EPILOG

Well its done and what a wonderful adventure its been. Ok first let me fully explain the purpose of this trip was to depart Laughlin Nevada on the Colorado river and arrive at the London Bridge Float fly on Saturday during the lunch time break. This is a distance on the water of just over fifty miles. The event CD's were cooperating and excited about the attempt. Also the Arizona Fish and Game were cooperative.

The departure point was the Avi casino in Laughlin from their dock. It was difficult to get someone to run a second boat even with me paying all fuel and expenses so it ended up being just one rather small jet boat. And the only pictures ended up being at the departure point. Two trusted helpers aided us in getting started and doing the drive on down to Lake Havasu with the trailer and to help on the recovery. Thank heaven for them as getting my fat Butt down the ramps and into as well as out of the boat from the wheelchair was a rather difficult task accompanied by much nervous laughter.

The first takeoff was done by drifting under the Avi bridge and the was carrying about 10 ounces less than the full 71 ounce load of fuel. We drifted under the Avi bridge and started the airplane on the special airplane rack I built for the boat so my mate could handle the airplane from the small fore deck and I could lean over to run the starter and needle if neccessary. The needling was perfect and we of course ran the ship on the launching dock before leaving to acheve that perfect needle.

I am a slow writer typist so am going to take a breather now for a few hours to prevent timing out and will continue our little adventrue in a bit.

John[8D]