I ran a 33 foot Carver between Saugatuck Michigan and Winthrop Harbor Illinois this week to delivery it to it’s new owners. It was a beautiful day and the weather was predicted to be calm with waves on the lake at 1 foot or less. Of course this did not turn out to be the case but it still…
Memorial Day is coming up fast and I still don’t have my own boat ready to go. I have it close, but the weather has been so up and down it isn’t finished up. I don’t have a lot to do, but I need to make sure she’s running at 100 percent before it goes in. I need to…
I went over to Calumet City to pick up a 32 foot Carver and bring it back over to the Saugatuck area on Friday. The customer had represented the boat as in “great condition” but when we got there to pick it up we found a disaster. The boat was kept at a dump of a marina where no…
Spring is here and that means it’s time to get the boat cleaned up and ready to float. The list always looks huge when I first write it out but once I get going most of the tasks seem to fly by. Of course, bottom painting does not count, that never flies by. One of the most important tasks…
Preparing for the summer boating season can be a daunting task. There seems to be so much work to do to get the boat ready, and everything I finish either uncovers or leads to something else I didn’t plan on. And no matter what, cleaning, painting, repairing, all seem to lead back to cleaning. There are plenty of things…