New Trawler

Be closed on our new trawler last Thursday.  It is a 1984 PT 35 made by Tawain Overseas Industries.  It was a sundeck, flybridge, two cabins, two heads, a nice large saloon, inside steering and galley down.  Oh, and two 220 hp turbo diesel Perkins motors (ST 6.3544Ms). 

We went straight from closing to visit the boat at the boatyard where she was awaiting one last repair before being refloated Friday.  We spent a few hours climbing up and down a ladder loading her with things we'd need for our Labor Day weekend cruise.  We came back after work Friday and spent the night on her (in a slip) and headed out early Saturday morning for our first trip!  We picked her up in Sausalito and took her to the Marin Yacht Club in San Rafael.  It took us about and hour a half to get there and we had no issues.  It was a beautiful morning and lots of our friends were already at Marin on their boats as this is one of our club's most popular cruise outs each year.

We had quite the revolving door of visitors and it seemed like as soon as one group of people left another arrived.  We arranged to take Matt's brother out for a ride on Sunday and soon other people were asking to tag along as well.  Since Matt's brother was bringing his wife, kids and in-laws we tried to limit the other riders.  We ended up taking out a total of 12 and had more that wanted to go but we felt like 12 was more than plenty!  We wanted to leave by 10 am to make sure we were back before it was windy but didn't get out of the slip until noon.  It was an uneventful trip until we were back in the slip.  We had mentioned to one of the passengers that our ice maker was acting up so while he was on the floor asking me for a screw driver my brother and sister in law started hollering from the galley that the refrigerator door had come off and could I bring THEM a screw driver. 

Last time I'd seen the tools they were in our stateroom but they were not there.  My sister in law was afraid the fridge door would rip out on the bottom if they did not replace the top screw so she was quite adamant I find her a screw driver ASAP.  I finally tracked down my husband obliviously chatting away on the flybridge and sent him into the din of chaos to deal with all the people clamoring for tools.  :)  we easily got the fridge door back on and got everyone on their way other than the friend diagnosing the ice maker.  We settled into the saloon to trouble shoot with him.  We ultimately ended up taking it off the boat and we will do some more trouble shooting at home.

Sunday we got underway around 10 and headed home at about 8 knots (more or less depending what the current was doing in the part of the bay we were in).  It took us about 3 1/2 or 4 hours and again the trip was uneventful.  We then spent a few hours cleaning and fixing some little things, like getting the flybridge speakers to work. 

It looks like one of our friends is going to give us his old dinghy with motor and trailer.  I hope that pans out. 

I hope to post pictures later!