Lake Havasu City - Big Boats, New Ramps and Christmas Lights (Tuesday, December 8th, 2015)

As we were driving around town today, we noticed a boat in for maintenance at Barrett Marine.  It was one of those boats that makes you stop and take a closer look!

This is a 42' MTI Superboat!

This is a 42' MTI Superboat with a canopy cockpit, meaning the driver and throttle-man have a cover over them. This particulate boat has twin 750hp motors and Mercury #6 outdrives.  All amazing equipment.  Superboats can run down the lake at well in excess of 140 MPH! For those of you who have ever run fast on the water you know that even 75 MPH feels scary fast...I can only imagine what 140 feels like! 

These boats cost well in excess of $1 million dollars and require a significant amount of continuous maintenance to keep them running right. I think of them as the dragsters of the power boating world. Best part is that you see them running all the time on Lake Havasu!  

The hydraulic trailer required to tow this boat

These boats are approximately 12' wide so in order to legally trailer them on the road they are tipped on there side using hydraulics on the trailer.  Then, when they get to their destination, they move the boat from this vertical position to horizontal so it can be put in the water.  After oohing and awing for awhile, we headed down to Windsor Beach State Park.  

As we were coming by the state park yesterday on the boat, we noticed some things out in the water that raised our curiosity.  They were out near the camp ground, and it looked like there were divers and construction type workers working on it.  So today we wanted to find out what was going on.  

We went into the office at Windsor Beach, and asked them if they knew what it was.  They said that they are adding a new boat ramp and another very large parking lot.  The boat ramp will be 8 boats wide and allow for a lot more boats to load at once. This is really exciting news!  There are already two other 6 boat wide ramps in the state park plus a jet boat and jet ski ramp area.  With these improvements Windsor Beach State Park area will be able to unloaded/loaded 20 boats concurrently, which should really help on those busy summer weekends!  

Here is a picture of the plan.

The top area is the new parking lot, the lower are is the new boat ramp

Then we drove further down to see the construction from the land.

Right now they are building a large bladder to keep the water out so they can pour the concrete for the ramp

The road was closed so we couldn't get any closer, but this is the dirt work for the parking lot

The new ramp is scheduled to be fully functional by Memorial Day. We did some more exploring around the Windsor Beach area, and then went back to the house to get cleaned up for dinner.  We were once again treated to an incredible sunset!

So many sunsets, so little time!  Sorry it's blurry, I tried to zoom in a little too much

And as it got dark, we headed down to the English Village (by the London Bridge) to enjoy the Christmas lights before we headed home.

Walking under the London Bridge toward the English Village

We will leave Lake Havasu City with the spirit of Christmas in our hearts and return to Colorado to enjoy the graduation of our oldest daughter and a Christmas filled with friends and family.  See you there!