(Sundog's) Maiden Voyage - Prince William Sound - Main Bay & Granite Bay

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Serious Team Work - I had 7 different people doing different tasks to pull off a 9:00 a.m. maiden voyage - got done at 2 in the morning and got up at 4 to finish the job but got the job done. Many thanks to those who helped, you are welcome on board any time.

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Don and Craig installing the fin on the new motor - running twin 50's (Tohatsu's) they ran great - I babied the new on for the break in process but did open it up to see what my top speeds were and it looked like about 27 knots with a pretty heavy load.

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Installing Antenna.

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Brad, the master wiring guru - did the wiring for my depth finder, marine radio and hard wired the GPS.

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Becky and Vicky placing the numbers, Don in upper management position.

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Checking the connection, everyone had a job to do.

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In front of the house 9:00 a.m. sharp - wanted to make the 10:30 tunnel over to Whitter and we made it by the skin of our teath.

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In the tunnel.

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Yeah, almost there, time to make this into a boat instead of a RV.

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Ahhhh, finally wet and it feels so good. Family and friends there for the Christening and a prayer.

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Happy boating family.

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Jason and his Red slaying crew.

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Caleb giving this Red a little encouragement to stay still.

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Main Bay hatchery, I anchored up right here and while Cathy and Caleb slept below I put 6 fish in the cooler using the famous snagging technique.

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One crazy for fishing kie, wonder where he gets it.

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Cathy is awake, now, time to get her 6 reds.

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Caleb doing his part, he likes the bottom fishing, the Reds are a little to wild for him yet, maybe when he is 3.

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Our first sunset at Anchor, Cathy woke me up in the middle of the night worried that we had slipped anchor. Cathy could not sleep so I crawled down in the V birth with Caleb, I kept waking up and hitting my head on the ceiling. We were camped in Culrose Passage near Long Bay.

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On the edge of Granite Bay, we decided to try out the inflatable - what fun!

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Caleb Hunter - with a midde name like that you have to get him stared early.

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Tide pooling.

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Looking out across Port Wells

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Caleb loved rowing, he is a natural.

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We stopped at a beautiful waterfall and enjoyed the noise and berry picking. What a super Maiden Voyage!!!!!

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