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Default Last days of summer

Took the Legend Xcalibur out to Grand lake today for some late summer boating.
Finally got on the water at noon and it was as smooth as silk. Easily the calmest water we've seen on this lake since I started talking the Princecraft Yukon out there years ago.
Was such a pleasure zooming along that I had to be careful to keep the revs down. I don't think they advise zipping along at 5000 RPM for too long.

Stopped just off shore from what we think is hockey player Sydney Crosby's house and had a light lunch of a banana and cool clear water.
Forgot the dogs 'GatorAid' water bottle so the wife had to let him drink from her cup after she was through.

This is the third trip out since I had the trim gauge installed and must admit that it was money well spent. The upper end of the lake can get shallow so I trim the motor up a bit to save bashing the prop on rocks and it's nice to know where it stands.
A couple of times I strayed into 4 foot water depth and trimmed up, only to trim down again to speed up in deeper water.
No such problem in the larger lower portion which has 150+ depths.
Saw a few fishermen out there but only talked to one old guy at the ramp who hadn't caught anything.
The HummingBird 170 indicated lots of fish in certain areas. Might have to get a license, file down the barb and try some catch & release next year.

Beautiful day, and tomorrow and Saturday should be the same but a bit cooler than todays 25C.
 
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