Here are some photos I just received today, showing our private little club's launching equipment. It's really sweet when you can come down to the club and have the whole place to yourself!
Here's the launching crew. You mess with these guys and you could be hog tied and painted copper bronze before you know what happened, ha! Yours truely (left), my Dad (center) and Bill French (right). Are these guys having fun or what!?? What a team!
And we're off, with Bill French at the wheel of the truck (note: this truck is capable of launching, but it's not able to haul out any more. The club is about to replace the truck with a new one!)
It was a wild ride, I was in the boat!
Here's the business end of a Commander right before it got those props wet for the very first time.
Almost wet!
And she's in! Just a little adjustment on the chain hoists to free the straps and we're out of here!
Taking a much needed Gatorade break in the nearly 100-degree heat.
That's my mother who was looking after me, thankfully! She later brought me some food and we ate there on the docks in the shade.
Here I am doing a few last minute adjustments and clean up before going out on the shakedown cruise.
The joys of a private country backwater marina!
Regards, Paul