bay city poker run
 

checking interest about putting together a poker run out of bay city mi what ya think thanks Ryan

Ryan , from Bay city to to where ( coarse / date / launch area / marina ) and have you thought about accomodations yet .........................because Saginaw / Bay city are not the nicest areas around on that side of the State .

Ryan its already getting planned. check OSO

I just saw that on O.S.O. also, and the official scheduled day for that event is............................... Sat ,July 28 th , 2012 .

As I said on the other site, I am game to do any run locally. If you guys get something going that isnt on the same day as the couple other runs I do, for sure will be in. In all reality though, I personally think if you want to have a class A run that is really nice you should look at doing it out of Tawas. The water is way nicer/cleaner, the state dock is great, hotels/bars/resturaunts/beaches within walking distance. Plus it is all deep/open water. Could run from there across to Caseville via Charity Island, AuGres, Oscoda whatever you like. Bay City is fine too though, lots of options for entertainment, hotels right there etc. If you get something going let me know, you need any leg work around Bay City I am there all the time.

Not to stir the pot :stirpot but i agree with you 100% on having the poker run out of Tawas or even Oscoda for that very same reason's listed in your last post, and to tell you the truth i honestly believe that entertaiment woud be provided by local establishments and the community if they knew there was such an event coming to there town considering....... there just might be an offshore powerboat race this summer in that very same area .

I agree on the community support. The east side of Lake Huron has taken a huge hit due to the economy. That is the vacation area for Flint/Saginaw/Bay City as well as Detroit/Ann Arbor, all of which are in the crapper. Not nearly as much tourism/travel there these days, we had a place up there and it has really slowed down. Tawas harbor used to be very busy, now you can take your pick of dock space. Too bad because its a top notch facility, and the town is very nice.

Sorry been out of town we're talking about running from bay city to north west side of charities have a boat there to caseville for lunch to gravily sholes boat there then not sure if a boat at first plug up for ideas on the second leg after lunch that would be about 80 miles thinking the 1st full weekend in august

The one on oso out of linwood is a different one the marina is nice but I don't see how they are going to launch 40 ft plus boats and I'm not big on castaways thats what sparked all this thanks carder I didn't know this many peeps were interested myself and 12 or so buds have 43 to 47 ft boats and don't want to chance the kawkawlin river I'll see you at boyne

As far as tawas the state dock won't do anything to help sounds like bc wants to help have a meeting we'll see what happens

Meet with city commissioners sounds like they're on board got to make a couple more calls and meet with the ddc but for right now it looks good keep fingers crossed

Been kind of at a stand still till today meet with steve c today and sounds like he's on board midland st gang is in to be partners he's making some calls should know more in a couple weeks if everything works out going to be a great summer on the bay with 2 events still thinking aug 11 weekend

In 2000 I ran my Black Thunder in the “Bay City Poker Run” It was covered by Powerboat Magazine. Attached is the article that was done on us and the event

The run was fun but had a couple of issues with one of the stops (Too shallow for many to enter the channel) After this event I decided to talk to my friend Bob about starting our own event . It started the wheels running to get Smoke On The Water Poker Run going the next year

Bay city can be a fun place to run out of but as was stated Accommodations are a bit sparse. But then again we stayed on the boat :)

If memory serves me right that run went down the kawkawklin river that's were you hit shallow water are run is going out into lake huron to charity islands caseville or tawas still working on that waiting to get final thumbs up from harbor we have 2 black thunders one is a43 ft and a 46 ec thanks for the article

Additional Updates
 

Just to add some additional info. We are working with several partners in Bay City to create a first class event. We have made great progress over the last few weeks.

As far as accomidations we are working with 3 of the major hotels that are within 5-10 minutes of Vets Park and Midland St.