30 July 2009
Today the boat finally entered the river at the Sportsman Club landing in Pepin Wisconsin at two-thirty in the afternoon while white caps rolled across the water and billowing clouds leaned into a brisk north wind. The second-hand, under-the-floor gas tank installed over the winter was a worry: and the Evenrude E-tech motor fogged for the first time last November; and temporary plugs in the transom put there because a live well has yet to materialize; and the wind as we bobbed and rolled to the smack of the waves against the aluminum hull. It was time to begin, finally, for the boat, for me, and for my companion…
Do you have a toilet on board?
not yet