Sea Trial & Survey Tomorrow!

Getting ready for Sea Trials, Survey & Inspection!

Tomorrow (Wednesday, February 20th ) is an exciting day for us! We made an offer on a 2002 Bayliner 4087 CPMY (cockpit motor yacht) with an aft cabin and it was accepted! Tomorrow we go to sea trials, survey & mechanical inspection.  But let’s go back to how this all came about.

The boat is currently moored at Elliott Bay Marina, which is where we moored our first boat Kokomo.  About a month ago, Scott found this listing and suggested we look it while we were wandering around the marina. 

Paul of Elliott Bay Yacht Sales, was nice enough to show us the boat that afternoon.  Honestly, we expected that we wouldn’t really like it (sounds terrible I know). But we’ve looked at many boats over the past few months and they all have either stunk or were dirty or were way over-priced.  On top of that, big tall boats are a bit intimidating to us.

Scott and I jumped on board and were immediately surprised by the tricked out dinghy! I talked about that in our last blog.  As we opened the door to the salon, I was not expecting much. But low and behold I was pleasantly surprised by everything. First and most important, it doesn’t stink!! This is huge for us.  The galley is large with lots of storage. It has a large fridge, three burner stove AND an oven! Thinking back on how I was preparing meals for six of us in the San Juan Islands on Kokomo now, is frightening.  You can actually mingle in the salon and have someone cooking in the galley. LOL  The staterooms are plenty roomy too, along with the heads. Once everything is finalized, we’ll give you a full tour!

We made the plunge

Working the boat show, I just couldn’t stop thinking about that boat and neither could Scott. So we made the plunge and made an offer! Our offer was accepted about a week and half ago and we immediately scheduled the sea trials and survey.  We are hauling out at Sea View Boat Yard at 10am tomorrow to have the hull inspected and we’ll be along for the trip. This will be our second boat, second sea trial and second haul out.  I have to wonder if it will be totally different or much of the same?

As you know, I’m a weather nut and the forecast during the sea trial is snow with a small craft advisory! So this will certainly be a trip to remember. I feel confident it will be smooth, since we’ll have our broker, Steve Thoreson from Union Marine (where I work) with us. Steve is a certified yacht broker with over 25 years experience with yachts and he’ll also be teaching us how to operate and dock the boat too!

Be sure to stay tuned and we’ll give you a full update on the findings and where we go from here! Until next time! Cheers, Scott and Ally

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