Skinny Dipping

Yes. I know, my hilarity knows no bounds. All please have a chuckle at the title of this post. Punderful isn’t it?

Anyways. After we painted the hull (pretty sure we have both memorised every inch of it) and re sealed the windows we decided to get Skinny in the water for the moment of truth- do we have a boat that floats? Ah, we also rather importantly checked the engine worked before getting her in, an oversized water feature with no propulsion would not have been ideal. I’ll pop a couple of engine videos below so you can appreciate rather how loud she is. Jake replaced some seals and we marvelled at the plumes of white smoke, but overall considering the engine is 40 years + she started with ease.

Before replacing seals.

Smoking!

Time to get her in. Now, I got over excited and took many videos and pictures so you will be able to flick through them all below. We were both excited and nervous to finally get Skinny in the water. Thankfully, aside from mixing up which side of the pontoon we were meant to be mooring and finding out Skinny hates to go into reverse, all went without a hitch.

Scroll through below to see the whole process.

Yes I have sped this up, actually 10x quicker.

I like to imagine there is a picture on film from 40 years ago that doesn’t look wholly dissimilar to this, from when our boat was only a couple of years old.