We bought Paradise Cafe, a
Newport 30 MKIII in 2006.
Hurricane Wilma washed her into the mangroves near
Key West and while being tossed around the
fuel tank burst.
Insurance paid and the boat was put up
for sale by a broker. I built a trailer, drove to
Key West, loaded up and dragged her home to the upper right-hand corner of Iowa. I cleaned and repaired and converted and refitted and invented and improved as fast as I could. Given that in the intervening years I got to have cancer surgery and recovery one year, had to have a shoulder replaced another year, had to build a garage on the house one year, one year the Holdam
family had to go to the Grand Canyon, my summers have not exactly been good for getting the sailboat back in the
water. But now she's in the lake at Lake City,
Minnesota. This weekend my wife and I got to spend the first weekend aboard. Paradise Cafe
sails very nicely, thank you very much. And we get to keep her in the
water until late October. Our weekends will be different now.
Guy
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