Alaskan Sea-Duction: First Cruise of 2014 and Moving Day

Well Kay and I are activly moving out of our rental onto the boat. The shed is 90% completed and she has a washer/dryer and a full size frig. Over the past few years, we have downsized in anticipation of moving to Alaska. Man how much junk can you collect over 4 years? a lot and we have to downsize big time in order to have room in the shed and on the boat. We both are finding we have to rethink how we do things. Do you really need it, if you bring something new, what are you going to get rid of. Where is it going to go? We have to be out of the rental by the end of the month and we have given a lot of stuff away and are in the process of sending family airlooms to our kids and grandkids. We have been living on the boat for about a week and so far love it.

We did take a break last week and joined our yacht club at Coon Island for the first cruise of the season. It started out crappy though. As we hit the key for the starbourd engine, nothing. The old batteries gave up. So I ended up changing out two big 8-D batteries. These things wiegh about 125lbs each and I had to get them from the engine room to the dock. Needless to say we got a late start and didn't get to Coon Island until after dark. This was scary as there are logs and trash in the river as it is high. But we were met with smiling faces and cold beer! Had a great time, but some of the Oregon fisherman are rude and could care less about damaging other boats!