What really cranked me up was when they talked past me to my husband. Most of them were fine people and very helpful, but a few of them were just bad at their jobs: they’d guess at answers, pay more attention to their cell phones than us, then not return calls. In the first six months of the process, we met a lot of brokers. I was confident that I was really seeing what I was looking at. By the time I had over thirty columns, I understood every single thing on that document. So on and so on, until I had a 5-page document of things to look at when we viewed a boat. I asked a lot of questions and read a lot. The next boat we looked at had different things, so I added them to the first column as well and made my notes in the third column. On Saturday, I realised that the boat was missing some things that we wanted, so I added those too. The second column contained my notes on each of those specs. The first column contained all the specs of a boat we were going to see on Saturday. Soon, one boat blended into another, and I couldn’t keep them straight, so I created a spreadsheet. I focussed my attention on figuring out boats.ĭavid and I poured over YachtWorld like it contained the secrets to life itself. Since I have an MSc in research, that’s what I did. I had a vague sense that I wasn’t asking the right questions. At first, even though I’d owned boats for about 15 years, I somehow realised that I didn’t always “see” what I was looking at. We moved from thinking about it to working on it. In our minds’ eyes we could see ourselves out there, visiting the world. Listening about the adventures of people like Larry and Mary Anne aboard Traversay III, or Bill Norrie on Pixie, I even got to see Lin and Larry Pardey back in the day they all got our imaginations going.
We’d been dipping our toes in the Bluewater Cruising Association pool for a few years. Time was suddenly a privilege, so we chose to make the most out of it. Do we keep doing what we’ve been doing, or do we shake it up and live more deliberately? Having felt the blade of mortality, it was kind of a no-brainer. We were standing at the crossroads of “Where We’ve Been” and “What Comes Next.” David had faced the Big C and it was time to re-evaluate. This month’s advertorial introduces Currents’ subscribers to Calibre Yacht Sales. This is the third of a brief series of advertorials that highlight the products and services offered by a select group of vendors who have supported the Bluewater Cruising Association in 2022 by purchasing advertising in either the BCA Member Directory and/or Currents.
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