Easy Boating with a HydroHoist Lift

Yesterday we had a busy day...I drove to Spottsville with Debbie Miller (no relation to us just great friends) and we did the fall water sampling on the Green River. When we where finished we met Rick Miller and Viv at Inland Marina for the shakedown first use of our new Slip and first use of the  HydroHoist lift.

Here is our Cobalt 262 positioned on the lift.

You can see the pontoons that an air pumps full of air to float the boat. To launch just open the valve and let the air out and the lift lowers and sinks to the bottom and you drive out the boat (the lift sinks down about 4 feet below the bottom of the boat. You just leave the lift down and when you come back, just put the red ropes on the back boat cleats, hold the boat against the rope and refill the pontoons with air and up goes the boat!!

Here is the view from the Ohio river coming into Inland Marina..

These picture were shot with our new camera (Viv"s birthday present HaHa). We thought we should learn how to use it before our 2nd St Johns River trip the end of September. The Camera is a Nikon CoolPix S9500 with Wifi to easily upload pictures to Quiet Company Blog or Facebook. It also has a built in GPS so you  can use Apps like Google Earth to see the exact location of where the picture was shot. With the GPS on when you point the camera, it will tell you what you are looking at like Inland Marina...very cool. The camera will even record you route using the GPS. 

Thanks to my good friend Doug for encouraging me to buy this particular camera. He made the point that we all spend lots of money on fun then shoot our memory pictures with bad cell phone cameras and the pictures are not good or the camera cannot zoom in far enough for you to see the object you were shooting (and you may only get one chance).. Looking at the photos years out you might be really disappointed you had not used a better cameras. Made sense to me!