Dear Boat

I love you, but...  you are causing undue stress.  Sure, you allow us to get out and enjoy the great outdoors  which is all good.  It is the times you are sitting around doing nothing that the problems start.  The PNW is known for its wet weather, you wouldn't think this would be an issue for a boat, but it is.  As it stand the boat is currently living in the parking space next to our house.  There is plenty of room for it there, however, it does not provide any cover.  To address this we have been covering the boat with a tarp and bunging it down.  As it turns out when we get days in a row of pouring rain our method provides approximately zero protection from the elements.

Today we had planned to go squid jigging and crabbing.  Upon removing the tarp from the boat we were presented with a rather unwelcome site, inches of water in the bottom of the boat.  Not good... Thankfully it gets used often and we know it hadn't sat like that for any period of time, still, it is frustrating.   A couple of hours later the water was drained, some electrical work had been done and we were finally ready go.  However we had missed the low tide and it didn't make much sense to go to the Sound, not to be detured we went to our local lake.  Matt caught a perch and rainbow, I got skunked.  We did get to see a beautiful sunset.

When we got back we decided it would be in our best interest to park the boat in the garage.  I got out to direct Matt and after about 10 minutes of hollering and maneuvering we decided to do some measuring.  Turns out the boat won't fit.  Why we didn't think to measure first I have no idea.  Looks like we are now in the market for some sort of carport to protect the boat.  It's always something...