RDP 10th Anniversary get together - Mid Summers Night - Topock Run August 5th

[Jefftowz]

Finally home from another kick ass Havasu weekend. Here are a few pics

 

[240Hallett]

Joe after you told me that on the first stop i tried to use the navigation on my Vessel View. Problem was it was so bright being in the dark it fucked my actual vision up. I could have navigated by the display but was scared out of my mind so i shut it off haha. Almost went blind

We put the cover on the vessel view screen because the bright light was distracting.

 

[Jefftowz]

 

[Kailuaboy89]

I had a blast! and a great time meeting more RDP Inmates, and partying! the Lobster and steak were great too! the moonlit run was beautiful and we have some footage of the boats going thru the gorge from aerial drone. gonna be great once we upload it! we got back to the rental house at almost 2:45am, and then up at 10, and on the water down in Parker by noon, had great time til about 5 then left, and my nightmare drive home began near Ehrenberg with a flat trailer tire, no problem installed the spare in less than 10 minutes, drove through Blythe and headed West on the 10, and wouldn't you know it, 9 miles from Chiriaco summit, I lost the spare...7:45pm...drove to Indio and spent 4 hours taking a shredded tire of a rim, and installing a wal mart spare....finally aired it up at the TA truck center, and headed back to the boat, installed spare again with new tire...made in to palm desert, hit more crappy road, and yep....BNAG! tire #3 went out....I said fuck it, it was now 2:40 in the morning, my family and GF were exhausted as was I, I left my friend at the boat with my youngest, and headed home to try to sleep for 4 hours and then go to work. My Buddy Justin stayed with the boat til daylight in front of the CHP office in Palm Desert, (not a good idea, he was Harassed by 2 CHP officers that said they would have him towed? what the hell happened to serving and protecting?) anyway, he was able to get the last tire mounted and got to the goodyear center for the last 2 tires..so almost $700 extra for fuel, food, and 5 new tires later, I have learned a trailer lesson, and I of all people being a Tech should know better! and I still am looking forward to the next trip, and will be doing some work on the ol' trailer before hand! As for the boating part of it, it was awesome and the boat at least worked flawlessly! the night run was the best! loved every minute, and felt like we were spoiled with the weather, and the amount of time on the water! cant wait for the next time! and thanks to RDP for all the great memories and fun! :thumbsup:thumbsup

 

[Andy01]

I had a blast! and a great time meeting more RDP Inmates, and partying! the Lobster and steak were great too! the moonlit run was beautiful and we have some footage of the boats going thru the gorge from aerial drone. gonna be great once we upload it! we got back to the rental house at almost 2:45am, and then up at 10, and on the water down in Parker by noon, had great time til about 5 then left, and my nightmare drive home began near Ehrenberg with a flat trailer tire, no problem installed the spare in less than 10 minutes, drove through Blythe and headed West on the 10, and wouldn't you know it, 9 miles from Chiriaco summit, I lost the spare...7:45pm...drove to Indio and spent 4 hours taking a shredded tire of a rim, and installing a wal mart spare....finally aired it up at the TA truck center, and headed back to the boat, installed spare again with new tire...made in to palm desert, hit more crappy road, and yep....BNAG! tire #3 went out....I said fuck it, it was now 2:40 in the morning, my family and GF were exhausted as was I, I left my friend at the boat with my youngest, and headed home to try to sleep for 4 hours and then go to work. My Buddy Justin stayed with the boat til daylight in front of the CHP office in Palm Desert, (not a good idea, he was Harassed by 2 CHP officers that said they would have him towed? what the hell happened to serving and protecting?) anyway, he was able to get the last tire mounted and got to the goodyear center for the last 2 tires..so almost $700 extra for fuel, food, and 5 new tires later, I have learned a trailer lesson, and I of all people being a Tech should know better! and I still am looking forward to the next trip, and will be doing some work on the ol' trailer before hand! As for the boating part of it, it was awesome and the boat at least worked flawlessly! the night run was the best! loved every minute, and felt like we were spoiled with the weather, and the amount of time on the water! cant wait for the next time! and thanks to RDP for all the great memories and fun! :thumbsup:thumbsup

Boy what a shitty drive home!! Great to meet you and your crew. Great peeps, be sure to look me up next trip!! :thumbsup

 

[RiverDave]

Well I don't want to add any pressure here, but I have heard no less than 20 times today. "where's the drone footage!" Lol. Everyone though I had arranged it or something. Lol

 

[Kailuaboy89]

Well considering the drone pilot had to sleep in my boat in Palm desert til dawn.....LOL and he is still asleep at home now....it may be a little while but definitely try to get it up before the weekend!

 

[crzy2bealive]

So when's the next event?

 

[steak&lobster]

You can't see when it's light out

True story. I know I didn't see any steak or lobster. . .

 

[steak&lobster]

I'm off the bottle for awhile.. After my two day hangover from Saturday night I have to detox a bit. LOL

RD

Yah 8 hrs isn't a detox. . .

 

[RiverDave]

Yah 8 hrs isn't a detox. . .

I'm gonna take the week off. Maybe longer. The humidity right now ain't jiving with the boozing. I'm sweating balls!

 

[Kailuaboy89]

Boy what a shitty drive home!! Great to meet you and your crew. Great peeps, be sure to look me up next trip!! :thumbsup

I will Andy! had a great time partying and shooting the breeze with ya! I will keep you posted to the next trip. and hope that my trailer makes it!

 

[fishing fool]

Where is that drone video at????

 

[Ziggy]

Joe after you told me that on the first stop i tried to use the navigation on my Vessel View. Problem was it was so bright being in the dark it fucked my actual vision up. I could have navigated by the display but was scared out of my mind so i shut it off haha. Almost went blind

We put the cover on the vessel view screen because the bright light was distracting.

You all realize VV has a night time mode, right? Works awesome

 

[renodaytona]

Going to put up some more pics, Dave's 2 weeks is killing me

 

[beaverretriever]

Holy crap you guys (and gals) are troopers! That 2am plus stuff would kill me. Looks like blast. I would have loved to be there especially considering it is my 10 year anniversary of being on RDP as well!

Glad everyone made it home safe and had a blast. Thanks for sharing photos, stories and such.

I miss Havasu and the peeps down there so much

 

[Kailuaboy89]

Where is that drone video at????

Im working on it! just have not had time to even take a breath since getting back to Cali....working two jobs ain't no joke....and some of us cant hang out in the channel every day ok?? Lol~

 

[Kailuaboy89]

ok ill follow suit....some pics?

 

[SJP]

A couple of pics off of Gigi's SLR

 

[Kailuaboy89]

Ok, finally some drone footage I'm sorry for the delay folks.....im not a video editing wizard yet, and no sound or music sorry again....
[video=youtube;2GBlEt4d9gs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GBlEt4d9gs[/video]

 

[RiverDave]

Let's see the footage from the sandbar! Make sure you upload it in 1080 HD and I can edit it into something. .

 

[Kailuaboy89]

Ill do my best, I'm using a free FLV converter, to upload to YouTube, takes like 2 hours for a 5 minute video lol!

 

[Kailuaboy89]

Converting now. says 1 hour 33 minutes Lol...good thing I have other shit to do...

 

[Icky]

Snail mail a thumb drive to him or upload to a drop box

 

[fishing fool]

Well worth the wait. I made the video

 

[Kailuaboy89]

Well worth the wait. I made the video

Nice! I am sorry I missed you, and sorry I did not introduce myself, next time! where were you at in the video?

 

[SummitKarl]

really fun night was very happy to get out and see everyone again, The boat ride home in LHC30's new toon was epic, first time I felt a cool breeze in months.
I think I am done with day time boating cuz full moon boating is just to frickin cool :thumbsup

 

[Kailuaboy89]

I will have the sand bar video up in about 20 mins...

 

[Kailuaboy89]

Ok....here's the Sandbar footage! enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNSSaYRGjf8&feature=youtu.be

 

[fishing fool]

The night video was cool. I saw the rdp mothership. It was the black spot in the video. Love seeing all the lights at moght

 

[Lavey29]

Ok....here's the Sandbar footage! enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNSSaYRGjf8&feature=youtu.be

Drone footage is really cool at night :thumbsup

 

[Kailuaboy89]

We are hopefully going to Parker for Labor day, and taking the drone to do more fun videos. I am impressed for only the second time Justin was using that thing, the video came out pretty damn well. I am bummed I did not get introduced to more people at the party. next time gang!

 

[Dirtbag]

We are hopefully going to Parker for Labor day, and taking the drone to do more fun videos. I am impressed for only the second time Justin was using that thing, the video came out pretty damn well. I am bummed I did not get introduced to more people at the party. next time gang!

what kind of drone was that?

 

[rvrrat350]

whens the next full moon??

 

[fishing fool]

whens the next full moon??

Labor Day weekend