[mwil203434]

I looked around real quick and didn't find any threads about stories about the search for the boats. I figured what the heck...with a lack of better things to do on a Monday night why not start a thread.

My wife and I looked at a handful of boats over 6 months. We're pretty young and didn't have a bunch of money so we were looking at some real fixer-uppers.....or boats that needed some TLC as I would tell my wife. I finally found a boat down in Solomon's that looked like it might be in pretty good shape for alittle more than we wanted to spend but I figured what the heck. I told the wife we should take a day trip to point lookout, had a wonderful walk around, picnic, etc then after leaving I thought we could drive to the marina and check out a boat i saw on the web. Things were going well even after the wife realized my true intentions for this trip. Once we got up in the cockpit, it was unlocked so we took a peek inside (yea, probably a no-no but we were there and I wasn't calling the broker to meet us on a sunday). My wife said, wow this isn't a piece of crap like the other ones...right there I knew I had a shot. 3 hours later we made a tentative offer, a seatrial and a few weeks later we were sailing up the bay bringin the new boat home.