There’s nothing better than hearing the power from the engines on display. This is the last of our three part video series, The Noise of Tickfaw 2017. Enjoy all of the power and performance from Tickfaw that we all love in one bad ass compilation video!
There’s nothing better than hearing the power from the engines on display. Enjoy all of the power and performance from Tickfaw that we all love in one bad ass compilation video! Stay tuned for Volume III next week!
Enjoy!
It’s been a couple months since we got back from Tickfaw, but something we won’t forget isn’t what we saw but what we heard. There’s nothing better than hearing the power from the engines on display. Watch and listen in the first of our three part series.
Our 6th and final Tickfaw 200 gallery from 2017. See the first here, second here, third here, fourth here and fifth here. Once again, thanks to PBN’s New Professional Photographers Don Heldoorn and Frank Robinson for Photos and video.
Our 5th Tickfaw 200 gallery from 2017. See the first here, second here, third here and fourth here. Once again, thanks to PBN’s New Professional Photographers Don Heldoorn and Frank Robinson for Photos and video.
Our 4th Tickfaw 200 gallery from 2017. See the first here, second here and third here. Once again, thanks to PBN’s New Professional Photographers Don Heldoorn and Frank Robinson for Photos and video.
We shocked the world a year ago with our “Don’t Go To TickFaw” story which set off a series of events that has seemed to have made Tickfaw bigger and better. Of course the headline was an attraction to in-fact tell everyone just how great the Tickfaw 200 really is, as it’s everything every power boater fantasizes a boating event being. While we expected the event to grow in size, even we couldn’t get over just how many boats showed up. Local law enforcement said our estimate of well over 450-500 boats was conservative. If you weren’t there, then you again missed the chance to participate in a Poker Run that provides multiple card stops over 200 nautical miles of boating. With stops in New Orleans as well as the infamous Blood River, this run brings every variety from big city restaurants to swamp bars only accessible by boat.
Joey Fontenot and his hard working partner Casey Harrison again displayed their over the top hospitality and unique support to all the participants that goes unrivaled by any other run. Don’t believe me? Well just ask one of the big boat guys who got their trailer stuck on a boat ramp. Joey and his crew worked on their own without pay or sleep to un-stick these guys like they had been friends since middle school. But that’s just the beginning, this whole community is so welcoming we were literally stunned. You just don’t see all aspects of a town and its support system welcome boating as you do here, these great, and gracious people welcomed everyone with open arms.
With this many boats, bars, people, and the usual distractions, you would think it could be too big and poised for problems. Well wrong again! With incredible cooperation and coordination from Livingston Parish Sheriff ,Jason Ard, his entire team of deputy sheriffs, local fire, dive rescue, other parish Sheriff’s, and the U.S. Coast Guard, the presence on the water and in the air was HUUUGE… This presence alone was a great deterrent for any bad behavior and with Coast Guard boats at each end of every slow/no wake zone, the massive fleet enjoyed a trouble free weekend. No Accidents, No BUI’s, No DUI’s. Casey points out this isn’t your typical event where all top dogs are set up in groups with a shotgun start. Participants are shown where all the card stops are and wished a happy days of boating collecting them.
The usual Powerboat Nation crew of me, along with Scott, JW, and Brittany, showed up with our new professional photo/video team of Don Heldoorn and Frank Robinson. We worked non-stop capturing tons of video (23 hours worth!!!) and photos (Over 3000 of them !!!) that we already have in the edit room. We were also showing off some or our new performance apparel from IR Designs which makes sure we are the best dressed media team in the business. The Entire PBN staff was privileged to be hosted on board the beautiful 390 Nor Tech CC owned by Mr Chris Bradley, who we can’t thank enough. It’s our friends in this sport that make so much of this possible.
We’ll start off the media parade with the first couple photo galleries of many to come. Always looking for something new, we strapped a 360 Degree “4K” video camera to the side of our Jet powered stunt Chopper and with our Buckwild stunt pilot the crew headed to the Sun Buns Party and this is what we got!
Make sure you view the below video full screen, use your mouse to control the camera, or if you are on you phone or tablet, just move your camera around to change the view. If you are on a mobile phone or tablet, you may need to view the video in the YouTube app to get the full 360 degree experience. Try this link if the player below doesn’t work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKCJ51qHyc
Our 3rd Tickfaw 200 gallery from 2017. See the first here and the second here. Once again, thanks to PBN’s New Professional Photographers Don Heldoorn and Frank Robinson for Photos and video.
Our 2nd Tickfaw 200 gallery from 2017. See the first here. Once again, thanks to PBN’s New Professional Photographers Don Heldoorn and Frank Robinson for Photos and video.
First photos from the Tickfaw 200. Thanks to PBN’s New Professional Photographers Don Heldoorn and Frank Robinson for Photos and video. Click here for Gallery Two.
Starting on Wednesday May 3rd boats, trucks, coaches, and helicopters will begin to converge at The Blood River Landing near Springfield, Louisiana.
So far 100 boats have pre-entered which is a record as most boats don’t register until they arrive. Estimates are there will be about 350 participating boats plus all the others that just show up for the fun of it. We also know that there will be some new and exciting hardware showing up.
Organizers Casey Harrison and Joey Fontenot are both still hard at work making all the last minute details come together. There is a new card stop, different bands everynight and the same old bucking bull ready for Saturday Night.
Regardless of what you might hear, the future of the Tickfaw 200 is big and bright. Casey confirmed all of this and that 2018 is already in the works and many changes are coming but Joey still everybody not to come.
This year you can count on Powerboat Nation to bring you the entire show. We have a new video team coming in from the west coast and we are working hard on a special surprise just for this years Tickfaw 200.
Of course we also have the Powerboat Nation Sun Buns Party on Friday beginning at 2 PM.
That’s right, the Texas Outlaw Challenge and the Tickfaw Pirates are joining forces this year to bring you something better than ever. I honor of the 10th anniversary of the Texas Outlaw Challenge and the 26th anniversary of Tickfaw, Joey and Paul decided this year was as good as any to shake things up and do what we’ve only dreamed of!
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HIGH ROLLER GOLD!
Enter at either Tickfaw or Texas Outlaw Challenge.
Grand Prize GOLD awarded at Texas Outlaw Challenge in June.
If you attend Tickfaw in May and purchase your HIGH ROLLER entry there, you will receive an identifying gold nugget ring and draw 5 cards at that event as your special HIGH ROLLER hand.
If you also attend Texas Outlaw Challenge in June and show your gold nugget ring, you get to draw a second hand.
If you only attend Texas Outlaw Challenge in June and purchase a HIGH ROLLER entry, you will receive your gold nugget ring and only draw one hand.
If you only attend Tickfaw, you only pull one hand at Tickfaw.
We only carry over the highest single hand from Tickfaw since there is only one GOLD winner…(the highest hand pulled from the HIGH ROLLER entries from both events).
So, if you register into the game and attend both events, you get two chances to win the GOLD.
Tickfaw 200 and Texas Outlaw Challenge are two great boating events in neighboring States, one month apart….we are supporting each other and our combined guests.
FYI: HIGH ROLLER prize last year at the Texas Outlaw Challenge was $26K. (Yes, it ended up being anonymously donated to Charity)
We’ve never advertised the prizes at our events each year….it’s a Texas thing (EVERYTHING is BIG…we just don’t like to brag)
– Paul Robinson
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