Well here goes....sorry for long read.....last Monday 6/25, we left NC bound for Long Island NY. A broker/friend, T Harris of Harris Marine had hepled me locate a 2006 Bimini, and I had worked out details with the marina. Landed at LGA around 11 am, rented a car and headed for Port of Egypt Marina in Southold NY. We had never been to that part of Long Island, nice part of the country. Arrived at marina around 2 and immediately met Elisa at the Boat yard. I had my wife, 14 year old son, and 2 other friends to help evaluate the boat.
We had seen a lot of pictures of the boat, it is painted blue so it was easy to spot.
For those of you that do not know, Port of Egypt is a family run marina. Elisa, handles sales, and her brother Bill does the test rides. So we loaded up the crew on the boat and proceeded to take a ride with Bill around the Shelter Island area. Boat was everything we had hoped for. The previous owner had installed teak decks on the boat, I was a little concerned about how they would look, they looked great and really dressed up the boat. We got back to the marina and started going over the boat in detail. My wife and one of our friends went and checked in at the on site hotel, very nice accomadations. After a few hours of testing out all of the systems, we pulled the trigger and committed to the boat, but it was after 5 so the wire transfer of the $$$$ would have to wait for morning. Our plan was always to take the boat home on her own bottom so we had some logistics to plan and accomplish.
Had dinner that night at the restaurant right there at the marina. Monday night is Lobster Bake night, everything from the vegetables to the lobster was local and delicious. Had a great time with our group and turned in early, it had been a long day and more days like it were on the way.
Our friends left at 6 am to head back to the city for their trip home and my wife, son and I got to work. Called the bank to initiate transfer and we got to work. We wanted to prepare the boat for travel. Elisa lent us her car and off to West Marine we went. The marina had most of the necessities for the boat, but my son wanted one of those boat bean bags for the long trip ahead. By the way, the bean bag is a great addition. After West Marine, wife went to grocery store for food and drink, we went back to the boat and began loading.
Ice, fuel, drinks and food loading while Bill gave me local tips on getting to Long Island Sound. We received word about 130 pm that the transfer of funds was complete and we were ready. We said our goodbyes to Elisa and Bill and shoved off........more to follow