Well the owner accepted our offer. Surprise! Chase would not wire transfer a sum that large unless you go to a branch, so we had to go back to Slidell to get the transaction done. It is completed today. Even though we asked them if they would before we opened the account.
Florida will allow us to not pay sales tax as long as we are out of the state within 90 days and we register it in another state. So we are setting up a corporation in Delaware. Delaware is a state without sales tax and we are registering it there. We do not have to sail there since the corporation already lives in Delaware.
We do not want to wait for a new name to be painted on her so she is our home and her name is paradox.
Terry will be the official skipper since he is the only one that navigates right now.
Ski is Terry's father and will be the first mate since he is the only other sailor.
Debbie, is Terry's wife and will be officially a swab, but she is looking for promotion. [...]
JoAnn is the matriarch of the group and while her sailing titile will be swab she does have 2 votes on the destination committee. The skipper can overrule for safety reasons, but if JoAnn can get just one other person to vote with her that will be where we go.
Princess is our Boston Terrior. Her position on the boat is obvious.
Misty is our miniature chihuahua. She will be our translator in Spanish Speaking Countries.