Boat update

Last night the Captain talked to the lady with The Boat.  It's still for sale. It's a '92 Bayliner bow-rider with a 70 HP Force outboard. Single owner, mostly used to putter to the island and back. Turns out the owner is on the other side of the island from us! She welcomed us to the island (nice!) and had lots of helpful information about Harris Boat Works, the marina everyone's recommending.

What I was able to glean from the conversation:
- New cover in the last few years
- new battery
- serviced every year at Harris
- something about the angle of the prop being changed.
- something about her having a new pontoon boat and that's why she's selling.
- never been used for waterskiing (though could be).
- Lady's in Oakville.
- recommends buying gas in Port Hope (ha.. I wonder where that is?)
- willing to uncover the boat for us to go look at it (provided it doesn't snow a lot before we get there).
- willing to store the boat for us this winter
- boat has four main seats, plus 2 can fit in the bow (= 4 kids). No bench seat in the back. Four can fit under the roof if it's raining.
- comes with a trailer
- asking $5K

The Captain could provide more detailed information, but he's unwilling to write about anything for me. Bum.

I think next weekend we're going to try to go look at it.