Selling the dream property was hard. Giving up boating will hurt forever.
Life on the water is freedom I never new existed, and for 20 years, it added joy and good seafood to our city-bound life.
We started boating with a 22-foot C-Dory in 2002. We ended with a 34-foot Nordic Tug in 2022. We named all of them Anita Marie. I miss them, and boating, more than anything else we’ve given up over time.
See our epic Desolation Sound trip… We added everything we wished for. Then we sold her. Countless trips in all weathers and 1000’s of miles, we built up a wish list for the sturdy boat we bought new in 2005. In 2018, we topped off a bigger engine with “luxury” interior improvements. After that, I…
We boated for nearly 20 years, and I was only scared a couple times. Going up Malaspina Inlet on our way north was one of those times.
We started developing our dream property in 2007, built our home in 2015, and left in 2022. This one hurts in a good way.
