Makai has new owners...

Makai motored into Bock Marine, Beaufort, NC, put on the hard and placed on the market for sale with Beaufort Yacht Sales. Eddie Miller was our agent.  Ed and I got a small storage unit close by and started clearing out "stuff" that we accumulated in the 3 years of cruising.  The weather was great so we were able to get the bottom painted, the hull washed and waxed and the prop cleaned with a new zinc, when we got a call from Sonny White, another agent with Beaufort Yacht Sales requesting to view Makai as he had potential customers who were

sincerely interested.  Sonny came by at 7:00 p.m. on a Tuesday and on Thursday afternoon called us with an offer sight un-seen!  She had not been on the market for a week!  After a few days of negotiating, we came to an agreement and before we knew it a date was set for a walk through, launch, sea trail and survey with the perspective new owners, Bob and Ann Nussbaum of Fairbury, Illinois.  Bob and Ann currently have a Catalina 36 which they use on Lake Michigan.  They are owners of Nussbaum Plumbing and Heating and eventually plan to someday retire and cruise the islands, but until then, Makai will be home based in Lake Michigan having her own sort of retirement.  Makai will have her mast unstepped and ready to be transported by truck up to Michigan, so for a while, she is getting a reprieve from the ICW and the salt walter.  She was a great boat and we thoroughly enjoyed cruising on her the past 3 years.  Ed and I both have so many memories!  So, if you see a Caliber 40' 2007 model on Lake Michigan, it will be Makai with a possible name change, being that Makai means "toward the sea and we don't think she will see it for a long time!  Aloha Makai.