A schedule...

A guy came to our door early this week.  Not selling anything (we don't get that in our gated community), but he said he was thinking about getting a boat like ours and asked if we could share our experience with it.  We visited for a bit and I took him down to the boat.  He doesn't have much boating experience and was wondering if a boat the size of ours would be safe and good to learn on.

"A boat is only as safe as the person running it."

He offered to pay for fuel if I'd be willing to take him and his wife out sometime.  I recall all my concerns about a pontoon boat before we got ours.  We were supposed to go out this morning, but Mother Nature had other plans: what was supposed to be "occasional drops" started out as a light sprinkle around 8:00 and has turned into a very nice, gentle rain.  Not the more typical wind and rain that seem to go together here.  We can use the moisture.

I called him this morning to let him know that we wouldn't be going out.  He asked, "How about tomorrow?"

"That's kinda up to Mother Nature, but we'll see how it plays out."  I don't miss having a schedule on a boat.

This is the third couple who has stopped at our house to ask about our boat.  The two previous couples both bought SunTrackers.

Come to think about it, that is how we met friends Herb and Wilma years ago, when Herb came to our door to ask about our C-Dory.  I took them out for their first experience with a cabin boat, including a real world use of GPS and radar when the visibility went down.  Yeah, we didn't let a bit of rain stop us from taking Wild Blue out... not quite the same with Cool Change, since is very much an open boat.  ;-)