Some of you will remember that we have owned two
boats for over six years now. When we bought our
Catalina 27 in 2000, we did not want to part ways
with our Maxum 21 powerboat, so we kept it.

Well now we are temporarily a 3 boat family!
Today we signed an agreement to purchase a Irwin
38 sailboat. Although it needs some work, the
previous owner was in the process of getting it
ready to cruise, so has done a lot of what needed
doing already. Hopefully this boat will be a good
step up from the Catalina, and give us something
we can learn with.

Our intentions right now are not to try to use the
Irwin as a blue water cruiser, but to sail her on
Lake Travis while we learn and get used to the
bigger boat. I'm hoping that when we get ready to
head out cruising we will find a little larger
true blue water boat that can accomodate four
people comfortably.

I'd like to say "thanks" to all of the
knowledgable people who hang out on this
newsgroup, because I've learned a lot from reading
your posts. I hope you will bear with me because
you're probably going to be seeing a bunch of
questions from me as I set about re-documenting,
moving, and fixing up the Irwin.

Regards,

Don W.