I met my husband in Reno nv while working for the same trucking company, He was at the time Very unhapply married to a alcoholic for 18 yrs. He kept telling me his dream was to get a
sail boat and sail off into the sunset. I told him if he ever left her to look me up before he sailed off. We couldnt hang out because we both knew that ther was an attraction to eachother and I did not believe in fooling around with a married man. Even if he was unhappy. So I ended up finding a better paying job pulling a hazmat tanker from Reno nv to San Jose ca six days a week. Well a few yrs went by and wouldnt ya know it he called, We ended up getting a team run out of Sacramento ca to
Ohio to
Portland OR then down to Sac and do it again, We did this for a year, saved for our wedding, Which we were married on a 75ft
sail boat in the bay near
Santa Cruz CA, It was really nice, We had about 20people, We go back to driving and I was driving through Des Moines IA when he was reading latitude 38 when he read this add for a 41.5
Morgan OI for 65k. We had looked at several boats,all of them just did not fit me, When he read the add he said " I bet this is the
boat for you, you will like the room and I (Mike) can do all the stuff that needs to be done". I told him to call and make an offer or we will buy a house. Good thing ther was a truck stop at the next exit, He called and had the guy fax us a bunch of pictures, we did not have a computer or
wifi so faxing was the way we did things until we made it back to Berkeley CA to do the sea trial and what not. We even faxed a copy of a check for 5k as a doposit. My husband had been sailing for yrs. I on the other hand had NEVER been sailing and was VERY affraid of sinking or floping over, all kinds of crap went through my mind, At first I wouldnt even let him put the main up, we mortered around a bit till I took sailing lessions, Then the cat was out of the bag, That was in 2000. He didnt know it but I had made extra payments and this last Febuary I made the last payment. We ended up
buying it for 40k. Its been great
boat with lots of stuff done, got so much stuf to put on its not
funny,
water maker water heater and so on, This weekend is Sail expo in Oaklank ca, I'm trying to find a good dingee that can hold our crew nco crap from the store when were out, Once we leave we are not comming back, We
sold the trucking company to his son. I hired a driver, HUGE mistake hiring my mothers friend son, He had been driving for a company and ended up with throat cancer, he was trying to get back on his feet, so I thought well people have given me a break through out my life so do the same for him, OMG he tore up the truck to the tune of 25k, My husband had just signed up for his ssi that he had worked for sense he got out of the Marines after
vietnam, He is a
work alcoholic and had to fly back to Dallas TX to haul sand for the
oil fileds. Damn I had this plan all layed out,
money saved to have the boat hauled painted and some
rigging done, Had to make two new sperders because the last ten years one of them rotted. He wasnt even home for a month and my plan went to sh*t. Then to top it off the wells havent started back up after the first of the year, I'm SOOOOOOO Glad I paid the extra and paid off the boat and had it put in my name because of the irs, My husband all ways waits till the last miniute to do anything, I do things right away, then its done and move on to the next. He still has his nv drivers
license and I have my ca, I put that we are separated about 5+ yrs and have given a lot of thought to going to one of those tax people to protect me from loosing our boat, Worked to hard to loose it because of back
taxes, I feel very lucky to have what I have, It was team
work to get it started and were so close, All we have left to do is pay off the last credit card from fixing his truck over the last few yrs, around ten k. I think it will take us six months or less to do the stuff we need done, Anyone want to buy a 48ft drop
deck trailer, its from when we use to haul broadway shows, That was the most fun driving job we ever had, Our truck was called the Zoo crew because we had two Austrlian Cattle
Dogs and an attacked cat that walks on a leash, I'm so fustrated because my plan fell through, I guess things just werent ready to happen YET! More to the storey to follow, Vicki,Mike n the ZOO CREW... hope you all have fair. Good LUCK to everyone on this list