Since his Lake Powell days as a child Bart has quietly dreamed of owning his own boat. He loves everything water and we as a family have had great experiences on a boat together. During covid we talked about it a bit but I never pushed because well we don't own a truck to pull a boat I carry enough of the mental load helping my kids carry out their dreams.
It never ceases to amaze me of the power of dreams and our thoughts. Memorial Day weekend Bart was scrolling through facebook and out of nowhere an ad came up in his feed for a boat. We haven't even mentioned owning a boat in forever and something caught his interest about it. He scrolled through other boats for sale but this one was owned by an old grandpa who took it fishing a few times a year, it is light enough for the Pilot to pull it, is known for good gas mileage like the prius of the lake, wasn't going to break the bank with a price of $8000, and is in remarkable shape for how old it was. We went to look at it and Bart was sold and soon the boat made its new home in our garage.
Jeff found out about the boat and called Bart right up teasing him about how he is now a captain of his own yacht. Bart corrected him saying its more of tug boat.
Bart is in his happy place driving the boat. Emily found a meme that says "Dad will hold his emotions in for years and let them all out with his kids when they are on the tube". I like Bart embracing the good fun part of life.
The first time we took it out to Utah Lake I was a nervous wreck. The man told us the ignition was loose and it took Bart and Aaron a while fiddling around with it and me asking some southern Utah looking fisherman if they had a screwdriver and nicely they loaned me their Leatherman. Bart wasn't worried a bit and was relaxed the whole time I thought we were going to drown. Bart finally got the boat started and we made it out on the lake as it sputtered and stopped a few times. More fiddling and it would start but I was having a quiet panic attack that boating is not for me and we bought the biggest lemon ever. When we drifted to far into the marshy weeds the kids had to get out and push us back to deep water. They attempted to tube but as soon as we got speed the boat would shut off. Emily had a date with Liam later that night and was freakin out that she was going to miss it and be stuck on Utah Lake until dark. Spencer got cold and whining so finally Bart puttered them back to Emily's car for her to go home. Jane and cold Spencer were eager to get off the boat and go home but Aaron chose to stay. Soon after the boat started running great (we think it was just going through old gas). We sped around the Lake enjoying our boat and spending some alone time with our middle man Aaron. Bart even taught him how to drive the boat by himself.
Since then the boat runs great after you mess with the ignition to get it started and we've had tons of fun as a family on it. We still need to find a few more toys like a wakeboard but the girls enjoy knee boarding and all of us but especially Jane loves tubing.
After spending a few times on the boat the kids call it mini the yacht. I call it tuggy our little tug boat.
May "tuggy the mini yacht" keep running and fill our family with many more fond memories.
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