Aarghh!!!
After months of looking (on the internet), I finally found what appeared to be the ideal boat for our trip. Fired off an email to the broker. And, yes, Mary agreed to this but only because I had told her about another Kiwi who had bought a similar kind of boat sight unseen and was shipping it to NZ!! We were entering the realm of making a big purchase without personally seeing the vessel!!
It was a Bayliner 38′ and had essentially everything we would need to step aboard and go. Not that that’s what we would do!! Would need to have a shakedown cruise of some kind first.
Now, for those of you who don’t know, a shakedown cruise is usually a relatively short trip to discover whether there are any issues/problems that may need attending to. Also it is a time when new owners can familiarise themselves with the boat and all the systems on board without straying too far from “safety.”
Unfortunately, the broker informed us that that boat had already been sold!!
So, our search thus continues…..
