Gallery Of The Week: A Lake Cumberland Family Photo Album

To properly christen their new 37-foot DCB catamaran at the Lake Cumberland Poker Run in Kentucky last weekend, Greg and Heather Scheller knew they needed their family to be there. So their houseboat-posse included their young-adult children Alex who is 24 years old, Lauren, age 22 and Emma, who is 19. DCB Performance Marine vice-president Tony Chiaramonte, his wife, Amy, and their son, Ashton, joined them, as did their friend and fellow 37-foot catamaran DCB owner Kiran Pinisetti, and his wife, Jessica, though absent of his partner-in-crime-and-cat, Kelly O’Hara.

For Greg and Heather Scheller, taking delivery of their DCB Performance Marine M37R catamaran was a family affair.

Blood, extended or any combination thereof, families are tribes. And like any other smart-phone-endowed tribe on holiday, they took pictures, lots and lots of pictures, from almost perfect to completely unusable. (They are not, after all, a tribe of professional photographers.) Heather Scheller alone counted 61 pictures from the weekend on her phone.

But they collected memories that—even minus all the images captured—will keep forever.

For Heather Scheller, DCB’s Tony Chiaramonte and Greg Scheller, the delivery combined two blood families into one extended family.

“During our run on Saturday, we stopped at Rowena View Cafe for lunch,” Heather Scheller recalled. “The hostess was busy handling the logistics of seating our large group of family and friends that all rolled in together—probably about 30 of us in total.  Two tables first came available, so we sat the ‘kids’  there. Our table was right next to theirs.

The boat that brought them all together.

“At one point, as I was making sure everyone had a seat, the realization hit me,” she added.  “I have my whole family together in one place. It was the one, most important detail to Greg and me Greg upon building and then finally receiving our beautiful new boat—that our ‘kids’ be included in the entire process and be with us as she made her maiden voyage at the Lake Cumberland Poker Run. 

The memories captured were a fraction of those made.

Scheller paused, then continued.

“That moment at lunch, standing there looking at the ‘kids’ table, it hit me,” she said. “With tears in my eyes, I realized we did it. What made it even more special was that all of their significant others, our adopted ‘lake-kids,’ our DCB family and our boating family could share it with us.”

As usual, the kids table was the place to be.

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