We rose today wondering whether the duplicate boat title we had ordered and had mailed last week to the home of the new buyer would arrive soon. We sat around making plans for packing the boat and trying to make arrangements for how we would get a rental truck to bring things home. The nearest rental truck of any kind that we could locate turned out to be in Savannah (about an hour away driving) and was a 12’ box truck (way overkill for what we needed). We made contact with a family friend, Nancy McHale, who lives in Beaufort and she agreed that we could borrow her car to get to Savannah to pick up the truck. However, in the meantime Jennifer, the lady purchasing the boat, texted Renee with a picture of the new title that she had received. In the interest of time and efficiency Renee took an Uber to Savannah to get the truck while Erik took off in the boat from Hilton Head and moved on towards Ridgeland and Jennifer’s home. Renee met Erik at a small public bot launch with a dock in Ridgeland a couple of hours later and we spent the next couple of hours filling boxes and loading all our personal stuff into the box truck (which actually turned out to be a 16’ truck!....lol.....now it was REALLY overkill).
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| skinny waters through the marshes |
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| Turning over ownership |
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| William after driving the boat to its home dock with Erik's guidance |
Renee had made arrangements while on her Uber ride to Savannah for all of us to meet at an attorneys office in Ridgeland at 4pm to notarize the bull of sale and title and exchange for a cashiers check. This all went smoothly and right on time. We drove back to the boat launch where Jeniffer and her son met us there. We spent an hour or so going over the operation of the various systems on the boat. Erik then left on the boat with William, Jennifer’s son. To navigate it the last few miles to their home dock in the marshlands of SC. William had grown up on these waters and fortunately picked up on driving the boat effortlessly (Erik did still take the helm for the docking at their home).
After a brief, bittersweet goodbye to our faithful Aquaholic we immediately got on the road toward home. But wait...why go home now when we have the time and Knoxville TN is kinda sorta on the way and there is another boat we were interested in looking at there. We called the owner of that boat and he agreed that he could meet us at Ft Loudon marina where it was on Thursday morning at 10am. He is currently living in Atlanta Ga.
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| Riva continues to stress the whole situation...NOT |
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| One of our prettiest sunsets this year did not come on the water |
About 30 mins into our drive towards Knoxville a fellow Marinette owner who had seen on the Marinette FB page that we had sold Aquaholic and were in the market for a larger Marinette messaged u stating that their 39’ Aft Cabin big M was for sale in Nashville. Here we go again...altering plans. The decision was made that we would drive another couple hours towards Nashville and get a hotel for the night. We would then meet the the owners of the Nashville boat tomorrow early afternoon to take a look and have a good comparison of an identical boat.
Whew!!!! What a day. After grabbing a quick fast food bite to eat we checked into our hotel and settled in to ponder all of the craziness of the day.
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