We have a boat!!!

So it's final. We're buying New Passages, the Island Packet 38. Everything is done and we're just waiting for the documents. It's been quite an adventure getting this all together so quickly. The basics are that we made an offer, accepted with changes from our lawyer (which if you remember, the last broker wasn't willing to do), and went back and forth and agreed on a price. That all happened during only 1 day! I flew down 3 days later, looked at the boat, had it surveyed, had it hauled out, and did a sea trial. Happy with how every step of that went, we took it! I'm now delayed in Ft Lauterdale the day before Thanksgiving trying to get home.

It's been such a whirlwind tour this past week, that I'm just too exhausted to give much more detail other than it's a crazy combination of excitement and fear. The reality of everything has finally set in...we're within weeks of leaving our lives here for a while, and heading to live on a boat! It's what I've always wanted to do, but suddenly I'm scared...scared if it will be all that I hoped, scared that I'll be competent enough to do everything, scared of everything I have to learn about living aboard and having everything I need to clear customs between each island. There's clearly a lot to learn still. At least I feel like I have the sailing thing down!

Anyhow, tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I will just relax and enjoy the day. After that, it's pack up, get the boat documented, get insurance, and buy my one-way plane ticket down! Emily comes back on the 27th and she'll be doing the same. We're both done with work, and basically ready to go! So with that, I'm going to give into exhaustion right now. We have a few more paperwork tasks to complete this boat, so I'll give an update once I have a title in hand! Until then...