My last voyage as owner of Cecelia

 A voyage doesn't have to be at sea. It can be a long journey (you can look it up) and this last voyage was very long  (1200 miles). 

Readers may recall Cecelia was named for " ...shakin my confidence daily..."  Cecelia stayed true  to the very end. I got her all ready for our last voyage together by mostly filling her with items that were making a one way trip to Texas. Yes, my boat became a wedge shaped UHaul!

Loaded and ready to go with new tires, a repaired hitch and one less motor I thought I was well prepared, but Cecelia always tests me. 

Scott flew in from San Antonio and we left early Saturday morning. Less than a mile south of Springfield IL, a semi immediately in front of us exploded an outside tire. The sound was defending and we were showered with flying chunks of rubber. We stopped but saw no apparent damage to my truck or the old girl. This wasn't Cecilia's fault or was it??

When we stopped for gas I noticed the license plate was nearly broken off. The support plate behind it was shattered. Cecelia has shed multiple license plates in the lake but never tried to rip one off on dry land. 

Day 2 started ok, until south of Dallas Scott noticed Cecelia's cover was ballooning up like it was taking off. We discovered she had ripped a hole in the cover. We had to buy some duct tape to make a temporary patch. Scott also doubled all the bungees holding the cover to keep it from reinflating.

We finally made it to San Antonio to her next (hopefully not final) resting place.  It took multiple tries but we finally got her in the spot Scott cleared for her. I handed him the paperwork which officially ends my ownership.

Now that she is a Texan maybe she will get a new name. Let's hope so because old Cecelia still leaks!