2018-08-04 Boat Ride

It was decided that after all this time had passed without any movement on the boat, that a boat ride was in order.  And so we set one up.

No specific destination was planned, just to finally get the boat out of the slip and take a little ride.

So that's what we did.
Crew for this was Lisa, Bina, Jennifer, & Hayden.

We just poked around inside the harbor itself for a little while, admiring all the nice boats that are in the area.  There are several marinas right next to each other here, and all of them are chock full of boats of all sizes and shapes.

Then we made our way outside of Gig Harbor proper.  The entrance is very shallow so you have to pay attention that you stay in the deepest part of the channel.

Immediately outside the harbor there were several boats trolling, for salmon I would assume.
I watched them closely but did not see any nets flying so I assume nothing was being caught while we were in the area.

We worked our way over to the Tacoma Narrows Bridges, (there are 2 of them).  We made our way under both of them, and then slowly meandered back into the harbor.

I have switched to a different slip now.  It has finger floats on both sides and so is more expensive than my previous slip.  And it is very tight.  But the boat does indeed fit in there.  And getting into the slip is not so hard.  Since there are finger floats on both sides you just line up and get "in the pocket," and the boat really has nowhere else to go but straight into the slip.  The slip is just long enough for me to go in bow first, which makes it even easier.

So now that we've gotten that first boat ride out of the way hopefully I can come up with something a little more interesting for our next outing.