Trip to pick up boat

Hello again.
Everyone has been wondering when we were going to do an update on this blog. Well, I finally got some pictures. Below is a shot of the parking lot in Flippin, AK, of the Ranger factory. As you can see it is in a very rural setting (notice the cows in the background).
When Terry got there on Friday, they had to go out to the lot to pick up his boat with the tractor. Here it comes behind the tractor so this is his first good look at the boat.

Then he had to take it to R& H Marine to get the motor PDI. The mechanic was working on it and found a problem with the oil injection module. Fortunately they had another E-Tec on the lot that had just come in so he swapped the part so he could get Terry on the road. Look at that motor without the top. It's awesome looking isn't it????

This is the mechanic looking at the computer while he is testing the motor.

In the picture below the mechanic is replacing the bad module. Great facility and people who run the place. The moved from New York and started this business. It's about 10 miles from the Ranger factory and is located in Bull Shoals, AK.

The picture to the left is of R & H Marine where Terry had the PDI.
They have lots of nice Ranger boats for sale!


I don't see another one the same color as ours tho, but Terry said there were lots of them at the factory, which was a surprise to him. Of course, I think the color of our new boat is GREAT!!! It's not BLUE.

Traveling back. Nice travel top.

The cover that came with the boat is black. We'll put a picture up when we actually cover it with the new top.

Of course, he had to stop at Cracker Barrel for dinner on the way home. It was about 8:30 pm at this point. He didn't get back here until 1:30 am!! It's about a 10 1/2 hr drive from Georgetown to Flippin, AK.

The above picture is from the inside of the Ranger factor and they are getting ready to load on a truck. Terry's thinks this one is also painted like ours. it's hard to tell from this picture. The picture below is inside the factory. This robotic tool is a water cutter that drills the holes in the deck for all the accessories. It uses 65000# of pressure to drill the holes. It drills all the holes in the hull in 9 minutes with no dust!! Pretty amazing. They are presently producing 24 boats a day!!

The fellow in the picture is actually programming the robotic cutter.

Finally, back home and now it's in the storage building that our friends the Porters' are letting us use while they are traveling in their motorhome. The storage building has 8 spaces for rv's so we are in one space. The space next to the boat is empty at the moment since those people are traveling also. We are just getting all the stuff put back in the boat that's been in the motorhome since we left Coeur d'Alene, ID.

A closer picture below. You can see the new "flat screen tv" mounted on the deck next to the driver console. I had some of the tackle in the cats carrier so when I was getting in there to unload all the boxes, I found A SNAKE!!. I had unloaded all the boxes when I saw the snake. He was hiding under the boxes in the carrier. We took the carrier outside and he crawled out of one of the slits as you can see.
Then he slithered away and of course headed right back to the building!! We don't know where he went, but he's inside there somewhere trying to get some shade from this 100 deg heat. There has been 21 days at or over 100 in June which has set lots of records. The most 100+ days for the summer is 69. At the end of June there are already 21 so we are heading for a record breaking season. We did have a rain shower yesterday which cooled everything off about 5 degs.

This was my first look at the boat with the travel cover in place.

Well, that's it for now. I'll get some house pictures posted soon. They have the roof on now with shingles and are getting ready to get the stucco in place. It's slowed down now and we still haven't done the pre drywall inspection. Hopefully that will be this week.

Hope everyone has a great 4th of July.

Sandy and Terry