10 engine hours and a trip into Lake Washington

the skiff now has about 10 hours on her. With the motor still very new and most of our boating has been at less than half power, still, each trip has been about 2.5 hours and she’s been using just a gallon of gas per trip!  wow.

We went into Lake Washington for the first time on Saturday.  Windy and a lot of chop from the dozens of boats returning from the Seafair Blue Angles practice.  The Skiff handled it fine but I discovered at higher speeds I was getting cavitation.  Once back on the trailer I put the little adjustment bar into the first lower of the three adjustment holes, raising the motor slightly.  The next day she ran full speed much better.

We launched her in saltwater, for the first time, on Monday.  We launched from West Seattle and headed up the Duwamish River as far as South Park.  Back out in Elliot Bay we  watched a few Foss tugs move the old American President Lines ship, now a Matson Line ship, get pushed back to her storage slip at T30 and then surfed a few ferry boat wakes before bringing her back to the ramp

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; fun.