Listing......

The next step was listing our sailboat. That had to be gone before we took on another boat. We had done the two boat owner road before and didn’t want to store two, maintain two, etc. We posted our boat online and a few hours later the first call came. It was amazing – but it wasn’t sold yet. She was sold in a matter of weeks. It was the longest few weeks that we could imagine. It was also going to be hard watching someone else tow our boat away – our family’s summer home for 5 years.


We toured a few trawlers and viewed countless trawlers online while waiting for the sale of her to be final and decided we wanted the double cabin layout. We were excited. We knew what we wanted. We even found what we thought we wanted and made an offer. When that offer was declined we weren’t as unhappy as we should have been – in other words, it obviously wasn’t the boat for us because instead of disappointment, we felt relieved. Mike and I spent countless hours in the evenings and on weekends combing through trawler after trawler. Sending inquiries, compiling questions and still we searched.


We were searching for Marine Traders when we stumbled upon an ad that we couldn’t ignore. It wouldn’t leave our minds. It had all the qualifications of what we wanted but it was an Albin. Our focus changed entirely in some ways. It was more than we intended to spend but looking at the boat was looking at a boat we could have forever. We stopped looking at Marine Traders and re-focused on the Albin. We contacted the owners of the Scottish Lass – the owners became our pen pals!

The biggest problem with Scottish Lass was her location. We were in the Mid-West she was in Southern Florida. We didn’t have a month of vacation time to bring her home up the river system. If this was to be our boat, we had to look at trucking her north. It was September – and here that means all the marinas are lining up to fill heated storage buildings. Timing was going to be crucial to get the boat, have it trucked home and be inside the building before we lost a premier spot to work on the boat all winter. We had a survey completed on the boat, talked to the shipping company about costs and timing, reserved a spot in heated storage, talked to the bank about the documentation paperwork and scheduled a tour with the owners of the “Scottish” We couldn’t commit till we went down to Florida to see the boat for ourselves.