Oh boy, my first BLOG post!
I closed on Terrapin on December 15, 2020 and moved on board at the end of December. I hired an awesome training captain, Bernie Francis, who moved Terrapin to The Bluffs marina in Jupiter on the 30th. I thought this was going to be pretty straight forward. Get trained, get some work done on the boat and do some exploring of Florida until the beginning of May when I head North for hurricane season. Ho boy, was I ever naïve. The training went off without a hitch and I started contacting folks about getting work done around the end of January. That screech you hear is the brakes locking up on progress. With the boat buying frenzy and usual busy season, everyone was backed up. The last two months, going on three, has been sitting around hoping someone will show up and work on the boat today. The way things normally work is they call you in the morning and say they are showing up in a half hour. Who needs a schedule or appointment! Yes, some of the folks working on the boat were very good about letting me know ahead of time. Others not so much. I have had quite a few items completed except the last and the biggest one, haul-out. This is to put the boat “on the hard” at the boat yard so the bottom can be painted and other work requiring the boat to be out of the water can be completed. It seems like every week for the last six weeks the word is “next week” – and here I sit…
On the other hand, this gave me the opportunity to get quite a few of my projects done like creating this website.