Badin Lake Mini Oct 9,10,11

I'll keep my eye on this for redundancy. The current model has many trips left

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it's friday afternoon. time to get hijacked

That fella was thinking outside of the box

Greg, hopefully this guy won't show up for the next Badin Blowout. I wouldn't want to see you lose your first place title for best home-made paddle.

More Cheese Balls for the Dogs is all I want to see. Now that is entertainment on your third keg.

Air206 wrote: Morfoot wrote: .....make " The Badin Blowout" a 18'ft and under only event ..... Hater!

X2

Tim gets a RAW Bubba Burger next year.

Greg, Everything. Was. Fabulous. Cold and rainy Saturday not withstanding, It really is hard to imagine how it could be better. Always good to see old friends and make new ones. I too noticed how much work/cooking was going on behind the scenes. There are plenty of us who actually enjoy doing that kind of stuff and are more than willing to help. Then again, I know how it feels to host of a big group and I have enjoyed that part too. Maybe some year I will be able to stay the entire weekend and actually get a chance to ski.

........Next he'll say, only backwater Southerners with Green and Red boats and girlfriends named Kim..............

Whoo hoo, No Rules !!!!!!!

Morfoot wrote: .....make " The Badin Blowout" a 18'ft and under only event .....

Hater!

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.