05/21/2016

Playing a little catch up here.

While on the hard, May 16th, we had a Hard Top put on. This picture shows the top on as the construction takes place.

I think Jarred did a great job and we are really happy with it. We'll see how it performs when we use it.
On May 21st Nepidae was splashed at West End Boat Club after her winter on the hard.

Here are a few pictures of the transport to the water from her spot on the hard. It is always a 'nail bitter' as we are at about full capacity with the lift.

05/01/2016

As you see quite a bit of time has transpired since our last post.

Hopefully this will change in the very near future as I will have more time to keep this up to date.

You might ask, what's the change and the answer would be that I am retiring from my work at the VA and will be on Nepidae on a more full time basis. CAN'T WAIT!!!!

I'll throw some newer pictures up for now and pick up again after my retirement.

Below are pictures from 2015.

The beginning of the boating season, while at West End Boat Club, our winter location, we had some additions. Here is the windlass going on, finally. Down below we also had the charger/inverter installed.

On the swim platform the davits were installed.

It was getting dangerous to lug the OB motor from the sundeck to the dock to get the dinghy ready so this provided a way to have the motor on and waiting to be used.

Splashing at West End Boat Club is always an exciting maneuver.

Notice the new davits in place. We didn't mount the boat and motor until we got to Worton Creek Marina (WCM).

We arrived at WCM and felt right at home.

We'd moved from the Sassafras River due to the long commute to the Bay and the water skiers that would run feet off the dock & rock the boat.

 

We frolicked in the pool......

 

 

Took the dinghy on many excursions.

Here we are on our way to "Belly Button" Beach. 

In June we had a slight detour in our summer on the boat.

It was interrupted by the twins graduation.....

Chadd's wedding, with many games of 'corn hole' (a game brought by Eric, Jessie's boyfriend)

where bean bags filled with corn are tossed at a board with a hole at the top. More corn bags on the board or thru the hole gets points. I usually got most of the points.

 

The old song goes, "On the way to Cape May" but here we are on the way to Still Pond for lunch and a swim.

 

Here we are anchored, can't wait to use the anchor.

 

Along with the family festivities I still had to work but we got as much time on Nepidae as possible. Here everyone (but me as I run the boat) is looking over the bow at the anchor being retrieved with the windlass.

What was interesting, was that when we anchored in Still Pond for lunch and a swim with Dan & Barb, and were retrieving the anchor, it came up holding a truck tire. We had put the anchor right smack dab in the middle of the tire.

Our view when coming back after using the dinghy.

We got more use pout of the dinghy in this season than all of the previous seasons combined. 

We also got in a trip to the Bohemia with the CBC.

In October I purchased some name boards to go on Nepidae.

Jane is trying to decide where they should go.

October found us on our way back to West End Boat Club via the C&D Canal.