It "Go's" Mike!
I did catch some waves , and I musta made some too....took the long way home! Flat and smooth, a 1 hour45 minute ride home....
I got the 115 E tec saltwater up and moving under a new to me 20 foot long Alumaweld "Intruder" Boat now, and had a 12 hour ride home, waiting for the tide to shift East.........over 6 footers in the sound, and that, while boating alone is a BIG "NO-NO".....so I was happy someone invented a Bilg pump, and I arrived witha dry gas tank, and only a 5 gallon spare jug of propellent(Our word for Gasoline).....so I was happy for dry land and the fact that I bought way more gas than I anticipated, probly combined to save my life...along with waiting off shore, in the deep swlls, rather than attempt land with heaving,cresting, breaking seas and smashing onto shoals/sandbars that start about a mile off shore......
"And the rest of the story" as Paul Harvy would say on the raido, is that once we were home, and I parked in the river, I went home happy....awoke the next day and took a spin in the river, to the mouth and parked it...happy day
Awoke the next day and the boat was fairly "Gone"
Some a$$hole, TWO DAYS INNA ROW has pulled my plug and sunk my boat.
Now Ive unsunk a few boats, and even ran one way up a beach, so , Gladly" theres no damage, just a washing.
Took it for a spin tonight, all is well, and have it parked with a dog chained near by..... I keep a Mosin loaded at the new back door, 'case I need repell boarders.
Thats just a bit of what Ive been up to,
Heres a pict of some more.....with a Sestoretsk 91/30 refubed, flaky varnish dipped and all, I picked up for the son in Fairbanks for size comparason.
The Tusks are gonna help when their done cured and scrimmed...the wife tagged them in Kotzebue, and shes got some more, once we get them in Scrimming condition