Drift Away is for sale. Pam and I love our Cheoy Lee Long Range Cruiser 46, but we bought some land in the Adirondack Mountains last summer and want to return there to build our little homestead. We put our boat up for sale about a month ago, and the response has been overwhelming, and typical.

Oh sure, we had the scammer who sent us a cashier's check for $41,000 more than our asking price, with the balance to be given to the "delivery captain". We had our "we have a dream to cruise but have no money to buy a boat" folks. We've had two "I'd like to steal your boat" offers. But today, we had someone special.

Bob drove down to Brunswick, GA from Savannah to look at Drift Away. He looked to me to be in his mid to late 70s, and he was accompanied by his daughter Gail. He boarded the boat and looked around wistfully. He seemed to know his way around. As it turned out, Bob owned a Cheoy Lee 46 LRC many years ago, and lived aboard with his wife and three daughters. He did much research before buying his boat and decided that this Cheoy Lee was the perfect boat for him and his family. They cruised on their boat for three years before his wife decided it was time to buy a house with a bathtub. Bob reluctantly sold his boat and spent the next number of years working at his business as a developer.

Sadly, his wife passed away last October. Bob decided he wanted to live aboard again, and wanted another Cheoy Lee 46 LRC trawler. His broker put him in contact with us.

Neither my broker nor his broker accompanied him to Drift Away. Maybe they didn't take him seriously? But I did. I showed Bob all around our boat. I pointed out the good points and the bad. I made sure he knew what was left to be done to finish its restoration. He seemed satisfied, and he left.

I got thinking about Bob later that day. I felt for him. His wife had passed away, and he felt a need to recapture happier times in his life, to relive perhaps his happiest days. He was a bit unsteady around the boat, but I could see him thinking "I can do this!" Bob told me that he contacted Patti at Isle of Hope Marina in Savannah to talk about being a liveaboard there.

I looked on Yachtworld for Cheoy Lee 46 foot trawlers. Drift Away is the only one for sale in the world.

I've had a lot of people come to look at Drift Away. Another is coming tomorrow. But, if I'm lucky enough to have several offers to come in to buy my boat... if Bob's is in there, I'm taking it. I don't care if his is the lowest offer.