Diverting Course from Lake Powell to Lake Roosevelt!

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Pat Anderson

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So, Friday afternoon bound for Lake Powell, the Titan broke down just west of Cle Elum. Boat got towed to Cle Elum, Titan got towed to Yakima to Nissan dealer. Dealer can't look at it until Tuesday. Friday night in boat at Eagle Valley RV park in Cle Elum, last night and next three nights in Yakama Nation RV Park in Toppenish...thanks to Jim Martinson for playing musical boats! Did winery tours today. Got lemons so making lemonade. Powell is out, Lake Roosevelt is probably IN! Actually boaterhoming in Yakima is a LOT more pleasant than the long drive to Powell anyway I guess...$64K question is how long it will take the dealer to get us back on the road, my guess is a computer control module, service writer thought probably an alternator. I hope she is right and I am wrong!
 
We have been thinking of you all, sorry to hear of the trouble and hope it gets resolved in a hurry so you can get on the water.

Can you mix lemonade with gin??? I know you will have a wonderful time regardless.
 
Bummer. The "town" of Hunter on the Columbia is a very nice park and launch point. About a half hour drive north of where the Spokane River joins the Columbia. For about 5 years Jim Browning and 4 of us started there for our guys week on Lake Roosevelt. I remember very little after getting there other than we had a great time. Sorry to hear about the truck. Not sure about gin and lemonade. Vodka and lemonade maybe.
 
We'll be launching at Gifford, friends live right across the street from the Gifford launch. David, it is Vance and Vicki (Pedersen) Gervais, very hospitable when we launched there with B&E in 2004.

Actually we have been having a great time at this RV park! Hope they can get us on the road quickly though. We'll be at the dealership early tomorrow morning!

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Bummer. The "town" of Hunter on the Columbia is a very nice park and launch point. About a half hour drive north of where the Spokane River joins the Columbia. For about 5 years Jim Browning and 4 of us started there for our guys week on Lake Roosevelt. I remember very little after getting there other than we had a great time. Sorry to hear about the truck. Not sure about gin and lemonade. Vodka and lemonade maybe.
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OK, so now it's Tuesday, we will go into Yakima to the Nissan dealer and find out what their plan is! We are good here at Yakama Nation RV Park for another two days, hope we can get out of here though! Yesterday went to the Wapato Harvest Festival (whoopee) and a couple of dips in the now kidless swimming pool (really, whoopee!!!!) Hope they don't tell me the part is in Seattle and it will be another three days!
 
Pat, if that part is in Seattle, I might be able to help :idea: I may be headed east in a few days, could pick it up, if you get tired of hanging out in the east slope fruitlands :roll: :twisted:

Sorry you are missing the Lake Powell trip. Hope Roosevelt works for you.

Harvey
SleepyC
 
Harvey, the part is is in Sacramento, and won't be here until the day after tomorrow now, and truck will not be ready until Monday! New plan is to divert to Rimrock Lake, one more round of musical boats with Jim Martinson's Tundra!
 
Hey Pat, I was actually headed for Sacatomato on my way to ........... oh, when did you want that there :?: :oops:

You seem to be taking it all in good stride. Might as well, it's sure better for the blood pressure. At least you are able to get some boat time in on the wait.

Hoping for a quick fix. :hot :rainbow

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
We got Laurna Jo and Daydream launched on Rimrock Lake Wednesday, doing the leapfrog boat thingee, first moved Laurna Jo from the RV park to the lake, back to Yakima to the RV park to move Daydream. It is absolutely gorgeous here, will post a couple of pix later, they are all on my iPhone (see them now on Pat Anderson's Facebook page!). Yesterday, for Patty and me a bit of fishing, no catching, casting off the bow, a long kayak paddle and a swim, trolling for Jim and Laurie, also no luck. Today we are going to try trolling as well and explore the lake a bit. We are tucked up behind the peninsula at the east end of the lake. It has been as calm as glass here except for the bit of wind that was blowing while we were launching! So Powell and Roosevelt will have to wait, the parts for the truck should be arriving at the Nissan dealer today and the truck should be ready on Monday. No excited about seeing the bill for it though...
 
You know, this episode is all the more reason to buy a C-Dory. Even when your plan doesn't work out, the boat and the C-Brats are there to save the day. Priceless! :thup
 
Jody, actually ALL the pictures are here! Just some of them are on Facebook!

Yesterday's adventure: we anchored on Wednesday at the east end of the lake behind the peninsula, it offered excellent protection and a good spot to land Baxter. We didn't pull anchor until yesterday morning. Only one little problem, as it turns out, the whole area is littered with old stumps. We had anchored in about 30 feet, this is what we got when we brought up the rode:

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It took us about an hour and a half to untangle, but we finally got the rode free of the stump one loop at a time!

We trolled the length of the lake for most of the day, I got one little trout (9") that I decided to throw back. So basically skunked. And for us who are not die-hard fishermen a bit boring too!

We decided in the late afternoon to anchor at the west end of the lake, right behind a nice little Forest Service island, Baxter loves it, he gets to run around to his heart's content. Anchored in about 20', checked bottom with fishfinder screen this time, looks smooth and flat. Would the stumps show up on the fishfinder?

A refreshing swim (Baxter is not too sure about this floating/swimming thing), the water seems warmer at this end, maybe because it is shallower (lake is about 7 miles long), drinks, dinner, and off to bed.

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What is it about a boating vacation that makes you want to go to bed as soon as the sun goes down, anyway?

Today's plan is to explore this end of the lake in the kayaks!


 
We are getting lots of use out of our kayaks here! We went to the west end of Rimrock Lake before lunch, amazingly the entire far end is only about 2' deep - glad we did not try to explore with the C-Dorys!

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