No one who signed up for last weekend’s Kuttawa Cannonball Run in Kentucky was happy to see Saturday’s fun run and raft-up canceled. And yet pretty much everyone with Internet access and gray matter between his or her ears knew it was almost certain to happen based on the weekend weather forecast.
On hand to capture video for an upcoming Kuttawa Cannonball Run, the Scrapyard Media team made full use of the one clear day it had. Photo by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix
The massive storm system that stranded me in Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport for seven hours Thursday on my way to Nashville—and then to Kuttawa via car—was the same one that forced Shootout Offshore organizers to cancel Friday’s Class 1 race in Central Missouri. By Friday night, the odds that the super-wet storm system would splash into the Kuttawa area were in the high 90-percent range.
Optimism is one thing, and a damn good one. Equally valuable, however, is embracing reality and making the best of whatever fine day lies before you.
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Even a gathering storm wasn’t enough to wipe the smiles off the faces of Kuttawa Cannonball Run participants.
That’s exactly what the Kuttawa crowd did, and it explains why speedonthewater.com chief photographer Pete Boden had no trouble capturing joy among the participants—from smiling faces to arms raised high—during Friday’s lunch run and raft-up for the eighth annual happening. Not only had many of the folks in the 80-something boats far to be in Kuttawa last weekend, they braved debris-filled Lake Barkley on the way to Prizer Point Marina for lunch that day.
So they weren’t about to let tomorrow’s weather spoil today’s good time.
The group enjoyed lunch at Prizer Point Marina and then rafted alongside a trio of houseboats and one cruiser. The good times rolled into the late afternoon.
Jeff and Lynell Jost (right) and their friends know how to maximize good times on the water.
