On March 24th we loaded up the van and drove to St Charles, MO to start moving aboard. As you can see even with both back seats out there was not room for anything more. The rest was set aside for the next trip. Since it is a nine hour drive and all of our bedding was in the car we took a motel for the night and went down to the marina the next morning.
When we got to the marina the next morning there in the water was our beautiful new Gibson Houseboat. Just waiting for us. Thanks to Wahoo-Marine the dealer and Polestar Marina.
Also there to greet us was the local air-force with a fly by in our honor. The Pelicans are migrating through the area and there were hundreds in the area along with cormorants and herons, all came
We spent most of the day caring load after load of
The next day we took advantage of West
Finally on Sunday we had a chance to take the boat out for a cruise. Both the President of Wahoo-Marine, Scott and the salesman, Tom were on board with there wives. We had a great time even though the weather was not great and the river level was still high with a lot of debris. The boat ran great and the small diesels performed great, very quite.
Monday we got the vinyl graphics on the fly bridge, but before we could do the transom it started to rain. It looked like an all day rain so we took it easy and packed up to drive home the next morning.
Just about sunset the rain let up and we found
We will be returning to the boat about April 28th - 29th to hopefully cruise down to Lake Barkley and the Cumberland River. That area is current experiencing heavy flooding so we maybe delayed a bit and just cruise the Alton area. Look for regular update to the blog beginning about May 1st.
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