Benefitting Make-A-Wish of Central New York and the River Hospital Community Wellness Program, the 1,000 Islands Charity Poker Run will take over downtown Clayton, N.Y., with its signature Block Party this Thursday night. Exotic hardware on display will include high-performance catamarans, center consoles and more from the likes of presenting sponsor DCB Performance Marine, MTI and Nor-Tech Hi-Performance Boats.
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more-impressive collection of models in one block.
The canopied 42-footer will in the mix this week during the 1,000 Islands Charity Poker Run.
New to this year’s street display is first-time sponsor Platinum Powerboats, which is owned by Scott Grants, who lives in Upstate New York, and Edwin Scheer of South Florida. The Platinum models on hand will include the company’s first 428 catamaran built for offshore racing’s Factory Stock class and a pleasure version of the cat.
Grants was gracious enough to provide a couple of image of the 42-footer, which is powered by class-spec Mercury Racing 500R outboard engines.
The boat is owned by British throttleman Rob Lockyer, the first-place finisher in the 2025 Cowes-Torquay-Cowes endurance race off the Isle of Wight. The founder of Good Boy Vodka, driver Alex Pratt shared the cockpit of his winning Outerlimits V-bottom during the Cowes contest. The spirit and ready-to-drink cocktail company is backing Lockyer’s Factory Stock campaign, as is CTS Custom Trailers.
A new tilt trailer from CTS Custom Trailer is coming for the raceboat.
Good Boy Vodka also is a first-time sponsor of the 1,000 Islands Charity affair and is co-hosting the Friday night Good Boy Vodka/Platinum Powerboats Welcome Party from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Fink Park in Clayton.
“We are coordinating with CTS to get the tilt trailer for Rob’s boat and we will bring it up on that,” Grants said. “We’ve also been working with Good Boy Vodka, and we will have brand ambassadors at the Thursday and Friday night parties. We’re excited to be part of this great event that benefits such worthy causes.”