Because I have exciting news. My husband bought a sailboat! So I foresee quite a bit of "...and Stuff" on Sundays this summer. He has been talking about wanting to buy a boat, an airplane, build a boat, an airplane, doodling designs for both for years. I'm calling it his surprise of the decade. He doesn't understand why I'm surprised, since he's been looking at boat ads for the last six months waiting for the right opportunity. True, but when he said he was planning on buying a boat two days hence, it changed focus to "right now" rather than "some day" and qualified as a surprise.
We used to own a small sailboat and that was a surprise too. Mostly because of the way we acquired it. We wanted one, but couldn't afford to purchase a boat. As we were driving past a boat dealers, we spotted a 17' Venture (MacGregor) sitting on a trailer. He traded a computer for it! Can you believe that??!!
Sailboats look much larger on trailers with the keel hanging under them when you are standing on the ground looking up at the deck, than they do in the water when you are standing on the dock looking down at the deck. I was surprised how small it was when we put it in the water.
Here is a picture of the new one. Yes it is in need of lots of TLC of the elbow grease variety, but it's not as dingy as it appears. This was taken on a rainy day with heavy overcast. It looks much better when the sun shines through the clouds.
This is a Columbia 22 built in 1969 locally, which is kind of cool. It has a 30' mast, 7'9" beam and a 3'2" draft.
He found it in Seaford southeast of Yorktown. There's a marina less than a mile and a half from us that is one of the top rated ones in Hampton Roads, and is $65 less per month in slip rental then the one in Seaford with much better amenities. AND no bogged down tunnel traffic. It took 2 hours to make a trip of 33 miles to look at it.
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