Free at Last

Nice to see a Kadizzle fan at the gas station.  Hope you had a good pontoon ride at the lake.  Never saw so many boats at the State Park.  Fishing boat trailers crammed everywhere.,

Well we got the Jeannie Rose launched.  That was the old name on the good ship.  I want to change to the Tricky Nickey,  since Nick is the new owner.  Kadizzle worked harder on that boat than on his own. We sanded so much toxic paint, and lead that more than likely we will die in a week or two.

Launching a sailboat is no simple matter.  You need a forty foot extension to get it out in the water far enough to come off the trailer.  Nick's dad Joe drove the truck that backed the boat in.  Apparently Joe did not get the game plan.  The idea was to back in just far enough for the engine to get water, start the engine, then proceed.  Joe backed in too far too fast and there went poor Nick alone and clueless with an engine that would not start.  After some fiddling he got it started.  Kadizzle had told Nick stories about launching boats that immediately started to sink.  Nick went below and came back up reporting indeed water was coming in.  Kadizzle went below to solve the mystery.  It was a small amount and Kadizzle correctly figured it was water that had been in the boat already just moving about now that the boat was really level. No problem.  Nick and Kadizzle had a nice little sail and it looks like Nick will be the happy owner of a half decent boat.  It was a lot of fun and hard work getting a young guy sailing. 

Long ago Kadizzle reached the point where it is more fun to make a new pheasant hunter than be one, and the same holds with making a new sailor.  Hopefully Kadizzle can teach Nick some of the finer points of sailing.