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Paul (no login)
Posted Jun 5, 2008 6:16 AM
TRADITION roared to life at 6:00PM, departing Commodore Yacht Club and heading west toward Alan Jackson's fish camp. After making a pass and observing a nice Hackercraft hanging in the floating boat house, we backtracked to Rock Harbor Marina, to the Blue Moon Lagoon Restaurant. The boat worked great, the guests all had a great time, the out of town guests from Chicago were amazed, and the food was good.
One nice thing about getting to a restaurant by boat, you don't mind waiting for a table. We thought about being served on board, but it was a lot better sitting at a table. Live entertainment Nashville style, lots of laughs, and a ride back under cover of darkness.
The aft deck of a 38 was arranged with 8 deck chairs, and with the two helm seats we could seat 10 people VERY comfortably. Most of the time we ran at a low speed of around 1100 or 1200 rpm in order to be able to talk, and also becuase running any faster at night is dangerous. On the way down to the Jackson fish camp, we ran on a plane with8 people aboard around 2600 to 3000 rpm. The big dogs performed well, and hardly knew I had an additional 1500 pounds of gear, coolers, drinks, and people aboard.
Here are a few photos, I really didn't get many good ones unfortunately, and didn't even get photos of everyone aboard. In any case, here are the ones I did take (and I understand more are on the way from some others who took some too, which I'll post later). Here is TRADITION, just before setting out all the deck chairs.
Here we are departing CYC, that's the LADY J in the background!
Out on the water, some guys just can NOT get away from those business calls. We managed to break this habit later in the evening, however. You can see it was an absolute PERFECT day in the South! Temperature and humidity could not have been better. Outdoor dining at the restaurant under the stars was also a lot of fun.
After dinner we had some fun at the dock before departing the restaurant, and also under way on the way home. Out came the cigars, ha ha. Everyone got into the action, even if for just a little bit.
GOOD TIMES like this don't happen by accident. As you ALL know, it takes a huge amount of work on the boat to be able to host a party like this, and when you do, all the work and expense it took to get the boat in shape is instantly forgotten! I'm ready to go again! 
regards,
Paul
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