Saturday, April 4, 2009

Sojourner is for sale......

Greetings from our new marina, still in LaPaz, but in the boonies. Marina Singlar will be home for a couple of weeks while we prepare Sojourner to spend the summer on concrete. Actually, we've had some really good fortune come our way. I don't think this guy in the pic had anything to do with it, but it seemed like a good place to show him off.

We have been working our butts off trying to get Sojourner looking as good as possible - Three coats of paint with sand in the first coat for new non-skid on all her decks. Now we will be doing some varnishing inside to spruce that up as well. I'm looking forward to not being able to touch certain places in our small home for days at a time. It's really a lot of fun as you might imagine. At the same time, we have a long list of projects to complete before we can leave. I won't bore you with the list, but on it is the removal of all our personal stuff that we don't want to go with the boat if she sells.





Anyway, on to our good fortune. We've entered into one of those rare Win Win situations with the owner of the boat we're trying to purchase. He has a pickup truck which he needed to insure and have driven up to Loretto, Mx where he is sailing to next week. We dearly need transportation for getting our personal stuff into storage and for just getting around in our new location. And, Loretto is on our way home. So, as you've guessed by now, we bought some insurance.

So here's the new plan. We've paid for two weeks here at Singlar, and it will take all of that to accomplish our list. If that does work out, we will have Sojourner hauled on about the 24th and then drive up to Loretto - about 100 or so miles up the baja. Once there, we may stay a couple days, then pick up a bus to Tijuana, then San Diego where we plan to rent a car and take two or three days to drive home to Grants Pass.

The link below is to the Ad on Yachtworld which is our main sales tool in case anyone wants to check that out. E
http://www.mazmarine.com/core/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp?&units=Feet&id=2050788&lang=en&slim=broker&&hosturl=mazmarine&&ywo=mazmarine&

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Should be fun seeing all the stuff on land that you sailed by on the way down.Have a safe trip home!

Anonymous said...

Greetings, What's new?? What's new?? Any bites on Sojourner? The Ballena is bellisimo! La Paz looks just charming. I would spend a lot of time on that waterfront walk. Beautiful surrondings and weather. I really like the two sculptures you have shown on your blog. We finally have nice weather here in WA so you can come home or ...... Suzanne

Anonymous said...

We're thinking about you!
Enjoy!
Scott & Donna