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Dock Holiday partners,

Welcome to the Dock Holiday Houseboat Blog.

Its purpose is the sharing of information with the group and facilitating coordination of maintenance.

Thank you Dennis for your many years of service keeping the boat in working order.

With the additional demands that have been placed on Dennis's time, I will be taking over his duties and hope this blog will in fact be helpful in keeping everyone informed and in coordinating maintenance activities.

The blog hosts a Google calendar which is editable by all. It has the 2017 schedule posted to it. Please update the calendar as you trade weeks. Please also update it for days or weeks that you will not be on the boat so that maintenance can be scheduled for those times and reduce disruption to planned usage.

Ideas for improvement to the blog are welcomed.

If you wish to add other email addresses to the account, that can be easily done.

We used the boat our scheduled week in May and had a great time. The water was too cold for all but the bravest but the weather was very nice. We took the boat out for two nights then came back in before windy weather started. We pumped the water from the engine compartment that leaks in when the boat is put back in the water from dry storage. The small wet/dry vacuum works well for that after removing the filters. The microwave wasn't working so we gave dimensions to the Hukill's who I believe took a new one out and installed it. Everything else seemed to work.

We observed several slide configurations on other boats that we thought would work well for ours to get it up out of the way to allow docking small boats against the stern. We intend to see if we can get that done soon while in the water.