Wes sold his truck and retired on 8/1/25 and my last day at the bank was 8/29/25 so we loaded up the pickup, trailer and Taylor and headed east to Maryland, which is where our boat has been since we pulled it out of the water in 2016. We checked on it a few times when we went to Ocean City but we haven't really done much to it so needless to say, it was in pretty sad shape.
We got here on Wednesday, 9/10 after stopping in Michigan to pick up a new dinghy. We had ordered a new dinghy engine before we left home and hauled it out with us. Wes is very excited because he now has the dinghy of his dreams, a 12 foot hard bottom dinghy with a 25 hp mercury engine.
We ordered two new engines (18 hp Westerbeke's) back in December and the Marina hired a guy to install them. Wes checked on them a few times over the past 8 months but they were moving pretty slow with the installation. The gentleman (Steve), that is working on them is a local Police Sargent and has been working on them on the side. When we got here, they were both in the boat and one was just about installed but the other, on the port side still needed quite a bit of work. Steve showed up yesterday and worked on them all day. He will need to come back but won't be able to come until the 22nd.
We painted the bottom of the boat today and Wes worked on the electrical. We have a ton of work to do, but it was a good start.
Wow! That's a beautiful boat!
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