Chesapeake Bay Boating Group To Honor Art Lilly With Inaugural Memorial Poker Run

Chesapeake Bay Boating Group To Honor Art Lilly With Inaugural Memorial Poker Run

As the driver for the Super Cat-class Dirty Money Racing and Pro Class 1 XINSURANCE South teams, Brit Lilly doesn’t have much free time for recreational boating events. Make that none. The 38-year-old, Maryland-based offshore racing and marine industry veteran can’t remember the last time he did something in a boat that didn’t start with a green flag and end with a checkered one.

Brit Lilly built will run the 12-meter Fountain V-bottom he built-up with his father, Art, during the inaugural memorial affair.

But come Saturday, August 15 at the first Chesapeake Bay Powerboat Association Art Lilly Memorial Poker Run honoring his father, he’ll be in the mix with the rest the fleet. The event is being organized by club members Tracy Turney Burke and Jimmy Jernigan. The senior Lilly, who died last year at age 77, was a beloved figure in the club, as well as the Maryland-area boating and offshore racing communities.

The great Art Lilly renovated this vintage Fountain with his son—and Brit Lilly will run it this August in poker run celebrating the life of his father.

“Man, I have not gone on a poker run in such a long time, but I will be there for sure,” Brit Lilly said. “I have a Fountain 12-meter V-bottom my dad and I put together and I’ll run that.”

Additional details will be released later this week, according to a post on the group’s Facebook page. Speedonthewater.com will provide more information on the event as it becomes available.

Art Lilly inspired and encouraged his son, Brit, to become an offshore powerboat racer.

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