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n Friday, August 9 last sum- from across the U.S. – including Michigan, of Sunsation Powerboats, and its popular
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, North mer, performance boating’s 34 CCX center console; Mike Fiore, owner
Carolina, and Florida – came to play hard and finest arrived in Kingston, of Outerlimits, who was running Dave
fast at one of the largest poker runs of the Ontario to participate inScotto’s new SL52 Outerlimits powered
year. Like every August, thousands of specta- Poker Runs America’s 1000 Islands Poker Run by Mercury Racing 1650 powerhouses; Bill
tors flock to the city’s waterfront all weekend and power their way through what many Tomlinson’s My Way (that also clocked an
to admire the offshore eye-candy and take in consider to be the best freshwater waterway astonishing world kilo-speed record of 225
Kingston’s excellent downtown nightlife.in the world.mph weeks later in the Lake of the Ozarks);
With so many exotic models and action Combined with rockin’ live entertainment and Patrick Bedard’s Go Fast team who, as
planned around the event, the run attracted at Kingston’s Confederation Park and series usual, were running the team’s super-slick
the likes of Joe Schaldenbrand, co-ownerof first-class bars and restaurants, playersOuterlimits. Kenny Hohweisener of Velocity
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