A new beginning

Posting has been light this year. Bumbo has torn up the lake a few times this spring and summer, performing admirably as usual, though we've been too slack-assed to update. However, there's big news to report.

George and Matt have transferred the Jolly Dobbs to a new vessel, the stylish Pearson 26 seen above. And Bumbo has a new owner, who I'm sure we'll see down the dock from time to time. She's a great boat, and I'm sure he'll have a lot of fun with her for years to come. But the Pearson was a deal that we couldn't pass up.

And so we close this chapter of nautical history, raising a glass to our old home on the water and wishing her new master fair winds and following seas.

First runs of 2012

The ridiculously warm winter of 2012 has given way to an early, rainy spring. The lake is bouncing back, now down about five feet and up nearly eight from its November low. And Bumbo ventured out twice in March, in shirtsleeve weather for at least part of both runs.

Here's George out on the 10th:


Matt, taking his turn at the helm the same day:


And Friends of the Boat Graham and Becca, on the 31st. Like George and Matt, Becca is a former Gulf Coast sailor who dug a day on the water.



Looking forward to more of this as the year goes on ...

Lake update

It's been a fairly rainy winter so far, with roughly nine and a quarter inches falling since our last entry. The current lake level is holding at just a hair under 1061, about 10 feet below full pool, with little change projected through February. Not great, but still not as bad as it was a couple of years back. We wouldn't want anything like this to happen out there ...



As two other famous Italian guys once put it: "Don't drive like my brother."