Manatee

Now for the story of the new "MTN DAWG 5". Maybe "SEA DAWG" because, well, it should be obvious, right?

Her name will remain "MANATEE" as named by the previous owners, Chris and Kelly, who took great care of and loved her as a child.

Manatee is a 1980 Gulfstar 47 foot Sailmaster. She's 47 ft long and 13 ft 10 inches wide, ketch rigged, she has two state rooms, and two heads.

Here are a few pics from when we had her hauled out for the vessel survey...

We are upgrading a few things and fixing a couple minor items, moving in and making it our home. I know what you're thinking "where are they going next" or "what the hell" or "I want to go!" Or maybe "when the hell did Rob and Becky learn to sail"...

We are formulating plans right now so we will have to update y'all more pretty soon.

For now, good sailing to all you landlubbers.

Like The great Captain Ron said, "if it's going to happen, it's going to happen out there".

One last though for this post, from Chief Master Sergeant to Captain, that's a pretty good promotion...or demotion...no, it would be a Navy Captain (O-6 style)... Suck it Rogers!!!!!!

Love y'all

R and B

December update

ok, so we have been out of touch for a while, not posting here or Face Book, sorry about that! We do have a little update though...

From Pismo we went a little further South and spent some time at our friends house (parked in their driveway), Frank and Andrea. We spent almost two weeks with them to include a GREAT thanksgiving day and dinner. The company was great and the food was amazing!!!!!! Becky pitched in on the thanksgiving cooking and baking. Becky makes some of the most amazing cookies!

We got to spend time helping on a few small home projects and spending time with Franky was awsome.

We continue to meet some very interesting people along the way...Gary, I can't say enough about the things he has done or people he knows. If you are a friend of Becky's on Facebook, look him up.

Oh yea, for those of you that do know the plan of looking at sailboats in a few years, we decided to take some time in the warm Southern California weather to take a look at a few boats and start getting ideas of what we wanted.

So we headed for Long Beach and set up a few appointments. Man there are some pretty crappy boats out there. 

GUESS WHAT??? We fell in love with a sailboat and it was a deal that we couldn't pass up...that's right boy and girls, we went ahead and bought a beautiful yacht.

Yup, this one is the teaser...