More spring break!

It's been a fun couple of days! We have been relaxing on the boat since Tuesday the 5th so on board about 5 days. We alternated between anchoring out, exploring the local section of the river, hanging out at the marina, and generally just enjoying our time together celebrating our 10 year anniversary and as much as we love our children dearly, enjoying some one on one time as they played with their grandparents in Atlanta! We really, REALLY liked one of the anchorages that is extremely close to Island Cove. It is surrounded by Harrison Bay State Park so it is wooded on all sides and beautiful! There were more birds to be seen than we could imagine, fish jumping everywhere, trees all turning green, and generally a great few days of glorious spring.

Here we are anchored out enjoying the sunshine:

A nice lunchtime view!

My wife on the bridge with binoculars in hand, bird watching to her heart's content. This was really a great cove that we are looking forward to spending more time in.

Evening one of our nights anchored out:

The beautiful Tennessee River in evening sunlight...I simply love kayaking around in the morning and evenings and just enjoying the calm, still waters.

Evening sunlight on the flybridge helm:

And the sun going down:

Our new oil lamp we bought and LOVE! It is so nice to sit by it's mellow light at night and talk under the stars:

The oil lamp is also good for sitting around drinking champagne!

And....we did a little bit of river cruising at night....calm winds, flat water, and slowly cruising around Harrison Bay enjoying a beautiful spring night before heading in for our last night at the marina.

I was also able to get a few smaller projects done on the boat that had been on my to-do list for a long time. One was installing new trim around the flybridge seating and entire bridge area. It was fun custom bending the trim and installing while anchored out. I still have the exterior of the bridge to install but the interior of the bridge trim is finally in:

And happily, I finally got our internet booster antenna mounted to the outside of the boat! I had been using it all winter with it just sitting inside the cabin at the lower helm. I am sure my dock neighbors were wondering why I had an antenna sitting inside the boat but it was hard to get motivated to run the cabling and install when it was 40 degrees out. :) You can see it in this picture mounted aft of the starboard running light.

And lastly, continuing my tradition of a video, here is a video from our anchorage on the days we were out:

More to follow....still have some refit projects I want to get done, weekends on the boat until school and sports are out, then we are looking for some more extended time aboard and summer fun!