Meet the new owners of Motorboat Inn

This dynamo duo work and play hard

Story by Michelle Ince | Photos courtesy of Jason Harrison, MD

Jason and Nacy Harrison, new owners of Motorboat Inn

Drivers on the peninsula may have noticed some changes at the Motorboat Inn lately, and with good reason. It’s under new ownership, and the couple who now calls it theirs said they have big plans in store for the site.

Jason and Nancy Harrison said they have been in love with Possum Kingdom since 2001, when they went on their very first date – but that’s a story for another day.

Jason Harrison grew up in Carlsbad, New Mexico, along the Pecos River. He came to Texas in 1999 after finishing medical school at the University of New Mexico, and he did his general surgery residency at Baylor Hospital in Dallas until finishing in 2004. He met his future wife, who is from Canada, while she was working as a nurse in recovery at Presbyterian Hospital during the time he was serving his surgical rotation there.

Their first date was Aug. 25, 2001, at PK, and it has been a love affair with each other – and this special place – ever since.

The couple married in 2002 and, after a brief stint in Corsicana, Texas, they started their own practice, Highlander Surgical Associates, in 2006 in Arlington, Texas. With student loans and delayed gratification, PK remained a dream for them until 2009, when they bought their house on the peninsula. They found what is now the Motorboat Inn through real estate agents Tony and Valerie Klapper, who do business as The Klapper Team.

The inn is part of the Harrisons’ retirement plan, and the couple plans to make PK their full-time home in the next three to five years.

“PK is the Pecos River on steroids, and it is an absolute blessing to call this place home,” said Jason Harrison, who also is a commercial pilot and enjoys flying in friends and family to visit. “There is so much to do here – but if you want to do nothing, what a gorgeous place to sit and look at.”

The couple enjoys running on the Brazos River Authority trails that have been created on the peninsula. Their active lifestyle and the work that the Motorboat Inn requires fit the couple’s life perfectly.

“Nothing good in life comes without hard work, and work and time spent in accomplishing something meaningful is what fills our life with such pleasures,” Jason Harrison said.

Nancy Harrison’s family has spent weeks in the area helping get the Motorboat Inn up to full speed. She and her parents enjoy woodworking, and her dad “can pretty much fix anything,” she said. The inn has already given the couple a great excuse to spend time with friends and family, and both of them look forward to what is to come.

Jason Harrison said guests can expect more changes at the Motorboat Inn over the years as long as the couple continues to enjoy good health.

“We are all one diagnosis away from a chemo chair, unfortunately,” he said, “and without your health, plans can quickly change. Enjoy and never take for granted the blessings God lays out for you and yours.”

Jason and Nancy Harrison are the new owners of Motorboat Inn and have big plans for the inn.  They also love their adventures on beautiful lake Possum Kingdom.  They enjoy their stand up jet skis and still like to slalom ski.