Maiden Voyage

  We have been chatting about when to do our 'maiden voyage' with SV/Cerridwen. Well yesterday the Cap'n called and said that he was thinking of taking her out when he got home from work. He needed to change the oil, so the oil will be nice and warm. When he got home, the wind was still blowing pretty good, so he kabashed the deal. Then right after that the wind died down, and the Cap'n said 'lets do this' and we stripped the windows off, and the wind picked up again, and kabash. So I started to think about dinner down below, and the Cap'n stuck his head down and said 'ok this time for real'. We stripped the windows again, and threw the lines overboard and took the hell off. Haha not really, we did untie her, and got underway towards the mouth of the marina. The Cap'n was awesome. We went out, down river a little bit, and back, into the marina to out spot at the end of the dock. We had a blast.
  The water was pretty calm, the tide was high. You can't get to the marina at low tide, there is a berm right at the entrance. When you go out, at high tide, you have to stay in the middle, and head left out the entrance. Then coming back, you have to come in from the right. There is an older Cap'n across the dock from us, that ran aground on his way out the other day. He got a good laugh out of it too.
  So the maiden voyage went very well, everything went smooth, until I missed the swing line on the dock, that goes through the the deck onto a cleat. It wasn't no big deal, except everything went smooth till then. The kiddz had a blast getting out too.
  The whole thing stemmed from having to warm up the oil to change it. I'm not sure what happens at your place, but here, if the engine is warm, you might as well go for a putt.
  The Cap'n got the oil changed, while I got the cockpit back in order.
  Our Maiden Voyage wasn't very far, but I will tell you what, there is nothing like taking off, just the two of us, on a voyage. Continuing our adventures, together.
bunkmate