Let’s not sink it just yet

When our boat was off loaded from the freighter on Sunday night, we had Lars Nilsson and Costica Gheorghiu from Marine-Tec help us. Lars is a licensed captain and Costica was a ship’s engineer on a commercial freighter. Our first journey was from Terminal 46 on the East Duwamish waterway over to Shilshole marina. That was plenty.

The next morning, with the help from our friends Dorothy & Dave Nagle, who own DavidEllis, hull #2 of the classic Seahorse Marine 462 Diesel Duck, and visiting “duckies” Jerie & John Milici who own Peking, hull #3 of 462 ducks, we took Alpenglow through the Ballard Locks.  Our destination was Seaview East boatyard where we will begin reassembling the boat.

It was my (Kurt), first time driving the boat.   It was pouring down rain and there was lots of water being spilled from the Lake Washington Ship canal giving a nice current to contend with.

With the help of lots of good fendering, major mishaps were avoided and the journey ended with the boat still afloat.