Wise decision Sean...! Bob Sent from my iPad On Sep 23, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Nebwest2@aol.com wrote:
Dauntless is off the market.
I received a full price offer on her this week from a wonderful couple in OK. Yes, full price...and no....she is not leaving. I couldn't do it. We looked seriously at acquiring a larger boat to keep at the coast. The costs of doing so would have been marginal for us....to get a boat we wanted we were going to have to go with a fixer upper (which was fine).... but slip costs were much more than I priced out a year ago. The slip prices caught me off-guard and were the final determining factor that we shouldn't make the move. I felt very bad rejecting the offer, however, if we're gonna stay in a trailerable boat, there is no other boat that I really can see myself in. Dauntless fits our particular style of sailing, and I have spent years upgrading her to how I want her. I cannot imagine starting over now. I was in the process of taking her off the market when the offer came in from out of the blue. There was a last minute temptation to let her go and take the money.....but I just could not do it....knowing I would regret in the months to come.
I guess we have a few more memories yet to make.
I've allowed the ad on Trailer Sailor to expire and just removed the ad from Sailing Texas.
Sean, Jo, and Ensign