Mystery - the Trip Home

Purchase of our boat and the trip home to Canada

Vessel Name: Mystery
Vessel Make/Model: Irwin Citation 34
Hailing Port: Saint John, NB
Crew: Linda and Rik
22 July 2010 | Penobscot Bay somewhere
19 July 2010 | Rockland ME
18 July 2010
17 July 2010 | Belfast ME
14 July 2010 | Belfast ME
10 July 2010 | Bah's Bake House - Castine ME
06 July 2010 | Cuttler to NE Harbour
05 July 2010 | nice day on the water
03 July 2010 | Saint Andrews, NB
02 July 2010 | Fredericton, NB, Canada - Saint John river
23 May 2010 | Fredericton, NB, Canada - Saint John river
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Been a few days, been without wifi. Moved around a bit, had a few "adventures".

July 2008 - Purchase

25 March 2009 | near Annapolis, MD
July 2008.

We have been corresponding with the PO for about two months. We sold our previous boat and our previous house on the same day in May. Our move in date for the Town House was July 15th. The week after we drove 1400 km to the boat and saw her for the first time.

Between selling our old boat and driving down, Nick and Christine went and checked her over for us. They took many photos, sent them to em and said "Yes - definitely worth a look"

Hmmm - quite a boat. Needs lots of TLC, needs a few bits and pieces, but all in all - had a workable survey. We have more time and elbow grease than we have cold hard cash.

Within a week we had made an offer, had a counter offer, made another offer, had a survey and settled on a price.

Now we own a 1980 Irwin Citation 34!

Our biggest and newest boat yet.

Next was a mad dash back and forth to mother-in-law's (mil) place (2 hours away) to off-load anything we did not want over winter on the boat.

Within a few days we had the boat pretty much cleared and it was time to drive back to Canada.

Back home and now all we have is memories and the 100 or so photos I took as well.

BTW - I think it was the five hottest days of 2008 when we were working on it.
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Mystery's Photos - Main
We adopted / resuced an SPCA cat in March. He is 1.5 years old and is our boat cat.
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Created 23 May 2010
These are photos from our preparation and trip from Annapolis MD to Fredericton, NB
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Created 25 April 2009

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