My new real estate company is called Lake Real Estate Pros.   Maybe I took the Warren Buffet quote that everyone loves nowdays that says ““… be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful” a bit too seriously.   After 10 year at RE/MAX Lake of the Ozarks, it was time to make this move.   Lake Real Estate Pros is located across from JB Hooks on Bagnell Dam Blvd.   The address is 2221 Bagnell Dam Blvd Ste 400, Lake Ozark MO 655049.  John Garrett can be reached at 573-480-6420.

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Friday, August 28th. This one will draw six cards and the best 5 card hand will be played. If you have never done a poker run, don’t be intimidated, just give it a try. You don’t have to have the fastest boat or a great poker mind to win, simply luck of the draw. The real fun is a day on the water at 6 great waterfront locations and lots of people having fun. The entry fee is $125 per boat, there’s no limit to the number of people on your boat. Two (2) t-shirts (please provide sizes), two (2) $10.00 dinner or drink coupons, 1 Captain’s Bag and 1 DVD.

Go to this website for more info or download this guide See you there.

2009 Lake of the Ozarks Fire and Rescue Shootout

2008 Lake of the Ozarks Fire and Rescue Shootout

Shootout

Lake of the Ozarks Fire and Rescue is one of my favorite events because I have seen it go from a little boating get together to see who has the fastest boat in front of Shooters 21 to becoming a Top 10 “must see” boating event in the US according to Powerboat Magazine. This has been a yearly event since 1988, and it now serves a charity fundraiser fro Lake area fire and rescue teams, so it really is a great event for a great cause. Record speeds of over 209 miles per hour has been reached, although last years winner “only ” went 178 mph!

Last Years Winner

There are a variety of events that start the 25th, including a benefit Golf Tournament, the very fun PWC Dam run on the 27th, a Poker Run for powerboats on the 28th, and the stereo shootout at Dog Days the same day. This is a great time for the whole family, and one of the Last big blowouts of the summer. Don’t miss it.

Beach at Captain Rons

One of my favorite Lakefront hangouts is Captain Rons.  With 3 young children I like the atmosphere and the secure sandy beach where the kids can play in safety and the adults can order food and drinks.  The facility has very good dockage as well.  It is located at the 34 milemarker just downstream from the Hurricane Deck Bridge.  By car you can find it at Lake road 5-50 just north of the Hurricane Deck Bridge.  They will be hosting the Lake Rescue Shootout for the second year August 25th through the 30th, with the actual races on Saturday and Sunday, August 29th and 30th.

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Speeds were way down, but the enthusiasm that a new venue on a different part brought to the table in 2008 made the Shootout a success.   Next year promises to be even better, there were a lot of bugs to work out of the new location at the 34 milemarker and Captain Rons, and they did a great job with the event, which has been called one the the ten “must see” powerboat races by

Bug Light Dave Scott

 Dave Scott once again claimed the Top Gun trophy, and the event raised a lot of much needed funding for area Fire and Rescue teams. Speeds were way down, but last year was exceptional  2007 Fire and Rescue Shootout 

Many teams were preparing for the OSS race and chose to race only in one event.    

Lake of the Ozarks

   Some of the best views happened away from the track!   If you need more information about this event, or real estate at the Lake of the Ozarks, call John Garrett at 573-302-2320.

The series include the OSS Cat, Oss Cat Lite, OSS Vee, OSS Vee Lite, OSS Cat Outboard, OSS Cat Extreme, and the OSS Turbine Extreme.  Powerboat Magazine

Team CRC won the OSS Cat Extreme competition, with Bud Light a close second. The national title went to Team CRC with Lake of the Ozarks boats Bud Light (Dave Scott) and Bad Moon Risin’ (Bob Morgan) finishing second and third in the season long race.

The OSS Cat Supercharged saw Fury taking first in the race and WHM motorsports (pictured above) that won the national championship.   Congrats on your first national title. 

Team AMSOIL finished first with second going to Peppers.

In OSS Turbine Extreme action, Miss GEICO beat the new JBS Racing boat (beautiful boat) and take home the championship.

Under Destruction just beat out Typhoon and Wild Ride in the OSS Vee Lite class.   Wild Ride won the season’s national championship title.

Special thanks to Merlyn Vandervort and the Toad Cove for making this event a great success .

It’s time!  The old Shooter’s Shootout has become the Lake Fire and Rescue Shootout and is this weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks.  This has become the largest non sanctioned boat race in the US!  Powerboating Magazine calls this one of the 8 boat races you need to see!  This is your chance to get up close and personal to the World’s most powerful offshore performance boats.  The spectator fleet is allowed right by the course, and you can walk the pits at Shooter’s 21 and see the boats up close.

UPDATE:

Dave Callen beats his own record at 209 mph!

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Two Lake of the Ozarks developers are creating a new development near the lake that they hope will give the area a small-town feel.
It’s a small-town feeling with a $220 million price tag.
Clayton Graham grew up in Chicago, in an area that had a friendly atmosphere among neighbors. That camaraderie is something he said is lacking near Lake of the Ozarks, a town known for summer vacationing and parties.
Graham and his wife, Cheryl, hope to bring a small-town atmosphere with Lakeside at Cross Creek, their master-planned community now under construction.
“The lake has very little sense of community, where you know who your neighbor is,” Clayton Graham said. “Growing up in Chicago, there was always a sense of community – block parties, having an extended family in the neighborhood. So that was part of the driving force.”
The couple’s Windy City background also led to the look of the development, which will have distinctly craftsman architecture, with its low pitched roofs and porches supported by square columns.
The project will feature 220 villas ranging from 2,500 to 4,500 square feet each, 40 bungalows at about 1,800 square feet each, and 66 single-family custom home sites. There also will be seven 22-unit condominium buildings, one 60-unit building called The Lodge and 11 six-unit loft buildings.
Other planned amenities include a lake house with fitness center, a post office and a general store that Graham said will help contribute to the community’s “feeling of yesteryear.”
David Beach of Springfield firm H Design Group is the architect for the project. He said the development is something new for the lake area.
“It’s a really interesting, high-end project,” Beach said. “It’s an exciting project for a firm our size to be working on in this area.”
The $220 million project, including $17 million spent on infrastructure including roads and utilities, is in the opening stages of construction.
Ground has been broken on two of the model homes, which will be ready before the end of the year.

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