Time for a change!
10 July 2013 | North Palm Beach
Phyllis Pardee
Where to begin...I can't BELIEVE its been so long since I posted to this blog. So MUCH has been going on. To bring you up to date.....we came back to North Palm Beach--and have been at Old Port Cove Marina since we arrived.
We immediately went looking for a new boat and I can tell ya there are slim pickin's on the market right now for used DeFever trawlers! We looked at a 49 that a fella was hoping to trade us for the Cabo Rico (plus some $$) but decided the bunk beds and the tiny back "porch" was just not gonna work for us. Our broker asked us to go look at a DeFever 44 in Lighthouse Point so we made an appt and away we went. We liked what we saw....and decided to come back for a second look and then made an offer. Our offer was accepted and the boat and engine surveys were scheduled in short order. Nothing big was found on surveys...engines in good shape for boat age and boat surveyor found nothing alarming. With a boat this old (1985) there are always little things and there was previous water damage from leaky ports. Dave and Betty had all ports replaced a while back so the cosmetics we knew we could and would take care of. Sea trial was awesome...it was so nice to
be up top where you can actually SEE where you are going! Dave had to get the rudders repainted before we took possession but things went very smooth and we were soon down there untying lines and heading out to bring the boat up to Old Port Cove so we could move off sail boat and on to trawler. I had no IDEA we had so much crammed into that sailboat!!!
We spent a couple days cleaning out stuff that was left behind as well as a general cleaning. Out with the blinds and off came the big tabletop which was sent out to be cut down so it would drop leaf. We will have had the boat for two weeks tomorrow the 13th....and we are finally totally off of the Cabo Rico. We had some folks come to do the britework on the Cabo and listed her for sale. Today we took her up to Ft. Pierce to a nice protected marina to sit until she sells. We had a good day on the ICW and only had to get 5 bridges to open for us....the other 2 were 65 feet.
Bill will go back tomorrow by car and add storm lines and get some final cleaning done and she is to be shown on Friday. Fingers crossed that this man from Atlanta will make us a reasonable offer. We plan to leave North Palm Beach on Sun or Monday headed North and we will spend the rest of the summer and fall in or near Charleston, SC.
Sorry about not posting for so long....its been a busy time!!! This is a pic of our new home!!!