Pacific Northwest Gardening: Weird weather of '09!! ... #9, 1 by gardener105

gardener105 wrote:
Good morning everyone! Thank you for all of the congrats!
I think this venture was meant to be as this was the second time Wind Trek had been posted on craigslist much to our surprise and pleasure. I had responded to the ad in early Feb when it was first posted but never received a reply. I even asked Murmur (Carole) to see if she could get a reply to no avail. Then a couple of days later I went back to the ad and it had expired so we thought she had been sold. After being disappointed by the dweeb in Idaho I continued to search craigslist. We had another interest in another Catalina in Chewelah but there were to many red flags on that one. The owner didn't take very good care of it, he didn't cover it for a yr and a half while it was on the trailer, the halyards (ropes) were exposed to all weather conditions, it was a swing keel and had sat in salt water for 10 yrs prior to being on the trailer, so we had no idea of the condition of the winch cable or the pin that holds the keel on, so I continued to search. The night that I found Wind Trek posted again, I couldn't believe my eyes! I was so excited and Mike had already gone to bed so I printed the ad and wrote on the bottom on the back with an arrow pointing to the other side, look what I found! We were both so excited and so afraid they were going to sell her before we got there. I responded the next day to the ad and this time I got a reply within about 20 mins, then I was REALLY EXCITED! We communicated back and forth for a couple of days, then I called and spoke with both of them. It was like calling a friend that I hadn't talked to in yrs, they didn't feel like strangers at all. To make an obviously long story short, we offered to send them some money (that they could keep either way) to hold the boat until we got there to show how serious we were about wanting to see her. They said that wouldn't be necessary, they would hold the boat for us since we had tried to reach them the first posting, so we told them we would be there Sat the 28th, we drove up Fri morning after Mike got off work, spent the night in a motel, drove to their place Sat morning, knew right away when we saw her that she was everything we expected and more, purchased her, had a wonderful lunch, dinner, spent the night in their trailer, got up Sun morning to coffee that had been programed to come on at 6:30, went in the house and they had made breakfast for us as they didn't want us to leave on an empty stomach and have to stop to eat. The best thing of all, is we made some very nice new friends. We left their place at around 8:15 a.m. and got home at 8:45 p.m. Boy was that a long day!
Here's a pic of the cabin, the round thing on the floor is a heater there was 2 of those and they also had a dehumidifier in her too. The next pic is of how they had her covered for the winter.

Susan105

This message was edited Mar 31, 2009 9:01 AM