The Independent
ASHLAND —
Here’s one for the “For What It’s Worth” department: Participants in last weekend’s Lake Cumberland Raft-Up earned a place in the Guiness Book of World Records by tying together 1,651 boats. In fact, they shattered the previous record of 1,454 boats by an impressive 197 boats.
So what’s to be gained by tying together 1,651 boats? We can’t imagine — other than setting a new world record, of course.
But at least the hundreds of boaters who tied the crafts in together to make the new record possible can boast that they have done something that no one else has done. No matter how insignificant it may seem to us, a world record is still a world record.
And the participants accomplished something else for Lake Cumberland: They helped send a message to the world that the life at the lake that experienced a sharp drop in tourism a few years back when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dropped the water level to repair a dam is nearly back to normal. In fact, that may be the most important aspect of this record-setting Raft-Up
