0500 hours Im over at the Marine Sgts house just two miles from my place. We load up the new 4X4 Duce and point our grill towards Seattle.
Holy Poo Batman who put a quarter in the vibrator? Concrete roads and empty 2 ton trucks make a good marital aid but a lousy ride. The first and last hour of the trip were like being in a rodeo.
At 0930 we have covered 330 miles and are dropping off equipment for our new Almar RHI that is in the early construction stage.
Then north a bit to pick up our big boat that has just had the SS modifications.
We go over the work done which was very good. The davit on the bow to hold the search cable, the cradle to hold the fish, the new hatch the cable will run out of to the davit, the flexible computer monitor brackets, the inverter system, Cable reel, pump and a bunch of other stuff. 15K worth of modifications but everything looks and worked well.
I hook up while the Sgt. gives them a couple of checks and off we go headed towards a secret lunch spot about 30 minutes away.
After a great lunch I take the controls and over the Cascade Range we go. Trying to cross the mountains with 12 foot lanes and a 10 foot wide 13,000 pound boat with Memorial Weekend and truck traffic on a concrete roadway was a shear joy, NOT.
Once we got over the mountains we got to the asphalt and things got nice and smooth. I set the cruse control at 60 and run on down the freeway sucking $3 worth of fuel every 5 miles. I played with the speed and it didnt matter if we were at 55 or 65 MPH it was in the mid 5s for mileage. We got 8 going over empty running between 70 and 75 but coming home we had 5 axles so we were at the truck limit of 60.
It was around 1930 hours when we pulled into the SD and put the boat in one of the big bays. Now Im home and were pooped. Now the real work starts getting up to speed with everything.
Nap time.
Gary D.
Holy Poo Batman who put a quarter in the vibrator? Concrete roads and empty 2 ton trucks make a good marital aid but a lousy ride. The first and last hour of the trip were like being in a rodeo.
At 0930 we have covered 330 miles and are dropping off equipment for our new Almar RHI that is in the early construction stage.
Then north a bit to pick up our big boat that has just had the SS modifications.
We go over the work done which was very good. The davit on the bow to hold the search cable, the cradle to hold the fish, the new hatch the cable will run out of to the davit, the flexible computer monitor brackets, the inverter system, Cable reel, pump and a bunch of other stuff. 15K worth of modifications but everything looks and worked well.
I hook up while the Sgt. gives them a couple of checks and off we go headed towards a secret lunch spot about 30 minutes away.
After a great lunch I take the controls and over the Cascade Range we go. Trying to cross the mountains with 12 foot lanes and a 10 foot wide 13,000 pound boat with Memorial Weekend and truck traffic on a concrete roadway was a shear joy, NOT.
Once we got over the mountains we got to the asphalt and things got nice and smooth. I set the cruse control at 60 and run on down the freeway sucking $3 worth of fuel every 5 miles. I played with the speed and it didnt matter if we were at 55 or 65 MPH it was in the mid 5s for mileage. We got 8 going over empty running between 70 and 75 but coming home we had 5 axles so we were at the truck limit of 60.
It was around 1930 hours when we pulled into the SD and put the boat in one of the big bays. Now Im home and were pooped. Now the real work starts getting up to speed with everything.
Nap time.
Gary D.
