We retrieved the boat from Morgan Marine Wednesday, complete on its new trailer, with a new water pump installed in the engine and after we had the servicing done (new spark plugs, etc...) that I probably should have done when we first purchased the vessel.
Quelle dommage!
On the lake parlay with Ruth Bills
The day was not without mishap, however. (What blog entry would be worth anything if there wasn't a disaster or two?)
After hooking up the trailer and towing the boat back over the Seneca Lake - a very nice, easy trip thanks to the pulling power of brother-in-law Dan Schwartz's Toyota pickup truck - we went to Smith Park (a few miles downlake from Valois) to launch.
We were very impressed with one aspect of the new trailer - a set of steps leading from the front that make it easy to climb on the bow of the boat when in drydock. The steps worked great - the small railing (which I thought was quite cool, at first) worked less great.
In fact, the railing let go when I put weight on it coming down the stairs and I fell ass-over-teakettle, crunching my back on the pontoon of the boat.
Hello Motrin!
Not the best of designs
A few more bolts might have helped
Except for that particular little farble (which didn't seem so little while I was pinned over the pontoon), the day's enterprise ended happily with the boat returned to the boat lift and the cooler refilled with ice and beer. Some of that ice found its way to my lower back to keep the swelling down. The beer was used for strictly medicinal purposes in lieu of painkillers.
Now we are going to wait out a couple of days of thunderstorms before venturing out again - or maybe not. We do have a roof on the boat, after all.
On the trailer at Morgan Marine
Ryan Morgan gets the brake lights working
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