Friday, September 11, 2009

First Impressions


Our first view of her as we walked the dock , was " O my she's way to big. At 56 ft long she took all the slip and more. She looked a little neglected, as she had not been loved in months and months and had recently just come out of the storage yard.
However her lines were awesome and there was a great fully enclosed dodger that looked almost new. Sails with a flaking system and a not bad paint job on the hull.

We were starting to get excited!! She was pretty close to what we had hoped for.

Tapping us on the shoulder as we stood there in the dusk dreaming, was a young couple that turned out to be the captain that was here to show us thru the boat the next morning. They had assumed by the puppy dog look on our faces and the drool dripping down our chin that we must be the prospective buyers.

Finding Our Dream```

Welcome to the Travels of Ocean Wings, a 56' Whitby ketch.
We discovered our boat while browsing online after much agonizing over do we or don't we commit to such a large purchase while going into our retirement years.
But we saw her sitting at anchor in the BVI's with a lot of the features that we had wanted and best of all a motivated Seller.
So we travelled to Tortola and took the leap of faith.