In 34 years of life I had never sat in a boat with just my father and taken in the splendor of the great outdoors that we both enjoy so much.I’m not quite sure how that happened. We’ve been on boats before together – spending time on lakes with family friends, and even fishing trips that I started going on almost a decade ago with his friends and colleagues across Northern California. To make this even more interesting, he even has a boat that sits beside his Manteca home, and for one reason or another we’ve never managed to get it into the shape necessary to be worthy of open water so that we could spend the kind of quality time under power that he enjoyed so much with his father.