Log Pond 2014

Here it is Memorial Day weekend already.  Kay and I have been busy around the dock.  She has been planting flowers and making it feel more like home.   I have been busy getting all the dirt and grim off the boat and trying to make her shine.  Some big events have happened this past week.  The boat got its name on the stern and we are getting new canvas.  Our canvas guy, David from Superior Design Top Shop has been doing a great job.  Just about got the bridge done.

This weekend we are at the Log Pond (Martian Slough) and joining our yacht club.  the current was so bad getting up here it took us 2 1/2 hours to do 22 miles.  Here are some pics so far!

Installing the boat name

Virgil from ProGraphics

The canvas guy Dave

Installing side windows

Nice sunset before my dock canopy got destroyed.  One end filled with rain water and broke the frame

Longview Yacht Club doing their ship in review.  Each boat passes by the LYC Commodore for review 

Midnight Sun

Opps

Polishing

Kay's pet bird!

More yellow birds

Notice the yellow birds and yellow flowers?

Looking at the new canvas

Expanding it back to the radar arch.  Another piece will drop down on the back of the arch with windows

Dave

Heading out to the log pond

Looking out through the new canvas

Entering the main channel of the Columbia

Long dock, but very expensive and lots of steel

St. Helens

St. Helens up close

Rainer

More yellow flowers  Is Kay trying to tell me something? 

Logs going to China.  American jobs being loaded onto a boat

Lots of American jobs

Lewis and Clark Bridge, Longview WA

Sad, very sad

Building more grain silos for mid-west grain

Entrance to Martian Slough

Another Kay rock.  Water is about 70ft deep here

Right next to the boat

Sunset at the log pond

This is the stuff I am using to polish the boat.