Back at Lake Travis

This past weekend we went to Lake Travis to spend time on Hey Jude. First, we did some cleaning plus we took off the Christmas lights that were still affixed to the railing! Then, Philip replaced the old sanitary drain line under the NEW sink. He figured that was the original 1980's drain line and it might become an issue somewhere in the future, so he might as well be proactive and change it out now. Then, we took her out on the lake on Saturday afternoon. We drove down toward the dam, past Hippy Hollow, past the new construction below the Oasis and over by the ramps at Hudson Bend. Philip practice lots of manuevers while out in the open. We really haven't had the opportunity yet to just drive around and get lots of time on the engine.
Well, this weekend we did. In fact, we ended up going from one end of the lake to turn around and go all the way to Arkansas Bend, meet up with friends and ended up spending the night in a cove with them. Well actually, all but one of the boats we originally met up with went in for the night. So, we stayed tied up with our good friend Don Neese on Gypsy Mermaid and stayed all night. We left early on Sunday morning, made our way back to the marina. Philip did a great job getting back into the slip, even managing to not clip our neighbors' long houseboat in the slip next to us. I drove the boat for a decent length of time on Sat; only forward and with a little turning.