Originally Posted by Fr. Frank
3096 round-trip miles later, She's home!
Chris Downey, aka Water Rat, met my wife and I for breakfast Saturday prior to helping me load this beauty on to my trailer. But Chris showed up with 4 additional persons! According to Chris, they wanted to meet someone who had this "Seacraft disease" so badly he would drive 1500 miles just to pick up an old boat!
I gently explained to them it wasn't an old boat, it was a Seacraft.
After breakfast together, and then looking over the object of my affliction, the extra folk went on their way, (shaking their heads, I'm sure). Christ labored with me for over an hour to get the boat loaded, demonstrating his true character! The previous owners, Jim Petersen and his wife Elaine, were extremely gracious. Jim advised me that the boat has original power in it, and needs some small TLC and maintenance, like manifold and elbow, bellows, etcetera. But it comes with a large custom-made Sunbrella navy top, with side eisenglass, and aft curtain.
So after two days at 13.6 mpg, including driving some of the worst roads in North America, here is "Sunday's Child", in front of the church.
PS: Did you know that the toll to cross the George Washington bridge into New York while pulling an empty trailer is $27?
I had to pay to cross a bridge and then drive on roadways so bad that they should be paying me hazardous conditions pay to drive on them!
$27 is more than the tolls I pay to drive the entire 850 miles to the Florida Keys!
This trip was lovely, and absolutely confirmed how beautiful America is everywhere, and also confirmed how great it is to live in Florida, where roads don't end up with frost heave.
More to come, but I will start a new thread in Repairs/Mods as I go through this.
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