It's time! Luckily we are having a few nice days of weather after Columbus Day to enjoy the north country before calling it a year. Yesterday Dave took his last ride on the Sea Doo and then winterized it. Today we launched the Chris-Craft Moxie and took our last picnic lunch ride down the lake. We knew there would be very few boats on the water this late in the season, but what a surprise we had when we realized that the large channel makers leading from the main part of the lake to the launch ramp had been removed! There were tiny, barely visible, red and green markers that were being substituted for the larger ones, as we entered the main lake. 'No wake' buoys and the larger shoal markers were also being removed, leaving just the smaller individual rock markers. It was a great test of our local knowledge and memory of where the channel and shoals were. We had never been out in the lake this late in the season, and the fall leaf colors were really starting to come out. I tried to get a photo while zooming down the lake with a heavy chop, but it didn't come out too well (from Dave's hair you can tell we were going fast though 😉).
Winterizing Moxie went quite well.
That is, until Dave lost one of the drain plugs in the bottom of the engine compartment and he had to reach really deep!
The Sea Fox, Foxie, is all set for the winter and tomorrow afternoon there may be one more sailing trip before the Zuma will be put away. Then all that is left is the house itself. Hopefully everything will hibernate well this winter and be ready for us to do it all over again next summer.
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