As you may know, we bought a boat earlier this year, with the intent to go crabbing and fishing. We had several attempts at getting it in the water, which were frustrated by a lack of access (no parking, or the water too choppy for our inflatable boat). When we did FINALLY manage to get it in the water, I rowed about while my husband attempted to get the brand-new motor to work (it didn’t). We had to give up, and that very same day, we sold the boat.
Since then, we have been watching all the websites for a “new” used boat. It would definitely have to be longer than the last one, and with fall approaching, we have been looking for an aluminum boat. It has been very frustrating…a boat would appear, it would seem to be exactly what we were looking for, we would contact the seller and discover that someone beat us to it.
This weekend, we managed to be the FIRST to look at a boat, and we snapped it up. It’s fifteen feet long, and has plenty of room for us AND the all-essential crab traps.
Now I just have to figure out how to register it, so that we can go fishing and crabbing when we get back from our vacation.