LHC Desert Storm Street Fair (Thursday, April 28th, 2016)

Each year, Lake Havasu kicks off their boating season with the Desert Storm Poker Run.  It is a four day event with non-stop activities, most of which are centered around boating.  We don't go to all of the events, but we definitely try to hit the street fair and the actual poker run if at all possible.  It is an opportunity to see some of the most amazing speedboats in one place all at the same time.

The cover of this year's program

Schedule of 2016 Desert Storm activities

The street fair was Thursday, and gave the poker run racers a chance to show off their beautiful boats to all of Lake Havasu City and its visitors.  The vehicles that are required to pull some of these boats are almost as impressive as the boats themselves.

Many of the boats that visit Lake Havasu during the poker run exceed the 8' 6" width limit for the roads, therefore in order to trailer them to Lake Havasu, they have to either pay wide load fees and abide by the associated limitations, or they can be tilted on a hydraulic trailer and therefore fall within the 8' 6" restriction.  The next boat is one of these.  They are using a hydraulic trail to tilt the boat which makes it not only road compliant, but also makes it much easier to display at the street party.

Alan and Steve posing in front of one of the poker run boats

This boat has two jet engines in it!

Crazy!  Three engines!

Not a boat, but super cool!

Front view of one of the boats!

The helicopters for Speedboat Magazine is also here.  They photograph the boats as they speed down the lake

We spent the morning with our  Alan and Linda at the street fair, and then came back in the evening with Tim and Cheryl and Brian and Kathy.  At night a lot of the boats are lit up for better viewing.

Jet engines that are in Low Altitude!

We have to laugh at our friends.  Alan and Linda are VERY into boats, so we spent four hours going through the street fair with them.  We looked at every detail of every boat in detail.  

Our evening friends were more into the idea of getting out and enjoying the evening.  With them, we saw the entire street fair in about 45 minutes.  We had a great time with both and are looking forward to the poker run tomorrow.