Finding a Boat

One of the very time-consuming tasks was to actually find a sailboat. Matt, who owned a 27’ sailboat (a ‘Yankee Dolphin’) shortly before we were married, loves boats and loves discussing them. I, on the other hand, know very little about them but attempt to feign interest. At some point, after a long discourse on the various types of boats and their pros and cons, Matt said that people tend to get distracted by all the equipment with which one can outfit a boat. He then expressed his own views by saying, “The most important thing is … you want the boat to float.” His profundity is one of the reasons I married him…