll throw this one out there.........

It pretty much was but make " The Badin Blowout" a 18'ft and under only event unless the only one you have is over 18'. One of the coolest pictures taken was of all the 40 years of sterns shot. How cool would it be to have a dozen in that shot?