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I will be getting in the truck with Dad, drive to Tampa, get the new trailer, then across to Ft Lauderdale to get the new boat. Water test it, take care of paperwork/pay them, then go out of their marina for the day and head up the intercoastal for the ocean to begin the break in. I might bring a rod and try for whatever fish might be in the water there, I'll have to think about it as a 7 ft rod doesn't fit all that well in the truck's cab even though it is extended but I might rig it up in the bed somehow, I just don't want to deal with theft and with it everytime we stop to eat somewhere but the chance to fish Florida and catch in the new boat might be worth it, I'll see. Come back to the marina, trailer it up, hose it all off and begin the 1,500 mile trek back here to MA. I plan on being there on Monday, hopefully back up here on Thursday, then spend Memorial Day breaking it in and fishing. There could be another NorEasta' and I will be out, it could rain human waste and I'll still be out, new boat I've waited 4 months to build and get and almost 40 years for?, I'll be sleeping on it and rolling over and kissing the gelcoat at night! It was a long 4 month wait but it went by quick. Like one had mentioned before, when one is 20, a year takes forever, but at 40, it goes by too fast, I now fear the speed of Father Time.
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