Besides being a day for playing jokes on people, April 1st of the year means for me the day I get to take my boat back out of the marina. My insurance policy requires that I "lay up" from November 1 through March 31st. And that simply means that the boat can not be moved away from it's mooring during the winter months. Plus the fact that it gets cold enough up here in Northeast Oklahoma that I have to remove all the fluids from the boat and winterize it. Of course that makes it difficult to spend any evenings on it during the winter since there is no running water while it's "laid up". But the last week in March, marks the time of the year for getting her ready to take back out again. And April 1st is the day to start the engines and take her down river for a bit and check the systems out.
This year I am considering taking the Island Girl all the way down the Arkansas River to the Mississippi and then going on south to New Orleans. If I do go, I'm not sure if I'll turn and head toward Houston and Corpus Christi or whether I make take her down to the Florida Keys. But way, I intend to take things more easy this summer and spend a lot of time on the way.
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