Ahoy from the water

The last weekend was the day with big D when we launched the boat for the first time. We decided to launch on the "slip" near our marina on the Labe river.

preparing to get it ready

slowly into the water....

...and finally its there.

The naming ceremony was fun for the kids. I had some small speech and then the kids had to blow the whistles and spill some high class wine on the boat. By that high class I mean strawberries fizzy lemonade so even kids can get drunk :-)

naming ceremony

sacrifice the blood of the virgin to the god of the seas

proud owners

Then we took our grandma and grandpa for a short trip and headed to the marina for the first night.

first mate on the watch

at marina

Next day we headed upwards the river a few river locks and stayed overnight.

"wild" nature mooring

daughter loves the boat 

On Sunday we headed back to the marina and retrieved the boat back onto the trailer. This was not easy as I did it for the first time, but when we finally leveled the trailer, it was then peace of cake. The Kia Sorento is a wonderful car, especially with the reduction.
The boat is really comfortable and I loves that retractable keel and rudder. You can easily anchor at the shore without any problem and kids can get onto the boat very easily.
I did not test the sails, but hopefully on the next trip. Anyway, everything was working well and we had not technical issues with the boat.

I forgot to mention that we also bought the 20l portable fridge Engel MT27D with Sawafuji compressor. It's quiet and very low consumption. The solar panel helped to charge the batteries even it was not sunny all the weekend and the mast covered portion of the solar panel.