She arrives!

After getting the call from Jan that the boat was about an hour from arriving, I left work and made it to the boat yard about 15 minutes before they arrived.  The weather cooperated with sunny skies and 50 degree temps.   Not bad for the end of February!

Unloading the boat from the trailer and setting it on the cradle went like clockwork.  I was very impressed with the guys at Larsen.  They were very efficient.  I guess they have done this a few times!

With the boat safely on the cradle and in its assigned location at the yard I went back to work  I did not have a chance to get on the boat and take a look around.

Planning to be boat owners

Sept - 2011 through Feb 2012
My brother and I did a lot of investigating.  There are several places from Hammond, IN to Racine, WI where we could keep the boat.  We visited them all and decided on Waukegan, IL.  The Waukegan Harbor Marina is nice, the travel time from home to the Marina is exactly an hour, the slip price is good and the Larsen Marine boat yard is right next door.

We still needed to find a way to haul the boat from Maryland to Waukegan and I placed an ad on UShip.com initially in October 2011.  Didn’t get any bids.  I relisted in early February 2012 and received 2 bids and accepted one of them from Sea Wise Inc.  The husband and wife team, Ed and Jan, at Sea Wise made the entire process of getting the boat from Maryland to Waukegan a painless experience.  Jan communicated constantly on the current status of the process and when Ed and the boat were in transit, she kept me up to date on their location over the 2 days it took to get to Waukegan.  I asked her to let me know when they were about an hour from arriving at the Larsen Marine boat yard.  She did and I was able to be there when Ed and the boat arrived.