Going...going gone!!

Well...finally TWO WEEKS after the fire I sold what I could..( Ihad to wait until Boats US Insurance signed off on her,......So Between insurance and the what I got from the fire sale I will be able to buy another boat. Pictures will follow as soon as i know what is what.

Fire in the bilge.....fire!!

On Saturday,  April 17TH MY WIFE AND I DECIDED TO TAKE THE Lucky Find, a  22 foot center console, out and up to the lake....A Good ride  in a boat is just what I needed. Instead we never got out of the driveway with the boat.

 In preparing the boat for the lauch there were two loose wires in the bilge....from the bilge pump, and Dottie decided to put them together and accidently hit the positive terminal with them... up she went in smoke and being the hull is made of Ripolene (100 % plastic) all that is left is a ball of melted plastic. I have never actually seen what damages a  fire can cause until now. Luckily I have insurance on her.$ 13,000.00 worth of insurance. ( i only paid two thosand plus $600 for the motor. and 4k FOR trailer). I keep trailer and the most cash I will lose will be $2,600 if insurace does not pay for some reason or another. but there is also a catch to it.... I cannot find a boat similar to it for under $28,500.....so now the search is on. Should you know of anyone willing to sell a 2011 22 ' c.c.,  let me know...please.

I'll make him or her an offer they can't refuse.

All Aboard......well, almost all, but a goodtime none the less.

On January  12th 2015 I left NY for Fla. and by myself stayed on the boat untill April 1st. I will say this about spending the winter in the heat of FL it was the best thing I could have done.The motorhome wintered in Oriental, NC, the boat and myself in the Key Largo area, (where everyday is 82 Degrees and sunny),  and Dottie stayed home in cold, dreary Clyde, NY.  (where everyday it either snowed or temps were below zero).

I had a pretty good time, although, all I did was work all day and drink at every bar in Key Largo during Happy hour. (4-6pm)

The teak is now all stripped and sanded waiting for Bristol Finish to be applied.

Also the boat is No Longer at Mantee Bay Club it is at the Key Largo Harbor Marina.

The Manatatee Bay Club  was way to desolate for me.I sold the dinghy on takeoff to a good friend by the name of Bedford at MBC.....and  I made a reservation at KLHM and brought her their on April 1, 2015.(25 minutes south by car and almost a full day by boat).  Dottie flew into Miami on Sunday the last day of March, I met het her at the airport and she worked hard to clean the boat on Monday, Tues and Wed. After signing the contrract and paying my first month's rent , we had exchanged papers for the dink, Dottie and I went straight out to have dinner. at the Conch House in Key Largo, FL.     We awoke early on April 2nd headed out for Oriental, NC to pickup the motorhome. We spent one night in Jaxsonville, Florida. Arriving at Oriental NC on April 3rd, Spent the night in our motorhome and then on Saturday we made it to VA, and on Easter Sunday night the 5th we were home in Clyde, NY, safe sound and freezing my butt off.

WE HAD A TERRIFIC TIME AND ADD THAT TO A GREAT WINTER AND YOU COULD NOT ASK FOR MORE  

I am not aboard YET....but getting there slow and sure .....or why plans are made to be broken!!

My father-in-law had a heart attck on Saturday January 3rd. Thanks God, he is doing well and resting now, but I had to change my plans since Dottie went down to New Jersey to take care of her mother and check in on her dad. They put 3 stents in his heart along with a on-demand pacemaker. Apparently he was as close to death as possible with a 99% blockage in his Lower Desending Artery (2 stents) and Circumflex artery (1 stent)' which by the way, is the same surgery along with stents in the same arteries 15 years ago, (and a 54% blockage) that I had done. With everything now open and cardio-rehab behind him, he feels fantastic!!, And now can do everything an 85 year old can do without chest pains.

Anyway, she was away from home till January 11th and I am now leaving for Florida on or about January 20th, (instead of January 6th).  I will drive Dottie's car down to Florida so we have a car available to us, then on my way back north , which right now looks like the 7th of March


AL & DOTTIES V with Tow Vehicle on Tow Dolly

stop in Oriental N.C. to pick up our RV and tow Dotties car behind us with RV, and return to our home. (back to Clyde, NY). I will be on the boat from January 25th till about March 7th. I say sunny Key Largo because today in Clyde we can expect a high of 10F while the weather report for Key Largo says a high of 80F with sunshine.





See you all in March sometime.........................................and, of course, if it were up to me I'd stay down south forever and ever..................................

Where Are WE?

I made up my mind, regardless of what I heard about costs etc...It is definitly Florida for me and the Lucky Find III.

We are spending the rest of 2015 in Daytona Beach, After the 10th or so of April 2015, we will be at the Hallifax Harbor Marina .

Until April 4th 2015,we will be in Key Largo Florida at the Manatee Bay Club

One the first one is minutes from Daytona' exciting nightlife and the other one is a quiet park-like setting 10 miles from downtown Key Largo and about 30 minutes south of Miami Beaches night life....you have to love Florida like I do to understand it all./