The money part:)

Yep, you need some. I just bought tickets from Las Vegas to Ft. Lauderdale, where I will need a hotel room and a rental car, just to look at the boat. Going down on the 5th and coming back on the 7th. This is starting to get exciting. I will put up some pics of the visit. In the mean time, I am unpacking stored boxes and whittling down what I need to take. I have 4 boxes at any given time in my living room, as they get full, I tape them up and move on. One says "storage", another "boat", yet another "garage sale", and finally, "ex-girlfriends stuff" (that is most of it:). It is somewhat fascinating at the amount of useless crap you collect over 30 years. So I have developed a rule that is working well. If I have not seen it or used it in the last two years, I probably don't need it:) There are are exceptions to the "rule", one of them is tools. Oh yeah, on a boat, you will eventually need every one of them, plus a few that you don't have:) I highly suspect that after I am done, I will need to get rid of even more stuff. Boat living is all about max storage and minimalizing your life. Only exactly what you need. The boat need parts and oil. I do not need my high school baseball trophy, Actually, I don't have a high school baseball trophy, but if I did, it would not be coming along:) As technology improves, this gets easier. I like to read. But these days instead of loading 500lbs of books on the boat, I can download them and read them on a Kindle, or whatever is in vogue by september. That space for 75 or 100 books can now be used for something else. Probably beer and rum:) Fishing, snorkling and diving in the Bahamas in Sept. Come on down.