The boat!...what we started with!

Four or five years ago Julie convinced me that we should start looking for a trawler and give up our evil sail boat. Sail boats are evil because when they heel they can spill your wine. They also have winches that need winching, masts that need climbing and being in the salon is like living in a cave.
A trawler on the other hand, does not spill wine, have winches that need winching, require a mast that needs climbing and the salon can have lots of windows with a nice view of whatever.
I still love sailboats but ....soon to be retired (at the time) and on a fixed income I wouldn't be able to afford to spill any wine. So, we began our quest for a trawler. Contrary to what you might have heard, size does matter. Especially when it comes to boats. Costs for owning and maintaining a boat goes up exponentially with size. With that in mind we opted to go with the small is better attitude when looking for a new boat. At 6'4" and 225 (+/-) I can only go so small and have adequate room to eat, sleep and stand up along with some other things.
Miami Boat Show here we come! ....we went and then we came home.
Whoa....this boy ain't gunna mortgage the farm for a boat....any boat. Maybe we should find a nice used boat.
On a trip to Seattle to visit family the following summer we slipped off to do a little boat shopping...or was it shopping for a little boat..? That's when we saw our first Sundowner 30 Tug. The boat was just back from an Alaskan cruise, sitting on a trailer on a broker's lot. We're thinking this might work so we made an offer....a low offer we thought. Apparently the owner thought so too because he didn't take it.
A few months went by and I found another SD 30 in Kentucky. Thought I'd better go look and I did. Julie was working so she didn't make the trip. Nice little boat, just like the one in the NW. Needs some work but that's ok because this isn't our first rodeo on fixing up boats. Give us something to do in our 'spare' time. Let's make an offer...a low offer. Well, there was some stuttering on brokers part but he said he would give a try. Two weeks later I got a call from the broker saying "Be careful what you wish for, you own a boat". (We actually owned several boats at the time but that's another story.)

Here she is as we found her in Kentucky.

Can you say teak? .......Can you say leaky teaky?

Can't wait to get Scout home and get to work. The trip home coming next.

Peace, love and old boats!