We've done it again

We sold our boat, again!!

Signing papers at closing....

You may remember last time our boat sold in eight hours and we had to be off of it a week later. Well, this time we thought we had wised up a bit by waiting until the end of boating season, to list it. After all, it was mid-November and just a couple days before Thanksgiving, so we thought maybe, just maybe we could buy a little time and maybe we could have it in the 'for sale' column just a teensy bit longer, while we look for the next boat. Nope, that didn't happen! About two hours after we had listed Irie, we had it under contract....and no, we didn't list it too cheap..We're actually making money off of it! Albeit, not a whole lot, but it's always better to be on this end rather than to be losing money on the deal! The first couple that saw it, put in an offer...that we accepted. The crazy thing {well, one of the crazy things} is, is that our boat listing didn't even populate to the broker's website!! All my staging & photography skills used up and I didn't even get to see the final result.

Needless to say, the search is on to find our next boat!! I have stopped referring to it as our "forever boat" though and am just saying, "our next boat". Our pier at the marina is starting to look more like the 'Bricker Brokerage Pier'  with all our old boats lined up! Haha :)

In the meantime, we have become pros at being squatters!!! I wish I could say I was joking about that, but that's the downside to selling your boat in a couple of hours, during the holidays. Everyplace is either already booked or extremely over priced because of the time of year. The upside however, is the friends we have made at our marina have been outstanding to us in our current situation! We have had many, many offers for us to use their boats, come do laundry at their house or stay in their spare bedroom!! I've said it before, but it bears repeating, our marina friends & neighbors are without a doubt some of the best people and we are so incredibly grateful for their hospitality!!!

I'm hoping by the time I type up my next post, I'll have something to tell you (or show you) on our next boat, but until then, I'm keeping it hush hush on the blog, so nothing is jinxed! ;)

Here's hoping we aren't homeless for too much longer...until next time!

Living on a vacant boat

It is not fun living on a vacant boat. Why is our boat vacant, you ask? Well, we've sorta sold it!  As I'm sure you already know, we have been wanting a bigger boat for quite some time now. So, we  decided to put this one up for sale  before we buy the next boat so we don't end up with multiple payments.  Everyone told us our boat will sell pretty quickly.... We thought, maybe a month??  That's pretty quick considering our house sat on the market for over a year. Well,  it was on the market for about 10 hours and we already had a contract on it.  The survey was done yesterday, but here's the kicker, they wanted our boat to be completely empty when they did the survey. So, we started packing....

Thursday afternoon after I got off work, we finished packing and moved everything off the boat! We decided it was better to work after the sun went down, while it was a somewhat cooler than during the day and be insufferably miserable.... So, from about 10pm to 4am Friday morning we made trips back-and-forth from the boat to our cars and storage and then cleaned the boat until it was immaculate!!!

We haven't heard back from the broker about the survey.....so now we wait! We still get to sleep on our boat, but it's not as comfortable as it used to be. We have two blankets & our pillows, that's it! There's no pictures, no decor, no personalization that says this is our boat! No food & no dishes, no cooking or eating! We did plug the DVD player back up, so we can at least watch movies, but that is the scope of our life right now! If you thought we were living minimal before, you should see us now!!!

Expect the unexpected

It's hard to believe we have been living on the boat for a year already....a whole year!!!! It really doesn't feel that long!  Even when I tell people, 'I have been living on a boat for a year.' That sentence doesn't seem real to me. It seems like something you would hear someone else say, not something you would actually say yourself!  Geez, I hope this is making sense. 

We absolutely love our life afloat and are planning on purchasing something bigger in the not so distant future! In the meantime we've been planning for the unknown. 

It's hard to plan for anything when you really don't know what's happening from one minute to the next. What am I talking about? Well....

Two weeks ago on a Friday night we stayed up super late....actually it would be more accurate to say we pulled an all-nighter. We had a movie night, which turned into "I'm not really sleepy, let's watch another movie"  and, the next thing we knew, it was five thirty....in the a.m.!!! I was game for just staying awake, but hubs was now tired. So, we set an alarm for 8:30am and went to sleep. I woke up when the alarm went off, but somebody stayed in bed. I made him get up 2 hours later so we could go look at a boat. The boat was okay, but we didn't get the 'our next boat' feeling from it {well hubs did, but me, not so much} so we went and talked to our broker. 

Lots & lots of boat talk later & we were headed back to our boat to do a quick cleaning so another broker could show our boat to one of his clients. Yeah, you read that right! Our boat isn't even technically listed yet and someone wanted to look at it. Yikes! 

Since then we have had two more showings on our boat.....I hope we don't end up homeless. :] However, if the boat does sell before we buy the next one, we are prepared to go a little backwards to go forward {if we have to} and move into an apartment for a short time. 

But in the meantime, we are trying to expect the unexpected, plan for the unknown, live life and save for the future! So basically, what everyone else is doing! :)