A Close Shave

I don't know whether it's because I'm nearing a 'special' birthday or whether its the time of year, but once again I had a 'let's sell the boat' moment. I had one last year about the same time. Both times, I put an ad on jerseyinsight.com, and both times I had someone interested. (These moments usually come after a 'heated discussion' in our house about how much time and energy the boat is absorbing)

First point to note is how often boaty people must check the classifieds on there because I had two of my nautical aquaintances contact me to ask 'why?' and 'what the heck are you thinking of?' respectively, and the ad was only up for around 24 hours.

The third person to make contact was interetsed in buying the boat. I really nearly did decide to let it go but after sleeping on it, going for a long bike ride and sleeping on it again, I decided, no, we decided, to keep it. The text I sent the potential buyer to communicate this decision received this reply:

"Glad you are keeping her.Truth is I owned her 26 years ago, her name was Bewyched. She was a great little boat, though the engine we had gave us a few moments! Lots of fun, took my wife out at 39 weeks (with the dog!) Enjoy her but if you ever do decide to let her go please give me first refusal as it would be fun to have her again one day."

All being well, myself and Rob (author of above text and former owner of Kamala / Bewyched!) will have a chance to meet up, sail and swap stories in the summer. Watch this space.

This one's for you Rob, from last summer: