The big day, she’ll be sailed for the first time, we’re both really excited.  Well that’s how the day started got to the boat and of course it was still filthy.  As soon as the tech arrived who was to walk us through all the systems I think he got the message that I was absolutely pissed about the condition of the boat.  You spend this much money and you can’t even deliver it clean?????  He got on the phone and they had someone sent out immediately to give her a scrub down.

With the guy outside scrubbing the deck we began to learn about the various systems on Ryana.  Coming from a very simple boat; both in regards to rigging and systems we have a bunch to learn.  We spent a few hours crawling around bilges, opening access panels and reviewing the electrical and plumbing systems.

It was clear how unorganized this company is as they did not even have a captain ready to take us out though it was scheduled well over a month ago so our broker decided he could take us out but wanted to show us the dock we had reserved for Ryana for the next few months.  We arrived at this beautiful Mediterranean style villa w/ horrendous music playing over the pool and an old shirtless man that made me slightly uncomfortable, but once I saw the dock I was pissed.  Two feet of water???  Our broker continued to mumble how they had much larger boats there and it won’t be a problem, sorry unacceptable our new boat will not be sitting on the bottom during low tide.  He took us  to a few others that were also too shallow and one were the pilings have been eroded to toothpicks.  Eventually we found a very secure space behind modest home on a wide canal, the owners are also very nice.

After driving around Fort Lauderdale for 3 hours looking at docks it was too late to go for a sail, try again tomorrow.