We Have a Boat

Originally Posted at www.svsweetescape.com

Welcome to our first blog post.  We’ll do whatever we can to keep future posts light and interesting as we report our location, progress and whatever else is happening with us.

So, as the title of this post suggests we have finally found our boat.  She is a Hunter 426DS built in 2003.  The boat’s name is currently Festina Tarde.  We will change the name to Sweet Escape this spring.  It is interesting that despite the fact that we have been using the Internet to search nationwide for the boat of our dreams, we ended up finding her only 13 miles from where we live in Wisconsin along the shore of beautiful but cold Lake Michigan.  While there is a temptation to read more into this fact, lets just say that we appreciate the convenience of having the boat so close as we prepare to leave on our cruise this summer.

We will post more on the offer and purchase of the boat in a future entry.  For now, we have an accepted offer, a survey scheduled for March 14th with a Chicago based marine surveyor who will also work with us later to become familiar with the operation of this boat and all her systems.Following an acceptable survey, we will need to arrange a sea trial.  We expect that to take place sometime in late March or early April and we will report on it when it does.  Following the sea trial, assuming it goes well, and installation of a diesel generator, we will move to close on the boat.