TAKING POSSESSION

May 2015, John knew he had a buyer for his company. After returning from the PNW trawler buying research event (including Xmas w/family in Washington), he started selling all our toys. The rv, boat, razor and snowmobiles now have new homes. It's all about retiring and cruising on Pairadice.

Having had the dominos play out and it was time to get our documents in a row, Lots of documents! Jeff had us prepare our marine resumes for insurance purposes. He gave us lists of records to duplicate and maintain on the boat...it's too long a list to post today, but little stuff like bill of sale, etc. Not to mention the fountains of knowledge we gained at Trawlerfest. I built binders of all this stuff. The garage was stacked with items from the motorhome and boat that we sold and needed for our new home on the water and John's Denali was loaded to the hilt.  I am committed to work through the end of the year, so I stayed behind. His brother Mat would be there to help in the move of the boat to our marina of choice... 

Thanks to the recommendation from Ron and Nancy Goldberg aboard  the Duet, a 50 ft. Nordhavn, the decision was made for the SalpareBayMarina.com  Hayden Island, OR. We had previously connected with the dock master, Justin and he had a great slip awaiting!  What a gem of a location! You can walk to shopping, lunch, west marine, etc. And there is this really cool cafe... the "Hidden Bay Cafe" right next door. The burgers are grilled outside, by the owners. It's has beautiful gardens, the atmosphere is blissful! (And the owners are two women, who are as awesome as their food!)

So now that we have the boat, its time to make it ours.  John spent the first two weeks on her and started cleaning and making a list of things to do. I arrived on a Friday and so did Dad, brother Mat and Dave, sista Liz. We had a fabulous time having the Washington family aboard for the weekend. My crockpot was very busy. It was fleet week so we set our sites on seeing the Navy ships on the Willamette River, our maiden voyage with the family.

Everyone was very at home on the new vessel!  We had plenty of room and all kinds of fun....

I received and exercised instruction from Caption John. Liz and I chose to hang out on the bow in our "sista" shirts.
It was a great day!