This morning we will finish the paperwork for the closing and the Coast Guard Documentation of the Misty Lady. Tomorrow morning, around 8 am we will travel up to Dundalk, MD to the Anchor Bay East Marina and take possession of the yacht. After a check out, we will start engines, move carefully out of the slip, where she has resided for several years, and point her bow toward the South River, near Annapolis and the shipyard where she will undergo some upgrading, updating and a face lift (clean and polish).
Once we have her in the work slip, the professionals will take over and will perform the miracle of transforming the boat from what she has been to a new, sparkling gem of the Chesapeake Bay and inland waters.
Aboard her initial voyage, will be the first mate (Charlotte), myself, my son Cliff, the yacht broker, Walt, and possibly my daughter in law, Becky and grand daughter Hattie.
Photos will be taken at the point of taking possession, then we will post them. Fingers crossed that the rains will stop, since the skies have been overcast and raining for over 4 days straight. Supposed to be clearing a bit and temps in the low 70s. That will be nice considering that the highs over the past four days have been under 62 and mostly in the mid 50s. Some May weather, huh?
Charlotte and I, along with both of the Sea Cats (Duchess and Penny) are stuck in this blasted hotel until the work is far enough along that we can move onto the Lady. Probably (hoping) sometime later part of next week. Yikes. Although Charlotte will leave for Nashville on Monday for a conference and will return on Saturday, so we probably will wait until her return before moving onto the Misty Lady.
The fur babies are less than pleased at this turn of events. They had started as part of our family in a three story town home, then a much smaller condo, and now a single hotel room for their living quarters. Needless to say the cramped quarters are not promoting of a happy pair of kitties. Perhaps this experience in the hotel will make them appreciate the spaciousness of the Misty Lady more? Probably not, you know how finicky cats are!
More later? We have to leave shortly to meet with the broker to sign and notarize papers, then head for the Credit Union to wire the final payment funds. And then FINALLY we will be yacht owners for real.
Author: harv1941
Just a summary, I am 84 years of age, retired in July 2013 and settled down to promoting the dangers of bacterial meningitis, which killed my beloved son, Mike in 2009. My wife, Charlotte, and I embarked on an adventure of live aboard cruising, aboard a large Blue Water motor yacht. While our beginning was rather fraught with hurdles, we continued to look forward to the day we moved aboard the Misty Lady and cruise the eastern seaboard and associated waterways. After more than four years of life aboard this Bluewater Motor Yacht, I developed an advanced problem due to interaction with medications and experienced rather frightening balance problems. Therefore, getting on and off the yacht was fraught with danger of falling between the docks and the boat's hull. Walking the docks was also problematic considering that our yacht club docks were all floating docks and my balance problem was a danger during the walk from our yacht's docking slip to the clubhouse or out to the DC Wharf facilities and our car housed in the yacht club's reserved garage. SO, we had to regretfully put the Misty Lady up for sale and move back on shore. We moved on shore, first into a condo apartment in Alexandria, then after two years there, we relocated to the city of Newport News, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Our original desired location was in the city of Hampton, Virginia, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in the United States having been established originally in 1610. My ancestors came to this country through this settlement in the mid 1600s and lived in that area for around 100 years before beginning a migration of one portion of our family toward the west.
I looked forward to moving back to this area and exploring the roots of my family, both maternal and paternal ancestry, but we found a great house in the Newport News area and became ensconced in the terrific neighborhood of Kiln Creek. My wife, being still actively employed, received a substantial offer in a position with a government contractor firm back up in Northern Virginia. So we put the Newport News house up for sale, receiving and accepting an offer withing two days. We then relocated back up to the city of Alexandria and into another high rise condo. My wife reached a point where considerations for retirement were becoming very important. She indicated that she really didn't want to retire in Alexandria, so once again we began a house search in the Tidewater area, this time in the City of Williamsburg and in a community restricted to 55+ age owners. We found the ideal location, initiated the sale and closing for our retirement home. We then put our condo on the market. Alas, the market was not as robust as before so we had to change asking price a couple of time, but finally the Alexandria Condo was sold. Now we are set to enjoy the great locations found here in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, considering that we are history buffs and there are literally hundreds of historical sites in this segment of our nation. Of course living in Williamsburg is the epitome of history living life.
So, now we are in our retirement home, in a great retirement type community. A great clubhouse with a fine dining restaurant, a grill/pub, an award winning PGA designed golf course and miles of walking trails. Looking forward to my wife's eventual full retirement and the two of us visiting all up and down the east coast historical spots.
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