dwhatty
Moderator Emeritus
- Joined
- Sep 25, 2008
- Messages
- 2,846
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- "Emily Anne"
- Vessel Make
- 2001 Island Gypsy 32 Europa (Hull #146)
Our first boat together was a joint agreement as we both wanted one and we had 22 happy years cruising on that boat with friends and children. When I started making noises, for various reasons, about selling the first boat and getting another, my wife was most definitely not a happy camper. She loved the old one and really wanted to keep it. However, one day while she was at her mother's in the southern part of the State, I emailed her a broker's blurb on a particular IG32 I'd seen on the Web as a type of boat that she/we might, just might, like. She recognized the dock that the boat was on in the pictures as being just down from her mother's house, went right down to see it on her own initiative w/o telling me and then called me to tell me I should immediately hop in the car and get down there asap as it looked like a really interesting boat. Shortly thereafter we became the owners of that IG32. To have a wife that loves boats and cruising is a wondrous and blessed thing indeed. Whatever one can do to foster that is well worth the effort.