A New Way for Me to Kill Myself....
After a long time dreaming, saving, divorcing, working and more saving I have been able to finally purchase a new/used boat! Of course, its not my dream boat, a 21’ Arima Sea Ranger, but it is awesome!
The boat is a welded aluminum skiff, much better than the riveted type, 1992, 14’ Klamath deluxe. It has a wide beam and a very nice elevated bow for superior wave handling! The Motor is a 15hp outboard Mercury mariner outboard, that has exceptional giddy-up and go!
The boat and motor have been well cared for, with few hours. The boat and motor and trailer came with all the history and maintenance records showing a past of TLC. Of course there is a little wear and tear on the boat. The inside paint job is a little bit scratched up, but all in all it is damn nice!
My good friend Keith and I traveled to Hazeldale WA to pick the boat up, and for two weeks my good friend Nick and I have been slaving away stripping the boat of any corrosion and polishing the hull. The trailer had some rust spots so we treated those areas with some rust remover and rattle canned some galvanized paint on all the bare or rusty spots.
After all this work, we finally took it out on a maiden voyage on Cullaby Lake. It runs beautifully! Of course, having little to no experience using an outboard motor, I flooded the motor and had to wait for this stranger to come up and help us out with some sage advice! Nick and I were laughing at our selves, for we had just seen this guy’s outboard motor on his boat, and let me tell you, it was probably in use during WW2! This thing was ancient looking! But, alas, this guy had it running with what sounded like perfect tune! It was a 60 some odd horse motor, without a cap. The man had said it belonged to his father, course, he looked like he was 180 yrs old, I could only imagine how old his pop was!
After a successful trip familiarizing ourselves to the boat, we took it out today on the Columbia River. The weather was cloudy and raining a bit. The river was running high, and swift with rollers in excess of 2-3 ft! After the tide slacked out, it flattened a bit and we moved from the East End Mooring basin to in front of the Maritime Museum. We caught nothing, but I did have a fish on for a min before it decided to live another day! We enjoyed ourselves enough that weather depending, I think we will try the Tongue Point area tomorrow.
So keep your eye open in the newspaper’s and see if you recognize any of the obituaries as your’s truly!
Markus
The boat is a welded aluminum skiff, much better than the riveted type, 1992, 14’ Klamath deluxe. It has a wide beam and a very nice elevated bow for superior wave handling! The Motor is a 15hp outboard Mercury mariner outboard, that has exceptional giddy-up and go!
The boat and motor have been well cared for, with few hours. The boat and motor and trailer came with all the history and maintenance records showing a past of TLC. Of course there is a little wear and tear on the boat. The inside paint job is a little bit scratched up, but all in all it is damn nice!
My good friend Keith and I traveled to Hazeldale WA to pick the boat up, and for two weeks my good friend Nick and I have been slaving away stripping the boat of any corrosion and polishing the hull. The trailer had some rust spots so we treated those areas with some rust remover and rattle canned some galvanized paint on all the bare or rusty spots.
After all this work, we finally took it out on a maiden voyage on Cullaby Lake. It runs beautifully! Of course, having little to no experience using an outboard motor, I flooded the motor and had to wait for this stranger to come up and help us out with some sage advice! Nick and I were laughing at our selves, for we had just seen this guy’s outboard motor on his boat, and let me tell you, it was probably in use during WW2! This thing was ancient looking! But, alas, this guy had it running with what sounded like perfect tune! It was a 60 some odd horse motor, without a cap. The man had said it belonged to his father, course, he looked like he was 180 yrs old, I could only imagine how old his pop was!
After a successful trip familiarizing ourselves to the boat, we took it out today on the Columbia River. The weather was cloudy and raining a bit. The river was running high, and swift with rollers in excess of 2-3 ft! After the tide slacked out, it flattened a bit and we moved from the East End Mooring basin to in front of the Maritime Museum. We caught nothing, but I did have a fish on for a min before it decided to live another day! We enjoyed ourselves enough that weather depending, I think we will try the Tongue Point area tomorrow.
So keep your eye open in the newspaper’s and see if you recognize any of the obituaries as your’s truly!
Markus
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