6/12/22 - Kenlake Marina to Sunset Harbor Hill - boat out - 6 miles 0 locks

Temps were warming quickly even on the early morning hours.  We have been very fortunate to not have excessive heat to bear over the majority of our trip.  The highs today are projected to be at or above 90 and for the coming week up into the upper 90’s.  

Sunrise at Kenlake

There was more time spent this morning drinking coffee and catching up.  Erik cooked “empty the fridge omelettes” along with sausage patties and frijoles (refried beans) that Felicitas had brought from her sisters restaurant in Arkansas.  After packing up the small amount of things that we were planning to bring home and getting them into dads car we ventured out to take our guests on a short ride.  We cruised down the river a couple of miles before turning around to head up by Kenlake where we slowly circled through the large cove next to the marina and heads back in.  Dad and Felicitas then drove their car 5 miles down while we navigated the boat down to have it lifted out of the water.   

When we got to Sunset Harbor, as promised, Dennis and Rebecca (marina owners) had the travel lift in place so that we could slowly pull right into the lowered slings.  A few last minute preparations; turning off all systems and batteries, getting out spare props and anodes, etc and we then were lifted out of the water where the light moved us just out of the lift bay and up onto land.  

Boat lift getting Happy Destiny out

She’s out

An inspection of the bottom of the boat showed pretty much what we expected.   The props both had small songs and chunks out of them.   The boys bottom showed some signs of very minor electrolysis, but nothing to be concerned about.  The cutlass bearings (spot where the shafts go through the struts) looked to be in good condition.  The multitude of threw haul fittings appeared to be in good shape.   Brief conversations with the marina owners about the work that we wanted done and shortly after we were on the road home to mcconnelsville.   We are already looking forward to leg two of our 2022 adventure.   We hope to be back aboard and cruising on July 23rd.   Until then….

Port prop. Has a small chunk out 

Starboard prop…a chunk out of it and obviously not perfectly straight