One step closer
01 March 2006 | Sydney
Greg
Today we accepted an offer on our apartment and exchanged contracts so that's a major hurdle overcome. After consuming two bottles of champagne with our real estate agent we signed a contract for the purchase of 'Volare', a Catalina 42MKII currently lying in Long Beach, California. We hope this process goes smoothly - there's still a ways to go: we need to have our offer accepted and then have a marine survey done on the boat before we settle. The current owner would like to enter the boat in the Long Beach - Ensenada Race in April and that suits us because we may be able to take delivery in Ensenada, Mexico and that saves going through the process of taking off-shore delivery and moving the boat immediately out of California thereby avaiding paying California sales tax. We'll move to the States in late May to take delivery and spend three months upgrading and adding equipment.