A Great Day

Monday was a wonderful day. It started cool, calm and clear. By late morning it was 70 degrees and reached the upper 70 in the afternoon. No wind over 5 mph all day and not a cloud in site.

Finally able to get to outside projects. I got the new grill assembled. We got the old name of the bottom of the dinghy and "Memories" put on the bottom.

A word of explanation. We have Coast Guard documentation rather than state registration. So instead of "MN 1234 XY" we must display on the back of the boat "Memories, St. Paul, MN" Since we carry the the dinghy on its side on the swim platform it covers the name therefor we must also have it on the bottom of the dinghy.

About 5:00 Scott Bachman, the President of Wahoo Marine (the Gibson dealer) showed up and we went out for about an hour driving lesson for Diana. She took the boat out of the harbor, up river, turned around came back in and docked at the fuel dock. George got to be deck hand, he still hasn't taught the cat to jump to the dock with the line and wrap it around the cleat. After Diana caught her breath we cast off, turned around (in a very tight harbor) went out and down river a mile (it goes by quick with 5 knot current) turned around and came back and docked the boat.

Diana says it is going to take a lot of practice but Scott says she did very good for a first lesson. The deck hand was so busy that he forgot he should be getting pictures, (next time).

We then end a great day grilling chicken breasts on the new grill. Life doesn't get much better than today, if the river would just go down.