Port of Toledo Boat Yard

After sailing Malo from Alameda, California to Newport, Oregon safely, Dan and I took a short break to check on the house in Eugene, recuperate a bit and then hit the ground running with some significant boat improvements.  Some of these items needed to be done while Malo was out of the water.  So we motored her up the beautiful Yaquina River to Toledo Boat Yard.  This was a tricky river to navigate the channel on, as the draft of Malo is over 7ft.  Timing it with the incoming tide was important, so the water would be as deep as possible.

Dan using charts to navigate the Yaquina River

Approaching Port of Toledo Boat Yard, Oregon

Ted is directing the drivers of the travel lift!



Malo sits on the hard for us to work on her and the boat yard crew to paint her haul.




Dan is polishing the boat after it was given a fresh coat of bottom paint.




Ted was skilled at problem solving with Dan about solutions for our auto helm that made a lot of noise when sailing up from California.  He also replaced a hatch in the forward V-Birth.  

Dan is getting ready to install our new aluminum spade anchor on the foredeck.  As you can see from the picture below, it was not a simple project.  I am beginning to learn that not much is simple on a boat.

Because we often spent a night or two on the boat while it was "on the hard", we had a some beautiful early mornings on the Yaquina River.  I brought my stand-up-paddle board and had some wonderful paddles.  There were many old pilings left from the logging days when the river was used to transport the logs.  

Rowing is a favorite activity of mine.  I rowed a single Alden rowing shell on Coventry Lake in CT for over 25 years.  When I moved to Oregon, my time on the water diminished greatly.  We were able to try out this beautiful boat that belonged to one of the workers at the boat yard.  I was very happy.  I am hoping to row our dinghy even though the performance will be non-comparable.  

This very, very large travel lift was being put together while we were at the boat yard.  You can see the size of the car, and then how big this lift is.  It is meant to haul out very large fishing boats to be worked on.  

This was part of the wonderful crew that worked on Malo.  If you ever need some work done, or your boat hauled.  This was a terrific place.