Next stop, River Forest Ship Yard

The next place we were going to was only 20 miles away so we took our time leaving Rowan Marin Marina, we even had time for breakfast there.  When we finally left, we had to jocky for position in front of the lock.  Of course, the fishing boats all raced to get in as soon as the lock doors were open a few feet.  We held back so we didn’t get run over.  Whoops, now there is no room for us.  Guess we’ll wait for the next lock.  The next one, we went in first.  A couple of fishing boats came in after all the lock walls were full of boats and eyed us up.  I’m thinkin, don’t you try to tie off to my boat.  We had no bumpers down and I was busy holding the line, I couldn’t help them tie off to our boat.  My evil eye must of worked, they went across the lock and tied off to another fishing boat.  Good!

As we cruised down the river, we saw a boat that almost looked like the Chris Craft house boat that we hadDSC00686

Then we saw the Pearson!DSC00698 I love what they did with the upper deck ;).  We saw another sunken boatDSC00695

Gary got bored so he took a few pictures of our boat

Looking out front window

Looking out front window

Looking down into the cabin

Looking down into the cabin

Looking aft View of the aft section.

As we traveled along I saw these cool windows in this house, very unusual.DSC00701

We arrived at our final overnight destination, the boat yard.  Very impressive.  They have several kinds of storage options here.  You can have inside, climate control storage, inside storage or outside storage and they strap your boat down on the concrete pad.  You could tell they do a lot of big boat work here.

Our boat with a Kady Krogan in the back ground

Our boat with a Kady Krogan in the back ground

No restaurant here so it is time to break out the wieners and Mac and Cheese :).

 

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1 Response to Next stop, River Forest Ship Yard

  1. Markie and Timmy's avatar Markie and Timmy says:

    The windows almost look like snowflakes. Maybe there were folks from up north?!
    The boat is Beautiful!

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