Truck ran smooth all the way to Laughlin, AC blew ice cold all the way even towing the boat in 110 degrees up the grades on the I-40 and holding 70 with the boat in tow! Pulled into bullhead, fueled the boat and headed up to Katherine landing on lake Mojave. We payed for a slip for the week and we also stayed at the lodge right there at the marina, which was a circus act in itself…. More on that in a minute…
Check into our room and it’s definitely more vintage themed… but it had. A full kitchen and a fridge which is what we wanted cuz neither my mom or I like toe at very night for a week straight. So we brought tons of foood to cook for dinners as well as lunch stuff for during the day setup on a sand y beach on the lake. We then decide “it’s a little before 6pm, let’s launch the boat, run her about for a bit to make sure she’s running good as we hadn’t had her in the water yet after the dewinterization and tune up once the trailer got fixed.” The ramp isn’t busy at all, I back her row on behind the Nali, plop her in the water, and of course because my mom refuses to do anything with the boat, I’m doing Al the work, I’m tired from driving and hauling the boat all day, hot, and not in the mood for anything to go wrong….. boat starts to float, I hop out and go to release the front winch and let the bait off the trailer… when the latch that keeps the latch in retrieval or launch direction, just disintegrates into pieces in my hand….. “now I can’t reduce the bait when she needs to come out of the water after the weekend for the apppiintment to replace a windshield piece that broke last year …..” words can not describe how angry I was at that point. My mom is almost in tears as well just because e either of us were handling stress very well at that point. I’m like “ok let’s just take a cruise on the boat after I get the truck and trailer out of the way and I’ll deal with the winch and latch later.” We ram the bait and she ran perfectly. Kept her in the water for Saturday and Sunday and we had good times with the group we were with and there were three other boats and two jet skis. Fun time for sure. Forgot to take pictures of our boat in the water lol.