Yesterday morning, after we wired the bow thruster, finished some paint touch-ups, and loaded up the boat, the lift came to put us in the water. The whole thing was pretty impressive. I'm not sure these photos quite capture the scale of the thing. It's a really huge machine and a really huge boat!
Here the lift is getting into place...
and lifting up the boat with the straps.
They're a little flimsy looking, no? But they did the trick!
And here she goes across the parking lot...
and to the dock where she got lowered in.
And, finally, after filling up our fuel tanks and travelling up river a ways, here we are at a mooring basin, for a couple of nights (That's us on the far right).
We have a handful of large fishing boats and two docks full of barking sea lions as our neighbors.
Once I saw a boat crumble under the weight of itself in the straps! Very dramatic
ReplyDeleteOoohhh, why aren't there any pictures of that? The boat looks awesome. And huge!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad we get to find out what a bow thruster is!
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