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20-09-2011, 14:58
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Boat: Looking for a new boat
Posts: 2,571
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I Just Bought a Boat !
I have been a member of this forum for almost 5 years now. I have bought and owned a few smaller boats. Today I just but my first big boat. S/v "Callisto", 1983 35 ft CAL. I am so totally psyched!!!!!!!!!!!!
And nervous. I haven't really been sleeping a lot lately in anticipation of this sale, I don't feel like a will until I deliver her myself to her new berth in Boston and have her tucked away nicely for the winter.
I will post pictures soon. It looks like the broker just took the listing off of yachtworld....cause I own her. Ha ha ha!!!!
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20-09-2011, 15:13
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Cruising North Sea and Baltic (Summer)
Boat: Cutter-Rigged Moody 54
Posts: 35,035
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Re: I just bought a boat!
Congratulations!!!!!
This is really great news!!!!
Please keep us informed in great detail how your adventure shapes up.
Non-boat owners will harrass you with the old canard -- a boat is a hole in the water you throw money into. What they don't realize is this -- that there is nothing on earth, other than perhaps a young mistress, that is more satisfying to spend money on, than a boat!
Cheers, Dockhead
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20-09-2011, 15:25
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Las Brisas Panama AGAIN!
Boat: Simpson, Catamaran, 46ft. IMAGINE
Posts: 4,507
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Re: I just bought a boat!
CONGRADULATIONS
Is this the boat with core issues?....... i2f
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20-09-2011, 15:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Toronto, Canada on Lake Ontario
Boat: Roberts Offshore 38
Posts: 1,287
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Re: I just bought a boat!
Congrats, you've been looking for a larger boat for some time. Glad you finally found one to suit you. Have fun with her!
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20-09-2011, 15:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Louisville, KY.
Boat: Endeavour 42
Posts: 118
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Re: I just bought a boat!
Congrats! Enjoy one of the two happiest days of your life! Cptn Happy
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20-09-2011, 15:34
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Charleston SC
Boat: cal 40
Posts: 89
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Re: I just bought a boat!
When I pulled the trigger on the b40 I was very nervous also. There was a stomach churning 2 day drive up to Maine. My dad went w/me and he is a big sailor(got me into it) and having him there helped. It all worked out well in the end...
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20-09-2011, 15:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Boat: Looking for a new boat
Posts: 2,571
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Re: I just bought a boat!
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Originally Posted by imagine2frolic
CONGRADULATIONS
Is this the boat with core issues?....... i2f |
You say issues, I say....well....issues. Yes.
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20-09-2011, 15:35
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Gabriola Island & Victoria, British Columbia
Boat: Cooper 416 Honeysuckle
Posts: 6,933
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Re: I just bought a boat!
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“We are the universe contemplating itself” - Carl Sagan
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20-09-2011, 15:38
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Cruising North Sea and Baltic (Summer)
Boat: Cutter-Rigged Moody 54
Posts: 35,035
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Re: I just bought a boat!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cptn Happy
Congrats! Enjoy one of the two happiest days of your life! Cptn Happy
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Don't listen to this bull hockey!!!
Every day since I bought my boat -- working on a thousand of them -- is one happier than the next. Having a boat = life. Not having a boat = death by a thousand land-based cuts. Don't listen to the nay-sayers!
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20-09-2011, 15:44
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#10
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: north carolina
Boat: command yachtsdouglas32
Posts: 3,113
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Re: I just bought a boat!
Congrats. cant you guys sail during the winter?my friend ownes a 34 hunter with an enclosed cockpit that allows him to sail year round..sure beats looking at it sit for 6 months...DVC...
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20-09-2011, 15:44
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Las Brisas Panama AGAIN!
Boat: Simpson, Catamaran, 46ft. IMAGINE
Posts: 4,507
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Re: I just bought a boat!
BEST WISHES on sorting them out  . Did you finallly find some insurance too?....... i2f
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20-09-2011, 15:46
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Boat: Looking for a new boat
Posts: 2,571
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Re: I just bought a boat!
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Originally Posted by imagine2frolic
BEST WISHES on sorting them out . Did you finallly find some insurance too?....... i2f |
I did indeed, I am going with progressive.
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20-09-2011, 15:51
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,776
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Re: I just bought a boat!
Sounds like a new boat party is in order, who's close to Maine???????????? 
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Don't ask a bunch of unknown forum people if it is OK to do something on YOUR boat. It is your boat, do what you want! 
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20-09-2011, 15:53
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,087
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Re: I just bought a boat!
Quote:
Originally Posted by hummingway
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Wot he said....
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20-09-2011, 15:55
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Alameda, CA
Boat: C&C Newport 41
Posts: 586
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Re: I just bought a boat!
i will b back home in boston this weekend and will be happy to crew for you while you sail her down to boston. i will be available sunday (late morning), monday or tuesday.
awesome feeling huh?
congrats!
-steve
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