Well, I took the cat out on its maiden voyage yesterday. I knew when I bought it that the chances of taking a taking a dip had gone up dramaticly...just didn't expect it to happen so soon.

We drove up the Trask to the old girl scout bridge, aka Stones Road to launch. The launch is your standard wood slide about 50 ft long. I've used it many times to launch the drift boat and sometimes its kinda sticky. Put the cat on the ramp and discovered it didn't want to slide very easily. Plus the pontoon was just wide enough that one toon wanted to slip off the side of the ramp.

We had the cat on the steep part of the ramp when we decided to turn it sideways, and with less surface area touching the ramp she took off like Clark Griswald on a sledding slope and we couldn't hold it . Didn't bother tying a rope to it as we had to push it down the ramp to that point . I had to run down the bank and dive in the water to get a hold of it. Luckily, it was only about 8ft from the bank so it wasn't too difficult to pull back to shore....but I was soaked . Luckily had an extra pair of sweats in the rig so I made the drift in semi-comfort.