We finally did it. We weighed all of the options, made some concessions and decided on a boat and made the final decision and bought our "new" sailboat; a Hu...

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we finally decided what was important to

us what wasn't important to us what's

most important was least important in a

sailboat made our decision and we

finally bought a sailboat this is a 2001

hunter for 1041 foot approx flight that

gets 40 foot 8 inches by 14 feet 6

inches wide I think if I remember right

so here's that here's a tour of the

interior it's basically a three cabin

two head lay out the l-shaped galley

l-shaped galley was something that was

very important to us I wanted the full

cabin in the back the owners version but

after looking at the tree cabin version

I think this is going to be a better fit

for us because we both have you know

sizeable families who always be wanting

to join us so good have room for extra

people has a full shower which is pretty

awesome

it only has a six gallon hot water tank

but just take a short shower you know

jump in the jump in the ocean clean up

and then jump back in the boat and rinse

off with warm water these two cabins are

actually a lot bigger than they look I

lay down in one of them and my feet mark

was not even close to taking up the

whole bed so it can easily sleep two

people per cabin and there's two

identical cabins in the back and here's

the starboard cabin on this side

so if the owners version is just one big

cabin in the back now here's the

l-shaped galley which is something that

was important to me because I know Maria

loves to cook so I wanted to have an

l-shaped galley for that purpose because

there's just a lot I think there's more

room in the l-shaped galley and it's

easier to stand and hang on if you're

under way and there's waves you have a

little more stability in places to hang

on to compared to the Beneteau which was

another boat that we really liked

however the l-shaped galleys and the

bennetto's were not exactly what we were

looking for

the nav station is pretty nice it is

both pretty basic it doesn't have a lot

of additional equipment at this point

the good thing is we could set it up

ourself this was another thing that we

wanted was a large dining area with a

settee across from it now this is the

front birth which neither one of us

likes the V Berk so we wanted a

Pullman's burg

so this boat actually had a Pullman's

birth which was exactly what we wanted

oh and another head in the front of the

boat so it's like I said it's two heads

which two heads to me is because they

that's going to be a luxury the engine

only has eight hundred and fourteen

hours on it and poor a diesel that's

really next to nothing it's a it's got a

it's got some fan belt or v-belt dust on

the front of it but other than that

there's some rust on the port side

eight hundred fourteen hours there could

be nothing wrong with it really the the

top deck is basically like new the

rigging is like new this boat came out

of Maine so it's only a two thousand one

but they only have about a five month

sailing season in Maine so really it

doesn't get a lot of use every year so I

think overall it's going to be a good

boat for us for years and years I'm

hoping not to ever find another boat

besides this one a lot of people frown

on hunters you know I've had hunter I've

had a hunter sale but not for five years

and it's never given me a problem so I'm

thinking you know I'm just going to move

up to a bigger hunter since I had such

good luck with my smaller hunter and

we'll take a chance on hunter even

though all the naysayers out there we're

going to say that it's a you know not a

good boat or whatever but you know

there's a lot of people who say Chevy's

aren't good but Chevy's are very people

who say Ford's aren't great but they're

great too so we have no intention of

ever sailing across the Atlantic or the

Pacific we just want to coast along or

sail along the coast of the United

United States down around Florida and

around the keys maybe the Gulf of Mexico

the Great Lakes and over to the

Caribbean and that's about the extent of

our cruising plans anything beyond that

is just not on our radar so I think this

boat is going to be more than sufficient

for that

our plan is to take it's in Maine our

plane is to take this boat and have it

hauled to New York around Waterford

maybe further south down around Albany

and we're going to have it put in the

water and we are going to motor it

across the Erie Canal now this is going

to happen probably in September toward

the end of the season and we'll make a

nice video of that so hopefully that all

works out because that'd definitely be

something worth putting on YouTube so I

appreciate you watching the tour of the

of the new pal Hana and we will talk to

you next time