Wheeler State Park Marina

One of the adventures on our bucket list is to own a boat and sail the loop from Pittsburgh down the TenTom across Florida and up the inter-coastal waterway to Pictou, Nova Scotia and back through the Hudson River. A trip that would take us about two years. We found the perfect boat: Albion 43. Sat on it and spent the whole day discussing it. How grand to start a new adventure. The master bedroom reminded Kathy of the one in the movie Captain Ron because the queen size bed was so dominant with it's walnut posts. The grand salon was so big the Roadtrek would fit inside. The captain chair was like a thrown with a wheel in front. The second bedroom was like the bed in Maria and Cliff's front berth: a v shaped sitting area that makes into a bed. Two bathroom on board one with a small tubshower and one with a stand up shower. The kitchen was the negative down in a hole, with stove sink and small fridge and little counter space. The two gigantic red engines were down in the engine room, a space under the main salon that was huge. And there is the upper salon with a view that us magnificent. Kathy liked that you can walk all the way around the boat with a nice wood rail and go in and out the main salon through one of twi doors. Truely a house on the water. Much much bigger that our little Roadtrek. But timing. It just isn't right. And maybe a 43 foot boat is too big for us although Jack the present owner did the loop alone in this boat. He has just completed it as a matter of fact and in just a week plans to drive back to his home in Washington state hoping to have the boat sold. Good luck, Jack. Although we have to pass, this boat will stay in our minds as a missed opportunity forever.