AquaPalooza is a multi-location boating festival, sponsored by Sea Ray

Sea Ray

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 boats. It is promoted as "The World's Largest Boat Party" and claims to attract over 12,000 boats to 100 locations mostly around the United States

United States

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, but also in several international locations.

The "Signature Event" was held on Lake Travis in July of 2010 and attracted approximately 7,000 boats and 65,000 people with Brad Paisley as a headliner. Paisley's current single "Water" was #1 on the charts and his current tour is called H2O. This event was the most organized, safe, and well put together event that has ever taken place on Lake Travis and is quite possibly the World's Largest Boating Event in history. The Signature Event was put on by Sea Ray Boats and #1 Boat Dealership in the nation, Sail & Ski Center.

2009 Locations

The "signature event" of the 2009 festival was held at Lake Martin

Lake Martin

Lake Martin is located in Tallapoosa, Elmore, and Coosa counties in Alabama. It is a 44,000-acre lake with over 750 miles of wooded shoreline. An artificial reservoir, Lake Martin was formed by the construction of Martin Dam on the Tallapoosa River. The Martin Dam powerhouse is used to generate...

, Alabama

Alabama

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, and featured a concert by country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

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. Besides the Lake Martin event, other large events occurred at Morris Island

Morris Island

Morris Island is an 840 acre uninhabited island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, accessible only by boat. The island lies in the outer reaches of the harbor and was thus a strategic location in the American Civil War.-History:...

, South Carolina

South Carolina

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, Lake of the Ozarks

Lake of the Ozarks

The Lake of the Ozarks is a large reservoir created by impounding the Osage River in the northern part of the Ozarks in central Missouri. Extents of three smaller tributaries to the Osage, the Niangua River, Grandglaize Creek, and Gravois Creek, are included in the impoundment...

, Missouri

Missouri

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, Chickamauga Lake

Chickamauga Lake

Chickamauga Lake is a United States reservoir along the Tennessee River created when the Chickamauga Dam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was completed in 1940. The lake stretches from Watts Bar Dam at mile 529.9 to Chickamauga Dam at mile 471.0 making the lake 58.9 miles long...

, Tennessee

Tennessee

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, and on the Outer Banks

Outer Banks

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 in North Carolina

North Carolina

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