This Rat Sailed

We depart Denver as we have done numerous times before on this boat buying expedition, but this time it is decidedly different. The view...

But you would be wrong.  We've been looking for a boat for so long that you would have thought that we would have worked out a lot of th...

I'm shocked I tell ya...shocked.  Was starting to wonder if this day would come. We may soon be the new owners of a Leopard 38.  The cur...

The Acceptance Of Vessel, or AOV, date is an important one in the boat buying contract thing.  This is the point by which the conditions lis...

I wake up and look out the window of our hotel room at the surf breaking on the shore. Does it actually look a little better or is it just w...

My usual luck with weather from my aviation days seems to be following me to this new adventure. We awoke (several times during the night, i...

Sitting in seat 7A listening to some Jimmy Buffet and taking a trip that is starting to feel like a regular commute, we are flying back to F...

In the process of shopping for our future home afloat, this is a very common question on my mind. Of course, the real question I grapple wit...

...try, try....try try again, right?  Well, we are yet again under contract on a boat. So, where we left off we had a decision to make bet...

Well, it doesn't look like we will be reaching an agreement on the Leopard 38 "Catzpaw " that we had under contract.  There is...

Finally got the survey report back on the Leopard 3800 we have under contract.  What was it that I said in a reply to a comment on the last ...

We didn't get back to the hotel in Marathon from our pre-sea-trial repositioning sail until around midnight. Fortunately, the reschedule...

So, here we are, our second attempt at a survey and sea trial on a boat that we think could be ours. We arrived in Ft. Lauderdale on what is...

The offer has been accepted!  So, for the second time in my life I'm under contract on a sailing yacht .  Now, as I've learned, the ...

Part 1 can be found here , part 2 is here . So as we ate an overpriced lunch at the marina in Miami (remind me not to hang out much in Mia...

A few weeks ago I finally managed to post a question to the Cruisers Forum  asking for any thoughts regarding what we consider our top two c...

In my last post I wrote that we were under contract on a Lagoon 37.  Due to the unique nature of boat buying, here's a brief outline of ...

Catching back up to the present... On our flight back from Florida we had a lot of thinking to do.  When we were actually looking at the ...

In the past two days of the trip we saw a couple boats that would meet our requirements and a number of others to judge our various "wa...