comfortable for her passengers. Her father suggested the name, Water Dancer. For now, her passengers are limited to family members, parents Mike and Kathy, and her brother Dustin. Albritton wants to get comfortable with the boat before taking friends out. First on the list are her teammates on the National Champion Buckshot Cloggers competition dance team. Albritton has been a dancer for more than ten years and regularly travels to events. Having the boat allows her to get away without having to spend hours traveling. “The team has already started planning our boat outing,” laughs Albritton. To get comfortable, the young captain and her mother took a “Women on Water®” class, one of the many free classes offered to MarineMax boat owners. She found the instruction both informative and fun. “Captain Keith was really patient,” she said. “He taught us how to tie knots and answered all our questions. He even clarified things I learned in my boating safety course like the fact that we can have inflatable life jackets, but they aren’t counted as safety gear.”
With her travel for dance, her job as an X-ray technologist, and less-thanideal weather, Albritton hasn’t taken the boat out as much as she’d like yet. The inaugural voyage of the Water Dancer was over Thanksgiving break, a full month after delivery. She took her family out on the Alafia River into Tampa Bay for a twoplus-hour cruise. Albritton summed up her first outing, “It was a lot of fun. There is so much to learn and get used to. It reminds me of dancing. At one point you are enjoying the boat ride and if you aren’t paying attention and hit a wave, it knocks the boat around a little bit. In competition, when you’re focused on the dance and you miss a step, it throws you off balance
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