Maiden Voyage of the Aurora

So we 5 took the ship out around the harbor to see how it did and to see how we did. It was not as smooth as it could have gone but it could have been way worse. I'm not going to tell you what happened because we don't need that spreading around! Lol but we left, we made it around & we successfully docked again. 😅
And boy was it stressful for everyone! 😳

We did get to talk to probably a dozen people who were happy to see the boat moving because it had been sitting since it was started being built long before we bought it. We also had a crowd of people (tourists) watching us manouver her back to dock. Videos & pictures are out there somewhere! 

I took a couple of video of us while we were underway. 

https://youtu.be/C3DL7eyW6oM

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