Then she stepped into a neighbors 3607, and oh my, that's all she could talk about !!!!! A master state room, two heads, and so on. Well, you can guess what happens next!
We shopped for a year and a half, and then.... eureka.... we found just the one we wanted and for a great price. Hence , no help from the unhelpful broker, but that's another story ! So we grit our teeth and made the deal.
Then threw cashion to the wind,. We bought it in Milwaukee. It hadn't seen water in 2 1/2 years. Look it over throughly. Splashed it. Of course I am a life long mechanical technician, so I had confidence in my inspection,,, and sailed it all the way home to Au Gres MI, which is a 560 mi trip to the east side of Mi. SO MUCH FUN !!!! And only had one small issue with the steering.
Of course the steering went out while I was in 10 ft swells, along the west coast of mi. That was interesting. But that beast of a boat , handled it extremely well, and steering with the engines was interesting, but surprisingly capable !!!.
One of the coolest parts of the trip, was going under the Mackinaw bridge at dusk, and traveling about 75 more miles in the beautiful star lit clear night sky , untill we had to hail a port till morning for fuel.
So... there our story. Can't wait till the splashing , in a couple months. And may all your hulls stay wonderfully afloat.
Regards to all.. from new owners of..."El Grande Chancho".
PS.. Keeping the name from prev owners, just because its fun!
Look up the translation...lol.
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