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Originally Posted by Islander
Winni passed a speed limit so the performance boats are going to take their ball and go home, or at least a lake with no speed limit, YET!
Poker Runs are not a race (ya, right!)  However you only want to have them where you can "run hard".
I seriously doubt Poker Runs have been raising the kind of money you suggest. And Easter Seals is not a local charity, so have your charity event in Maine.
You can donate to a charity or not, that is your choice. Using your donations to fight speed limits seems pathetic and desperate. |
Your first sentence about says it all to me. At leaste if nothing else you are being honest with us there. You now are admitting to the true cause for your passing the law. Rid the lake of the big bad dangerous GFBL boats.... The problem is we will not take our balls and go home, we are just going to go to other lakes for poker runs, them come back...
Poker runs are FAR from a race. I have done both. For one when you see waves coming in a poker run you can slow down, if you want to run with a friend you can, stop and enjoy the sites no problem. Sure some boats like one of my customers did at a recent poker run averaged 105 at a poker run in CT, but when he saw waves coming and on the rougher leg, he backed it off and took it easy at 50. When you are racing this is not an option. When you are racing you are pushing the limits of your boat and crew the entire time you are out there. This is a HUGE difference.
You can doubt all you want about how much high performance power boaters raise for charity, but the reality is that we do more for comunities that you all realize or we get credit for. For example the Emerald Coast Poker run has raised over 1 million for local childrens charities. Scope Poker run has raised hundreds of thousands out in California. I could go on and on. While Easter Seals is not located locally they have local branches and often times the money will stay locally from events that are in that area. Forget even the money side of it for a lot of the poker runs that I have gone on, kids from Make a Wish and other children charities are given rides.
We are not using our donations to fight the speed limit but it is an "unintended consequence" of what you all fought for. Don't shoot the messanger.... But please don't take my word for it, take a look at how happy the kids are in these photos
http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesho...Uy=pnm0qr&Ux=0