Friday, October 30, 2009

Quartermoon Sold

After a week or so of stress and trouble with our first buyer we finally accepted a deposit on her...Very Sad but very exciting at the same time.

Basically the guy who said he wanted her from the start...asked if we would deliver it to costa rica for him. After organising all the paperwork, paying over a thousand dollars and getting her booked in the cheeky git...EMAILS...not phones and says to to finacial reasons he has to pull out...and check this out..this was on the morning we were due to to leave for the canal and we even had all the tyres on the boat and the lines ready... to top it off Debs and Alex had flown in the night before to help us be line handlers..

We were soo gutted, but at least we had a deposit kept by the brokerage and emails stating that any monies we paid for the canal were to be given to us in the unlikely event that he pulled out. WELL WHAT A LAUGH THAT IS...its now the new year and after months of dispute and us scanning the offical receipts of monies paid he has basically said no...what a twat??? the brokerage cannot realease the money to anyone unless this dispute is resolved.... his argument is we could of forged the receipt...even though it has the agent offical stamps all over it..Anyway enough of that...

The happy side is that a lovely British couple flew over to Panama staight away once they found she was back on the market , put a depoit down on her and arranged to pick her up from Shelter Bay Marina on the 19th November!!!

Quartermoon with her new owners Sammy and Mike ... they plan to take Quartermoon to Australia this year, so im sure they'll have a blog to follow, when i get it , ill post it on her...Me and sym were so chuffed and we could not of wished for her to go to a nicer couple. Congrats guys.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Shelter Bay Marina, Colon

We booked to have Quartermoon taken out the water the day after we arrived there. We were not at all happy when they made us sign some paperwork saying they take no responsibility for the boat if any damage is caused during the lift out. What the hell is that all about, thats the first marina we have ever heard of with such a thiing. Obviously we had no choice in the matter and so the whole time i felt like i could not watch....i was so worried of her falling out the cradle and crashing on the floor.
Oh well, thank god that did not happen..

Check out these pics of Quartermoon being hauled and lifted.







Sym spent the next few days sanding and preping the hull ready for the sprayer to come and spray her...

Quartermoon with her new paint job



When she was put back in the water me and Symi speant a whole day making her look dreamy. Symi spent the day before in Colon at a car graphics shop designing her go faster strips....

Check out Quartermoon in her new livery...

Monday, October 5, 2009

Finally an Update !!!

Hi everyone, really sorry for the rubbish and lack of updates going on. Hi to everyone else who was wondering where we are. We are safe and we are currently in Shelter Bay Marina, in Colon Panama.The last few months we have been so busy with working and selling Quartermoon i have no had much time to keep you all entertainted.
Any hows life is still brillant and we ve seen and done loads, so here goes the last couple of months: