captrogerjjones

Well finally it happened, Trudie put her foot down and she was booked to be hauled, as you re all probably aware unless you are in Mane or the Chesapeake, lets face it people, let me rephrase that BOAT YARDS do NOT like wood boats!. However as we found out if you have enough determination and more importantly money you can do anything in Fort Lauderdale so we were set and the cost!!!!!! I hope you are sitting down, haul & launch three days on the hard and one coat of bottom paint rolled with NO sanding as we had re done the hull $1,900.00 it gets better lay days were $1.75 PF/ PD that’s right $77.00 a day total of lay days $3,465.00 WOW And I had two full time employees working ten hours a ... read more

Been in Genoa Italy since Saturday arrived at the ship to find that they had off loaded earlier than scheduled for the boat and Andy were gone, of course the battery on my cell phone was flat and the new 12V charger I purchased is in the cabinet draw behind the desk. I managed to get a ride from the port security back to hotel where Andy had been staying, after settling his account (good job I stopped by) I used their telephone to call all of the marinas in Genoa to find out who had a reservation for Windsong, found her on the third try and he was just tying up, so another 35E taxi fare later I was at the boat, and what a mess she was, apparently the company we hired to ... read more