Great Ambition, Fourteenth year

This is the continuing story of our new life as River Rats on the Columbia River aboard our Trimaran Transporter houseboat we named Great Ambition.

If you want to see how we got here (and hints on how you can do it too) see Great Ambition, the beginning.

Click here to go back to our thirteenth year.

Sunrise.

14 years ago we met the truck carrying Great Ambition at the Troutdale truck stop. The rest as they say is history.

And here is what we do with eternity. A plastic bottle is drifting by, so it's a valid target for our slingshots.Now you know.

Sunrise.

Sunrise.

A floating home being pushed upstream.

I noticed the starboard engine squirting less water than normal so I removed the lower unit and replaced the water pump impeller. It wasn't easy over the water, but it can be done!

Lori is back! Yay!

Sunrise.

Lori back again!

A pair of rowers that come by every morning.

Sunrise.

Ski Princess Lori getting back into the routine. Her boat was out for a long time but she's getting the "hang" of it pretty well.

Our fridge died after 14 years, it can be forgiven. We ordered a new one thorugh RV Parts Country and they had it delivered in no-time, but without the front panels, they were backordered. So instead I went to Tap Plastics and ordered panels of acrylic mirror at one third less than the stainless steel panels that Dometic offers, when they can ship them. That ain't paneling on the fridge, that is a reflection of the wall behind the fridge.

A rower in the sunrise.

Ski Princess Lori, she's a natural. I love the backlighting from the sunrise.

Sunrise.

Lori is beautiful in the morning sun, don't you think?.

Sunrise.

Sunrise, barely. This is solstice and that is as far north as the sun is going to go.

A patriotic pontoon boat.

My Last Boat VII

Readers may not understand why I am so enamored with the boat Bobette, other than the fact that it shares my cousins name with her. It's the size, folks. Isn't she the cutest thing you ever saw?

A coyote walking the shorline looking for dinner. Do you see something boy?

Continued...